Falcons in First: January 7-11, 2019

Hi Families,

I hope that everyone had a wonderful winter break. I want to thank all of you for showing me so much support and love last semester. My job is already rewarding, but you make it even more so! January starts our human body unit. It’s always a fun unit for the students. If your career is associated with the human body in any way, and you’d like to be a guest speaker, we’d love to have you! Please email me with questions or details. I want to also remind you that we have a field trip this Friday. If you signed up to chaperone, I will send out an email with further details shortly. I originally planned for us to go rock climbing, however, those plans have changed. We are going to East Coast Fitness where we will work out and play. Students can wear athletic pants, tennis shoes, and their red field trip t-shirt. It looks like our schedule will put us eating lunch early, so please pack a few extra snacks. Remember, school lunch is not offered on field trip days. Also, please remember our healthy school lunch policy. I am attaching our January lunch menu. Here is our week at a glance:

Riggs: Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.

Monday: inside, outside, gold, few, dark

Tuesday: toe, finger, game, boat, goat

Wednesday: below, above, rest, help, held

Thursday: son, sun, color, sharp, rule

Math: Students will understand that:

· Coins are used to count amounts of money

· The associative property of addition allows the grouping of addends together in any way we would like when we add

· A polygon can be identified by its number of sides and angles

Essential Questions:

· How can I find out how much a collection of coins is worth?

· What strategy can I use to add a list of numbers?

· How do I describe plane figures such as rectangles, pentagons, and hexagons?

Reading: Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key word outlines. We write about reading on Writing Wednesday! We are also illustrating our writing.

Core Knowledge: The Human Body

A. BODY SYSTEMS