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.