Monte Vista Elementary
1 st grade – Ms. Pryor
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11-08-2019
LITERACY focus standard
CCSS: RI 1.5 Students will know and use
various text features (e.g. headings, tables
of contents, glossaries, electronic menus,
icons) to locate key facts or information in
a text.
First, we will read a non-fiction (informational text).
Next, we will identify the text features.
Last, we will discuss how the text features help us
as readers.
This week’s focus text is:
Spinning Spiders by Melvin Berger
Phonics Focus:
long e and u (using magic e)
concrete, complete, cute, tube
-ed ending (3 sounds)
jumped twisted played
Practice Makes Progress:
 A fun family project went home today.
“How to Disguise a Turkey” is a First Grade
tradition. Your student earns a presentation grade
in Speaking and Listening when they present their
project to the class. It’s due Monday, 11/18.
 Remember yellow folders every day.
 Read for 15 minutes each night and fill-in star chart
in yellow folder (with date written in the star).
 Practice reading and writing phonics focus words and
high frequency words (Unit 2 list).
 Optional homework page is due Friday.
Words to Practice:
grow food around
under water find
MATH focus standard
CCSS: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency
for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as
counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14);
decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 –
1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and
subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 =
4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g.,
adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 =
12 + 1 = 13).
We are building fluency and
“mental math” strategies by
recognizing patterns in known
facts such as +/- 0, +/- 1,
making 10s, and doubles facts.
Habit 3:
Put First
Things First
Work First, Then Play
Important Information:
 K-2 families are invited for Thanksgiving lunch
this Thursday. Buy tickets in advance for $3.
 Friday, 11/8 is the MVES Turkey Trot. Please
send in signed permission slips by Thursday.
 No school on Monday, 11/11 for Veterans Day.
 November Scholastic Book orders are due on
Friday, 11/22.
 Thanksgiving Break is 11/25 – 11/29/19.
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