Week 7....Here we go!

We had a wonderful week in 1B!  Our new Teaching Assistant will be joining us permanently beginning this week.  Her name is Mrs. Katherine Vance and the students enjoy and respect her.  Please see her biography attached.

Honor won the estimation jar this week!  Please make sure your children DO NOT know how many items are in the jar.

Thank you parents for keeping the leveled readers in the ziplock bag and returning them on Wednesday.

Our reading groups continue every Tuesday and Thursday morning. All are welcome to join us just use the sign-up genius.

If you have questions about how I mark your student's pages please speak with me.  In the beginning I told you that I star all activities that are completed with the particular items I was looking for.  While you may think there are a lot of things incorrect on their pages, I ask them specifically for certain items.  We have a long way to go and I don't want them to lose heart and not enjoy their writing assignments.

English and Language Arts (ELA)




Spelling:

Monday - boy, book, by, have, are, had, over, must, make, street
Tuesday - say, come, hand, ring, live, live, hill, late, let, big
Wednesday - bag, beg, bog, bug, mother, three, land, cold, hot,
                                        hat
Thursday - Practice writing words from the pretest done in class.
Friday - Spelling test in class over 30 words from this week.

Literature:
We will begin Owl At Home this week. We have a journal that we will write comprehension questions in for all of our literature books.

Writing:
We will copy excerpts from The Tales of Peter Rabbit in our writing journals.




Science:

The students will understand that environmental change and habitat destruction can cause extinction.

History:

We will continue to study Mesopotamia and discuss all the different things we enjoy today as a result of that ancient culture.  We will review the story of Gilgamesh and write in ancient cuneiform writing.
Our large Egyptian Unit begins in October, with an Egyptian party at the end.  If you have creative ideas about crafts for the unit, please notify me. It is one of the largest units of the year, and the students love it.  Parents from last year brought in items from the period such as pictures, clay forms, mummified pieces of food, etc.

Math:

We will continue practicing our subtraction stories using our white boards and various manipulatives.

Have a great week!

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~ Thomas Painne