First Grade Weekly Update April 22nd-26th
Weekly Syllabus: April 22nd-26th, 2024
Reminders
Tuesday, April 23rd is April Birthday Free Dress.
Wednesday, April 24th is a 12:00 dismissal for Faculty and Staff Professional Development.
Friday, April 26th is Spirit Day-Sports Theme
Religion
Chapter 11 We Follow Jesus-Students will explore what it means to share the Good News with others, discover the meaning of the word Gospel, and learn that we share the Gospel with everyone.
Language Arts
Unit 14 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Associate oi and oy with /oi/, decoding and encoding oi and oy words, Introduce Unit 14 Words to Know (attract, guide, and flexible), Adverbs with -ly, Check understanding of a story, Spelling: oil, boil, soil, coin, join, point, joint, joy, toy, and boy.
Reading: Guide fluency practice with a literary text, Introduce Memory Words (kind, buy, find, right, wash, and light), Fluency and Comprehension, Discuss characters’ motivations, multiple meanings of right, kind, and light, and Understand main ideas of an informational text
Writing: Animal Reports
Mathematics
Number Corner: April brings opportunities to review and extend many mathematical concepts addressed this year in Number Corner. For example, the Calendar Grid reviews fractions by folding geometric shapes, encourages students to define the shapes by attributes, and introduces line symmetry. During Calendar Collector students collect Popsicle sticks that they estimate, bundle into 10s and 1s, represent with tally marks, and use to measure and compare the length of classroom objects. Each of the number family patterns the students have met this year reappear in a 1–120 number grid, and students discover that familiar computational strategies for single-digit numbers can also be used to solve equations with double-digit decade numbers.
We will continue with Bridges Unit 5 Module 1: Module 1 focuses completely on two-dimensional shapes, particularly those found in the pattern blocks (triangles, trapezoids, squares, hexagons, and rhombuses), plus rectangles. The work with shapes includes comparing, distinguishing defining attributes from non-defining, and developing problem-solving strategies. Students use pattern blocks to create composite shapes and solve puzzles, and practice drawing the shapes each day.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update April 15th-19th
Weekly Syllabus: April 15th-19th, 2024
Reminders
Saturday, April 20th is the Celebration of the Arts from 11:00-2:00.
Religion
Chapter 10 Signs of God’s Love. Students will explore how we can be lights in the world for others, discover the Sacraments and the effect of the Sacraments of Baptism, and decide how we can a light in the world with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Language Arts
Unit 13 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Associate er, ir, and ur with the er sound. Learn about the trickers ar, or, and ear that also say er, and recognize and use synonyms
Spelling words: bird, third, turn, burn, cold, know, does, laugh, both, and again
Reading: Read memory words fluently (cold, know, does, laugh, both, and again), practice reading at an appropriate rate, listen to and read grade level informational text, understand and draw conclusions about characters and their feelings, and recognize and understand job names ending in er and or.
Writing: We are working on our animal reports.
Mathematics
Number Corner: April brings opportunities to review and extend many mathematical concepts addressed this year in Number Corner. For example, the Calendar Grid reviews fractions by folding geometric shapes, encourages students to define the shapes by attributes, and introduces line symmetry. During Calendar Collector students collect Popsicle sticks that they estimate, bundle into 10s and 1s, represent with tally marks, and use to measure and compare the length of classroom objects. Each of the number family patterns the students have met this year reappear in a 1–120 number grid, and students discover that familiar computational strategies for single-digit numbers can also be used to solve equations with double-digit decade numbers.
We will begin Bridges Unit 5 Module 1: Module 1 focuses completely on two‑dimensional shapes, particularly those found in the pat‑ tern blocks (triangles, trapezoids, squares, hexagons, and rhombuses), plus rectangles. The work with shapes includes comparing, distinguishing defining attributes from non-defining, and developing problem-solving strategies. Students use pattern blocks to create composite shapes and solve puzzles, and practice drawing the shapes each day.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update March 25th-29th
Weekly Syllabus: March, 25th-29th, 2024
Reminders
Sunday March 31st is Easter Sunday. Enjoy your break with family and friends! Blessings for a Happy Easter!!!
