Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade Ms. Pryor

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5-04-2015

LITERACY focus standard

MATH focus standards

CCSS: RI.1.2 Students will identify the

CCSS: Geometry 1.G.3 Partition circles and

rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe
the shares using the words halves, fourths and
quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and
quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of
the shares. Understand for these examples that
decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller
shares.

main idea and retell key details of a

text.
Students will learn to identify the most
important point in an informational text. They will
also choose key details that support their choice.
Main Selection: Alexander Graham Bell:
A Great Inventor
Genre: biography

Fractions (equal shares/parts of a whole)

Phonics Skills: au/aw vowel sound (week 5.5)

sauce, audio

crawl, drawn

Habit of the Week:

Habit 5: Seek First to
Understand, Then
to be Understood
Listen Before You Talk
This Week:
Tuesday & Thursday - Discovery Testing

Attendance is very important

Wednesday, 5/6 - First Grade Field Trip

Please have child wear a red shirt

to help our group be easily identified

Friday, 5/8 - MVES Dia de las Madres

First Grade Moms invited 10:15-11:00

Important Information:
1. Homework this week: Nightly reading and log,
Spelling page, plus 2-d and 3-d Shape Search.
2. Remember April Family Activity Calendar was
due today. No May Family Activity Calendar will
be sent home.
3. Field Trip Information: Remember a sack lunch
from home (if thats what you signed up for),
students wear red shirts, sunscreen applied at
home, and sneakers. We will spend the morning
at the downtown mall, the farmers market, Coas
4.
Bookstore, doing fitness and health, and a
5.
scavenger hunt. After lunch, we will be at
6.
the Museum of Nature and Science.
7.
There is no cost for your child on this trip.

Words to Practice:

early

learn

through

science

built