11 / 17 / 23

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration! 
• A letter on giving was distributed this week. Please check it out!

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

Tuesday, November 21 - Phoenix Zoo Field Trip 

November 22 to 24 - Thanksgiving Break

December 6, 5-5:30pm - First Grade Winter Concert

December 13 - 15 - Half days

December 15 - Cookie Decoration Day

December 18 to Jan 3rd - Winter break

January 2nd, 3rd & 4th - Winter conferences by invitation only

January 4th - Half day/12:30 dismissal

January 4th - Due: Animal Report

Let us know if you have questions!

 

💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 

📕 READING / LITERATURE:  We read the last of our folktales this unit--Holland's "The Boy at the Dike" and Germany's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". We discussed the virtue of courage in the former and honesty in the latter. Ask your child to retell these stories! Also, in preparation for Thanksgiving Day, we read and discussed the poems "Table Manners" and "Over the River and Through the Wood".

We will start reading "The Bears on Hemlock Mountain" in December. Kindly have your student bring them in if you haven't yet. Thank you!

📕 MATHEMATICS: We reviewed some of the different strategies in Subtracting Numbers 11 to 20:

1. Counting Back

2. Subtract the Ones First

3. Break Apart the 10 and Subtract the Rest

4. Other Ways to Break Apart the Number

5. Related Addition Facts / Fact Families

We'll have our test on Monday. 

📕 HISTORY: We learned about the Inca royalty and created our own Sapa Inca headdress. We also learned about the Mayan's version of their creation story.

📕 SCIENCE:  We are still studying the Human Body. Students learned about the Respiratory system. Students colored models of the lungs and learned facts about breathing. Ask your child these questions: What gas do we inhale?(oxygen) What gas do we exhale? (carbon dioxide) Also, we talked the digestive system and how it works when we eat food.

1st Grade Teachers

11 / 9 / 23

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration! 
• Happy Veteran's Day Weekend! We are grateful to those who served our country!

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

• November 10 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
• November 18 - Medieval Faire
• November 21 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo 
• November 22 to 24 - Thanksgiving Break
• December 6 - Winter Concert
• December 13 - 15 - Half days
• December 16 to Jan 4th - Winter break
• January 2 to 3 - Winter conferences by invitation only
• January 4 - Deadline for Animal Reports 

💡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.

💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 

 📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: his week, we read more folktales: a Mexican tale about the Little Half Chick or "Medio Polito" from Mexico, a Native American Tale "Why the Owl Has Big Eyes", and the Jewish tale "It Could Always be Worse / Too Much Noise".

📕 SAYINGS: It could always be worse.

 

📕 POETRY: 

The Goops (Table Manners) 

by Gelette Burgess 

 The Goops they lick their fingers,

And the Goops they lick their knives;

They spill their broth on the tablecloth—

Oh, they lead disgusting lives! 

 

The Goops they talk while eating, 

And loud and fast they chew; 

And that is why I’m glad that I 

Am not a Goop--are you? 

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!

The Caterpillar 

by Christina Rossetti 

Brown and furry 

Caterpillar in a hurry; 

Take your walk

To the shady leaf, or stalk.

May no toad spy you, 

May the little birds pass by you; 

Spin and die,

To live again a butterfly. 

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.

📕 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 below for the reading volunteer signup.

Mrs. Aguayo 

https://signup.com/go/zJZazGK

Mrs. Santiago 

https://signup.com/go/yPrHdtQ

Ms. Baines 

https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/85643710095/false?popup=true#/invitation

📕 SPALDING: We learned rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns.

📕 MATHEMATICS: The students learned the doubles and doubles +1 strategy this week, and had a check up test on addition. We are now moving on to subtraction!

📕 HISTORY: This week, we talked about the Aztecs and the Incas. We learned how their civilization began (ask your child if they remember why the Mexico flag has that eagle on their logo.) The students also took home the sundials they created, which reminds us how they had their own calendar. 

📕 SCIENCE:   We are still studying about the human body! Students discussed and reviewed the skeletal systems. Ask your child about bones, how many do we have, and the job for the cranium. 

1st Grade Teachers

11 / 4 / 2022

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

• November 8 - KINGDOM'S DAY (Wear colored shirts)
• November 10 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
• November 21 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo 
• November 22 to 24 - Thanksgiving Break
• December 6 - Winter Concert
• December 13 - 15 - Half days
• December 16 to Jan 4th - Winter break
• January 2 to 3 - Winter conferences by invitation only
• January 4 - Deadline for Animal Reports 

💡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.

💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK 

📕 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.

📕 SAYINGS: It could always be worse.

 

📕 POETRY: 

The Goops (Table Manners) 

by Gelette Burgess 

 The Goops they lick their fingers,

And the Goops they lick their knives;

They spill their broth on the tablecloth—

Oh, they lead disgusting lives! 

 

The Goops they talk while eating, 

And loud and fast they chew; 

And that is why I’m glad that I 

Am not a Goop--are you? 

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!

The Caterpillar 

by Christina Rossetti 

Brown and furry 

Caterpillar in a hurry; 

Take your walk

To the shady leaf, or stalk.

May no toad spy you, 

May the little birds pass by you; 

Spin and die,

To live again a butterfly. 

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.

📕 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 below for the reading volunteer signup.

Mrs. Aguayo 

https://signup.com/go/zJZazGK

Mrs. Santiago 

https://signup.com/go/yPrHdtQ

Ms. Baines 

https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/85643710095/false?popup=true#/invitation

📕 SPALDING: We learned rule 26:  Capitalize proper nouns.

 

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