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Grade 1

JANUARY 2023

 

ELA (English Language Arts): Consonant blends, digraph blends, blending, reading and segmenting up to 4 sounds, R-controlled words, suffixes, contraction not, sounds oo, u

 

Writing: Genre for Trimester 2 - informational

 

Math: Place value, comparison, addition and subtraction to 40

 

Social Studies: Maps, US symbols

 

Science: Light/sound

 

Family Connections: Weekly Spelling homework lists will be posted, along with Wonders activities, Freckle and nightly reading

 

Room 15: The 100th Day of School is on Monday, February 6th. Please bring in a bag of 100 small items that are the same to count. They will not be handled by anyone else.


Special Activities: Black History- stories and writing pieces

 

 

NOVEMBER 2022

 

ELA (English Language Arts): Glued sounds, digraphs, capitals and periods, plural nouns, sequence, verbs, contractions, inflectional endings, writing paragraphs

 

Math: Adding and subtracting within 10, place value, measurement, compare distances

 

Social Studies: US symbols, maps

 

Science: Light/Sound Communication

 

Family Connections: Please check Google Classroom for the spelling word list and use the TicTacToe board.

 

Monthly Themes: Holidays- Hanukkah and Christmas stories; MLK Day- story and writing piece

 

Special Activities: Room 15- activities with our adopted calf, Dorito, from Emma Acres Farm

Please sign the Spelling TicTacToe board and return on Fridays. The list and board are also posted on Google Classroom.

 

Special Activities: Room 17- winter-themed mindfulness activities

 

Have a wonderful holiday season!

 

 

OCTOBER 2022 

 

ELA (English Language Arts): We will be studying bonus letters, glued sounds, trick words, punctuation, narrative story form and writing opinion text and realistic text. In writing, we are working on beginning sentences with capital letters, using spaces between words, and ending with punctuation. We will be working on our writing piece for Trimester 1.

 

Math: We will study subtraction word problems, related facts, and decomposing numbers.

 

Social Studies: Elections, citizenship

 

Science: Sky patterns

 

Family Connections: Please check Google classroom notices or the folder daily. Please update your child’s extra change of clothes to something warmer. They can keep it in a bag in their cubbies.

 

Spelling Homework: Please sign and return the TicTacToe board each Friday. We have our Spelling word check-in on Fridays. The list and board are sent home on Mondays. They are also posted on Google Classroom.

 

Special Activities: Fall Activities

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2022

 

ELA (English Language Arts):-Wonders: Initial, medial, final sounds, blending, 3-sound short vowel words, segmenting/spelling 3-sound short vowel words, story retell in detail and sequence, high frequency words, spelling words, alphabetical order, phoneme isolation, plural nouns, deletions, inflectional endings, short a, short o, word order

 

Writing: Informational (Science-Seasons)

 

Math: Eureka Module 1: commutative property of addition, equal sign, addition within 10, subtraction as unknown addend and subtraction word problems

 

Social Studies: Voting, elections, citizenship

 

Science: Patterns in the sky, seasonal patterns

 

Family Connections: Please read together nightly. Also, please put a change of clothes in your child's backpack. We have a lot of spills! Please note that we are a peanut and tree-nut free classroom. Please do not send these items for our morning snack or lunch. We request a healthy choice for snack. We are doing an excellent job! First grade rocks!

 

Special Activities: Nature Walk/Leaf Writing

 

Upcoming in October: Spelling Homework