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Reading Focus:Key Ideas and Details:

RL1.2 Retells stories, key details and demonstrates understanding of their central message or lesson.RI1.3 Describes the connection between two individuals in a text, the connection between two events in a text, the connection between two ideas in a text, the connections between two pieces of information in a text.

Speaking and Listening:SL1.4 Describes people, places, things, events with relevant details and expresses ideas and feelings clearly.SL1.3 Asks and answers questions about what a speaker says, gathers additional information, and clarifies something that is not understood.

Reading Foundations:1.1a Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (first word, capitalization, ending punctuation)1.2b Isolate and produce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken single-syllable words1.3b Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words

Writing Focus:Writing:

W1.2 Informative/explanatory text. Names topic, supplies facts about the topic, provides sense of closure..

Language:1.1a Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Print all upper and lowercase letters.1.2Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. Use end punctuation for sentences.

Math Focus:Math:

1.OA.D.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.1.NBT.B.3 Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits1.NBT.C.4 Add within 100, including adding a 2-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.1.MD.A.2 Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.1.MD.B.3 Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Science Focus:1.E.2.2 Compare the properties of soil

samples from different places relating their

Monday ❏ Read 15 minuters-Complete homework and put it in the front pocket of your child’s binder

Tuesday ❏ Read 15 minuters-Complete homework

Wednesday ❏ Read 15 minuters-Complete homework

Thursday ❏ Read 15 minuters-Complete homework

Notes from your teacher:➢ Enhancements:

Day 1- PE, Day 2- Music, Day 3- Art,Day 4- Media, Day 5-

Technology, Day 6- Guidance

➢ Please make sure that you are writing the minutes read each night and signing the agenda (please sign even on Fridays).

Important Dates to Remember

● 12/2 Holiday Vendor Fair● 12/4- 12/8 Book Fair● 12/5- McDonald’s Spirit

Night● 12/7- Reading Night

@6pm● 12/13- 2nd Quarter

Progress Reports

Homework

capacity. Understand characteristics of various environments and behaviors of humans that enable plants and animals to survive, to retain water, nourish, and support the growth of certain plants.1.L.1.1 Recognize that plants and animals need air, water, light (plants only), space, food, and shelter and that these may be found in their environment.1.L.2 Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth.