💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Monday, November 11 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
- Saturday, November 23 - Medieval Faire (11:00am-2:00pm)
- Tuesday, November 26 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (we need 10 parent chaperones for each class)
- November 27 to 29 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 6 - Winter Concert
- December 16 - submit animal written report and poster board (optional)
- December 17-19 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 20-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 8 - Animal Report
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We started our new unit on folktales with the African tale "All Stories are Anansi’s" and the African American tale "The Knee High Man". We also are learning how to write exclamatory sentences.
📕 POETRY
October's Party
by George Cooper (Stanza 1 only)
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing
Professor Wind the band.
Rope Rhyme
by Eloise Greenfield
Get set, ready now, jump right in
Bounce and kick and giggle and spin
Listen to the rope when it hits the ground
Listen to that clappedy-slappedy sound
Jump right up when it tells you to
Come back down, whatever you do
Count to a hundred, count by ten
Start to count all over again
That’s what jumping is all about
Get set, ready now,
jump
right
out!
📕 SAYINGS:
- 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
Sight Word Bookmarks will be on a ring in your child's reading bag or in a binder sleeve. We will be testing for sight word knowledge once a week. During this time, we will be moving students to the next sight word list if they have mastered the previous one. (Please do not mark off sight words at home- we will do this in class).
📕 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 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
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 25: ck is used after a single vowel that says its short sound.
sick
block
rock, back, neck
Rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
rule 29: divide words between double consonants
ap ple
lit tle
Students will practice 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.
📕 MATHEMATICS: Students learned two strategies how to add numbers 11 to 20 by counting on and making a ten. You can help your child practicing numbers that make a 10!Here's one you can use with playing cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYywjIm--uo📕 HISTORY: We learned about the beginning of farming and how it helped grow a civilization. We started with the Mayan civilization, learned about Maya Math and created a stelae which they used to record special events.📕 SCIENCE: We introduced students to the Human Body unit! Students created a foldable with a general introduction of the human body and its systems. Students learned about the skeletal system! They reviewed how bones are the framework of our body, how they help us move, and how they protect our organs.
Have a good weekend!1st Grade Team
