Mr. Mandru's 1st. Grade Minutes: December 2014

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Week Of:

Dec.15 -Dec. 19

Hi Parents! Welcome to Mr. Mandru’s weekly blog. Each week you will be able to click this link to find information for the upcoming week.

Reading Strategies

- “Eagle eye” (using pictures to help sound out a word)

- “Skippy Scott” (Skip over unknown words, then come back to them)

- “Lips the fish” (look at the first letter of the word, Get your lips ready to make the letters sound)

- “Stretchy snake” (stretch out the sounds of the word)

- “Elephant Ears” (Listen to the word. Does it sound right?)

- “Turtle talk” (Sound out the word slowly. Blend the sounds together.)

- Daily 5-

Read to self

Read to someone

Word Work

Computers/Listening center

Work on writing

Phonics

Long a

Grammar-

“ABC order”

Vocabulary-

Career

Pilots

Aviation

Navigate

Spelling Words

ran

hat

scar

came

name

cake

grape

only

old

baseball

(Test December 19^th)

Math

We will be reviewing our previous concepts.

There will be no homework this week.

Homework-Purple folder

There will be a math sheet for homework every night. There will also be a reading sheet in your student’s folder. Please write down the title of a book that your student read. They do not need to finish the book.

Exploration stations

“Famous Americans”

IPADS

We will receive our iPads again later this year

Reminders/notes

- With the cold weather, please make sure your child has a jacket to wear outside. If they have gloves and a hat, please make sure they are labeled with their names.

- This week’s “Monkey of the Week” was Sydney. Sydney had a great week being our classroom leader. Congratulations to Sydney for an awesome week!

- Report cards went home on Tuesday, December 2^nd. Please sign and return the envelopes. Thank you!

- Tuesday, December 16^th- Early dismissal. Students will be dismissed at 12:00.

- Silly Sweater day and classroom holiday party- Friday, December 19^th

- Winter break begins December 22^nd- No school.

- January 5^th- Classes will resume.

Have a great weekend!!!

Friday, December 5, 2014

Week Of:

Dec.8 -Dec. 12

Hi Parents! Welcome to Mr. Mandru’s weekly blog. Each week you will be able to click this link to find information for the upcoming week.

Reading Strategies

- “Eagle eye” (using pictures to help sound out a word)

- “Skippy Scott” (Skip over unknown words, then come back to them)

- “Lips the fish” (look at the first letter of the word, Get your lips ready to make the letters sound)

- “Stretchy snake” (stretch out the sounds of the word)

- “Elephant Ears” (Listen to the word. Does it sound right?)

- “Turtle talk” (Sound out the word slowly. Blend the sounds together.)

- Daily 5-

Read to self

Read to someone

Word Work

Computers/Listening center

Work on writing

Phonics

Vowels

Grammar-

“ABC order”

Vocabulary-

Constructed

Monument

Spectacular

Magnificent

Suffering

Miniature

Contributions

Several

Spelling Words

sad

let

trip

blue

orange

gray

black

one

color

(Test December 12^th)

Math

We will continue our unit on Subtraction Facts to 20. This would be a good time to start practicing math facts with your student (ex 1+2, 3+5). We will begin to assess Math fact fluency in the coming weeks.

(Math test December 12^th)

Homework-Purple folder

Exploration stations

“Famous Americans”

IPADS

December is our last month with the iPads. Students must return their iPads and charging cords by Thursday, December 11th.

In school- We are using the apps Raz-kids, Nearpod, Starfall, Xtramath, Dictionary for kids, etc. These apps are assisting students with their reading and comprehension skills. Please feel free to use these at home.

At home

- Ipads should be returned in their ziplock bag daily.

- Please have your student charge their Ipads the night before school.

This is a pilot year. Therefore, there will be some problems and kinks we need to work out. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know. I will do my best to help!