Week of August 29, 2016

       The children appears to all have adjusted to first grade and are excited about all the things that they are learning.  This week the children will work on the following skills.

• Identifying the sound of  short /o/ and read words and sentences with short /o/
• Read stories and identify the main details and sequence the stories using picture cards
• Put words in ABC order
• Identify the continents and oceans
• add using a number line, touch points, and adding on
• Work addition word problems
• Read and discuss weekly Bible story "Noah's Ark"
• Write using good letter formation and spacing
• Write a narrative about  "Noah's Ark"

Weekly spelling words: hot, hop, log, they, hog, too, flop, block, lot, top

CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• All money needs to be returned by Monday, August 29th for school wide fundraiser.
• Your child should read at least 3 AR books each week.  Help your child remember to bring their AR (library book) back to school each day.  Your child should read their book to an adult at home.
• Please put your child's name on all jackets and sweaters
• Remember to review your child's papers daily and sign their binder daily. Take all graded papers out of your child's binder 

    THE CHILDREN WILL CONTINUE TO LEARN ABOUT MAPS AND GLOBES

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Week of August 22-26

Week of August 22-26

We are settling into our first grade routines and learning expectations and procedures. We have been to all of our Special Area classes and checked out library books. We've done a lot of reviewing and begun learning new things.

This week we will cover the following:

 

We will read stories about pets.

We will read and decode words with -l blends. 

We will continue to identify and write complete sentences.

We will practice sight words.

We will identify nouns and plural nouns.

We will continue to use touch point numbers in addition.

We will make a graph and interpret data from that graph.

We will work on solving word problems.

We will begin working on map skills and cardinal directions,

We will write complete sentences and simple narratives.

We will continue to practice handwriting, focusing on formation and spacing.

We will study the story of Adam and Eve. Test on Friday.

Spelling words: slip, clip, flip, black, flat, flag, plan,glad, be, pull

Bonus Words: school, color

Test on Friday.

Don't forget our Fundraisers!! First turn in day Monday, August 22. Final turn in on Friday, August 26th. You must have items turned in by the 22nd to qualify for prizes.

Keep practicing sight words daily.

If you haven't sent in a pair of headphones for your child to use with his/her tablet, please do so. We hope to begin using these very soon!

Week on August 15, 2016

The children all appear to be adjusting well into first grade.  They are all excited about learning new things this year.  Please review your child's work that they bring home daily.  Parents should  sign the binder daily.  Allow your child to correct work and complete uncompleted work.

This week the children will be review and learning the following skills.

• Identifying and decoding words with short /i/
• Writing simple sentences
• Review sight words
• All children will be assessed on sight words, reading for comprehension, and reading for fluency
• Students will write simple telling sentences
• The children will be introduce to ABC order
• Read stories and identify main details with in story
• Identify their family and how all members within the family are special
• Count and write to 100
• Add simple addition problems using touch points
• Work simple addition word problems
• CLASSROOM NOTES:

Reminder:

• All students should bring in a set of headphones for using with their tablets
• The children will be bringing home a Scholastic order form that they may order books.  You may go on line and order the books. 

Week of August 8-12

Welcome to First Grade!

Our first few days of first grade have gone very well. We will continue to work on learning how to be first graders over the next few weeks. We will also be reviewing and assessing what we have already learned.

This week:

• We will continue learning routines and procedures. 
• We will get to know our classmates better.
• We will work on handwriting and correct letter formation.
• We will be reviewing and practicing the sounds each letter makes.
• We will begin learning words with short a sounds. 
• We will identify rhyming words.
• We will identify and count numbers 1-30.
• We will begin the study of the Days of Creation from Genesis 1.
• We will talk about "Me" and begin a narrative about ourselves.
• We will learn about the summer olympics.
• We will begin center rotations.
• We will meet our Specialty teachers and go to Music, Guidance, Computer, Library, and Spanish.
• We will check out a book from the library.

Spelling and Bible tests will not begin this week. 

If you have not returned the forms from your parent packet, please do so ASAP.

Remember to sign up for the remind app to get texts from the classroom. Instructions for this are in your parent folder.

Please send a pair of headphones for your child to use with the tablets. These will be kept at school.

It is going to be a great year!