Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade Ms. Pryor 4-14-14

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LITERACY focus standards

CCSS: RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Students will learn to tell what an informational text is mostly about based on details from the text. They will be given ideas to select from, and then will cite details from the text to validate their selection

MATH focus standard

CCSS: 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
This skill is taught by skip-counting forward (+) or backward (-) and being able to state the rule: +5, -2, +10.

CCSS: L1.1j Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
Students will first learn to identify the different types of sentences, and then will produce them from prompts.

SCIENCE WEEK
Our mornings will still be Literacy-centered. We will focus on non-fiction texts using insects and butterflies as the main topics. The students will learn to use a K-W-L chart, and will work in their insect notebooks. Ask your child about our classroom caterpillars they are really growing! Several of the afternoons will be science-centered, and students will rotate among the four First Grade classrooms. I will be presenting the Water Cycle. Students will learn new vocabulary, will learn a water cycle song, and will make a water cycle bracelet in order to remember the different stages in order. The other teachers will lead lessons in the scientific method, working with the five senses, and experimenting with magnets.

April Habit of the Month:

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Work First, Then Play! Important Dates:
Thursday 4/17 Field Trip money due ($6.00) Friday 4/18 no school - Spring Holiday Mon-Fri 4/21-25 Book Fair in library Tuesday 4/22 Earth Day Tuesday 4/22 Spring (prepaid) portrait day Friday 4/25 Field Trip to El Paso Zoo Friday 5/9 MVES Dia de las Madres

Science Vocabulary:

(no spelling dictation test this week)

insect larva pupa

cycle stage

Water Cycle Words: evaporation condensation precipitation