November 16, 2014

First Grade News

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Highlights
Weekly



Social Studies

Students continued to

learn about bodies of
water, landforms, and
map/globe features

(such as the color of land

and water on a map, the
equator, latitude and
longitude lines, and the
North and South pole).
Theyre working diligently
on their own maps,
which now include a
compass rose, ocean,
continent, and islands!

Reading/Writing

Students began learning

about the history behind
Thanksgiving. After learning
about the pilgrims journey
on the Mayflower, students
wrote an opinion piece
about whether they would
take the journey to the
New World.
Students word work
included brainstorming,
reading, and writing words
with short /e/.

Please note:
- Please join us for our
Thanksgiving
Performance on
Tuesday, Nov. 25th at
9:30 am in the MPR.
- Photo Retake Day is
November 20th.
- Fall Break is
November 26-28th.

Students continued
working on their
handwriting. As they work
on correct formation of
lowercase letters, they will
be required to
appropriately use upper
and lowercase letters in
their writing.

Math Corner
Students practiced the

numbers using the < and

> symbols, and ordering

following skills: quickly and

numbers from least to

accurately adding two

and discussed the

greatest and greatest to

single digit numbers, using

Ieast. In addition,

significance of Veterans

strategies to solve word

students learned about

problems, comparing

the meaning of the equal

Students learned about

Day.

sign.