This Week in Room 8 (9/26 to 9/30):

ELA:
This week in first grade we will begin our Family Unit. We will learn about what our families have in common and celebrate what makes families unique.
We will work on the following skills-

• short e
• identifying nouns (people, places, or things)
• asking and answering questions about the text
• continued practice with identifying and creating interrogative (?), exclamatory (!), and declarative (.) sentences
• proofreading/editing sentences
• writing an answer to a question in a complete sentence (restating the question)                         What is your favorite color? My favorite color is green.

Math:

We will work on the following skills-

• continued practice with number sense between 1-120 (and beyond)
• continued graphing and analyzing data from a graph using words like most, least, more, less, same, and equal
• This week we introduce a new skill 1.OA.5.

1.OA.5 Summary:

This standard expects that students can demonstrate their ability to recognize “counting on” as the same process used in addition. Similarly, students will recognize “counting back” as subtraction.

Science:

We will continue to make observations on our seeds as they begin to transform and grow.

Rooted Mind:

We will review our roots from previous weeks (tele = distant; script/scribe = to write; port = to carry or bear).

Leader in Me: 

We will review Habits 1-4 and introduce Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood.

Ask your child to show you our hand motions as we recite the 7 Habits!

Robotics:

Last week, we explored Cubelets in the classroom. Our activities this week will continue to focus on discovery as we tackle various challenges created by the teacher!