Mrs. Papke's Fantastic First Grade

  May 23rd, 2022 This week in literacy, we will… Use context to understand connected text Understand that words have more than one meaning Read a book titled, Antonio and the Firefly by June Schwartz. While reading, we will adjust our voices to reflect dialogue and punctuation. We will also recognize words ending in -ed to make a word past tense and plural nouns ending in -s. We will discuss the big ideas (messages) in the story.  Infer the main character's feelings and use those inferences while writing in their Reader's Notebooks. Read a poem titled, Little Robin Redbreast Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons In Writing this week, we will…  Continue our Narrative Writing Unit Focus on adding details about our characters feelings and emotions Use our Writing “Superpowers” to work effectively and efficiently during writing time Have a Punctuation Party in which we check for periods, question marks, and exclamation points Create our Cereal box to make a "boxe...

  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,...