Wednesday, March 27th is a noon dismissal and there is no school on Thursday, March 28th (Holy Thursday) and Friday, March 29th (Good Friday).
Religion
Praying the Jelly Bean prayer and reflecting on the Stations of the Cross.
Language Arts
No spelling words
We will finish our unit from last week.
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 4: The mathematical focus of Module 4 is measurement, comparing and ordering two-digit numbers, writing inequality statements, finding differences, and working on a number line. In the context of a pretend trip to Antarctica, students get their heights measured for snowsuits and graph the results. The class records height and other data for two types of penguins: the rockhopper and the king. Students make measuring strips and strings and use them to order and compare the numbers and find differences.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update March 18th-22nd
Weekly Syllabus: March 18th-22nd, 2024
Reminders
Tuesday, March 19th is birthday free dress.
Friday, March 22nd is a Spirit Day-Disney
Religion
We continue to focus on Lent
Language Arts
Unit 12 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Associate aw with the short o sound, decode aw words, read a story with aw words, determine the number of syllables in words, decode difficult words from an informational text, encode aw words, spell memory words, understand and use the conjunctions because and and, and understand and use adjectives and precise verbs.
Spelling Words: law, saw, dawn, lawn, crawl, come, coming, they, our, and put
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read a story with expression, read memory words with automaticity, read and discuss a grade level informational text, identify main idea, retell key details, connect ideas with cause and effect, compare and contrast two texts.
Writing: Descriptive Writing
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 4: The mathematical focus of Module 4 is measurement, comparing and ordering two-digit numbers, writing inequality statements, finding differences, and working on a number line. In the context of a pretend trip to Antarctica, students get their heights measured for snowsuits and graph the results. The class records height and other data for two types of penguins: the rockhopper and the king. Students make measuring strips and strings and use them to order and compare the numbers and find differences.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update March 11th-15th
Weekly Syllabus: March 11th-15th, 2024
Reminders
Friday, March 15th is a noon dismissal day.
Religion
We continue to work on our Lent Lapbooks and Stations of the Cross.
Language Arts
Unit 12 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify words with the all sound, read stories with the all sound, encode words with the all sound, understand and use adjectives, understand and use precise verbs, and combine sentences using the conjunction and.
Spelling Words: call, mall, small, stall, wall, baseball, basketball, hallway, fallen, and taller
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand text structure (beginning, middle, and end), draw conclusions with text support, identify key details, identify main topic and retell key details, and understand and use Words to Know (puzzled, collapse, steep, and system)
Writing: Descriptive Writing
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 3: The third module continues to develop students’ conceptual understanding of our number system through explorations with open and closed number lines. In particular, it focuses on skip-jumps along the number line in multiples of 5 and 10. Students have fun guiding frogs that hop over stones and lily pads, racing along number lines both forward and backward in distances of 1, 5, and 10, and develop confidence adding and subtracting in multiples of 5 and 10 both on and off the decade.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update March 4th-8th
Weekly Syllabus: March 4th-8th, 2024
Reminders
Friday, March 8th report cards will be going home.
Please check out the Enrichment Classes Newsletter.
Weekly Syllabus: March 4th-8th, 2024
Reminders
Friday, March 8th report cards will be going home.
Please check out the Enrichment classes Newsletter for February
Religion
We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross and working on our Lent Lapbooks.
Language Arts
Unit 11 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Decode long vowel trickers, read and decode a story with long vowel trickers, recognize spelling patterns for long vowel trickers, spell memory words (their, now, always, because, and been), understand and use synonyms, and understand and use “try short, try long” strategies.
Spelling Words: paper, even, silent, open, super, their, now, always, because, and been
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read with appropriate stress, identify main idea and retell key details, give support of an opinion, compare and contrast two reader stories, identify topic of informational text, and discuss the main ideas and details of an informational text.
