11 / 7 / 2025



📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

💡DATES TO REMEMBER                                                                       


  • 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.

💡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: This week, we read more folktales: a Mexican tale about the Little Half Chick or "Medio Pollito" from Mexico, a Native American Tale from the Iroquois "Why the Owl Has Big Eyes", the Jewish tale "It Could Always be Worse", and "The Boy at the Dike" from the Netherlands.

 

📕 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!

 

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: 

  • Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. 
  • 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 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: The students learned the different ways to add and subtract. Here are some video resources to help you know how we teach it in class:

📕 HISTORY: This week, we talked about the Aztecs and the Incas from our unit on the Americas. We learned how their civilizations 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. On Thursday we made a craft of the Machu Picchu built by the Incas.



📕 SCIENCE:   We had discussions surrounding the mimicking of animal and plant senses as well as what describes parents and offspring. On Friday we learned about the traits of plants.



Have a wonderful weekend!

First Grade Teachers





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