Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade – Ms. Pryor

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10-07-2019

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: Bats
by Gail Gibbons
CCSS: Number and Operations in Base Ten
1.NBT.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit
number represent amounts of tens and ones.
This week we will focus on counting strategies that
include making groups of ten. The tens place is the
number of groups and the ones place is the leftovers (not
in a group of 10).

Phonics Focus:
a (sound in ball)
ball, father, talk
consonant digraphs
sh th
shop fish this with
Practice Makes Progress:
 Remember yellow folders every day.
Practice reading for 15 minutes each night, and
Important Information: 
fill-in star chart in back of yellow folder
 Butter Braid pick-up is this Wednesday. (write the date and color a star).
 Remember to send in doctor notes and/or  Practice phonics focus and high frequency words.
written excuses for absences and tardies.  Optional homework page is due Thursday.
 Fall Break is Friday, 10/11 and Monday, 10/14.  Unit 2 words are now in yellow folder. All
There is no school. students were tested on Unit 1 words last week.
 Fall Family Festival is Friday, 10/18. PTO is
selling tickets after school.
 October Scholastic Book order is due 10/28. Habit 2:
 Pink Month Fridays are themed for October.
Begin With the
Monte Vista is collecting quarters for cancer
research. Collection jars are in the library. End in Mind
Have a Plan
Words to Practice:

catch no put
said want good