Writing: Opinion Writing
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 2: In Module 2, students work on the number line as they continue to develop a rich sense of numbers and number relationships. This engaging module challenges students’ reasoning abilities as they work to determine the value of empty number boxes placed strategically on the open number line. Students help frogs move across stones on a number line in jumps that include multiples of 5 and 10, tell stories about the frogs’ actions, and record equations to match.
Social Studies
We will begin our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
Religion
We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross and working on our Lent Lapbooks.
Language Arts
Unit 11 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Decode long vowel trickers, read and decode a story with long vowel trickers, recognize spelling patterns for long vowel trickers, spell memory words (their, now, always, because, and been), understand and use synonyms, and understand and use “try short, try long” strategies.
Spelling Words: paper, even, silent, open, super, their, now, always, because, and been
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read with appropriate stress, identify main idea and retell key details, give support of an opinion, compare and contrast two reader stories, identify topic of informational text, and discuss the main ideas and details of an informational text.
Writing: Opinion Writing
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 2: In Module 2, students work on the number line as they continue to develop a rich sense of numbers and number relationships. This engaging module challenges students’ reasoning abilities as they work to determine the value of empty number boxes placed strategically on the open number line. Students help frogs move across stones on a number line in jumps that include multiples of 5 and 10, tell stories about the frogs’ actions, and record equations to match.
Social Studies
We will begin our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update February 26th-March 1st
Weekly Syllabus: February 26th-March 1st, 2024
Reminders
Continue to work on the Lenten homework and do kind acts for others.
Religion
We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross and working on our Lent Lapbooks.
Language Arts
Unit 11 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Decode/encode and recognize spelling patterns for contractions with pronouns, decode homophones (it’s its, their there, you’re your), and recognize and spell memory words (their, now, always, because, and been).
Spelling Words: I’m, he’s, she’s, it’s, we’re, you’re, I’ll, he’ll, she’ll, and you’ll
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated reading of a story, read a story with appropriate volume, read and discuss a grade-level literary and informational text, identify the lessons a story teaches, recognize problem and solution, and identify the main topic and key details of a literary and informational text.
Writing: Answer questions about a text using story evidence.
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 2: In Module 2, students work on the number line as they continue to develop a rich sense of numbers and number relationships. This engaging module challenges students’ reasoning abilities as they work to determine the value of empty number boxes placed strategically on the open number line. Students help frogs move across stones on a number line in jumps that include multiples of 5 and 10, tell stories about the frogs’ actions, and record equations to match.
Social Studies
We will begin our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
First Grade Weekly Update February 19th-23rd
Weekly Syllabus: February 19th-23rd, 2024
Reminders
Tuesday, February 20th is February birthday free dress.
Saturday, February 24th is our school auction. I hope to see all of you there!
Religion
We will be focusing on Lent
Language Arts
Unit 10 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Changing y to i before adding -er and -est endings, practice adding -er and -est endings to -y words, guide practice with comparative and superlative adjectives, review spelling patterns: ai, ay for /ā/.
Spelling Words: say, may, play, happier, happiest, down, too, work, many, and first
Reading: Guide fluency practice for the Superkids Short, Review Unit 10 Words to Know, identify sequence of events in a literary text, discuss characters in a literary text, identify picture-text relationships in an informational text, discuss the author’s purpose for writing either a literary or informational text.
Writing: Explanatory Writing: Revising a how-to text by adding details
February Number Corner: The arrival of the tenth decade, the 100th day of school, makes February an exciting month. Both the Days in School and Number Line workouts pay tribute to this special number. The Computational Fluency workout brings focus on multiple addends, and students use a variety of efficient strategies to compose groups flexibly. In addition to the numeration work, students name and describe pairs of two-dimensional shapes shown on the Calendar Grid markers and determine whether or not the shapes in each pair are congruent.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 1: Module 1 works to familiarize students with the number line as a mathematical model and an operational tool. Students use a life-sized number line to locate and identify numbers, and to begin to model addition and subtraction problems. Later they play a game in which they help a frog jump along a number line. In addition to helping students develop confidence with the number line as a computational tool, the activity helps deepen their understanding about the relationship between addition and subtraction.
