Unit 4 Week 1 Preview

Our new theme for this unit is teamwork. We will begin the unit discussing the advantages of using teamwork and what team members do. This week we will use the spelling rules: 'ai_', and '_ay' to spell the long vowel-a. For comprehension we will learn how to generate questions during reading in order to make predictions. We will discuss comparatives and superlatives and use them to make a small fold out book. Our vocabulary words will be: encourage, friendship, relationship, rely, and suggest. Our sight words will be: across, carry, eight, once, upon, and walked. In grammar we will distinguish between the two verbs: was and were.

In health, we will talk about safety and safe habits.

Additionally, this week all 1st graders will take their reading skills battery for fluency and comprehension.

We will also attempt to get in a math test.

On Wednesday is our field study trip to the Getty Museum. We will be enjoying as well as examining and comparing art for a variety of elements: line, color, texture, shape, and subject matter.

This will be a busy week with Our 1ooth day of school celebration on Thursday.

Twenty-Fifth Day

Today we started the final step of the rough draft of our personal narrative. We used our Tree Map to right details about what we can and like to do etc. We also began the finishing detail of our Unit Project. We anlyzed the structure of a cause and effect informational text.


For science/health today we went into first grade detail about how we grow. We discussed how genes, nutrition (balanced diet), and exercise all play a part in our growth. We discussed how a disease may interfere with growth if left untreated.

Many students returned to school today with either incorrect math classwork or incorrect homework. All incorrect math was sent home to be corrected. Today we applied the principles we've been learning about parts of a whole to solve story problems. We will most likely have our Topic 4 test tomorrow.

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