10 / 24 / 2025





Thank you for your help at the Egypt Party! The scholars had an enjoyable time :)

💡ANNOUNCEMENTS

**Especially for our first grade's girl parents - A lot of your daughters love doing cartwheels at recess. Just as a reminder, please make sure they are wearing shorts under their dresses/skirts and that the shorts cover their underwear. Thank you for your attention to this.** 

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

  • Saturday, October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–7:00 pm)
  • Wednesday, October 29th - Classical Character Day
  • Tuesday, November 11 - NO SCHOOOL (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. Sign up coming on October 20th.)
  • 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
Scholars who wish to bring candies next week, we recommend that they do not eat candy for snack and only 1 piece during lunch. Thank you!

💡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 scholars empty it at home)


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 reading "Frog and Toad Together" - the third installment of the Frog and Toad series. We also continued practicing how to retell and make oral summaries, and answered comprehension sheets.

 

📕 POETRY

 

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 

rock, back, neck

rule 29:  divide words between double consonants

ap ple

lit tle

 Students will practice at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet (1-70). Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.

 

📕 MATHEMATICS:  We reviewed more of our numbers 11 to 20 and had a Chapter test. Please continue practicing tens and ones at home. 


 
 
 

 

📕 HISTORY: Before digging deep into our unit on the Early Civilization of Americas, we learned how the first people could have probably moved to the America from Asia. We also talked about what it was like to be a hunter and a gatherer then.


 
📕 SCIENCE: This week we continued talking about how animals' sense and respond to things. We also discovered that plants have senses too and we are conducting an experiment with mustard seeds to see how the plants will respond to classroom light.


Have a good weekend!

1st Grade Team 





10 / 17 / 2025



💡ANNOUNCEMENTS

 - Classical Character Day - October 29th - Classical Character Day 25-26.docx Classical Character Day Form 25-26.docx     

💡DATES TO REMEMBER

  • Monday, October 20th - Egypt Party (organized by room parents/parent volunteers)
  • Tuesday, October 21st - Picture Retakes
  • Friday, October 24th - Classical Character permission slips due
  • Saturday, October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–7:00 pm)
  • Wednesday, October 29th - Classical Character Day
  • Tuesday, November 11 - NO SCHOOOL (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. Sign up coming on October 20th.)
  • November 26 to 28 - Thanksgiving Break
  • December ?? - Winter Concert
  • December 16-18 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal 
  • December 19-31 No School: Winter Break

💡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 scholars empty it at home)


2. 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 finished reading "Frog and Toad are Friends". We started reading "Frog and Toad Together", continued practicing how to retell and make oral summaries, and answering comprehension sheets.

 

📕 POETRY

 

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: 

  • 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 11:10-11:40. 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.

 

  ðŸ“• MATHEMATICS:  We started our unit for numbers 0 to 20. We recognized the numbers and how to write the number word. We learned how 11 to 20 is shown in a ten frame, and how to compare and order them.  
 
 
           ðŸ“• HISTORY: We learned about Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh who had a great contribution              to Ancient Egypt. We also wrapped up this unit and can't wait for our culminating activity with            our  class parents and volunteers on Monday!


 
📕SCIENCE: This week we did an experiment with our senses and related that to what sensory parts do animals have and how animals sense and respond to things.

Have a good weekend!

1st Grade Team