Danielle posted on January 03, 2010 14:58
First Grade News
Week of January 4-8
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas vacation.
Religion: Students will finish continue the unit Waiting.
Memory:
Due Tuesday: Arise, shine, for your light has come. Isaiah 60:1
Due Thursday: My eyes have seen Your salvation. Luke 2:30
Reading: We will finish our unit “What’s the Weather?” this week. Students will read three stories out of their readers: Deserts, Snow is Good!, and Hurricanes. Vocabulary words used in these stories are storing, shivered, tornado, and shatter. High frequency words for this week are day, way, sleep, don’t, my, too, came, me, right. Students will learn about long a spelled ai_ and _ay and long i spelled _igh, _y, and _ie. We will also be talking about changing y to i and adding –es to make words plural.
Monday: Decodable 75
Tuesday: Read a book of your choice at home.
Wednesday: Decodable 76 in class, 77 sent home
Thursday: Decodable 78
Friday: Test
Just a reminder, students need to take at least one AR test every week. This is part of their reading grade. We will take AR tests on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week.
Math: Students will be working on doubles plus one facts this week. Please be sure to return both math homework papers.
Monday: Lesson 76
Tuesday: Lesson 77
Wednesday: Lesson 78
Thursday: Lesson 79
Friday: Lesson 80 in class Math fact test and written test
Spelling: We will begin spelling this week. The test will be on Friday. The words for this week are: sunny, windy, happy, piece, field, parties, copies, stories, may, stay.
Social Studies: We will begin Unit 3: We Love Our Country. This week we will be learning about how America began.
Science: We will begin Chapter 4: Life Cycles. The students will study the life cycle of a frog this week.
Announcements
*Our theme for the class auction basket will be gift wrap. This can include bags, bows, wrapping paper, tissue paper, boxes, gift wrap storage, tape, scissors, etc. It can be for any occasion. Monetary donations are also appreciated and will be used to purchase items needed after all donations have been made. Thank you for your support.
*We have received a new mascot. He will be making his way to your homes starting this week. It looks like his journal is running low on pages. Please keep entries and pictures to one page. The mascot has another school to visit after LCS. The children really like see what others have written in the journals. Thank you for helping to make this project such a success.
*Help session will be held on Tuesday.
*We are still missing a few science leveled readers. Please keep an eye out for these at home.