Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade Ms. Pryor

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1-20-15

LITERACY focus standard

MATH focus standards

CCSS RL.1.9 Students will compare and

contrast the adventures and experiences of
characters in stories.

CCSS: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Strategy: Students will use the sentence frames:

We will compare and contrast _____ and _____.
They are the same because _________________.
They are different because __________________.
This weeks basal story is Im a Caterpillar.
The genre is literary non-fiction.

1.OA.2 Students will solve word problems that

call for the addition of three whole numbers by
using objects, drawings, and equations with a
symbol for the unknown number.

CCSS: Number and Operations in Base Ten

1.NBT.3 Compare numbers based on
meanings of the tens and ones digits, and
record results with the symbols >, =, and <.

Phonics skills:
rooster sounds
r controlled vowels er, ir, ur
(were, first, curl)
more contractions
s for is
re for are
ve for have

hes
were
weve

Class Website Information

Look at RESOURCES tab and scroll to bottom of

page. There are 3 embedded links. Spelling City
is a great website for Literacy skills practice.

Food Tasting Dried Fruit

This Week

We will dry the apples ourselves on Tuesday, and

then do our taste comparison on Thursday.

100th Day of School Celebration

Friday, January 30th

(families are asked for snack donations )

Words to practice:

wait

Januarys Habit of the Month

Habit Six: Synergize
Together is Better!

100th Day

Next Friday is the 100th day of school. One activity will be

eating a 100th day trail mix snack after lunch. Please send in a
large quantity (100+) of one kind of small snack for sharing.
Ideas include: Goldfish crackers, raisins, mini marshmallows,
M&Ms, pretzels, dry cereal, Teddy Grahams, Skittles, or chocolate
chips. Each child will select 10 groups of 10 things to make their
own personalized 100 snack.

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