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    First Grade News: Curriculum Highlights

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    The document provides information about curriculum and activities for students in Ms. Tindall's first grade class. It discusses topics being covered in math, science, writing, and reading workshops. It also provides reminders about returning student portfolios and gives examples of writing activities students are practicing at home, such as describing the writing process. Suggestions are made for spelling practices like invented spelling and tips for fluency in reading aloud. The final section outlines daily homework activities for the week in reading, writing, and math.

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    The document provides information about curriculum and activities for students in Ms. Tindall's first grade class. It discusses topics being covered in math, science, writing, and reading workshops. It also provides reminders about returning student portfolios and gives examples of writing activities students are practicing at home, such as describing the writing process. Suggestions are made for spelling practices like invented spelling and tips for fluency in reading aloud. The final section outlines daily homework activities for the week in reading, writing, and math.

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    October 19, 2015

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    The document provides information about curriculum and activities for students in Ms. Tindall's first grade class. It discusses topics being covered in math, science, writing, and reading workshops. It also provides reminders about returning student portfolios and gives examples of writing activities students are practicing at home, such as describing the writing process. Suggestions are made for spelling practices like invented spelling and tips for fluency in reading aloud. The final section outlines daily homework activities for the week in reading, writing, and math.

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    First Grade News

    October 19, 2015

    Curriculum Highlights

    Math Even and odd numbers, number grid patterns


    Science Tools for measuring the weather
    Writing Workshop The writing cycle
    Reading Workshop Fluency and Expression

    Reminders

    If youve not yet returned your childs portfolio to school, kindly do so.

    News From Ms. Tindalls Class


    Our students are excited about writing and are having some good discussions about
    what real authors do. We continue to talk about the writing process. It is not critical
    at this moment that your child fully understands this process as it will be revisited
    throughout the year. Right now exposure is the goal. You can support this learning at
    home by talking about the process you go through in your writing. Lets look at a
    letter you may write to grandma and how you can talk about each stage of the writing
    process. Planning writing on sticky notes or scrap paper things you want to
    remember to tell grandma; first draft writing the letter in an email; revising
    reading back over the letter and making any changes to ensure it makes sense and you
    have all the important information; feedback asking another family member if
    youve included everything Grandma might like to know about; editing checking for
    spelling, punctuation and capitals, using the spell check; publishing adding a photo
    or changing font and sending it to grandma.
    Spelling - I encourage children to use their invented spelling in school as they
    move toward more conventional forms of spelling. The children should be gaining in
    the number of high frequency words that they know how to spell at this point in time
    (the for it in etc.). For more difficult words, please ask children to do their best
    (they might try the word invitation and write it invutashun). This is certainly
    acceptable at this point. We want children to be able to get their ideas down on paper
    and take a risk with their writing. If they feel that they need to spell every word
    correctly this slows them down and they select only those words that they know how
    to spell which, as you can imagine, is very limiting. When they move into the editing
    stage of their writing, this is their opportunity to make corrections for spelling,
    punctuation, capitalization and grammar.
    In partnership, Ms. Tindall

    Monday

    Reading: Talk to an adult about what a fluent reader sounds like.


    Word Study: Find words that have <ck>. What patterns do you see? Where is the <ck>
    usually located?
    Math: Play the game Coin Grab. Put coins ( 1s, 5s and 10s to start) in the middle. With
    one hand behind your back each player grabs a handful of coins. Each player sorts their
    money into groups 1s, 5s, 10s and then counts the total amount. Keep a score board with
    players names and the amount they grab. Circle the highest amount for each round. ***
    Extend this activity by including other denominations such as 10s, 20s, 50s.

    Tuesday

    Reading: What are some things you can do to improve your fluency?
    Math: Have another game of Coin Grab.

    Wednesday

    Reading: How do different types of punctuation guide your fluency and expression? EG
    What do you do when you see a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark?
    Math: Go on a pattern hunt. Do patterns always occur in a straight line? Are there other
    ways that make patterns? Make your own definition for what is a pattern.

    Thursday

    Reading: How do speech marks guide your fluency and expression? What do they mean? How
    do they change your reading?
    Math: Play shop. Label a few items in your home with price tags in cents. Play purchasing
    items giving the exact amount using 5s and 1s. * To extend use higher amounts and higher
    denominations of coins/ only give a 50 cent coin and ask for change to be given for each
    item.

    Friday

    Reading
    Poem Collection: Recite poems and songs to your family and friends. Please return the
    folder to school on Monday.

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