3 / 21 / 2025


WELCOME BACK AFTER SPRING BREAK!

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
  • Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed. 
  • Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
  • Just a reminder to check lost and found for any of your child's items that haven't made it back home yet.
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
  • March 22nd: PSO Daddy/daughter dance 
  • April 12th: PSO Mother's Tea
  • April 18th: No School - Spring Holiday weekend (R&R weekend)

    • 💡REMINDERS:
    1. Please double check your child's uniform to make sure they still have the right length.

    2. The scholars should bring the following daily:
    • Water bottle with name
    • Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
    • Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)
    *Your child may use the small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring to help them pack their things. 

    3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage. 

    All first-grade classes are in need of reading volunteers! Please use the sign up located under your teacher's page. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer at a different time, please contact your child's teacher.

    💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 

    📕LITERATURE: In Chapters 6-7 of My Father's Dragon, we read how Elmer helped tigers, the rhinoceros and a lion. He is still searching for the dragon, but knows that the dragon is still alive and will be able to help him. Help your child practice retelling the story with transition words like (First, Next, Then, and Last).


    📕SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
                   
                                   Jobs of silent final e:
                    Job 1: Silent final e jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its name.
                    Job 2: English words don't end in u or v.
                    Job 3: c and g will say their second sound.
                    Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel.
                    Job 5: No job (silent final e does not do anything, it just has to be there).
                      
                          rule 1: q is always followed by u, and together they say /kw/. (queen)
                          
                           rule 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/. (cent, city, cycle)

             rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable

    rule 5: I and y may say /i/ (si lent, my)                                           

    rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word. (try, fly)                  

    rule 8:  /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early".

    rule 9:  1-1-1 rule: One syllable words with one vowel followed by one consonant need to double its last consonant before adding an ending beginning with a vowel. (hop + p + ed)

    rule 11: Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding a vowel ending. (come - com + ing) 

    rule 12:  ei is used after c to say long /e/ (receive). Otherwise, we say long /a/ or long /i/.                      

                       rule 13: sh is used at the beginning or end of a base word 

                      rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound 

    rule 18: "ay" is used to say a at the end of a base word 

    rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants

     rule 20: s never follows x.

                 rule 23: dge is only used after a single vowel that says a short sound. (edge)                                                                   

             rule 25:  ck is used after a single vowel that says its short sound.
    sick, block, rock, back, neck

    rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns.                                                      

                    rule 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)

                    rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.


                     rule 29:  divide words between double consonants


    📕SAYINGS: 
    • A.M./P.M.
    • Never leave 'til tomorrow what you can do today. 
    • The more the merrier. 
    • Land of Nod
    • An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
    • Sour grapes 
    • Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. 
    • It could always be worse. 
    • Let the cat out of the bag. 
    • Wolf in sheep's clothing   
    • Practice makes perfect.
    • If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
    • Fish out of water

    📕MATH: Give yourselves a treat for finishing the Addition and Subtraction Unit! This week, the scholars had 2 tests-- one a chapter test for addition and subtraction, and another a cumulative test.

    📕POETRY:
    The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Under a spreading chestnut-tree
    The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
    And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands.


    📕HISTORY:  This week, we learned about the different American Symbols. We are making a book of all the symbols we learned. We started with the American Flag and the Liberty Bell.

    📕SCIENCE: Students learned about the layers of the Earth. We talked about the crust, mantle, the outer core, and inner core. We learned that it can reach up to 11,000 degrees in the inner core. I made a playdough replica of the Earth. We also labeled/colored the layers of the earth and glued it in our science journal.





    Thank you!

    1st grade teachers