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First Grade Weekly Update October 21st-25th

Weekly Syllabus: October 21st-25th, 2024

Reminders

Regular week!

Religion

We will continue Chapter 4 Jesus, the Son of God. Students will explore the birth of Jesus, discover that Jesus is truly God and truly human, learn that Jesus was raised in a human family, decide a way to live as a disciple of Jesus through kindness, and pray by singing a prayer.

Language Arts

Unit 3 Lessons 6-10

Word Work: Identify final le sound, read decodable stories with ng and le, read and decode words from informational text, recognize and spell memory words (do, have, show, how, me, and a), understand and use antonyms, and rhyming words.

Spelling Words: bubble, little, candle, pickle, do, have, show, how, me, and a

Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read with natural phrasing, read and discuss grade level literary text, understand plot, problem, and solution, match story events to pictures, and understand and use antonyms.

Writing: Opinion Writing about seasons.

Author Study: Arnold Lobel

Mathematics

Focus for October Number Corner: Ten is the magic number for October, the tenth month of the year. Students compose and decompose the number 10, practice instantly seeing quantities on ten-frames, and learn about “leaps of ten” on the number line. The Calendar Grid features sets of fall pictures to inspire math stories and during the Calendar Collector workout, students collect and count patterns blocks and make a composite shape picture.

Bridges

Bridges Unit 2 Module 2-This module maintains a focus on addition and subtraction strategies and emphasizes solving for an unknown. Students use and make double flap cards to discover the relationship between addition and subtraction, to further explore the commutative property, and to learn to solve for an unknown in any position. They generate equation fact families and story problems. The idea that the equal sign describes a relationship between two quantities that have the same value, rather than indicating “the answer,” is reinforced.

Science: Structure, function, and information processing: We will be learning about Parent & offspring Traits-How to help a lost baby animal find its parents?

Animal Structures & Survival-Why do birds have beaks?

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