First Grade Weekly Update October 20th-24th
Weekly Syllabus: October 20th-24th, 2025
Reminders
Our Annual Fund will run from Sunday, October 19th-Friday, November 14th.
Tuesday, October 21st is October birthday free dress.
Friday, October 24th is the last day to turn in items for our Service Learning Project to support the Midway Shelter.
Religion
We will begin Chapter 4 Jesus, the Son of God. Students will explore the birth of Jesus, discover that Jesus is truly God and truly human, learn that Jesus was raised in a human family, decide a way to live as a disciple of Jesus through kindness, and pray by singing a prayer.
Virtue of the month: Responsibility-Responsibility is under the umbrella of Justice. Responsibility means fulfilling our just duties; accepting the consequences of one’s words and actions, intentional and unintentional.
Ways to cultivate responsibility: complete your tasks, admit you are wrong when you have done something wrong, and be accountable for decisions and actions.
Saints associated with responsibility are St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Lawrence, and St. Pius V.
Language Arts
Unit 3 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Identify final le sound, read decodable stories with ng and le, read and decode words from informational text, recognize and spell memory words (do, have, show, how, me, and a), understand and use antonyms, and rhyming words.
Spelling Words: bubble, little, candle, pickle, do, have, show, how, me, and a
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read with natural phrasing, read and discuss grade level literary text, understand plot, problem, and solution, match story events to pictures, and understand and use antonyms.
Writing: Opinion Writing about seasons.
Author Study: Arnold Lobel
Mathematics
Focus for October Number Corner: Ten is the magic number for October, the tenth month of the year. Students compose and decompose the number 10, practice instantly seeing quantities on ten-frames, and learn about “leaps of ten” on the number line. The Calendar Grid features sets of fall pictures to inspire math stories and during the Calendar Collector workout, students collect and count patterns blocks and make a composite shape picture.
Bridges
Bridges Unit 2 Module 2-This module maintains a focus on addition and subtraction strategies and emphasizes solving for an unknown. Students use and make double flap cards to discover the relationship between addition and subtraction, to further explore the commutative property, and to learn to solve for an unknown in any position. They generate equation fact families and story problems. The idea that the equal sign describes a relationship between two quantities that have the same value, rather than indicating “the answer,” is reinforced.
Science: We will begin our unit on Structure, function, and information processing.
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.