First Grade Weekly Update September 22nd-26th
Weekly Syllabus: September 22nd– 26th, 2025
Reminders
Tomorrow is our annual fun fair. It is from 11-4 here at school. Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, September 24th is a noon dismissal day. Faculty and Staff have Professional Development Day.
Thursday, September 25th is a Spirit Day-Pajama Day
Please use the link to sign up for Parent/Teacher conferences if you have not already done so. Thank you.
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Religion
We will finish up Chapter 2 God Loves Us. Students will explore how followers of Jesus are generous, discover people who help us to know God, learn about God from Jesus and our families, decide on ways to be a kind and generous follower of Jesus, and learn to pray the Sign of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Affability-Affability falls 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 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
Unit 1 Week 2
Word Work: Identify initial and final sh sounds, decode sh words, read and decode a story with sh and ch sounds, decode difficult words from an informational text, use and spell Word Wall words (I me, she, her, he, his), use personal and possessive pronouns, capitalize place names, and use capitalization and end marks to write sentences
Spelling Words: fish, wish, rush, brush, I, my, she, her, he, and his
Reading: Develop fluency reading with repeated readings of a poem, read and discuss a grade-level literary text, listen to and read grade level informational text, connect ideas, know and use text features, comprehension, and recognize text structure.
Writing: Draw and generate ideas before writing, select a topic for a personal narrative, draw and write about something they did at a place they visited, capitalize place names, and edit sentences for capitalization and end marks.
Author Study: Tomi dePaola
Mathematics
Number Corner for September: The workouts in the first month of school focus on counting and recognizing numbers from 0-30, with a special emphasis on understanding that teen numbers are made of 1 ten and some more. Students will use a 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 begin Unit 1 Module 4-The number rack explorations in this module involve part-part-whole relationships, particularly missing-addend and subtraction problems. Students also engage in “quick look” activities to help them subitize quantities to 20, and they add 1 and subtract 1 from those totals. The final session features a post-unit assessment.
Social Studies
We will continue with Being Good Citizens in our homes, schools, and communities.