Mrs. Papke's Fantastic First Grade

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...

April 11, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Learn to add -ing to the end of verbs to show that something is happening now Add -ed to the end of verbs to show that something already happened Think about how to spell words correctly when you add the suffix -ed Read a book titled, Oh, Good! by Judith E. Nayer during shared reading. We will retell major events that occurred in the story and infer the characters' feelings. We will also notice word endings and understand the meaning of new words Read a poem titled, On Top of Spaghetti. We will highlight verbs with -ed endings in the poem Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons In Writing this week, we will…  Continue our Poetry Unit Discuss alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm  Understand the poetry elements of personification and similes  Write our own poems In math this week, we will…  Read and write numerals to 120 Compare pairs of 2-digit numbers Add with sums to 100 Explain the reasoning behind a strategy...

  April 4, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Learn the letter-sound correspondence for the r-controlled vowels ar, or, ir, ur and er Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons Read a book titled, The Donkey and the Farmer , by Marta Magellan. While reading, we will infer the characters intentions, motivation, and perspective. We will notice words that add action or emotion (shouted, crash) and identify words with r-controlled vowels in the text Read a poem titled, Little Bird . While reading, we will identify are read words with r-controlled vowels, identify the meaning of quotation marks and make our voices reflect dialogue In Writing this week, we will…  Continue our Poetry Unit Add on to our “Poet-tree” by learning about several new poem types/styles. Specifically this week, we will explore I-Wish poems, Shape poems, Acrostic poems, and Haikus In math this week, we will…  Solve addition story problems with sums to 20 involving situations of adding to and put...