Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade – Ms. Pryor

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10-15-2018

LITERACY focus standard MATH focus standard

CCSS: RL1.5 Students will explain the
difference between books that tell stories
and books that give information.
Vocabulary: fiction, non-fiction, text features
Strategy: students will identify the features of
fiction and non-fiction texts.
This week’s focus text is:
From Seed to Pumpkin
by Wendy Pfeffer
CCSS: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
1.OA.3 Apply properties of operations as
strategies to add and subtract.
Example: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known,
then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known.
(Commutative property of addition.)
The order of addends does not change the sum.

Phonics Focus:
long i (using magic e)
line, spike, kite

consonant digraphs
Practice Makes Progress:
ch, -tch, ph, wh
 Remember yellow folders every day.
chime watch phone white
 Read for 15 minutes each night and fill-in star
chart in yellow folder (with date written in a star).
 Practice reading and writing phonics focus words
Important Information: and high frequency words (listed on green paper).
 I’m trying out new homework pages this week. Let
 Students are dismissed early this
me know if you and your child like it better. It is
Wednesday, 10/17.
still optional and due on Friday.
 Fall Family Festival is Friday, 10/26
 October Scholastic Book orders are
due Tuesday, 10/30.
 This is Pink Week. Monte Vista Habit 2:
is collecting quarters for cancer Begin With the
research.
End in Mind
Have a Plan
Words to Practice:

live out who

work people