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Scholfields First Grade Classroom Newsletter November 15, 2013

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(cholastic )ews* +his week we read about ,eteran&s -a. and how it used to be called /rmistice -a.. %e learned that is different from Memorial -a. because we are celebrating people who are li0ing right now and ha0e ser0ed our countr.. %e en1o.ed the ,eterans -a. assembl. where the sheriff came in and told us more about this holida.. -ail. 2* +his week we ha0e continued to work on nouns and ha0e started talking about the pilgrims. %e read the stor. (arah Morton&s -a.* +he life of a pilgrim girl. %e are using an interacti0e notebook to keep track of all their new learning. %e also did a character stud. of (arah and compared her to oursel0es. %e will finish this week b. talking about pilgrim bo.s b. reading the te$t (am 3aston&s -a..

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%hat we are 'earning* (cience* +his week we started talking about li0ing and nonli0ing things. %e used our )ational >eographic as a stepping stone to help us understand more about the traits that scientists use to classif. things as li0ing and nonli0ing. %e are going to start a small pro1ect using the =pads to help us create pictures of things that are nonli0ing and li0ing.

%hat we are 'earning* 8ook 9rders* =f .ou are interested in purchasing books through the (cholastic book order6 please make sure .ou send in .our order b. 5rida.6 )o0ember 22nd. %e will not ha0e a book order for the month of -ecember. Math* +his week we continue to work on sol0ing for unknown partners when we know the total and one partner. +he students seem to be catching on to these t.pes of problems ?uite ?uickl.. = am re?uiring that the. tell me how the. sol0ed the problem. %hat = am looking for is their strateg.. -id the. use their fingers6 count on6 draw circles to help them sol0e the e?uation. = am looking at testing for the end of this unit before the +hanksgi0ing 8reak. %riting* +his week we focused a lot on finding the little part that we alread. know when we are writing and then stretching it to make the word we tr.ing to write. %e updated our word wall words b. adding all the words we ha0e had since the beginning of school.