📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
We have an exciting announcement to make! On Wednesday, May 13th, we will be hosting our highly anticipated End of the Year Kingdom Assembly. This event is where we will announce the Kingdom Winner of the current school year. We will also be unveiling our new Guardians for the upcoming academic year of '26-'27.
We invite all our scholars to participate by wearing the Kingdom Shirt on that day. However, we kindly request that the rest of the uniform remains unchanged.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for your support throughout this year's Kingdoms program.
💡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 each evening)
*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: This week, we continued Elmer and the Dragon's adventures as we read book 3 - The Dragons of Blueland. We also practiced reading dialogues and writing summaries.
📕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: 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 3: g before e, i, or y says /j/.
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 8:/er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early".
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 12: i before e except after c or when saying /ay/ (field)
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
rule 20: s never follows x.
rule 21: "All" written alone has 2 l's.
rule 23: dge is only used after a single vowel that says a short sound.
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:
- Hit the nail on the head!
- There's no place like home.
- A.M./P.M.
- 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:
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
A tear out of his eyes.
📕MATH: We wrapped up our unit on shapes this week. Next week we will start our last unit of the year - Time.
📕HISTORY: In this week's study of the Western Exploration, we learned more about Lewis and Clark, and Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied them in their expedition.
📕SCIENCE: This week, we reviewed the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems of the human body. We also learned about the nervous system of the human body. Because Earth Day was on Wednesday, April 22nd, we also talked about what we can do to protect the earth. Scholars completed a worksheet on taking care of the earth.
Happy weekend!
1st Grade Teachers