Week of September 24, 2018

   

        Last week was an awesome week for the children.  They truly enjoyed learning about the legend of Johnny Appleseed.  Thanks for all that sent a special apple treat to school on Friday.  

       This week the children will be working on the following skills:

• Identify and generate rhymes
• Identify, decode, read, and spell words with the short /u/ sound
• Identify, read, and write contractions with 's
• Read and discuss the weekly Bible story "Abram Travels to a New Home"
• Be introduce to the weekly memory verse:"So Abram left, as the Lord had told him".  Genesis 12:4
• Review and work addition number sentences and word problems
• Illustrate subtraction word problems
• Subtract using touch point by counting backward
• Subtract by using a number line
• Read and identify the main idea and details within the story.
• Continue to work on reviewing and learning sight words
• Continue to work on reading for comprehension and fluency
• Work with magnets and identify things that attract/repel to magnets
• Write a narrative about a special friend.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS

run, rug, fun, club, nut, cut, bug, rug, club, bun

Bonus Words:  magnet - attack

WEEKLY REMINDERS:

• Remind your child to read their AR book and return it back to school the next day. Your child should read at least 2 AR books a week.
• Continue to review all work your child brings home daily in their binder.  Please sign your child's folder.
• You can view Grandparent's Day pictures on Tucker Photography
• Fall Break Camp must be signed up by Wednesday, September 26th
• End of First Quarter 9/28
• Fall Break 10/1 thru 10/5
• Family Chapel 10/11
• Field Trip: Fire Station 10/12

  

Week of September 17, 2018

   

      Thanks to all the grandparents that came to Grandparent's Day on Friday.  The children were very excited to have their grandparents at school with them.  

       This will be a fun week as the children learn about the legend of Johnny Appleseed.  The children will do activities about apples and Johnny Appleseed in all subjects this week.

      The children will work on the following skills: 

• Identify, decode, and read words with short /e/ in text
• Review short vowels, /a/, /i/,/o/
• Read stories about Johnny Appleseed and identify main idea and details within the story.
• Review the following high frequency words:  again, help, new, here, use
• Read and discuss the weekly Bible Story "God's Promise"
• Read, discuss, weekly memory verse: " I will remember my covenant which is between me and you" Genesis 9:15
• Solve addition word problem
• Add using a number line
• The children will be introduce to subtraction
• Graph and interpret data
•  Retell and rewrite a story in sequence
• Identify details within a story and retell and write story.
• Learn about the inflectional ending -ed

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

 leg, beg, men, hen, bed, sled, well, bell, head, bread

Bonus Words:  appleseed -rainbow

WEEKLY REMINDERS:

• Picture Day                                              9-20                Children should wear uniforms
• Apple Tasting                                           9-21
• Parent/Teacher's Conference                  9-18                Please schedule a conference if you have not.
• Continue to allow your child to review their sight words regularly at home.
• Students should read AR book daily at home and return book to school the next day prepared to take an AR test.  (Please help your child remember to bring their AR book to school each day.)
• Fall Break                                              10-1 thru 05

Week of September 10, 2018

         This week the children will be preparing for Grandparent's Day.  Grandparent's Day will be Friday, September 14th.  All grandparents, parents, aunts, and other special friends are invited.  Your child may leave school after the program with their grandparents.  However, you must complete the form that was sent home last Thursday.  If your child will be staying at school for the remaining of the day please send me the form back letting me know this.  Your child will be doing activities in extended day.  If your child will be staying in extended day they will need to bring a lunch. 

Parent/Teacher's Conference will be September 18th from 3:00-7:00.  I would like to have a conference with all parents.  I will  also be able to have a conference with you any morning before school, during my planning at 9:30,  or after school.  Please complete the Parent/Teacher's form that your child brings home on Monday.

        This week the children will be working on the following skills:

• Reviewing short vowel sounds
• Identifying nouns and possessive nouns
• Identifying, decoding, and reading words with r blends
• Reviewing sight words
• Weekly Bible Story "Noah's Ark"
• Weekly Memory Verse: Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.
• Addition by adding on (Students will use unifix cubes to practice adding on)
• Solve and illustrate addition problems
• Write a narrative about grandparents using a class bubble map.
• Continue to practice writing letters, words, and sentences using good letter formation and spacing.
• Identify details, setting, and characters within a text
• Practice reading for fluency and comprehension.
• Use pictures and diagrams to understand text that they read.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS;

spill, spin, grab, grass, drop, drip, grill, drag, spot, drink

Bonus Words:  grandparent-family

CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• Grandparent's Day Friday, September 14th
• Continue to bring in toilet paper and paper towel empty rolls
• Review daily work in binder and sign binder
• Your child may work on the website (www.IXL.com)  Your child's username and password is taped to the back of your child's binder 
• Parent Teacher's Conference 9-18    

Week of September 3, 2018

     Again we have another 4 day week!  Therefore, another busy week!  The children are all adjusting well in first grade and appear to be enjoying it.  We will continue to work on learning school and classroom procedures and expectations. It is very important that you review your child's binder daily and remove all graded papers.  It would be helpful,  if you would allow your child to complete any uncompleted work and return to school.   Please leave sight words in the binder.  We go over our sight words regularly at school.
       The children will work on the following skills this week:

• Read and discuss detail and main idea in weekly Bible Story "Cain and Abel"
• Read and discuss the meaning of the weekly memory verse: "I am the good shepherd.  The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep." John 10:11
• Identify, decode, and read words with the short /o/
• Discriminate between the short /a/, /i/, and /o/ sounds
• Generate and identify rhyming words in reading
• Continue to work on learning sight words, reading for fluency, and reading comprehension
• Retell and Sequence a story
• Identify details within a story 
• Retell and rewrite a story naming details within the story.
• Write a narrative about themselves
• Add by adding on
• Solving addition word problems
• Reviewing touch points
• Add in any order
• Continue to learn about the 5 senses (smell, hearing, and seeing)
• Learn about Friendship and how to be a good friend.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

hop, top, log, hog, block, hot, lot, flat, slip, clock         Bonus Words:  friend     school

Your child will bring a list of spelling words home on Tuesday.  They should write each spelling word 3 times. (This will be their homework for Tuesday) The children should make sure that they did not write any letter backward when writing the word.  Allow your child a few minutes each day to review the spelling words. Your child will have one dictation sentence on the spelling test on Friday,  They should make sure that they begin the sentence with a capital letter and use a period at the end of the sentence.  Your child will have two bonus words on the spelling test.