📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Please make sure students have utensils in their lunchboxes.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. 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 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.
All first-grade classes are in need of reading volunteers! Please use the sign up located under your teacher's page. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer at a different time, please contact your teacher.
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK:
📕LITERATURE: We began the first tale of My Father's Dragon. We read the first two chapters, and learned how the boy's father began his rescue mission of the dragon.
📕 SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms the scholars 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: e has no job
rule 1: q is always followed by u, and together they say /kw/.
rule 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/
rule 4: a, e, o, and u may say their names at the end of a syllable.
rule 5: i and y may say 'long' i.
rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word
rule 9: 1-1-1 rule: One syllable words with one-vowel followed by one consonant need to double its last consonant before adding an ending beginning with a vowel.
rule 11:Words ending with a silent final e are written without the e when adding a vowel ending.
rule 13: sh is used at the beginning of a base word or the end of a syllable.
rule 17: Double f, l, and s when following a single vowel.
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
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rule 20: s never follows x.
rule 25: ck may be used only after a single vowel that says its short sound.
sick
block
rock, back, neck
rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
rule 27: Words beginning with the sound /z/ are always spelled with z never s. (zoo)
rule 28: ed has three sounds and is added to form the past tense of regular verbs.
rule 29: divide words between double consonants
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lit tle
Key:new rules coveredrules covered this weekrules covered in the past
📕 SAYINGS:
- Never leave 'til tomorrow what you can do today.
- The more the merrier.
- Land of Nod
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Sour grapes
- 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
📕POETRY:
Washington
by Nancy Byrd Turner
He played by the river when he was young.
He raced with rabbits along the hills,
He fished for minnows, and climbed and swung,
And hooted back at the whippoorwills.
Strong and slender and tall he grew -
And then, one morning, the bugles blew.
Over the hills the summons came,
Over the river's shining rim.
He said that the bugles called his name,
He knew that his country needed him,
And he answered, "Coming!" and marched away
For many a night and many a day.
Perhaps when the marches were hot and long
He'd think of the river flowing by
Or, camping under the winter sky,
Would hear the whippoorwill's far-off song.
Boy or soldier, in peace or strife,
He loved America all his life!
My Shadow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
There Once Was a Puffin
by Florence Page Jacques
Oh, there once was a Puffin
Just the shape of a muffin,
And he lived on an island
In the bright blue sea!
He ate little fishes,
That were most delicious,
And he had them for supper
And he had them for tea.
But this poor little Puffin,
He couldn’t play nothin’,
For he hadn’t anybody
To play with at all.
So he sat on his island,
And he cried for awhile,
and He felt very lonely,
And he felt very small.
Then along came the fishes,
And they said, “If you wishes,
You can have us for playmates,
Instead of for tea!”
So they now play together,
In all sorts of weather,
And the Puffin eats pancakes,
Like you and like me.
The Swing
by Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing,
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all,
Over the countryside –
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown –
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
📕MATH: This week, we practiced how to add two-digits with regrouping / renaming. For first grade, we stress on adding the ones place first. If it's more than ten, we regroup and rename it to the tens. (Nine or less, let it rest. Ten or more, move the tens up next door). The children should also be familiar with adding by decomposing numbers (making a ten to add). This is a good foundation for mental math. Reinforcing the skill of making a ten at home would really go a long way too.
📕HISTORY: We continued talking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and why this is important in our history. Students learned about Benjamin Franklin. Next week, we will make a kite foldable about his inventions.
📕SCIENCE: We finished up our unit on Light and Sound. Scholars reviewed light and sound by listening to the books, I See Myself by Vicki Cobb and Sounds All Around by Susan Hughes. Scholars will distinguish between light and sound, and then identify things that give off either or both. Scholars will use song and rhyme to review and continue exploring light and sound, as well.
Please note: The annual parent survey went out via email to families on February 16th (https://greatheartsamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cH2QICBciAKOTdQ). The survey helps us know what we are doing well and what we can improve. Any grade level with 100% participation will win an extra 30-minute recess and popsicles. The survey will be open until February 24th. Thank you for your participation.
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Have a great weekend!
1st Grade Teachers