Mrs. Wagner’s First Grade News
April 2014
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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Mrs. Wagner
absent (Doctor)
Mrs. Gibbs Sub
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6
7
Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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14
School
Resumes
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FAMILY MATH
NIGHT
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School in
session!
Make up snow
day
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Joke of the Month:
Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dino-snore!
What we are learning this month:
Reading Objectives:
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Readers
Readers
Readers
a text
Readers
Readers
Character Study
will select of character of interest from a variety of texts
will read closely to identify character traits
will describe character feelings and how they change throughout
will describe how character actions may change across a text
will make inferences about a character
Writing Objectives: Informational Writing
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Writers
Writers
Writers
Writers
Writers
will
will
will
will
will
teach their audience about a topic
state topic in the beginning to get the reader’s attention
write supporting facts about their topic
organize their information with transition words
make their information readable through revising and editing
Math Objectives: Adding 3 numbers, Comparing Numbers
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We will add three numbers in order to find the sum
We will solve story problems which require finding the sum of three
numbers.
We will compare numbers based on tens and ones (For example 13 vs.
31)
We will compare numbers using < , > and = signs
April Word Study Concepts:
We are beginning to study vowel combinations in class. Here are some words will
study listed below.
Please reinforce these spelling concepts at home.
Week 1: April 2, 2014
ee is at the end
and ie is in the
middle of the
words
ee
ie
bee
brief
free
chief
glee
belief
knee
shield
see
piece
tee
thief
three
yield
tree
Week 2: April 14, 2014
oa
boat
oak
coat
soak
load
loaf
road
coal
toad
loan
oa is in the
middle of the
words
foam
Week 3: April 21, 2014
oe
oe is in 3 letter
words ow is in 4
or more letter
words
ow
doe
blow
grow
throw
Joe
bow
know
glow
toe
glow
show
snow
April Homework Calendar
Instructions: Choose 15 activities from the calendar to complete for homework. Color in the square of
the activity to record what you have done. Please feel free to bring in any student work to show their
thinking. Sign and return 
Aerionna has 3
skittles and got 2
more. Then she
got 5 more. How
many does she
have?
Aliyah has 10
pencils. Her mom
got her 5 more.
Then she found 5
more. How many
pencils does she
have
Ava has 7
gumdrops.
Brandon gave
her 3. Then he
gave her 5 more.
How many
gumdrops does
she have now?
Elizabeth has 4
Erikah has 2 dolls.
Evan has 7 paper
books. She got 4
Her mom gave her clips. He found 3
from the library
2 and her sister
on the floor and
and 2 at the book
gave her 2. What is 1 in his backpack.
fair. What is the
the sum of the
How many
number of books
dolls?
paperclips are
Elizabeth has?
there?
Jada has 4
Jason played 10
Lilly has 4 pieces
Monster High
minutes on the
of candy. She got
Dolls. She bought 4 computer. Then he 6 more and Mrs.
more. Then she
played 5 more.
Wagner gave her
got 2 for her
After that he played 3. What is the
birthday. How
10 more. How
sum of the
many does she
many minutes did
candy?
have now?
he play?
Mason has 12
Olivia has 4 bags of Trenton has 2
books. His mom
popcorn. She
toy cars. His
gave him 2 and he bought 7 more bags mom gave him 8
got 2 at the library. and Mrs. Wagner
and he bought 6
How many books
gave her 1 bag.
at the dollar
does he have?
How many bags of
store. How many
popcorn does she
cars does he
have?
have?
Brody has 3 toy
trucks. His dad
gave him 2 and
Cameron gave him
10. How many
does Brody have?
Ella has 8 pieces
of paper. Mrs.
Wagner gave her
2 more and Miss
Staci gave her 3.
How much paper
does Ella have?
Garrett has 5
markers. He
bought 1 marker
and his mom gave
him 5 more. How
many markers
does Garrett have?
Madicen O. has 10
crayons. Her mom
gave her 10 more
and Madicen
bought 10 at the
store. What is the
sum of crayons?
Hunter has 12
erasers. Then he
got 2 more. After
that he got 3
more. How many
erasers are there?
Wyatt has 7 pieces
of bubble gum.
His friend gave him
3 pieces and his
brother gave him 4
more. What is the
sum?
Zeric has 9 pens.
His mom gave
him 1 more and
he bought 8 at
the dollar store.
How many pens
does Zeric have?
Student’s Name: _______________________________________________
Parent Signature:_______________________________________________
Madison A. has 5
lollipops. She
bought 2 and her
mom gave her 3.
How many
lollipops are
there?