Week at a Glance for Miss Jackies Grade 1-J Class Week 28: February 23-27 Week-long: Math This

is week students will continue to work with numbers to 100 and counting forwards and backwards to 100 by 1s between any given number as well as counting by 2s, 5s and 10s from a starting point in between 0-50. They continue to work on solving given math sentences. Students will begin looking at how to solve basic story problems by identifying what they know in the problem, what the questions is asking, what math they should do to solve the problem and then solving the problem by using a proper math sentence. As well as learn a new problem solving strategy called guess and check where students. This strategy will aide them in their math problem solving by having a anchor to work towards. They will use their double facts to aide them when finding sums. Science Students will continue to explore what the needs of plants are and how we take care of them. Students will look at seeds and how they grow and what they need in order to maintain their life. Students will look at local plants and animals, looking at how they have adapted to meet their basic needs. Social - This week students will continue the unit of Looking at My World. Students will be working on viewing the world through different perspectives. Students will look at landmarks around Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Language Arts On Thursday students will be given a spelling test on the words or, has, house, old, out. Students will participate in the Daily 5 activities (read to self, read to someone, word work, listen to reading and work on writing), on a daily basis. Students will continue to read the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, focusing on the comprehension skills of predicting, asking questions and learning the new skill in inferring. Students will begin to develop their narrative story writing skills, they will continue to look at how readers get their ideas and develop their ideas into a story this week. Students will continue to look at how writers add detail into their writing. New home reading books will be sent home when previous books have been read on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Day Sunday Activities P.E (please remember to have your child dressed in their gym clothes) Language Arts- Students will learn their new spelling words. Students will review all spelling words as well as decoding strategies. Art Miss Jen
Arabic

Monday

P.E (please remember to have your child dressed in their gym clothes) Language Arts Students will review all comprehension strategies. Students will learn how to plan a story before they begin to write. Arabic Islamic Studies for some students Monday Motivation assembly Music with Mrs Rachelle

***Dress like your favorite book character Book Fair***

Tuesday P.E (please remember to have your child dressed in their gym clothes) Language Arts Students will receive feedback from their previous journal entry and write a new journal entry. Students will also learn about verbs. Arabic

 Thursday Notes

Wednesday

Islamic Studies for some students Library Please ensure that you send your child with their Library bag and any books to return. Home Reading sent home Language Arts Students will be receiving feedback on the journal entries that they did to help them become better writers. Students will review the decoding strategy of visualizing as well as all previous strategies learned. Arabic Islamic Studies for some students Music with Mrs Rachelle
Art with Mrs Jen

Dress like Wally/Waldo

School Holiday

Dear Parents and Students,

The Me to We Club is a student-led club promoting volunteerism. In the last two years, the Me to We Club has focused its efforts on assisting another school in our Abu Dhabi community. The Pakistan Community Welfare School (PCWS) desperately needs and appreciates our support. This year we are doing a book and toy drive to help the principals goal of promoting English language learning and joy for the 500 students at PCWS.

This year getting involved is SIMPLE! All students have to do is bring in spare dirhams and place them in their classroom, Dirhams for a Difference, jar. Our goal is 20,000 dirhams by the end of February. Each week the elementary and high school classes that donates the greatest number of dirhams wins a pizza party! The first weekly competition has begun and will end Tuesday February 4, 2014, with the first pizza party taking place Sunday February 9, 2014. Classroom totals will start over each week. As well, if you have any new or used gift bags you would like to donate, please feel free to do so. We will eventually need 500 bags.

We know how supportive our CIS community is and are so grateful to be part of such a caring school! Thank you for helping make Dirhams for a Difference a success!

Me to We Club

If you have any questions please contact me by email (jstern@cisabudhabi.com). Thank you! Sincerely, Miss Jackie