Weekly Updates



SEL

This week we will learn about what inclusion and exclusion looks like and sounds like.  We will be able to identify it across different environments and situations in in our daily schoo lives 🙂


SEL Links

The Little Gray Digger Read Aloud (story about inclusion)

All Are Welcome Read Aloud

I am Enough Read Aloud

The Golden Rule  Berenstain Bears Read Aloud

I Choose Empathy Read Aloud

Including Others Who Are Left Out Video




 Reading

FUNdations Unit 13

TEST THURSDAY!  YOU GOT THIS!

In FUNdations this week we are working unit 13: word endings s/es, ed, ing

Review Trick Words

Unit 1: Review of letters and sounds

Unit 2: the, a, and, is his, of

Unit 3: as, has, to, into, we, be, he, she, me, for, or 

Unit 4: your, i, was, one, said

Unit 5: from, have, do, does

Unit 6: were, are, who, what, when, where, there, here

Unit 7: why, by, my, try, put, two, too, very, also, some, come

Unit 8: would, should, could, her, over, number

Unit 9: say, says

Unit 10: any, many, how, now, down, out, about, our

Unit 11: friend, other, another, none, nothing, friend, other, another

Unit 12: people, month, little, been, own, want, Mr. Mrs.

Unit 13:work, word, write, being, their, first, look, good, new

Trick Words of the Week

look

good 

new


READING GROUPS

Thank you for your support with reading at home with your kiddo each night!  PLEASE make sure this book comes back each day in yoru kiddo’s SHARK folder.  We will work on reading and fluency one day and then comprehension the next and our group cannot run without the books :)


When your kiddo is done reading with you or to you:

Have them do a 5 finger retell!  It’s not just if your kiddo can read, it’s if they comprehend what they have read that will help then progress in their reading!  Below is a visual to help with these critical reading comprehension conversations at home!



Literacy Links


Anytime Links

Reading Strategies Posters


Writing


In writing we are working hard on researching community helpers/workers and making tree maps to show what we have learned.  In our tree map we include the person’s job in the community and their pronoun “they.”  We then make three connected word columns to share what we learned (have, can, like, cannot, do not like, wear,....)


We will pick one community helper/worker to make a written, published piece about this week!


Math



Topic 14: Reason With Shapes and Their Attributes

Topic 14 Home Letter


Vocabulary 

Triangle

Hexagon

Rectangle

Square

3-d shapes

3 dimensional

2-d shapes

2 dimensional

Attributes

Sides

Vertices

Flat surfaces

Cylinder 

Cone

Cube

Rectangular prism

Edges

Faces

Sphere



Math Links


Weekly Skill Practice Online Games


Monster Mansion Shape Match

Shapes! Geometry and Symmetry 

Shape Games

I Know it Shape ID Game

LOTS of shape games to choose from here



Anytime Skill Practice

Math Fact Flash Cards Game (helps with typing practice and navigating the computer as well ) Start with level 1 addition and level 1 subtration

Teachly Addition and Subtraction great practice for addition and subtraction anytime!

One More Panda

One More One Less Fish

One More One Less Sheep

10 More 10 Less

10 More 10 Less Boxes



We are CRUSHING Math Fact Fluency Fridays!  Each Friday we will spend time building and mastering our math fact fluency!!  We will be taking a one and a half minute timed test each week! Each test is different for each kiddo and based off of their progress with math facts.  Once they complete 20/20 on one level they will move on to the next :)  Your kiddo will come home with their graded test each Friday.



 PBL


Once Upon a First Grade Year!

This week we will be working hard on learning the elements of a fairy tale which are shown below.  We will also be practing our Reader’s Theater Fairy Tale Scripts to show off our fluency for you on May 3, 2024 at 1:45 in our classroom!


Fairy Tale Elements

Once upon a time

Magic 

Good 

Evil

Numbers 3 or 7

Problem

Solution

Happily ever after



Links

These are some fun different spins off of the fairy tales we are used to :)

Kate and the Beanstalk read aloud

Honestly, Red Riding Hood was Rotten read aloud

Seriously, Cinderella is so Annoying read aloud

Seriously Snow White is so Forgetful read aloud

Goatilocks and the Three Bears read aloud

Ninjabread Man read aloud

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs read aloud

The Fairy Dogmother read aloud

GoldiROCKS and the Three Bears read aloud







FYI

April 29: Staff Appreciation Week

May 3: Once Upon a First Grade Year Reader’s Theater Performances @ 1:45pm (ALL invited) click on the picture below 🙂


May 7: FIELD DAY!  Join us on the field
from 1:00-3:00pm 🙂