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.
First Grade Weekly Update October 27th-31st
Weekly Syllabus: October 27th-October 31st, 2025
Reminders
We will celebrate Halloween on Friday, October 31th. The parade will begin at 8:15. It is also a 12:00 dismissal day.
Students may wear their costumes, but are not allowed to bring weapons or wear masks. Students also need to be dressed appropriately (when in doubt, please refer to the handbook for free dress guidelines).
If you haven’t already done so, please consider a donation to the Annual Fund.
Religion
We will continue with 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: Responsibility-Responsibility is under the umbrella of Justice. Responsibility means fulfilling our just duties; accepting the consequences of one’s words and actions, intentional and unintentional.
Ways to cultivate responsibility: complete your tasks, admit you are wrong when you have done something wrong, and be accountable for decisions and actions.
Saints associated with responsibility are St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Lawrence, and St. Pius V.
Language Arts
Unit 4 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify final er sound, encode er words, recognize er and ed spelling patterns, introduce and spell Memory Words (look, your, the, was, are, and for), and understand and use passed tense verbs.
Spelling words: after, never, better, winter, summer, rested, twisted, planted, printed, and acted
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand characters, text structure, and sequence, listen to and read complex informational text, understand Words to Know (project, interesting, and constructed)
Writing: Discuss narrative writing, select a topic for narrative writing, plan a personal narrative, write a story based on a plan, and edit
Author Study: Arnold Lobel
Mathematics
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.
The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 3 is on developing adding and subtraction strategies, particularly doubling, counting on, and counting back to solve combinations within 12. Students work with the number rack and then learn games in which they add, subtract, and record their results on graphs. Students who are still counting by 1s to add and subtract are encouraged to count on and count back instead, and those who have moved beyond counting by 1s are encouraged to develop strategies that make use of well-known facts to solve less familiar combinations.
Science: We will continue our unit on Structure, function, and information processing.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
First Grade Weekly Update October 20th-24th
Weekly Syllabus: October 20th-24th, 2025
Reminders
Our Annual Fund will run from Sunday, October 19th-Friday, November 14th.
Tuesday, October 21st is October birthday free dress.
Friday, October 24th is the last day to turn in items for our Service Learning Project to support the Midway Shelter.
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: Responsibility-Responsibility is under the umbrella of Justice. Responsibility means fulfilling our just duties; accepting the consequences of one’s words and actions, intentional and unintentional.
Ways to cultivate responsibility: complete your tasks, admit you are wrong when you have done something wrong, and be accountable for decisions and actions.
Saints associated with responsibility are St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Lawrence, and St. Pius V.
Language Arts
Unit 3 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Identify final le sound, read decodable stories with ng and le, read and decode words from informational text, recognize and spell memory words (do, have, show, how, me, and a), understand and use antonyms, and rhyming words.
Spelling Words: bubble, little, candle, pickle, do, have, show, how, me, and a
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read with natural phrasing, read and discuss grade level literary text, understand plot, problem, and solution, match story events to pictures, and understand and use antonyms.
Writing: Opinion Writing about seasons.
Author Study: Arnold Lobel
Mathematics
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
Bridges Unit 2 Module 2-This module maintains a focus on addition and subtraction strategies and emphasizes solving for an unknown. Students use and make double flap cards to discover the relationship between addition and subtraction, to further explore the commutative property, and to learn to solve for an unknown in any position. They generate equation fact families and story problems. The idea that the equal sign describes a relationship between two quantities that have the same value, rather than indicating “the answer,” is reinforced.
Science: We will begin our unit on Structure, function, and information processing.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
First Grade Weekly Update October 13th-17th
Weekly Syllabus: October 13th-17th, 2025
Reminders
Monday, October 13th No school in observation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Friday, October 17th-we will be going to the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale in San Francisco.
Religion
We will continue with 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.
Virtue of the month: Responsibility-Responsibility is under the umbrella of Justice. Responsibility means fulfilling our just duties; accepting the consequences of one’s words and actions, intentional and unintentional.
Ways to cultivate responsibility: complete your tasks, admit you are wrong when you have done something wrong, and be accountable for decisions and actions.
Saints associated with responsibility are St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Lawrence, and St. Pius V.
Language Arts
Unit 3 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify the final ng sound, read and decode words with ng, recognize and spell memory words (do, have, show, how, me, and a), understand and use verbs are and is, and complete a pattern poem.
Spelling Words: king, sing, thing, hang, bang, sang, long, song, hung, and sung
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a poem, read a poem rhythmically, read and discuss grade level literary texts, compare and contrast two poems, identify key details of grade level poems, and listen to and discuss a complex informational text.
Writing: Discuss the difference between a fact and an opinion, identify opinions, write about an opinion, use synonyms for good and bad, write opinion with supporting reasons, and share opinions and reasons respectfully.
