First Grade Weekly Update November 4th-8th
Weekly Syllabus: November 4th– 8th, 2024
Reminders
Monday, November 11th is the Veteran’s Day Holiday. No School
Religion
Chapter 5 Mary, the Mother of Jesus-Students will explore how courage helps us live as disciples of Jesus, discover what the Bible tells us about Mary, discover that Mary had great trust in God, learn that Mary is our mother, and learn that the psalms are prayers in the Bible.
Language Arts
Unit 4 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Associate the ed sound with t and d, review ed ending for verbs, review nouns and verbs, review vowels and consonants, and read and discuss informational text.
Spelling words: yelled, smelled, jumped, bumped, look, your, the, was, are, and for
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated reading of a story, observe punctuation and read expressively, compare and contrast texts, know key vocabulary words (yanked, fist, clinched, unclenched, and interesting), understand and use the prefix un, and identify main topic of informational text.
Writing: Personal Narrative
Author Study (Nov and Dec) Jan Brett
Mathematics
Focus for November Number Corner: This month’s workouts delve into fractions and telling time. Students discover a pattern of friendly animals chomping snacks into wholes, halves, and fourths in the Calendar Grid, and the focus on fractions carries over to Calendar Collector. There, telling time is introduced to the hour and students use fractions of a circle to consider whole and half on an analog clock. November includes the 50th day of school and students use the hundreds grid to discover that they are halfway to the 100th day of school.
We will begin Bridges Unit 2 Module 4-The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 4 is on counting by 5s and 10s to become more efficient at counting amounts larger than 10. Three of the sessions use five-armed sea stars as a context for counting and students work together to make a quilt that exemplifies the counting by 5s pattern in the variety of ways. Making the quilt blocks also involves some work with shapes and fractional pieces. The last two sessions introduce games that feature pennies, nickels, and dimes-another good context for counting by 5s and 10s, as well as reinforcing the counting on strategy. The games also give students practice counting collections of coins and comparing two-digit numbers.