Reminders
- Tuesday, September 9th is early dismissal at 1:00 pm. Please make transportation arrangements.
- First (1st) and second (2nd) grade students who are part of the Eagle League will have practice Tuesday, September 9th at 1:00 p.m.
- Check the Eagle Courier through www.amschool.org.
- Please make sure that your child keeps his/her nails cut short. Doing so helps with appropriate typing formation on the keyboard in computer class.
- Please review graded papers with your child and return them by the due date.
Important Dates
o Addition timed test on doubles and sums of ten (10) Friday, September 12th. Students will have three
o Wednesday, September 10th is Children’s Day! Students will receive a free popsicle at recess!
What are Students Learning This Week?
Reading- Students are beginning a unit on how to use comprehension strategies. Comprehension strategies are behaviors that good readers exhibit when reading. These strategies help readers better understand the text, and they also facilitate the learning of other comprehension skills. The ultimate goal is for students to use these strategies independently. The comprehension strategies include the following:
· Predicting (using pictures, titles, and word clues to think about what will happen next in a story).
· Clarifying (breaking big words into smaller words, using context clues to make sense of unknown words).
· Summarizing (retelling the most important events or ideas of a text).
· Questioning (asking questions about unclear information or about the author’s decisions about the problem, characters, etc.)
· Making connections (connecting the text to a personal experience, another book, or a worldly experience).
· Visualizing (creating mental pictures as the text is being read).
***We will focus on these strategies over the next month. Although we will practice these strategies using various texts, our primary texts will be Frog and Toad are Friends and informational text pertaining to the Solar System.
Writing- We will begin Writer’s Workshop this week. Good writing contains elements from six traits: conventions, ideas, voice, sentence fluency, organization, and word choice. For the first quarter, we will focus on the traits of conventions and ideas. Conventions is the part of writing that focuses on spelling, punctuation, capitalization, format, and paragraph formation. Ideas focus on the writer’s ability to elaborate details, focus on a main idea, and choose an appropriate topic.
Math- We will review doubles and focus on sums of ten (10). We will also focus on mathematical language such as equal, add, sum, double, greater, etc. and begin creating our math word wall.
Science- Students will learn rules/procedures for using the science lab. Wednesday is “Science Exploration Day” where the students will participate in science stations and experiment with static electricity and how some chemicals react to one another. This day serves to show to students how fun science can be! Thursday we begin our unit on the Solar System!
Word Wall/Spelling: black, brothers, clock slow, trip. All the words this week contain a blend (bl, br, cl, sl, tr). We will focus on blends and rhyming words this week.
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