Author Study: Arnold Lobel
Mathematics
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 will continue with Unit 2 Module 1 Counting, Comparing & Adding With Dominoes. Module 1 focuses on developing counting and addition skills, using dominoes as a springboard. Students learn games in which they match the dots on dominoes, count or add the dots on the two halves of a dominoes, and write equations and inequality statements for the amounts. They also share and discuss addition strategies beyond counting by 1s, such as counting on, combining small groups, and working from known facts to those less familiar. Two new Work Places are introduced.
Science: We will begin our unit on Structure, function, and information processing.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
First Grade Weekly Update September 22nd-26th
Weekly Syllabus: September 22nd– 26th, 2025
Reminders
Tomorrow is our annual fun fair. It is from 11-4 here at school. Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, September 24th is a noon dismissal day. Faculty and Staff have Professional Development Day.
Thursday, September 25th is a Spirit Day-Pajama Day
Please use the link to sign up for Parent/Teacher conferences if you have not already done so. Thank you.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FA9AB22A1FDC61-58607524-copy#/
Religion
We will finish up Chapter 2 God Loves Us. Students will explore how followers of Jesus are generous, discover people who help us to know God, learn about God from Jesus and our families, decide on ways to be a kind and generous follower of Jesus, and learn to pray the Sign of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Affability-Affability falls under the cardinal virtue of Justice. Justice is the cardinal virtue that perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and church.
Affability means being easy to approach and easy to talk to-friendly.
Ways to Cultivate: Smile; greet people-”How are you doing?”
Saints associated with affability are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother.
Language Arts
Unit 1 Week 2
Word Work: Identify initial and final sh sounds, decode sh words, read and decode a story with sh and ch sounds, decode difficult words from an informational text, use and spell Word Wall words (I me, she, her, he, his), use personal and possessive pronouns, capitalize place names, and use capitalization and end marks to write sentences
Spelling Words: fish, wish, rush, brush, I, my, she, her, he, and his
Reading: Develop fluency reading with repeated readings of a poem, read and discuss a grade-level literary text, listen to and read grade level informational text, connect ideas, know and use text features, comprehension, and recognize text structure.
Writing: Draw and generate ideas before writing, select a topic for a personal narrative, draw and write about something they did at a place they visited, capitalize place names, and edit sentences for capitalization and end marks.
Author Study: Tomi dePaola
Mathematics
Number Corner for September: The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0-30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students will use a variety of models this month that will help them work in groups of 2, 5, and 10. Students review the concept of unitizing; that is, thinking of 10 items as a single unit called a ten.
Bridges
We will begin Unit 1 Module 4-The number rack explorations in this module involve part-part-whole relationships, particularly missing-addend and subtraction problems. Students also engage in “quick look” activities to help them subitize quantities to 20, and they add 1 and subtract 1 from those totals. The final session features a post-unit assessment.
Social Studies
We will continue with Being Good Citizens in our homes, schools, and communities.
First Grade Weekly Update September 15th-19th
Weekly Syllabus: September 15th-19th, 2025
Reminders
Tuesday, September 16th is September birthday free dress.
Saturday, September 20th is the Fun Fair-hope to see you there!
Religion
We will start Chapter 2 God Loves Us. Students will explore how followers of Jesus are generous, discover people who help us to know God, learn about God from Jesus and our families, decide on ways to be a kind and generous follower of Jesus, and learn to pray the Sign of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Affability-Affability falls under the cardinal virtue of Justice. Justice is the cardinal virtue that perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and church.
Affability means being easy to approach and easy to talk to-friendly.
Ways to Cultivate: Smile; greet people-”How are you doing?”
Saints associated with affability are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother.
Language Arts
Unit 1 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Phonics and spelling for ch and tch, spelling memory words, grammar and spelling with pronouns, comprehension check, and spelling test and phonics review of ch.
Spelling Words: chip, lunch, inch, chop, bunch, ranch, branch, pinch, chick, and check
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, listen to grade level informational text, determine the meaning of key vocabulary words, practice reading fluently.
Writing: Writing a list of things we have done, selecting a topic for a personal narrative, drawing and writing about something we did, and editing for capitalization and end marks.
Author Study: Tomi dePaola
Mathematics
Number Corner for September: The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0-30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students will use a variety of models this month that will help them work in groups of 2, 5, and 10. Students review the concept of unitizing; that is, thinking of 10 items as a single unit called a ten.
Bridges: 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.
First Grade Weekly Update September 1st-5th
Weekly Syllabus: September 1st-5th, 2025
Reminders
We have had another great week of school. We are listening and following directions and working neatly. I am so impressed with how this class has learned our new procedures and routines so quickly!!!
