First Grade Weekly Update September 1st-5th
Weekly Syllabus: September 1st-5th, 2025
Reminders
We have had another great week of school. We are listening and following directions and working neatly. I am so impressed with how this class has learned our new procedures and routines so quickly!!!
No school on Monday, September 1st in observance of Labor Day.
Tuesday, September 2nd is the first full day of First Grade.
Religion
We will be learning about the different parts of the mass and the items inside the church and what they are used for such as the candles, stained glass windows, altar, ambo and so on.
Virtue of the month: Affability-Affability fall under the cardinal virtue of Justice. Justice is the cardinal virtue that perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and church.
Affability means to being easy to approach and easy to talk to-friendly.
Ways to Cultivate: Smile; greet people-”How are you doing?”
Saints associated with affability are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother.
Language Arts
Review Unit
Word Work: Letter and letter sounds in addition to writing the letters for: Ff, Ww, Nn, Hh, Rr, Bb, Mm, Pp, Vv, Kk, associate ck with the k sound, work on all short vowel sounds, use and understand nouns, verbs and plural s, and use beginning capitalization and end marks in sentences.
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, listen to grade level informational text, determine the meaning of key vocabulary words, practice reading fluently.
Memory Words: for, you, like, to, of, and no
Writing: Write verbs to complete sentences, write different types of sentences (declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative), and use adjectives and prepositional phases to add details to sentences.
Author Study: Tomi dePaola
Mathematics
September Number Corner: The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0 to 30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students use a wide variety of models this month that will help them work in groups of 2, 5, and 10. Students review the concept of unitizing; that is, thinking of 10 items as a single unit called a ten.
Bridges: we will be focusing on Module 2- working with the Number Rack. The five sessions in this module are designed to solidify students’ number sense to 10 and provide early work with facts to 10. Students explore number combinations for 5 and 10 in contexts that help them become familiar with fact families and also elicit higher forms of mathematical thinking. The models support students to visualize numbers, number relationships, and number combinations. They also promote development of strategies that will eventually lead to mastery of basic addition and subtraction facts.
Social Studies
We will begin our unit on communities and how rules and laws keep us safe.