First Grade Weekly Update September 30th-October 4th
Weekly Syllabus September 30th-October 4th, 2024
Reminders
Monday, September 30th is our walking field trip to the library. Students need to wear their uniforms and comfortable shoes.
Friday the 4th is the feast of St. Francis. We will have the blessing of the animals at 8:00 AM during our morning assembly. You are welcome to bring your pet to be blessed. Students may also bring a stuffed animal or picture of a pet as well.
Religion
We will begin Chapter 3 God Our Father and Creator. Students will learn that the God is our creator, how God created us in his own image, ways to care for God’s creations, and ways to use pictures to help us pray
Language Arts
Unit 2 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Work on words with wh, memory words (who, where, what, which, and why), the -ash spelling pattern, recognize and understand question marks, pronoun I, and use appropriate questions words to begin questions.
Spelling Words: where, when, why which, who, what, cash, dash, crash, trash
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, observe dialogue, punctuation, speech balloons, and question marks while reading, understand characters and events, describe setting, identify topics of an informational text, and identify main topic and key details.
Our Author Study for this month will be Arnold Lobel
Writing: Generate and write questions, write answers to questions, and write interview questions
Mathematics
Number Corner for October
Focus for October Number Corner: Ten is the magic number for October, the tenth month of the year. Students compose and decompose the number 10, practice instantly seeing quantities on ten-frames, and learn about “leaps of ten” on the number line. The Calendar Grid features sets of fall pictures to inspire math stories and during the Calendar Collector workout, students collect and count patterns blocks and make a composite shape picture.
Bridges: We continue to work on Unit 1 Module 3: In this module students engage in “quick look” activities intended to help them subitize, or recognize the quantity of objects in a set without having to count each individually. Students also explore part-part-whole relationships with numbers to 20. These explorations include work with equations in which an unknown variable might be in any one of three positions. The last session introduces length measurement with nonstandard units.
Social Studies
We will continue with Being Good Citizens in our homes, schools, and communities.