Reading- We will continue our focus on comprehension of fiction and non-fiction texts throughout all content areas. We are currently finishing up our unit on sequencing non-fiction text including posters, recipes, craft directions, and life cycles. Then, we will focus on using our knowledge when we retell the events in fiction books we read. We will continue to find the main idea and supporting details each time we read a text!
Reading
1.9 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts.
a) Preview the selection.
b) Set a purpose for reading.
c) Relate previous experiences to what is read.
d) Make and confirm predictions.
e) Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about what is read.
f) Identify characters, setting, and important events.
g) Retell stories and events, using beginning, middle, and end in a sequential order.
h) Identify theme.
i) Read and reread familiar stories and poems with fluency, accuracy, and meaningful expression.
1.10 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of nonfiction texts.
a) Preview the selection.
b) Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning.
c) Set a purpose for reading.
d) Identify text features such as pictures, headings, charts, and captions.
e) Make and confirm predictions.
f) Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about what is read.
g) Identify the main idea.
h) Read and reread familiar texts with fluency, accuracy, and meaningful expression.
Writing- We have been focusing on writing using signal words. We have written about how to make discovery jars and an ice cream sundae. We also discussed the life cycles of different plants and animals and then wrote the different stages in sentences beginning with a signal word. We will continue a similar process when writing a summary of fiction books we read in our next unit.
Example signal words: first, second, third, next, then, after that, finally
Writing
1.12 The student will print legibly.
a) Form letters accurately.
b) Space words within sentences.
1.13 The student will write to communicate ideas for a variety of purposes.
a) Generate ideas.
b) Focus on one topic.
e) Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation in final copies.
Math- We just started our third math unit on 2-D geometry and repeating patterns. We will be focusing on looking at circles, triangles, squares, and rectangle and then identifying how many sides, vertices, and angles each shape has. We will then sort shapes based on one or more attributes including shape, color, and size.
We will continue working on our number sense and solving addition and subtraction word problems using the UPSC.
U- understand (circle and underline what is important)
P- plan (choose addition or subtraction and write an equation)
S- solve (solve the equation using one strategy)
C- check (solve using a second strategy)
Vocabulary- pattern, core, repeating pattern, shapes, rectangle, square, circle, triangle, vertices (vertex), angles, sides
Our unit 3 test will be on November 20 and 21, 2017.
Number and Number Sense
1.1 The student will
a) count forward orally by ones to 110, starting at any number between 0 and 110;
b) write the numerals 0 to 110 in sequence and out-of-sequence;
c) count backward orally by ones when given any number between 1 and 30; and
d) count forward orally by ones, twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects to 110.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
1.13 The student will sort and classify concrete objects according to one or two attributes.
1.14 The student will identify, describe, extend, create, and transfer repeating patterns.
Social Studies- We just finished our unit on Virginia's Patriotic Symbols, Virginia Government, and Diversity. We will begin our unit on Economics on November 13, 2017.
Science- We will be studying how different objects move with a push or pull Then, we will describe how objects move in a straight, circular, or back-and-forth motion.
1.2 The student will investigate and understand that moving objects exhibit different kinds of motion. Key concepts include a) objects may have straight, circular, and back-and-forth motions; and c) pushes or pulls can change the movement of an object.