- Tuesday, November 11 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
- Saturday, November 15: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- Tuesday, November 25th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (We need 10 parent chaperones for each class. Thank you for volunteering to help.)
- November 26 to 28 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 10 - Winter Concert
- December 16-18 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 19-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 1-6 No School: Winter Break
- January 5-6 - Parent Teacher Conferences - invitation only (no students)
- January 7 - Animal Report due.
- 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 west 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
The Goops (Table Manners)
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!
October's Party
by George Cooper
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.
📕 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
📕 READING: Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page on top for the reading volunteer signup.
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
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
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
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!
📕 SCIENCE: This week we talked through designing a device that mimics the way a plant or animal senses or responds to the environment. We also watched mustard seeds grow and how the light affected the growth.
Have a good weekend!1st Grade Team
