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
💡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, 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: e has no job
rule 1: q is always followed by u, and together they say /kw/.
rule 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/
rule 4: a, e, o, and u may say their names at the end of a syllable.
rule 5: i and y may say 'long' i.
rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word
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.
rule 11:Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding a vowel ending.
rule 12: i before e except after c or when saying /ay/ (field)
rule 13: sh is used at the beginning of a base word or the end of a syllable.
rule 17: Double f, l, and s when following a single vowel.
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
ap ple
rule 20: s never follows x.
rule 25: ck may be used only 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
ap ple
lit tle
Key:new rules coveredrules covered this weekrules covered in the past
📕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 a chapter test for addition and subtraction. Monday the scholars will have 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.
We are focusing on the poem, The Village Blacksmith all quarter long. We are learning one stanza each week. At the end of the quarter, each scholar should be able to say the entire poem.
📕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: Scholars discovered how a wedge exists on a screw. We saw many examples of wedges and screws were presented through images, text, demonstration, and investigation. Scholars were asked to label the materials used in the class investigation as well as writing a complete sentence to explain the process of what was done. Scholars explored gears and how they work together. Scholars also compared gears to simple machines after viewing a specific example of how gears work on a bicycle. Scholars were tasked with recognizing which simple machines are being represented in a collection of images. Scholars also explored compound machines - which are made up of two or more simple machines. Ask your scholar which compound machine lives in their tool box at school.
Thank you!
1st grade teachers