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First Grade Weekly Update September 16th-20th

Weekly Syllabus: September 16th-20th, 2024

Reminders

Tuesday, September 17th is September birthday free dress.

Saturday, September 21st is the Fun Fair-hope to see you there!

Religion

We will start 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.

Language Arts

Unit 1 Lessons 1-5

Word Work: Phonics and spelling for ch and tch, spelling memory words, grammar and spelling with pronouns, comprehension check, and spelling test and phonics review of ch.

Spelling Words: chip, lunch, inch, chop, bunch, ranch, branch, pinch, chick, and check

Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, listen to grade level informational text, determine the meaning of key vocabulary words, practice reading fluently.

Writing: Writing a list of things we have done, selecting a topic for a personal narrative, drawing and writing about something we did, and editing 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: Unit 1 Module 3: In this module students engage in “quick look” activities intended to help them subitize, or recognize the quantity of objects in a set without having to count each individually. Students also explore part-part-whole relationships with numbers to 20. These explorations include work with equations in which an unknown variable might be in any one of three positions. The last session introduces length measurement with nonstandard units.

Social Studies

We will continue with Being Good Citizens in our homes, schools, and communities.

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