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This blog's purpose is to keep you (the parents) up to date on the goings on of the Fantastic Factory Shoals First Grade Team! Here you will find important information relevant to your child's first grade experience. Class specific documents will be available to you in paper form by your child's classroom teacher.

Friday, September 16, 2011

This week's agenda and reminders 9/12

In ELA/Reading we are reading Get the Egg!. This story's phonics lesson focuses on short u and initial blends (ie, sm, st, sl, bl, fl, cr) . Grammar will deal with identifying and writing telling sentences.


*You can review these concepts with your child by:

-having your child tell or write you sentences with the purpose of giving information or making a statement.
-having your child find sort e words and words with initial blends in magazines, newspapers, billboards, etc. and making a book with these new found words.

-making flashcards to read and repeat.

In Math, we will be focusing on greater than, less than and equal to.
*You can review these concepts with your child by:

-comparing numbers in a deck of cards, money amounts, amounts of food, etc.

In Science, we will be continue with magnets. Social Studies will begin a new unit on Folktales (Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Annie Oakley, and Davy Crockett)

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