First Grade Weekly Update January 6th-10th

Weekly Syllabus: January 6^th-10^th, 2025

Reminders

Welcome back and happy new year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing break.

Religion

Chapter 7 The Holy Spirit, Our Helper-Students will explore how the Holy Spirit is our special teacher, discover how the Holy Spirit helps and teaches us and helps us, and how to make good choices with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Language Arts

Unit 7 Lessons 6-10

Word Work: Decode CVCe words with ing and ed endings, recognize spelling patterns for CVCe words with ing and ed endings, read a decodable story with CVCe words with endings, understand how to use interjections and abbreviations.

Spelling Words: baking, baked, smiling, smiled, oh, any, day, good very, and want

Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read and discuss a grade level literary text, understand and discuss characters, make predictions, connect events: cause and effect, make predictions, discuss plot structure (beginning, middle, and end), discuss and record sequence of events, and develop vocabulary.

Writing: Discuss the parts of a friendly letter, discuss ideas for a friendly letter, and write and edit a friendly letter.

Author Study: Laura Numeroff

Mathematics

January Number Corner begins, and students find familiar routines infused with fresh elements. Calendar Grid markers feature single equations and story problems with missing addends, minuends, or subtrahends, and students tell math stories to match the equations and use various strategies to solve for the unknown parts. They return to collecting coins in Calendar Collector and record their collection on a graph. They also learn to use known facts to solve related facts of 1 more or 1 less. Finally, they meet a favorite frog’s little sister and join her in skipping across the number line by 5s as they come within a decade of reaching the 100th day of school.

The focus for Bridges Unit 3 Module 4: Module 4 uses Unifix cubes throughout. Students have opportunities in the first two sessions to write addition expressions and compare equations within the range of 0 to 120. Later in the module, students engage in activities that highlight the “difference model” of subtraction. The final session encourages students to explore part-part-whole relationships to develop and solve subtraction equations in which the subtrahend is missing.

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