Good Afternoon First Grade Families!
We had a wonderful first week of school. We spent some time getting to know each other and the new classroom routines. Everyone is doing great with the schedule and they are working together to stay on task!
Classroom 'work' will go home each day in your child's backpack. The work will be in a folder. Please help your child learn to take the folder out of his/her backpack, remove the paperwork and then return the folder to the backpack to bring to school each day.
If your child is having breakfast at school they need to be in the room by 7:45. Our school work day starts at 7:55! Also, if you have chosen breakfast for your child make sure that he/she knows this and is prepared to eat it first thing upon arrival.
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts Week 1
Story: Sam Come Back ~
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Character Development
Phonics: short -a and final -ck
Grammar: We capitalize the first letter of a name. Ex. Sam
Words to Read and Spell: am, bat, can, mad, back, sack, in, on, way, the, is, go
Math Module 1: Sums and Differences to 10
- counting on from a known number Ex. 5+2=? ...student says 5...6,7.
- seeing groups in dot arrays to 10 Ex. 8 dots could be seen as a group of 5 and 3
- Number Bonds
Writing:
- handwriting and sentence writing
Social Studies: Unit 1
- All About Me; Past, Present and Future
Earth Science: Unit 1
Investigation: Day and Night
There are so many fun things to do in 1st Grade!
Looking forward to a great week,
Lisa Vanden Berg
We had a wonderful first week of school. We spent some time getting to know each other and the new classroom routines. Everyone is doing great with the schedule and they are working together to stay on task!
Classroom 'work' will go home each day in your child's backpack. The work will be in a folder. Please help your child learn to take the folder out of his/her backpack, remove the paperwork and then return the folder to the backpack to bring to school each day.
If your child is having breakfast at school they need to be in the room by 7:45. Our school work day starts at 7:55! Also, if you have chosen breakfast for your child make sure that he/she knows this and is prepared to eat it first thing upon arrival.
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts Week 1
Story: Sam Come Back ~
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Character Development
Phonics: short -a and final -ck
Grammar: We capitalize the first letter of a name. Ex. Sam
Words to Read and Spell: am, bat, can, mad, back, sack, in, on, way, the, is, go
Math Module 1: Sums and Differences to 10
- counting on from a known number Ex. 5+2=? ...student says 5...6,7.
- seeing groups in dot arrays to 10 Ex. 8 dots could be seen as a group of 5 and 3
- Number Bonds
Writing:
- handwriting and sentence writing
Social Studies: Unit 1
- All About Me; Past, Present and Future
Earth Science: Unit 1
Investigation: Day and Night
There are so many fun things to do in 1st Grade!
Looking forward to a great week,
Lisa Vanden Berg