First Grade Weekly Update November 17th-21st
Weekly Syllabus: November 17th-21st, 2025
Reminders
Monday, November 17th-Friday November, 21st is the Book Fair. Come and check it out.
Tuesday, November 18th is November Birthday Free Dress
Wednesday, November 19th is a noon dismissal for Professional Development
Thanksgiving Break is the week of November 24th-28th. School resumes on Monday, December 1st.
In the homework folder there is an activity for the Advent Season. We will begin to put the ornaments on our tree on the hallway bulletin board starting on the 1st. You can begin thinking about and filling in your ornaments during the Thanksgiving break. This is meant to be done throughout all of Advent. You do not need to fill in all of the ornaments in one weekend.
Sunday, December 1st is the first day of Advent.
Religion
We will begin Chapter 4 Jesus, the Son of God. Students will explore the birth of Jesus, discover that Jesus is truly God and truly human, learn that Jesus was raised in a human family, decide a way to live as a disciple of Jesus through kindness, and pray by singing a prayer.
Virtue of the month: Charity-Charity is the theological virtue given to us at Baptism. Charity is the love of God above all else and the love of one’s neighbor as oneself, for the sake of God. It is considered the “greatest commandment” and is expressed through selfless, giving love.
Ways to cultivate charity: being kind to everyone, almsgiving, serve others with joy, and give to the poor (just to name a few).
A Saint associated with Charity is St. Mother Teresa.
Language Arts
Unit 5 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Read and decode words with ing and ed endings, decode words from an informational text, use and spell Memory Words (there, from, be, we, on, and to), encode verbs with final ck adding ing and ed, understand and use adjectives, and use conjunctions or and and.
Spelling Words: flipping, flipped, stepping, stepped, there, from, be, to, we, and or
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read words with endings accurately, read and discuss grade level informational text, describe problem and solution, cause and effect, and characters, determine the meaning of key vocabulary words and phrases (yapped, zigged, zagged, yuck, and track), and use words to know (wonder, curious, discover, and imagine).
Writing: Brainstorm to generate adjectives, write descriptive details, write a description of a creature, use descriptions to identify creatures, record sensory details about a place, and draw and write a description of a place.
Author Study: Jan Brett
Mathematics
Number Corner
The workouts for December continue to focus on many of the concepts introduced in November. Students complete their collection of 24 hours and learn how each day is divided into two equal parts, a.m. and p.m. They expand their exploration of doubles and halves to include numbers to 20 and become even more familiar with counting patterns as they work with the fifties and sixties and place value. The Calendar Grid features familiar items and a growing pattern of three-dimensional shapes such as cylinders, spheres, cubes, and rectangular prisms.
We will begin Bridges Unit 2 Module 4-The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 4 is on counting by 5s and 10s to become more efficient at counting amounts larger than 10. Three of the sessions use five-armed sea stars as a context for counting and students work together to make a quilt that exemplifies the counting by 5s pattern in the variety of ways. Making the quilt blocks also involves some work with shapes and fractional pieces. The last two sessions introduce games that feature pennies, nickels, and dimes-another good context for counting by 5s and 10s, as well as reinforcing the counting on strategy. The games also give students practice counting collections of coins and comparing two-digit numbers.