What's going on at Tritt...
*Thank you so much for your food drive donations! We collected 99 items just from our class:) All donations will go the St. Anne's kitchen which will be delivering specifically to our sister school LaBelle Elementary. *Next week is Thanksgiving break. We are off November 20th-24th. What's going on in 1st grade... *Reading- We have been working a lot with nonfiction books. We have been identifying nonfiction text features that are found in books and how they are helpful. We are also beginning to talk about main idea in text. We will be talking about the main idea in books and details that support it. *Phonics- We have begun doing beginning blends in words. We are working on l- blends right now i.e. sl-, bl-, gl-, pl-. *Writing- We have been learning how to write "teaching" books. We have been talking about topics that we can write about giving people information about the topic. We are also working on nouns, verbs, and adjectives in sentences to help with details and complete sentences. *Math- We have been working on true/false equations with addition and subtraction. We have working on problem solving and identifying whether we are adding or subtracting based on vocabulary and information in problems. We are beginning to work on place value and focus on understanding tens and ones in numbers 20-99. *Social Studies- We have been working on Benjamin Franklin. We are learning how he was an important American hero by being an inventor, scientist, writer, and leader for the United States. *STEM- We are doing a challenge this week related to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. We will be learning about the history of the balloons and then creating our own balloons in small groups. |