We will be focusing on the NGSS Science Standard: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Students will:
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 February 12th-16th
Weekly Syllabus: February 12th-16th, 2024
Reminders
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated on February 13th this year. Students will bring in their Valentines on this day to pass out to their classmates.
Wednesday, February 14th is Ash Wednesday. We will have all school mass at 9:30. All are invited to attend.
Friday, February 16th is a noon dismissal day. No school on Monday, February 19th in observances of Presidents’ Day.
Religion
We will be focusing on Lent. Please look closely at the homework this week. There are some Lenten activities for families to do together to focus on praying more, almsgiving, and fasting.
Language Arts
Unit 10 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Associate y with /ī/, associate y with /ē/, distinguish between y/ī/ and y/ē/, associate ay with /ā/, Memory Words (down, too, work, many, and first), and -y as an ending for adjectives.
Spelling Words: by, fly, cry, try, belly, jelly, smelly, bunny, funny, and sunny
Reading: Fluency practice with a literary text, Words to Know (produce, plenty. disturb), identify sequence of events, identify setting, recognize text features, make predictions, understand main idea and key details, and draw conclusions.
Writing: Explanatory Writing: How to…
Mathematics
February Number Corner: The arrival of the tenth decade, the 100th day of school, makes February an exciting month. Both the Days in School and Number Line workouts pay tribute to this special number. The Computational Fluency workout brings focus on multiple addends, and students use a variety of efficient strategies to compose groups flexibly. In addition to the numeration work, students name and describe pairs of two-dimensional shapes shown on the Calendar Grid markers and determine whether or not the shapes in each pair are congruent.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 1: Module 1 works to familiarize students with the number line as a mathematical model and an operational tool. Students use a life-sized number line to locate and identify numbers, and to begin to model addition and subtraction problems. Later they play a game in which they help a frog jump along a number line. In addition to helping students develop confidence with the number line as a computational tool, the activity helps deepen their understanding about the relationship between addition and subtraction.
We will be focusing on the NGSS Science Standard: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Students will:
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 February 5th-9th
Weekly Syllabus: February 5th-9th, 2024
Reminders
We have our field trip to the Oakland Zoo on Tuesday, February 6th. Students can wear jeans and their uniform shirt. They also need to bring a lunch.
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Religion
Chapter 10 Signs of God’s Love. Students will explore how we can be lights in the world, discover the Sacraments and the effects of the Sacrament of Baptism, and how they can be a light in the world with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Language Arts
Unit 9 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Decode irregular n’t contractions, read a story with irregular n’t contractions, decode words with er and est endings, recognize and spell words with irregular n’t contractions, and form irregular contractions.
Spelling Words: can’t, won’t, don’t, boy, girl, two, four, about, over, and before
Reading: Read memory words fluently, read and discuss grade level literary and informational text, understand character, plot, and draw conclusions, and discuss text structure-sequence of events.
Writing: Add to and revise Personal Narratives.
Mathematics
Number Corner February: The arrival of the tenth decade, the 100th day of school, makes February an exciting month. Both the Days in School and Number Line workouts pay tribute to this special number. The Computational Fluency workout brings focus on multiple addends, and students use a variety of efficient strategies to compose groups flexibly. In addition to the numeration work, students name and describe pairs of two-dimensional shapes shown on the Calendar Grid markers and determine whether or not the shapes in each pair are congruent.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 1: Module 1 works to familiarize students with the number line as a mathematical model and an operational tool. Students use a life-sized number line to locate and identify numbers, and to begin to model addition and subtraction problems. Later they play a game in which they help a frog jump along a number line. In addition to helping students develop confidence with the number line as a computational tool, the activity helps deepen their understanding about the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Science
We will be focusing on the NGSS Science Standard: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Students will:
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.