November 18th- November 22nd

Question of the week: How do animal communities work together to survive?

Language Arts Connection: Proper nouns and special titles for people Contractions putting them together and understanding apostrophes. 

Writing: Writing contractions. Understanding sequencing in stories (first, next and last). Writing the steps to cook a turkey. 

Reading: We will be reading the story titled "The Big Circle" and discussing the sequence of events in the story.

Math: Measurement and Data-CCSS: 1.MD.4 Graphing and understanding graphs to answer questions 

Social Studies: History of the First Thanksgiving, giving thanks: what are you thankful for?

Spelling/Phonic- review beginning and ending blends, long /o/ words (o_e words), contractions

Ruby

1. home    2. hope     3. rose

 4.bone     5. rode   6. woke

7. those       8. hose      9. joke

10. stone  *11. there  12. together

Sentence: I rode home on my bike.

 Emerald

1. home    2. hope     3. rose

 4.bone     5. rode   6. woke

7. those       8. hose      9. joke

10. stone   11. broke 12. note

13. chrome  14. clone

*15. there 16. together

 Sentence: The dog broke a bone, no joke!

Diamond

1. home    2. hope     3. rose

 4.bone     5. rode   6. woke

November 11th-November 15th

Thank you to all the men and women who have or are still fighting for our country!! Happy Veterans Day :)

Question of the week: Who works together to make our community a nice place?

Language Arts Connection: Proper nouns and special titles for people

Writing: Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing. Finding proper nouns in sentences. Authors purpose in a story. 

Reading: We will be reading the story titled "Who Works Here" and discuss characters and setting, and major events in a story using key details. We will also be discussing authors purpose in a story.

Math: Measurement and Data-CCSS: 1.MD.4 Graphing and understanding graphs to answer questions 

Spelling/Phonic- review beginning and ending blends, long /i/ words (i_e words)

Ruby

1. like     2. ride     3. time

4.bike     5. hide   6. smile

7. kite     8. dime      9. ice

10.white  *11. who  12. work

 Sentence:I like to ride my bike.

Emerald

1. like     2. ride     3. time

4.bike     5. hide   6. smile

7. kite     8. dime      9. ice

10.white  11. pride 12. slide

13. glide  14. shine

*15. who 16. work

 Sentence:I glide on my bike when I ride. 

Diamond

1. like     2. ride     3. time

4.bike     5. hide   6. smile

November 4th- November 8th

Question of the week: How is a school a community?

Language Arts Connection: Review common nouns, introduce proper nouns

Writing: Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing. Finding common nouns in sentences. Cause and Effect in a story. 

Reading: We will be reading the story titled "Farmer in the Hat" and discuss characters and setting, and major events in a story using key details. We will also be discussing cause and effect in the story

Math: Addition-CCSS: 1.OA.3  fact families

Spelling/Phonic- review beginning and ending blends, long /a/ words (a_e words)

Ruby

1. face    2. made    3. age

4.safe    5. make   6. take

7. cage       8. late      9. cake

10.name  *11. could  12. old

 Sentence: I can make a cake.

 Emerald

1. face    2. made    3. age

4.safe    5. make   6. take

7. cage       8. late      9. cake

10.name  *11. brave 12. trade

13. gave  14. shape

*15. could  16. old

 Sentence:I gave my brave face to the ape.

Diamond

1. face    2. made    3. name

4.safe    5. make   6. take