What’s Cooking with the
Smart Cookies?
Mrs. Held’s 1stGrade
Weeks of March 9th- 20th, 2015
Student of the Week – Ben and Noah
***March is Reading Month! Thank you to all the parents who have signed up to be a “Guest
Reader” in our classroom! We look forward to your visits. If you did not get a chance to sign up
and still want to, please email me for an available time! 
** Excellent Synergy reading and turning in the weekly Reading Logs – our class read a combined
total of 729 minutes – incredible!!! Keep up the fantastic work Smart Cookies!! 
* Classrooom pictures and additional information can be found at jhsmartcookies@weebly.com
,Reading Workshop
-Shared Reading– Amazing Animals
Genre – Informational Text
-Comprehension Skill– Conclusions
Story Structure
-Comprehension Strategy –
Infer/Predict, Visualize
- Independent Reading – “Just Right
Books”
- Book Clubs – Partner work –
-Literacy Work Stations
-Sight Words – This week – baby,
follow, years, begins, learning, young
eight, until
Next week – again, along, began, boy,
father, house, nothing, together
Science/Social Studies
-introduce new spelling list—le ending
-Science
- spelling
Solidssentences
and Liquids
-guided
practice of
-Guided
Reading Groups
Penguins
Independent Reading Contracts
-Social Studies- Time for Kids
Focus on Habit 3 – Put First
Things First-
Math
Unit 6 – Comparisons and Data
- Data Sets with Three Categories
-Collecting Data
- Introducing Comparison Bars
- Comparison Bars and Language
-Solving Comparison Problems
- Math Journals
Homework and Remembering pages
Writing Workshop
- Writing Trait – Word Choice
- Spelling Dictionaries
-Work on Handwriting
–Writing to Express an Opinion
Spelling
test on story
Friday
- Read anthology
– March 13th
r-controlled
vowels
The Enormous
Carrot– er,ir,ur – her, stir,
-Comprehension
strategy
turn,
fern, bird,
third,focusgirl, fur, curl,
Retelling,
Summarizing
sir,
hurt, first
-Literacy Center Activities
Spelling test on Friday March 20th -phonics- schwa + /le/
Vowel
diagraph
oo – look,
book,
good,
-introduce
new spelling
list—le
ending
hook,
brook,
book,
shook,
took, wood,
-guided
practice
of spelling
sentences
-Guided
Reading
Groups
hood,
crook,
hoof
Independent Reading Contracts