Henry Clay Elementary

First Grade Footnotes

Our focus this week, in
Language Arts: The Fox and the Stork

Important Dates:

identify and describe characters in a story identify story details make and confirm predictions Review naming and telling parts of sentences Blending, reading, segmenting, and spelling blends, digraphs and digraph blends A digraph contains two consonants and makes one sound (/sh/) A blend contains two consonants but they both make their own sound (/sl/) A digraph blend is a digraph blended with another consonant (shr) Trick words: some, could, want

Fundations:

Feb. 5th: Five Below Week Begins Fri, Feb 10th Spirit DayHCES shirts! Mon, Feb. 13th McDonalds Night Mon, Feb. 14th Muffins with Mom 7:30 AM Thurs, Feb. 16th: Parent Teacher Conference Day Early School Closing @ 12:30 Fri, Feb. 17th: Spirit DayFavorite Scarf Mon, Feb. 20: No School (snow make up day if needed) Fri, Feb. 24: Spirit Daywear your favorite boots Tues, Feb. 28th: First Grade Play 6:45

Feb.6 Feb.10, 2012

Teacher Tip:

Instructional Focus Try solving this problem! It was a cold day and 5 people were wearing mittens. 1. How many mittens were there? 2. How many cold fingers? 3. How many cold hands? Hint: Try skip counting! Bring in your answer for a special surprise!

Math

magnitude: large numbers story problems skip counting by 10s, 5s and 2s facts- 10 and some more

Social Studies

introduce Benjamin Franklin

Riding in the car is a great time to practice skip counting with your child. You can see how high your child can count before you get to a certain landmark. You can say and number, then your child says a number, and you go back and forth. The more often you practice, the easier it will be for your child. First graders should practice skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s to 100. Dont forget to have your child fill out his/her Valentine cards. This will make it more meaningful for your child and helps to practice good handwriting too!

proved that electricity was

lightning during his kite experiment started the first library started the first volunteer fire department

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY the act of giving/doing something

contribution: