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1st Grade News from Room 5

First graders in room 5 have been learning to decode cvc words with short vowels /a/, /i/, and /o/.  We have read 12 Open Court decodable books.  After we read these books several times in class, we take them home and practice them, then put them in our special "book bags" and keep them in a safe place.  At the end of the school year, we will bring all of our books back to school to celebrate with a special "Book Bag Day"!

We have also read some great stories in our Hougton Mifflin Readers.  We just finished a funny story called "Hot Fox Soup".  In this story, a sly fox wanted some chicken noodle soup, but he couldn't convince the hen to get into his vat.  He tried to get the pig and ox to climb into his vat, but they didn't want to be in the soup, either.  When the ox tried to put the fox in the soup, the fox changed his mind very quickly!  Ask your first grader how this silly story ended.

In math, we have learned how to add and subtract.  Now we are learning some strategies to help us to be able to do these operations more quickly.