Week of May 11th-15th
May 12th: Field Day (Dress in Athletic clothes)
Last week of school:
Students can dress in their favorite summer vacation attire. We’ll kick off the week by creating Summer Bucket Lists, enjoying popsicles and bubbles outside, and building boats to test in water. It’s a great way to start the week with creativity and fun! For this day we would love some extra materials such as toilet/paper towel rolls, popsicle sticks, plastic cups,straws, pipe cleaners,etc. If you have these lying around we would love to collect them by Friday May 15th.
This will be a special day where students get to pick extra choices and fun activities. It’s a free dress day, and we are hoping to visit Parrish Park for some outdoor fun (weather permitting). More details to come!
Students can dress to impress for our Star Awards ceremony. This is a half day and our final day of school. We’ll celebrate with a class party, reflect on memories from the year, and recognize each student’s accomplishments.
May 22nd: Dress of Choice and last day of school (Dismissal 11:30)
Knowledge/Skills (Reading and Writing): Skills Unit 7
Vowel spellings are the trickiest part of the English spelling code. Most vowel sounds can be spelled several different ways. This means that vowel sounds are hard to spell. For example, to spell the sound /ae/, a student has to not only be able to hear the /ae/ sound but also select the correct spelling from several alternatives.
It is no wonder that many students struggle to decode vowel spellings when reading—and struggle even more mightily to spell vowel sounds when writing. The difficulty is embedded in the English writing system. However, the orderly and systematic way in which the vowel spellings are introduced in this unit and in later grades will help students cope with the complexity of English vowel spellings and lead to significantly stronger reading and spelling skills.
In this unit the focus is on two of the so-called “long” vowel sounds, /ae/ and /oe/. Students will review the basic code spelling for each sound and then learn common spelling alternatives:
- /ae/ spelled ‘a_e’ (review), ‘ai’, ‘ay’ (new)
- /oe/ spelled ‘o_e’ (review), ‘oa’ (new)
Spelling Words:
- classmate
- who
- playground
- airplane
- brainstorm
- layer
- gain
- railway
- This domain will introduce students to fairy tales that have been favorites with children for generations. Students will learn about the elements of fairy tales that distinguish them as a unique type of fiction that still has the elements of character, plot, and setting that are found in other types of fiction. Reading these fairy tales will help first-grade students develop a strong foundation for the understanding of other fictional stories in later grades.
First Grade Daily Schedule
