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.