No school on Monday, September 1st in observance of Labor Day.
Tuesday, September 2nd is the first full day of First Grade.
Religion
We will be learning about the different parts of the mass and the items inside the church and what they are used for such as the candles, stained glass windows, altar, ambo and so on.
Virtue of the month: Affability-Affability fall under the cardinal virtue of Justice. Justice is the cardinal virtue that perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and church.
Affability means to being easy to approach and easy to talk to-friendly.
Ways to Cultivate: Smile; greet people-”How are you doing?”
Saints associated with affability are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother.
Language Arts
Review Unit
Word Work: Letter and letter sounds in addition to writing the letters for: Ff, Ww, Nn, Hh, Rr, Bb, Mm, Pp, Vv, Kk, associate ck with the k sound, work on all short vowel sounds, use and understand nouns, verbs and plural s, and use beginning capitalization and end marks in sentences.
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, listen to grade level informational text, determine the meaning of key vocabulary words, practice reading fluently.
Memory Words: for, you, like, to, of, and no
Writing: Write verbs to complete sentences, write different types of sentences (declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative), and use adjectives and prepositional phases to add details to sentences.
Author Study: Tomi dePaola
Mathematics
September Number Corner: The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0 to 30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students use a wide variety of models this month that will help them work in groups of 2, 5, and 10. Students review the concept of unitizing; that is, thinking of 10 items as a single unit called a ten.
Bridges: we will be focusing on Module 2- working with the Number Rack. The five sessions in this module are designed to solidify students’ number sense to 10 and provide early work with facts to 10. Students explore number combinations for 5 and 10 in contexts that help them become familiar with fact families and also elicit higher forms of mathematical thinking. The models support students to visualize numbers, number relationships, and number combinations. They also promote development of strategies that will eventually lead to mastery of basic addition and subtraction facts.
Social Studies
We will begin our unit on communities and how rules and laws keep us safe.
First Grade Weekly Update August 25th-29th
Weekly Syllabus: August 25th-29th, 2025
Reminders:
We had a wonderful first week of school!!! We played some games and got to know one another and worked on some reading, writing, and math. Next week continues to be a 1:00 dismissal except for Friday, August 29th which will be a noon dismissal. Next week we will begin our normal routines and procedures.
The first couple of weeks of school are mostly review. I will be sending homework home on Monday, August 25th and it will be due that same week on Friday, August 29th in the homework folder. This week the only thing they will need to turn in is the Reading Log. I will also be sending home the prayers to practice. You can keep these at home to refer to.
Tuesday, August 26th is July/August Birthday Free Dress
Thursday, August 28th is Back to School Night-I hope to see you all there!
Religion:
We will begin with Chapter 1 The Bible. Students will explore God’s Word to us, discover what the Bible tells us about God, discover that the Bible helps us follow Jesus, explore ways to be a faithful and loyal follower of Jesus, and reflect and pray with Scripture.
Virtue of the month: Affability-affability means being easy to approach and easy to talk to-friendly.
Ways to Cultivate: Smile; greet people-”How are you doing?”
Saints associated with affability are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother.
Language Arts-Review Unit
Work Work
Handwriting and phonics Dd/d/, Cc/k/, Gg/g/, Oo/o/,Ll/l/, Ss/s/, Tt/t/, Aa/a/,Ff/f/, Ww/w/, Nn/n/, Ii/i/, Mm/m/, Pp/p/Vv/v/, Kk/k/, Uu/u/
Reading
| Develop fluent reading with repeated reading of a story, use beginning and ending capitalization when reading, understand and use singular and plural nouns, retell key details of a literary text, understand characters, describe and compare characters, connect ideas: compare and contrast, understand events, recognize problem and solution, know the meaning of vocabulary words (cabin, proud, loose, tied, hollers, ranger, lend a had, blast, set, vet, mend, and clinic), and know Words to Know (adventures)WritingDrawing and labeling self portraits, drawing and labeling a picture of something important in their life,using temporary inventive spelling, reviewing types of sentences, and adding nouns to completesentences.August/September Author Study: Each month in First Grade we focus on one Author. Our Author for August/September is Tomi dePaola. Thomas Anthony “Tomie” dePaola was an American writer and illustrator who created more than 260 children’s books, such as Strega Nona. He received the Children’s Literature Legacy Award for his lifetime contribution to American children’s literature in 2011. |
Mathematics
September Number Corner: (we will begin this in September) The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0 to 30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students use a wide variety of models this month that will help them work in groups of 2, 5, and 10. Students review the concept of unitizing; that is, thinking of 10 items as a single unit called a ten.
Bridges Module 1-Unit 1-We are working to count and organize popsicle sticks. Students are practicing counting forwards and backwards by 1s, 2s, and 5s on the number line and then exploring simple counting patterns on a hundreds grid. They will also express personal preferences as data on a chart and discuss patterns in the data.
