Week of January 28th

Coming up in the First Grade

Friday February 8th Early Dismissal

Saturday February 9th Daddy Daughter Dance

Thursday February 14th Great Hearted Day

Monday February 18th No School

April 13th Spring Festival *volunteers needed

This week in curriculum

Spalding

water, round, cost, price, become, class, horse, care, try, move

delay, pound, behind, around, burn, camp, bear, bare, clear, clean

spell, poor, finish, hurt, maybe, across, tonight, tenth, sir

Literature

We will start reading the Anansi folktales that probably were first told in Africa. We will discuss the lessons learned in each of these tales in will respond to discussion questions orally and in writing.

Math

This week our focus in math will be adding and subtracting with regrouping.

Science
This week we continue our study of the human body. We will take a look at the muscular system and differentiate between voluntary and involuntary muscles. We will also discuss the food pyramid and what a balanced looks like including the five food groups.

History
This week we will wrap up our unit on Early Settlers and Explorers. We will assemble our assignments into an interactive book.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy week ahead.
The First Grade Team

Week of January 21st

Coming up in First Grade
Wednesday, January 23rd is our school wide writing day. As a school wide initiative to practice the beauty and art of writing, we will host a Lincoln Writes Day. This is an opportunity enjoy writing as a whole class. It is not an instructional time, but rather a time for teachers and students to pause and enjoy the process of writing.

This year we will be having a school-wide Spring Festival will be held on April 13^th in the afternoon.  It will consist of multiple inflatables/slides/bounce houses, games, face painting, food trucks, entertainment, and class booths.  Volunteers will be needed from every class.  We are hoping that this becomes a great community building event for our school and families. Our theme this year is a celebration of culture and we are in charge of choosing a country from Europe to represent with our booth with 1B.  What we need is 1-2 parents to be the head contact and lead for each class and booth. If you are interested please reach out to me this week so I can get you more information. 

Spalding
sent, cent, mile, seem, even, without, afternoon, Friday, hour, our
wife, state, July, head, story, open, short, lady, reach better

Literature
We will continue to read through Frog and Toad All Year. We will continue to hone our sentence writing and summarizing skills.

Math
We will add and subtract  by 1, 2 or 3. We will regroup to make ten and use facts within 20 to solve equations.

Science
We will continue to learn about the human body. This week we will the skeletal and muscular systems.

History
We will continue with our Early Settlers and Explorers unit. We will learn when and where slavery emerged, about the Pilgrims' journey on the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving.

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead. 

In Partnership,
The First Grade Team

Week of January 14th

First Grade Families,
We had a great week back together! We want to thank you all for taking the time to come in and meet with us for Winter Conferences. Please note that we will be observing Civil Rights Day on Monday January 21st and there will be no school. We are looking forward to a  busy week ahead:

Spalding:
rain, keep, start, mail, male, female, eye, I, glass, party
upon, two, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, between, they, would, could, should
any, many, city, only, where, week, weak, first

Literature:
This week will begin the final book in our Frog and Toad series, Frog and Toad All Year. We will continue to analyze story elements and will summarize each chapter.

Grammar:
We have been working hard all year to construct complete sentences across our curriculum. This week will use this knowledge to learn what makes a good topic sentence and will practice writing it as a class. We will review nouns, verbs and adjectives.

Math:
We will compare numbers as we continue to explore place value. We will add and subtract ones and tens without regrouping.

Science:
We really enjoyed learning about the animals studied during project week. We had a walk through with our first graders and were able to admire the posters in each classroom. This week we will begin learning about the human body. We will learn that our biggest organ is our skin and we will explore the different organs in the body.

History:
Last week we learned about the lost colony of Roanoke Island and that this attempt by England to settle in the Americas was unsuccessful. This week we will learn about Jamestown and how Pocahontas helped the settlers. As we explore her story we will differentiate between the parts that happened and others that had been made up.

We are wishing you all a healthy and happy week ahead.

In Partnership,
The First Grade Team

Week of January 7th

Welcome back first grade families! We hope you all enjoyed your time off with your little ones. It is so hard to believe that we are already half way through first grade and a week into 2019! I am looking forward to all that lies ahead, and this week am feeling grateful to welcome routine back into my life.

Mark your Calendars:
Conferences Monday-Wednesday after school
Club Registration January 7-11
No School January 21st

This semester we will introduce agendas in the first grade. Your child will still receive the cover sheet listing homework, in addition they will copy it into their agendas and this will need to be signed nightly. Next year your child will rely solely on the agenda for homework. Please reach out via email if you have further questions.

Spalding:
Monthly word test no homework Monday
Words:
name, room, hope, same, glad, with, mine, chair, forgot, guess
hang, meat, house, phone, store, supper, through, toe, became, brother

Literature:
We will be finishing Frog and Toad, with a focus on summarizing and story elements.

Math:
We will take a look at numbers to 40, counting and writing number words.

Science:
This week we will begin presenting our animal reports. We will also learn about pollution and the food cycle.

History:
We will begin our unit on Early Settlers and Explorers. We will learn about Sir Walter Raleigh, the lost colony of Roanoke and Jamestown.

In Partnership,
The First Grade Team