Hi Families!
I hope everyone had a wonderful
weekend. We are now studying the American Revolution and Westward Expansion. In
first grade, we only discuss a few events from this time. Further details
regarding the American Revolution and the Westward Expansion will be addressed
in third and fourth grade. This Friday is our field trip to the RICE Museum. If
you have volunteered to chaperone, I will send a separate email to you shortly.
Please remember students can wear their red field trip t-shirt (or any red
t-shirt) with jeans, or they may wear their uniform. Students must wear tennis
shoes. Please also remember that school lunch is not provided on field trip
days. When packing your student’s lunch, keep our healthy school lunch policy
in mind. Thank you.
Please let me know if you have any
questions. 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: even, without, afternoon,
Friday, weigh
Tuesday: state, head, juice, great,
gentle
Wednesday: story, open, short, reach,
fruit
Thursday: guide, worse, water, round,
cost
Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student
will understand that:
•
numbers can be
shown using a drawing or picture
•
when adding
two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
•
there are
five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
•
the median is the
number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest
Essential Questions:
•
How can I draw a
picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
•
How can I tell if
the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
•
How can counting
by 5’s help me tell the time?
•
How do I find the
median of a set of numbers?
Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference,
flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart,
fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus,
o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction
Reading: Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
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.
Explain major differences between
books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of
text types.
Use illustrations and details in a
story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
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. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence
and paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing
Wednesday! We then practice illustrating our writing.
Core Knowledge: American Revolution
·
FROM COLONIES TO INDEPENDENCE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
o Locate the
original thirteen colonies.
o The Boston
Tea Party
o Paul Revere’s ride, “One if by land, two if by
sea”
o Minutemen and
Redcoats, the “shot heard round the world”
o Thomas
Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .”
o Fourth of July
o Benjamin
Franklin: patriot, inventor, writer
o George
Washington: from military commander to our first president
§ Martha
Washington
§ Our national
capital city named Washington
o Legend of
Betsy Ross and the flag
·
EARLY EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICA WEST
o Daniel Boone
and the Wilderness Road
o The Louisiana
Purchase
§ Explorations
of Lewis and Clark
§ Sacagawea
o Geography:
Locate the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mississippi
River.
Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy
