Math: We finished our study of place value this week. This unit was packed full of concepts involving numbers up to 120 and story problems with teen numbers. We’ve learned how to analyze stories for missing partners or missing totals, count with groups of 10, and add/subtract tens. We also continue to strengthen our fact fluency every day on MobyMax. 

Writing: On Friday, we celebrated our small moment stories with a special class celebration. We have really grown as writers and our stories now include strong leads and transitions, great details, the Who/What/Where, dialogue, and wrap up endings. We shared our favorite parts with the class and read our whole story to our partner. We finished the celebration with a punch toast. It was wonderful! 

Reading: To help us tackle tricky words, we spent time this week studying different vowel teams. As a class, we sorted words and practiced the sounds that vowel teams make, watching closely for any oddball words that don’t follow the regular pattern. Ask your child about the sounds that ow/ou, aw/ew, oi/oy, igh/eigh make in words. These vowel teams appear in many of our first grade books.