Week 30

 Week 30

April 19-23

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  4-19	Wear your Positivity Project Shirt Focus: Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence  SEL
Tuesday  4-20	Gym
Wednesday 4-21	Late Start Art
Thursday  4-22	Music
Friday  4-23	Library Return Library Books

Weekly Words

Bird

Clerk

Turn

First

Term

Shirt

Hurt

Perch

Curl

Fern

Purse

Thirst

Curb

Serve

Chirp

Squirt

Sight Words

Our 

Too

Great

Any

Put

Through

Also

Another

Right

Around 

Large

Kind

Does

Change

Learn

Even

Air

Should

Move

Answer

Animal Project

First Graders will be VERY busy in the coming weeks.  Students are researching an animal and creating a variety of projects to show their understanding of its physical characteristics, habitat, food sources, and predators. Most of the work can be done in school.  However, if your child wants to create a diorama or model of his or her animal they should plan to do this at home.  Please help us out by asking often how your Firsies work is going.

Week 29

 Week 29

April 12-16

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  4-12	Wear your Positivity Project Shirt Focus: Fairness SEL
Tuesday  4-13	Gym
Wednesday 4-14	Late Start Art
Thursday  4-15	Music
Friday  4-16	Library Return Library Books

Weekly Words

art

barn

carp

chart

harm

part

shark

smart

bark

car

charm

dart

jar

scar

spark

start

Sight Words

Our 

Too

Great

Any

Put

Through

Also

Another

Right

Around 

Large

Kind

Does

Change

Learn

Even

Air

Should

Move

Answer

Week 28

  Week 28

March 30-April 2

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  3-15	Wear your Positivity Project Shirt Focus: Humor SEL Show and Tell!
Tuesday  3-16	Gym
Wednesday 3-17	Late Start Art
Thursday  3-18	Music
Friday  3-19	NO SCHOOL Enjoy your Spring Break1

Show and Tell!

Students can bring a show and tell with them on Monday. Please be sure they choose something that fits in their backpack.

Weekly Words and Sight Words

We will resume posting weekly and sight words next week. We are currently studying the hard and soft c/g sounds and -ed/-ing endings. Bossy R will also be introduced this week. After break our focus will be r-controlled (Bossy!) vowels.

Spring Fever

Our Firsties are restless!  They are very much ready for the upcoming break.  Unfortunately this means they’re very wound-up throughout the day.  Behavior problems are cropping up frequently. Please help us out this week by trying to maintain a regular routine at home, ensuring enough sleep, and reminding your child that good behavior helps them learn. 

Week 26

  Week 26

March 15-19

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  3-15	No School for students
Tuesday  3-16	Wear your Positivity Project shirt Focus: Love of Learning Gym
Wednesday 3-17	Late Start Art Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Thursday  3-18	Music
Friday  3-19	Library Return Library Books ½ Day of School National Let’s Laugh Day-arrive ready to tell a joke! Flashlight & PJ Day

March Digital Choice Board

If your student is absent or you are looking for ideas of things for your Firstie to do at home, please follow the link above to our digital choice board.

Headphones

Please check in with your child about their classroom headphones. Some students' headphones have broken or they have been misplaced.  

Water Bottles

Please be sure to send a water bottle with your child.  Our drinking fountains are set up to only be used as filling stations.  

Weekly Words-Open Syllable Words 

Me

He

So

Go

Hello

She

We

be

no

Sight Words

People

Been

Over

Water

Only

Them

Write

Were

Your

long

Week 25

 

      March 8-12

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  3-8	SEL Wear your Positivity Project shirt Focus: Social Intelligence
Tuesday  3-9	Gym
Wednesday 3-10	Late Start Art Report Cards sent home
Thursday  3-11	Music
Friday  3-12	Library Return Library Books

March Digital Choice Board 

Weekly Words: 

Blew

Pool

Glue

Moon

True

Crew

Room

Flute

Spool

Blue

Threw

Spruce

Drew

Clue

Tooth

Rule

Sight Words:

People

Been

Over

Water

Only

Them

Write

Were

Your

Long

Week 24

      March 1-5

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  3-1	SEL Wear your Positivity Project shirt Focus: Enthusiasm!
Tuesday  3-2	Gym Dr. Seuss Day!
Wednesday 3-3	Late Start Art
Thursday  3-4	Music
Friday  3-5	Library ½ Day of School Return Library Books National Oreo Cookie Day observed Favorite team shirt/hat day

March Digital Choice Board 

If your student is absent or you are looking for ideas of things for your Firstie to do at home, please follow the link above to our digital choice board. 

Academic Update

This time of year is so critical in 1st grade.  Please help us keep the momentum going by asking your Firstie about what they are learning in class! New homework sheets came home on Friday. As always, our focus is on reading.  

We are:

• Adding multiples of 10

• Telling time

• Counting money

• Working on word problems

• Comparing and contrasting characters, settings, plots in our reading

• Using venn diagrams

• Writing about community helpers

• Working on our reading stamina

• Learning about long vowel patterns including the “sometimes y”

• Practicing our character strengths

Take home books

Every student has been given a book at his or her level to bring home and practice reading to you or other family members. Each time a student brings a book back to school I will replace it with a new one.  The goal is to improve confidence and increase fluency.  If you’ve not seen a book, check with your child.  Please be sure to return books as loss negatively affects our classroom library.

Math bags

How are the math bags going? Have you been using your supplies? Is your Firstie enjoying playing the game with you? I’d love to hear from you and see some pictures of families learning math together!

Weekly Words: 

Dry

Funny

Baby

Sky

Fly

Tiny

Shy

Penny

Try

Puppy

Hilly

Sly

Happy

My

Why

lucky

Sight Words:

People

Been

Over

Water

Only

Them

Write

Were

Your

long