First Grade Weekly Update October 27th-31st
Weekly Syllabus: October 27th-October 31st, 2025
Reminders
We will celebrate Halloween on Friday, October 31th. The parade will begin at 8:15. It is also a 12:00 dismissal day.
Students may wear their costumes, but are not allowed to bring weapons or wear masks. Students also need to be dressed appropriately (when in doubt, please refer to the handbook for free dress guidelines).
If you haven’t already done so, please consider a donation to the Annual Fund.
Religion
We will continue with 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 4 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify final er sound, encode er words, recognize er and ed spelling patterns, introduce and spell Memory Words (look, your, the, was, are, and for), and understand and use passed tense verbs.
Spelling words: after, never, better, winter, summer, rested, twisted, planted, printed, and acted
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand characters, text structure, and sequence, listen to and read complex informational text, understand Words to Know (project, interesting, and constructed)
Writing: Discuss narrative writing, select a topic for narrative writing, plan a personal narrative, write a story based on a plan, and edit
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.
The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 3 is on developing adding and subtraction strategies, particularly doubling, counting on, and counting back to solve combinations within 12. Students work with the number rack and then learn games in which they add, subtract, and record their results on graphs. Students who are still counting by 1s to add and subtract are encouraged to count on and count back instead, and those who have moved beyond counting by 1s are encouraged to develop strategies that make use of well-known facts to solve less familiar combinations.
Science: We will continue 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.