February 26-March 2, 2018

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday -3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
February 28 - FREE Field Trip to the Explorium
March 8 - First Grade Field Trip to Lexington Children's Theater  (Permission Slips will come home next week)

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with ow and ou.
I can understand that a contraction is two words together with an apostrophe.
I can ask and answer questions about stories.
I can use strategies to correctly add two digit numbers.
I can write a fictional story.

Spelling Words
cow
how
house
mouth
out
town
brown
cloud

Sight Words
color
early
instead
nothing
oh
thought

Week in Review
We were SO glad to see some beautiful weather this week!
 
We had the opportunity to take our book boxes outside and read in the sun (or the shade!).
 
 

While we were out there, we got to read one of our MANY versions of Three Little Pigs. This week, we were focusing on comparing the adventures of characters in a text.

Here are some of the versions we read:

This week, we will be learning all about Dr. Seuss. Your kid better be ready for some silly rhymes and tongue twisters!

In writing, we learned a lot about the important features of Fictional Narratives. One of our biggest focuses was how important it is for author's to have solutions to the problems in the story.
Ask your kids what it was like when mean ol' Mrs. Carney stopped reading the story RIGHT when the problem was about to be solved!

In Language, we worked on a TOUGH skill. We worked on putting commas where they are supposed to go in a list.

 We ended our week with a Jump Rope for Heart kickoff! Your child will get his/her packet on Monday.

February 20-23, 2018

Specials

Monday - NO SCHOOL!

Tuesday - 3

Wednesday -4

Thursday - 5

Friday - 6

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
February 28 - FREE Field Trip to the Explorium
March 8 - First Grade Field Trip to Lexington Children's Theater  (Permission Slips will come home next week)

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with or, ore, and oar.
I can correctly use commas in a list.
I can compare and contrast stories.
I can use strategies to correctly add two digit numbers.
I can write a fictional story.

Practicing at Home
Turtle Diary is another fun site that is FREE for kids to practice content at home!

Spelling Words
core
corn
born
before
more
soar
roar
store

Sight Words
began
better
guess
learn
right
sure

Week in Review
During Writing, we have begun to discuss Fictional Narratives! We started out by comparing Realistic Fiction and Fantasy (Which is perfect now that we've begun studying Fairytales!)

We also focused on matching characters and settings so that stories make sense.

We did a gallery walk of different settings in the classroom to help us brainstorm character ideas.



And shared those ideas to the class!

In math, we talked about how to make a ten to help us add three numbers.


Last, but certainly not least, we had a BLAST with our Valentine fun!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
we also completed Complimats for everyone in our class!
 
 
And wrote about what we think love is :) Your kiddos came up with great ideas!
 

 













Have a great week!

February 12-16, 2018

Specials

Monday - 5

Tuesday - 6

Wednesday -1

Thursday - 2

Friday - Nonrotation

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
February 14 - Valentine Celebration
February 15 - PTA Meeting 6:30pm
February 16 - Nonrotation Day for Specials
February 19 - President's Day - No School
February 28 - FREE Field Trip to the Explorium (Check your child's folder for a permission slip this week)
March 8 - First Grade Field Trip to Lexington Children's Theater 

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with ir, er, and or.
I can correctly capitalize dates and names.
I can identify who is telling the story.
I can identify who is talking in a story.
I can use strategies to correctly add 3 numbers.

Practicing at Home
First Grade ABCya!

ABCya is full of fun games for practicing first grade literacy and mathematics skills!

Want something simple to practice math in the car?
Pick any two digit number and challenge your kid to count by tens forward AND backwards!
(example: 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, etc.)

Spelling Words
bird
dirt
fern
fur
her
work
skirt
hurt

Sight Words
another
climb
through
full
poor
great

Week in Review
We learned all about pronouns this week!
We had a lot of practice with identifying pronouns, finding them in sentences, and writing sentences to include pronouns.

We also did a fun Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up with pictures of students in our class! The kids worked in pairs to read the sentence, "kick out the names," and replace them with pronouns.




In math, we kicked off our ten more/ten less review by building a massive hundreds chart. The key was that we weren't just starting at 1 and counting forward. Instead, we focused on the patterns of numbers and built our chart in columns rather than rows.


We also did some broken hundreds chart practice with our groups.





During Reading and Writing this week, we focused on famous African American Achievers! The kids were challenged to make connections between texts, pull out important information, and write about their amazing achievements.

We used Brainpop Jr. to learn about George Washington Carver

Another GREAT resource is PebbleGo. We learned about Frederick Douglass through their website.


We read about Ruby Bridges

and they were able to learn about Jackie Robinson with our substitute Ms. White on Friday!

Have a great week!