3 / 7/ 2025



📣 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.

💡DATES TO REMEMBER
  • March 10th - 14th: NO SCHOOL (Spring Break)
  • March 22nd: Daddy/daughter dance 

    • 💡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 teacher.

    💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 

    📕LITERATURE: In Chapters 3-4 of My Father's Dragon, we read how Elmer made it to Wild Island and of his beginning the adventure to find the dragon. 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 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 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

    📕POETRY:
    Poetry recitation this week over the following poems:  There Once was a Puffin, The Swing, Washington, or My Shadow.

    📕MATH: We practiced more subtraction problems this week. We will take a subtraction test after Spring Break. 

    📕HISTORY:  This week, we learned about George Washington who is on our quarter. We learned how he led the untrained American army to freedom from Britain. We did a coin rubbing in our journals, made a craft of Washington, and did a role play.

    📕SCIENCE: We are finishing up our unit on oceans. We learned about the octopus and oyster. Did you know that octopuses can release ink to escape danger, and that an oyster breathes like a fish? Yes...they do have gills.


    Thank you for your continued support! Have a great Spring Break!

    1st Grade Teachers


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