First Grade Weekly Update March 10th-14th
Weekly Syllabus: March 10th-14th, 2025
Reminders
Saturday, March 15th is our school auction. Hope to see you there!
Religion
We continue to work on our Lent Lapbooks and Stations of the Cross. Continue to do acts of kindness and turn in the grapes and leaves.
Virtue of the month: Circumspection- Circumspection falls under the virtue of Prudence which enables one to reason and to act rightly in any given situation.
Circumspection is the careful consideration of the circumstances and one’s options to determine the best course of action. For example: I think before I act and ask for advice when making important decisions as well as praying to ask for God’s guidance.
Saints associated with this virtue are: Blessed Miguel Pro, St. John Baptist de la Salle, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, and St. Edmond Campion.
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
Author Study: Marc Brown
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 6is tightly focused on addition and subtraction to 20. During this unit, first graders continue to develop fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 10 and strategies for working with facts to 20. Students make extensive use of the number rack to model and solve number combinations and story problems of all types. In the process, they learn how to write and solve equations that involve unknowns in all positions and determine whether addition and subtraction equations are true or false.
Bridges Unit 6 Module 1-During these five sessions, students review combinations of 10, Add Ten, Add Nine, and Doubles. They also investigate three strategies useful in working with subtraction combinations to 20: taking away, finding the difference, and using familiar addition facts to help solve related subtraction facts.
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.