Week of April 23rd

Due to standardized testing, the only homework this week is the math fact practice.

Each Friday we will be testing the students in math on our fact set of the week. It will be a timed test. Each week if the students master the skill for the week, they will earn a topping for our ice cream party at the end of the year. Please see the homework for the skills of the week for each class. Since this was the homework for the students all year, we will be putting their knowledge to the test now that the year is coming to a close. Please continue to review these at home.

Writer's Workshop:We are continuing on our creative narrative unit and are focusing on including good details and describing words. The kids will go through the writing process to write a creative story this week.
Monday: Create a tree map with all of our story elements parts
Tuesday: Use our tree map to make a flow map. Add an opening and closing sentence.
Wednesday: Finish adding details to our flow map and begin our rough drafts.
Thursday: Finish our rough drafts then edit and revise them.
Friday: Write our final drafts and share in a small group.

Project Group:
We are continuing with our Economics unit. This week the kids are going to be making hamburgers. We will work in teams to create an assembly line.

Reading:

Mrs. Johns' Reading:

Story of the week: Rumplestiltskin
Words of the week: no words this week!

We will be doing a lot of comprehension work with the Rumplestiltskin story this week, including sequencing, character maps, and exploring the setting.

Ms. Aguilar's Reading

Story of the Week: The Lizard and the Sun by Alma Flor Ada
Genre: folktale
Comprehension Skill: identifying the main events of a story and sequencing them
Word Wall Words: review of all words

Mrs. Sullivan's Reading:
Word family - irregular plurals
dictation words:
man, men, woman, women, child, children, foot, feet, mouse, mice, tooth,
teeth, goose, geese
High frequency words: favorite, friendly, your, you're, know

Dictation sentences:
For dictation sentences this week I would like for each student to write a one paragraph paper about what they have learned during our economics unit. The paragraph should contain at least 5 sentences. Use good vocabulary words such as services, capital resources, trade, scarcity, and opportunity cost. Students should use cups to edit the paragraph. Turn in the final edited paper by Friday.

We are practicing comprehension skills this week, including predicting, sequencing, and finding details for the beginning, middle, end of a story.

Math:
Mrs. Johns' Math: This week in math we will be reviewing concepts from the year.

Monday: Tile Math
Tuesday: no Math due to Stanford 10 Testing
Wednesday: no Math due to Stanford 10 Testing
Thursday/Friday: Centers

Ms. Aguilar's Math:

In math this week we have moved on to money. We introduced pennies and nickels last week. We will work in identifying dimes on Friday. We will be practicing counting up the value of various coins.
Monday: Nickel practice
Tuesday: Math centers with all 1st graders
Wednesday: Math centers with all 1st graders
Thursday: May Calendar
Friday: Dime practice

Mrs. Sullivan's Math: This week in math, we will start spending a few minutes each day on test taking strategies in preparation for the Stanford 10 test. We are also learning place value, double digit addition, and subtraction. The fact test on Friday will be (+4).