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💡DATES TO REMEMBER

  • Mon, August 26th - start of Spalding Homework
  • Wed, August 28th - Spalding and Singapore Math Night
  • Friday, August 30th, Early dismissal at 12:30 (R&R Weekend)
  • Monday, September 2nd - 
    No school (Labor Day)
     
  • Friday, September 6th - start of Reading Bags (leveled reader and sight words)
  • Monday, September 9th - start of Reading volunteers
  • Friday, September 20th - 
    Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)
  • Friday, September 27th - Early dismissal at 12:30
  • September 30th - October 8th - No school (FALL BREAK)
  • Monday-Tuesday, October 7th-8th - Parent Teacher Conferences

💡REMINDERS:

1. The scholars should bring the following daily:
  • Water bottle with name
  • Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
  • Take Home folder (please make sure they empty it at home)
*They brought home a small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring every day. We will let you know during Curriculum night when they will bringing homework (Spalding homework, reading bag and Math workbook).

2. Bring the following if you haven't yet:

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.


💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We listened to the tales of Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin and Puss this Boots. We learned how to retell and sequence stories, how to answer and write in complete sentences, as well as identifying proper nouns and common nouns.

📕 SAYINGS: 

  • If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
  • Fish out of water

📕 POETRY: 

Hope 

by Langston Hughes

Sometimes when I’m lonely,

Don’t know why,

Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely

By and by.


Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)

by Anonymous

Don't worry if your job is small, 

And your rewards are few. 

Remember that the mighty oak, 

Was once a nut like you.

 

 



📕 READING: We will welcome parent volunteers on Sept. 9th. Use your teacher's sign-up to volunteer to read with the students (see link in your teacher's page on top). Please send your child's reading bag by Monday August 26th if you haven't done so. 

📕 SPALDING: We have been learning our first phonograms until oi. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list. We practiced jobs of silent final e e:

                Job 1: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable.

                Job 2: English words don't end in v or u.

                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).


Next Friday, we will start with Spelling Test of the 30 words we will learn next week. Kindly guide your child in their Spalding Homework. 


📕 MATHEMATICS: We practiced how to show numbers 1-10 in number bonds! We are having a Chapter Test next week about writing, ordering, and comparing numbers, as well as and showing them into number bonds.

📕 HISTORY: We learned what History is and some words we need to know as we study history. We created a vocabulary foldable about that. We also learned about timelines and created our own timeline of past, present and future. Then, We went back in time talked and all the way to Mesopotamia, the oldest ancient civilization. We learned about its geography and why the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were important for their civilization.

📕 SCIENCE: We continue to learn about the different states of matter by conducting experiments on solid, liquid and gas. We observed how water changes state when it boils and melts. We also learned how an ooblek changes its state through force. We practice writing our observations in our science journals.  


Have a great weekend!

1st Grade Team