Social Studies
We will begin to focus on communities and how rules and laws keep us safe.
First Grade Weekly Update May 26th-30th
Weekly Syllabus: May 26th-30th, 2025
Reminders
Monday, May 26th is the Memorial Day Holiday. No School!
Tuesday, May 27th is the 8th Grade Ribbon Ceremony from 1:00-1:30
Friday, May 30th is the Baccalaureate Mass @ 10:00 and 8th Grade Graduation @ 5:00
Religion
We with be finishing our Family Life unit. Unit 5 God’s Gift of Community Lesson 9 I Have Many Families and Lesson 10 Family Peace.
Virtue of the month: Patience is within the virtue of Fortitude which enables one to endure difficulties for the sake of what is good. Patience means to bear present difficulties calmly. When I am angered or inconvenienced in any way patience gives me the grace to respond with kindness so that I don’t waste any of the opportunities to grow in love.
The saint associated with this virtue is: St. Gianna Molla
Language Arts
Unit 16 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Identify, decode, and read tag along e words (house, tease, mouse), read and write homophones and homographs, understand and use verbs and adjectives in poetry,
Spelling Words: raise, leave, noise, house, please, live, eight, old, hold, and write
Reading: Develop fluent reading, understand story structure and text features, draw conclusions and make predictions, summarize, and compare and contrast.
Writing: Poems/Memorable events and favorite things
Author Study: Mo Willems
Mathematics
Number Corner for May: Activities in May focus on numbers up to 120, with students working with the number grid for addition and subtraction in both the Calendar Grid and Computational Fluency workouts, and practicing forward and backward counting by 10s off the decade during the Number Line workout. The Calendar Collector encourages students to extend their concepts about fractions to quarters and dollars by thinking of a quarter as one-fourth of a dollar. They collect a quarter a day and group the quarters into dollars to see how many dollars they can collect before the end of the school year. Counting the days in school continues this month with an eye toward 200 and also summer vacation.
Bridges: Unit 8 Module 3 offers a full-fledged science project: students learn to fold and fly simple paper gliders, construct Unifix cube trains to measure flight distances, and create tally charts to show the flight data collected by the entire class. The teacher then invites students to modify their original gliders or make new ones with the intent of improving their flight distances. They collect and analyze a second round of data to see whether or not their glider modifications made any difference. These six sessions put into play a great deal of math and science, including concepts of change in location.
First Grade Weekly Update May 19th-23rd
Weekly Syllabus: May 19th-23rd, 2025
Reminders
Tuesday, May 20th is May & June Birthday Free Dress
Wednesday, May 21st is our Spring Concert from 7-8 in the church.
Friday, May 23th is the last day for our Midway Shelter service learning collection. It is also a minimum day dismissal.
Friday, May 23rd is the Schoolwide Emergency Dismissal Drill
Monday, May 26th is the Memorial Day Holiday. No School!
Religion
We will continue with our Family Life Unit.
Virtue of the month: Patience is within the virtue of Fortitude which enables one to endure difficulties for the sake of what is good. Patience means to bear present difficulties calmly. When I am angered or inconvenienced in any way patience gives me the grace to respond with kindness so that I don’t waste any of the opportunities to grow in love.
The saint associated with this virtue is: St. Gianna Molla
Language Arts
Unit 16 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify oo sounds, read and write words with oo, use superlative adjectives, understand and use homophones eight/ate, and write/right.
Spelling Words: moon, spoon, room, broom, book, took, shook, hood, wood, and stood
Reading: Develop fluent reading, read with natural phrasing, draw conclusions, recognize plot problems and solutions, identify main topic and key details, and understand authors purpose.
Writing: Poetry
Author Study: Mo Willems
Mathematics
Number Corner for May: Activities in May focus on numbers up to 120, with students working with the number grid for addition and subtraction in both the Calendar Grid and Computational Fluency workouts, and practicing forward and backward counting by 10s off the decade during the Number Line workout. The Calendar Collector encourages students to extend their concepts about fractions to quarters and dollars by thinking of a quarter as one-fourth of a dollar. They collect a quarter a day and group the quarters into dollars to see how many dollars they can collect before the end of the school year. Counting the days in school continues this month with an eye toward 200 and also summer vacation.
Bridges: Unit 8 Module 3 offers a full-fledged science project: students learn to fold and fly simple paper gliders, construct Unifix cube trains to measure flight distances, and create tally charts to show the flight data collected by the entire class. The teacher then invites students to modify their original gliders or make new ones with the intent of improving their flight distances. They collect and analyze a second round of data to see whether or not their glider modifications made any difference. These six sessions put into play a great deal of math and science, including concepts of change in location.