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📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!

    • 💡DATES TO REMEMBER
  • January 20th: NO SCHOOL (Civil Rights Day)
  • January 21st: Spring Photo Day
  • February 7th: Half Day Dismissal (GHA In-Service)
  • February 17th: NO SCHOOL (President's Day) R&R weekend

    • 💡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 ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK 



📕 Literature: We finished reading Bargain for Frances, practicing our fluency and expression. We also started Bedtime for Frances.

📕 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 2: c before e, i, or y says /s/. (cent, city, cycle)

         rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllablle

rule 5: I and y may say /i/ (si lent, my)                                           

rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word. (try, fly)                  

rule 8:  /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early".                        

                   rule 13: sh is used at the beginning or end of a base word 

                  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 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



📕 SAYINGS: 

  •  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

Tha 

📕 Poetry: 
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! 


📕 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 12:30-1:00. 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). 


📕 Math:  The week started with the scholars taking a cumulative test on our last two units. Then we started our unit on numbers 1 to 120. We reviewed counting the tens/ones of numbers to 120, comparing and ordering numbers to 40.

📕 History: This week, we continued the story of the early settlers who came to Jamestown and tried to survive there. We learned about their leader, John Smith, and also how the Native American, Pocahontas, helped the English settlers. 

📕 Science: This week begins our big ocean unit. We reviewed the different oceans around the world. We also learned about the different layers of the ocean and created a chart about the layers. We also started a foldable "All About Oceans" that will take several lessons to complete.  

Have a great week!
1st Grade Teachers