W h a t ’s h a p p e n i n g i n 1 B ?
Mrs. Scott’s Official Newsletter for the Week of February 13, 2012
L it e r a c y a n d L a n g u a g e
Daily 5
Math
Investigations Unit 5
Work on Writing- identify irrelevant information in paragraph, determining main idea to determine appropriate titles, editing practice reviewing capitalization, punctuation rules, and ie/igh vowel digraphs, dictation practice Work on Words: segmenting and blending words with long i sound, long i vowel patterns i_e, ie, and igh, long e vowel pattern ie Literacy CAFE: Identify the main idea of text, using thinking maps to explain supporting details, making predictions, sequencing main events Sight words: because, let, have, she, said
Writing Workshop Informational Writing- Famous Americans Independent Research
Handwriting Without Tears -Lowercase f and q
2.3 Measuring with Different Units 2.4 Animal Jumps 2.5 End Of Unit Assessment Envisions Unit 18
18-4 Comparing and Ordering by Area 18-5 Comparing and Ordering by Capacity Vocabulary: in between, area, capacity
S c ie n c e & S o c ia l S t u d ie s February Citizenship Skill: Respect
Geology/Earth Science:
Finishing FOSS kit, reflecting in geology journal Social Studies: Making a Texas Map, Famous Americans
*Our Valentine Party will be on Tuesday, February 14th at 1:45PM in the classroom. Please send your valentine box to school on Monday, February 13th. If your child is passing out valentines at school, please make sure you have enough for each student in the class. We have twenty-one students in 1B.
*Please return all Fun Run pledges to school as soon as possible.
Nicole Scott – 1B- nscott@coppellisd.com