Sunday, February 11, 2018

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!



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