December 4-15, 2023 Newsletter

First Grade NewsLetter

December 4 - 15, 2023

Language Arts

  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

  • Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

  • Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

  • Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

  • Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

  • Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words

  • Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Math

  • Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.

  • Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

 

Social Studies

  •   Justify why people work to earn money.

Science

  • Construct an explanation for the general pattern of change in daily temperatures by measuring and calculating the difference between morning and afternoon temperature

 

High Frequency Words

any           done          laugh          long

more         pull           teacher       think

Reminders

  • Check book bags daily

  • Read with your child for 30 minutes nightly

  • Charge the computer nightly

  • Study high frequency words 

  • Christmas break December 20- January 8

  • Christmas program December 15, 2023