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.