📣 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 finished up our Beatrix Potter unit with The Tale of Two Bad Mice, who learned from their mistake and how to handle anger. We also read the story of "The Rainbow Fish", learned about friendship, wrote a letter to a friend, and made a fun paper plate fish craft. We will start on the first chapter of "My Father's Dragon" on Tuesday, February 17th. Please send a copy of this book to school if you haven't done so.
📕 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
ap ple
rule 25: ck may be used only after a single vowel that says its short sound.
📕 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
📕 MATH: This week, we learned different ways to add two-digit numbers: a) counting on; b) getting a ten; and c) adding them vertically with renaming and without renaming. We will have a check up test on addition next Friday.
📕 POETRY:
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!
📕HISTORY: We learned about how the patriots came together in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and how the American Revolution began with "the shot around the world". We learned a song about the revolution, and pretended we were patriots. We reviewed how the American Revolution started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and made a sequencing accordion book of the timeline of those events.
📕SCIENCE: We are continuing in our last lessons of Exploring Sound and Light. We explored examples of communication over long distances The scholars will watch a video about Morse code before attempting to write a word of their choice using this method. Scholars will observe and sketch pictures of long-distance communication tools.
Have a great weekend!
1st Grade Teachers