Mrs. Papke's Fantastic First Grade

  May 16th, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Learn that the vowel combination ue and ew make the /oo/ sound, as in true and crew Learn that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings Read a book titled, The Cactus Hotel , by Abbey Grace Moore. We will read words with consonant clusters and understand new vocabulary from context. We will also identify the author's purpose for writing the book. Respond to reading in our Reader's Notebooks Read a poem titled, How Much Dew? Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons In Writing this week, we will…  Continue our Narrative Writing Unit Edit our work to include important components  Investigate what makes Realistic Fiction realistic Focus on creating and including small realistic details Create an Elephant & Piggie comic strip for E Day in the ABC countdown In math this week, we will…  Take MAP testing  Tell time to the hour and half-hour on an analog clock Under...

  May 9th, 2022 Next week we are switching our library to Tuesday (instead of Thursday) so that another first grade class can also have a library next week. (This is due to the Riveredge field trips) Thanks for being flexible!  This week in literacy, we will… Read a book titled The Strawberry Hunt , by Joan Silver. We will discuss the story's setting and why it's important, talk about how illustrations and print features help us understand information, and make personal connections to the events in the story. Respond to The Strawberry Hunt by writing about the problem and solution in the story Read and sequence sentences to develop the concept of first, next and last Learn that when a one-syllable word ends in f, l, s or z, the final consonant is usually doubled. These words have short vowel sounds Read a poem titled I Know Something. We will highlight words in the poem that follow the FLSZ spelling rule Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons In Writing this week,...

May 2, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Learn that a noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. Learn that proper nouns name specific people, places, and things. Proper nouns are always capitalized Learn that the vowel combination -igh has the long i sound, as in high and night Read a book titled, Animal Surprises, by Nicole Walker. We will notice and talk about what is important in the text and use nonfiction text features to gain more information. We will also read words with long vowel sounds with silent e, and use context to read and understand unfamiliar words. Finally, we will work on fluent reading by using punctuation marks to read with appropriate intonation and pausing.  Identify the main idea and supporting details from Animal Surprises during Community Writing time. Read a poem titled, I'd Like to Be a Lighthouse. We will identify and read words with the -igh vowel combination.  Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons In Writing this week, we will...

  April 25, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Learn that some words mean the same thing, they are called synonyms Develop categorical thinking by exploring relationships between words. We will learn that some words go together because they are the same in some way Read a poem titled, My Big Balloon. We will generate synonyms for the word big. Read a book The Big Mix Up, by Nicole Walker. When reading, we will make personal connections to the text, infer the characters' feelings, and tell important events from the story. We will also recognize plurals and contractions Discuss a problem in a story and give opinions on how characters could act during Community Writing time Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons In Writing this week, we will…  Begin our Narrative Writing Unit Understand how to write a realistic book Create a storyline by establishing a character, a setting, and a real problem the character may face  Understand how to wrap up our story by creat...

  April 18, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Add -s to some words to make them plural Add -es to words that end with ch, sh, s, x, and z to make them plural Read How Animals Eat , by Mary Ebeltoft Reid. We will discuss important information from the text and infer the writer's purpose and message. We will understand the meaning of new content words by using text and photographs. Additionally, we will recognize simple plurals, review consonant clusters and identify contractions we see within the text.  Read a poem titled "Five Little Sparrows". We will highlight plural nouns that are made by adding -s or -es. Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons In Writing this week, we will…  Understand what metaphors are use them in our own poems Discuss what adjectives are and place them strategically in our poems Celebrate the completion of our Poetry Unit by sharing our poems with the class In math this week, we will…  Start Unit 7 of Math Count objects to 10...