The week of October 9
Grade 1 Math
Vocabulary words: compare, fewer, more
This week students will continue to work on solving subtraction problems.Students will review the vocabulary compare, fewer, more.Students will learn to use pictures to compare and subtract.We will practice with counters, draw lines or use pictures to lineup and compare more or fewer objects in a problem.Complete practice worksheets.
The week of October 1
Grade 1 Math
This week students will learn that subtraction means taking from and use cubes to model subtraction stories. We will learn to use pictures and understand the concept of taking from.Students will understand that the objects in pictures represent the whole and part moving away is the part taken away from the group. Use tools such as, paper pencil, connecting cubes, counters and pictures to visualize, model and work on taking away subtraction problems.
The week of September 24
Grade 1 Math
This week students will use tools such as connecting cubes counters and drawings to visualize addition equations and the relationship between numbers. Children will use red and blue cubes to show different ways to make numbers up to 10.
We will also learn that addition can be written "across" and "up and down".Students will work on solving addition problems writing both vertically and horizontally.
The week of September 17
Grade 1 Math
This week students will learn that when a number is added to zero, the sum is always that number. Children will use manipulative, pictures and symbols to work on addition problems with zero. We will also learn about the commutative property of addition that the order of the addends does not affect the sum.students can use cubes to model numbers and compare the sum.Model cube trains using two different colors and turn the train around so that the cubes appear in different order, students learn the concept that changing the order of the addends does not change the sum. We will complete worksheet in class.
The Week of June 4, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words: her, fern, girl, bird, fur, hurt, stir, turn
vocabulary words: baby, begins, eight, follow, learning, until, years, young
Student will practice to blend and decode words with r controlled vowels er, ir, ur.
Read the story Peacock And Crane in Write in Reader and answer the questions.Discuss how animals are different and have special body parts that help them to do amazing things. Read the informational text Amazing Animals and discuss how animals are different in their looks and abilities..
We will complete our MARE Whale poster
Group 2
Spelling words:took, books, foot, nook, stood, hood, good, shook, looking,cookies bonus:crooked, bookcase
Vocabulary: exact, discovered, remove, growled, amazed, explained, guard, souvenirs
Students will learn that the letters oo, ew, ue and ou can stand for the /oo/in boot.students will practice to segment sounds in words.Discuss the vocabulary words and their meanings.Discuss how fossils can be found all over the world and how they help to learn about the past.We will learn that a biography tells about the events in a person's life. We will read together the biography The Dog That Dug For Dinosaurs. we will discuss the essential questions while we read.
We will complete our MARE Whale posterGroup 3
Spellig Words:below, about, between, behind, around, because, alone, begin, along, before, bonus: awhile, beyond
Vocabualry: worried, certainly, raise, afford, applause, anxiously, dramatic, guided, ingredients, fetch
students will learn to use words that begins with a- and be-.
Discuss that adults and children could work together and learn from each other and help each other.Take turns to read the realistic fiction Saving Buster.We will discuss the essential question how children and adults learn from each other.
Students will practice to use the pronouns I and me in sentences. Pronoun I is used only as the subject of a sentence and me is used as an object in a sentence.
We will complete our MARE Whale poster
The Week of May 21, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words: far, art, barn, jar, card, bark, arm yarn
Vocabulary word:few, night, shall, window, story, noise, world,loudly
Student will learn that letters ar will stand for the /ar/ sound at the beginning, middle and end of a word.
Read the story Bean Reaches For The Sun in Write in Reader and answer the questions.
Discuss the steps in making a garden.We will discuss what happens when a character named Toad plants some seeds to make a garden. Read the story The Garden and answer the essential question, what grows in a garden.
Group 2
Spelling words:root, crew, you, spoon,blue, bloom, grew, stew, boost, scoop, flew Bonus: shampoo
Vocabulary Words:ordinary, control, cage, upset, sensible, confused, training, suspiciously
Students will learn that the letters oo, ew, ue and ou can stand for the /oo/in boot.students will practice to segment sounds in words.
Discuss the vocabulary words and their meanings. Discuss how living things can change when they grow citing the example of humans.We will read the fantasy The Mysterious Tadpole and discuss the essential question how animals change when they grow while we read.
Group 3
Spellig Words:painless, sickness, thankless, helpless, kindness, hopeless,fearless, careless, darkness, spotless, softness bonus:breathless eagerness
Vocabualry: approached, section, avalanches, increases, equipment, tanks, slopes, altitude, succeed, halt
Students will learn that adding suffixes to the end of a base word can change the meaning of the base words.And that the sounds of the base words stay the same even if letters are dropped of changed
Discuss that mountains are high elevated forms of land and are found all over the world and people like to do adventures like climbing up a mountain range. We will read the informational text Mountains Surviving On Mount Everest. We will use the details in the text like the graphic features to make inferences and predictions.
We will learn that an analogy is a kind of comparison in which one pair of words is compared to another.and each pair relates by definition, meaning or characteristics.complete worksheets.
The Week of may 14, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words:
Spelling words: show, row, grow, low, blow, snow, crow, bowl
Vocabulary word:done, great, laugh, paper, soon, talk, were, work
Practice to blend and decode words with oa and ow.
Read the story Fun With Gram in decodable reader and find words with long o sounds.
read the Story When Tom Grows Up in write in Reader and answer the questions.
we will discuss things that we do now that people long ago did not know about. Read the story Tomas Rivera and answer the essential question, why is it important to learn about people from the past.
Practice and complete worksheets..
Spelling words:tall, saw, dog, draw, call, fall, soft, paw, ball,yawn, log, small Bonus:awful
Vocabulary Words:grain, pod, soak, soften, root, shoot, nutrition, tasty
Students will learn that the letters aw, au, can stand for the /aw/ sound as in lawn.The letters au usually stand at the beginning or middle of a word.
Discuss the life cycles of tress and plants how a seed can grow and turn into a large tree. We read the informational text From Seed To Plant. we will discuss the essential questions how plants grow and change while we read..
Tuesday:
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Complete reading the informational text From Seed To Plant and discuss the cause and effect that happens in the lesson.We will also look how graphic features help us understand the text better.
Review examples of irregular action verbs and complete a
Read the informational text Super Soil and compare how the features in both the lessons are same and alike.
Read the story A Spring Walk from the decodable reader and find words that stand for /aw/
Practice irregular verbs that tells about the past.
Grab n go worksheets
Students will learn to sort words with -y, -ly and -ful endings.
Group 3-
Spelling words:joyful, quickly, friendly, farmer, speaker,unhurt, recheck,unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat,unclear Bonus;unknown, unbuckle
Vocabulary words:voyage, lava, rippled, arrival, guided, twisted, aboard, anchor, spotted, bay
Students will learn that a suffix is added to the end of the base word and it changes the meaning of the base word and adds a syllable.
students will practice to add suffix -ly, -ful -er to the base words.
Students will learn that a prefix is added to the beginning of a base word Practice words with prefixes un-, pre-, re- and bi-
Learn the meaning of the vocabulary words.
Discuss that when volcanoes erupts, hot lava comes out and when it cools it turns to lands and islands are formed.
We will take turns to read the realistic fiction Dog - of - the Sea -Waves . We will discuss the essential question what changes do volcanoes cause while we read.
