First Grade Weekly Update May 12-16

Weekly Syllabus: May 12th-16th, 2025

Reminders

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Sunday, May 11^th is our Family Mass @ 9:00. All are welcome.

Tuesday, May 13^th is our Fun Run. First Grade will be running from 9:25-9:55.

Thursday, May 15^th is Walk and Roll to School Day. You can walk, bike, scoot, skate, or carpool to school and earn a prize. Please check in with SLC upon arrival.

Religion

Family Life-Unit 3 God’s Gift of Life and Unit 4 God’s Gift of Love.

Virtue of the month: Patience is within the virtue of Fortitude which enables one to endure difficulties for the sake of what is good. Patience means to bear present difficulties calmly. When I am angered or inconvenienced in any way patience gives me the grace to respond with kindness so that I don’t waste any of the opportunities to grow in love.

The saint associated with this virtue is: St. Gianna Molla

Language Arts

Unit 15 Lessons 6-10

Word Work: Identify final long o sounds, associate ow with long o, read a decodable story with long o, decode difficult words from an informational text, recognize ow spelling patterns, and write words with ow

Spelling Words: low, blow, grow, slow, snow, warm, walk, once, give, and done

Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated reading of a story, observe end punctuation while reading, understand characters and their feelings, discuss lessons taught in a story, identify the topic of an informational text, compare and contrast texts, understand the author’s purpose and reasons, and understand shades of meaning

Writing: Poetry

Author Study: Mo Willems

Mathematics

Number Corner for May: Activities in May focus on numbers up to 120, with students working with the number grid for addition and subtraction in both the Calendar Grid and Computational Fluency workouts, and practicing forward and backward counting by 10s off the decade during the Number Line workout. The Calendar Collector encourages students to extend their concepts about fractions to quarters and dollars by thinking of a quarter as one-fourth of a dollar. They collect a quarter a day and group the quarters into dollars to see how many dollars they can collect before the end of the school year. Counting the days in school continues this month with an eye toward 200 and also summer vacation.

Bridges Unit 4: We will be going back to Unit 4 to do some measuring! The mathematical focus of Module 4 is measurement, comparing and ordering two-digit numbers, writing inequality statements, finding differences, and working on a number line. In the context of a pretend trip to Antarctica, students get their heights measured for snowsuits and graph the results. The class records height and other data for two types of penguins: the rockhopper and the king. Students make measuring strips and strings and use them to order and compare the numbers and find differences.

What Our Families are Saying

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