Welcome to Ms. Bishop's Classroom Blog!: January 2014

3^rd Quarter Curriculum Focus

Math

-Represent and solve addition/subtraction problems

-Add and subtract within 20

-Work with addition and subtraction equations

-Use place value and properties to add/subtract

-Reason with shapes and their attributes

-Tell time to the hour and half hour

Science-Comparing and measuring

-Understand that comparing involves observing and describing similarities and differences.

-Explain the importance of using beginning and ending points and placing units end to end when measuring

-Understand the use of standard units produces consistent measurement results

-Understand different calibrated devices may be used to measure distances and the lengths of objects of different sizes and shapes.

Language Arts

-Ask and answer questions about key details in text.

-Identify words or phrases in stories or poems that suggest feeling.

-Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
-With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for 1st grade.
-Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
-Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, taables of contents, glossaries, electronic menues, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
-Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
-Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
-Know final-e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
-Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
-Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

-Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

-Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. -Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
-Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
-Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
-Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
-With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
-With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including collaboration with peers.
-Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of "how-to" books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions.
-With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

-Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.

-Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.

-Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.

-Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

-Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

-Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).

-Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives).

-Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

-Capitalize dates and names of people.

-Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

-Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.

Volunteers Needed for this year's Artist Residency Program
January 21-28 the Banks Road Art Room will host artist Bryant Holsenbeck for this year's Artist in Residency program. Together, Bryant and the students will create random weave forms that will become a beautiful new art instillation for our school.

A few volunteers would be very helpful, especially during the morning sessions with the younger students. The morning volunteer hours are from 9:15-12:00 and the afternoon hours are from 1:00-3:45. If you would like to work for the whole day, feel free to sign up for both the morning and afternoon sessions.

To volunteer:
1. Use the following link to find our sign-up genius and sign-up for your desired time slot. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094BAAA82FA75-weaving
2. Make sure you have filled out the registered to be a volunteer in Wake County. This can be done on Mondays in the computer lab at Banks Road.

Thanks,Megan Stephenson
Visual Art
Banks Road Elementary School

Welcome to Ms. Bishop's Classroom Blog!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Book Fair Coin Drive-Starts Jan. 27th

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Letterland Challenge Words for Week of Jan. 27th (optional)

Message from PTA

Field Trip Information

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

What is my child learning? 3rd Quarter Focus-Common Core

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Scholastic Book Fair

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Message from Ms. Stephenson-Artist Residency Program

Blog Archive