Week of November 11, 2013

Welcome to another wonderful week in First Grade!
This week, we will be working on the following skills and strategies in Reading:
-Making predictions and providing evidence
-Identifying characters and character traits in stories
-Using context clues to discover the meaning of unknown words
- Differentiating between facts and opinions

This week, we will be working on the following skills and strategies in Math:
-Properties of zero in addition
-Counting on by 1,2, and 3
-Adding on a number line
-Number Bonds review

This week, we will be working on the following skills in Writing:
-Giving supporting reasons for our opinions
-Crafting Bold Beginnings to grab the reader's attention
-Editing for punctuation and capital letters

You can help your child at home by asking him/her to predict what will happen next in her homework books and giving evidence from the story to support the prediction. You can also have your child tell his/her opinion about something.

Thank you for the wonderful support at Report Card Pickup! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email, call, or come in the mornings from 7:00-7:30 am. Thank you for your support!
-Miss Spero
Room 114