Weekly Newsletter
Here you will receive information such as academic and activity updates, parent volunteer opportunities as well as a few photos from our weekly classroom fun. Please take the time each week to read through the 'newsletter' page and 'links' page to ensure you don't miss anything.
send a water bottle.
With winter weather here, please make sure your child has the appropriate outdoor weather attire. We will go out for recess unless the “feels like” temp is less than 20 degrees.
Unit 8: Week 3
Weekly Concept: Look to the Sky
Essential Question: “What do you see in the sky?”
Listening Comprehension: - Bringing Down the Moon
Oral Vocabulary: space, distance, challenge, surface, recognize
Interactive Read-aloud: “A View”- Informational Text
Shared Reading: “Up,Up, Up!”- Fiction
Phonics: u,g,w,x
Writing Trait: Sentence Fluency
Grammar: Sentences with prepositions
I, can, the, we, see, a, like, did, it, to, will, run, and, in, find, go, under, eat, you, do, down, say,
big, one, that, my well, please, are, ran, but, he, with, all, is, little, over, be, away, jump, for, have, get, of, they, so, said, want, am, here, me, our, this, what, make, soon, now
Core Knowledge:
Science, History, and Geography
Science
This month we will be learning about plants. Our topics will include what
plants need to grow, the basic parts of a plant, what plants require and the
food they provide for us. Students will be exposed to vocabulary words like
deciduous, evergreen, flower, leaf, photosynthesis, plant, root, seed and
stem. We will also be learning about George Washington Carver, who was
an American agricultural scientist and inventor. We will be focusing on the
many uses he found for the peanut.
Monthly Character Trait:
March: Compassion
April: Teamwork
May: Respect
Hand Writing:
- Students will continue to work on writing sentences.
- We will continue to work on correct letter formation and pencil grasp
- Students will complete sentences with capital letters and finger spacing, using their sight words.
Saxon Math:
We have been working in our First Grade Math books. The first few lessons will have us focusing on ordering sets by identifying a set by the number of objects and comparing sets by having more or less. Students will make towers to represent numbers 1 - 20 and ordering numbers 0-9. We are working on adding doubles, adding one and will soon move on to mixed addition problems. We have been working recognizing odd and even
numbers, counting by 2’s and measuring with non- standard units. We will
continue to work on recognizing coins and using different coins to make
the value we need. This is a tough concept and would be great to practice
at home. Students are working on adding doubles to 20 and adding ones. We continue to learn
how to use pictures to represent objects in story problems. We are also working on
odd and even numbers. Below is our doubles poem that we practice daily. See if your
student can say it!
Below is our doubles poem that we practice daily. See if your student can say it!
Doubles Rap! Doubles, doubles, I can add doubles! 1 through 10 is no trouble!
0 + 0 = 0 …Oh!
1 + 1 = 2 …Oooo
2 + 2 = 4 …More
3 + 3 = 6 …Kicks
4 + 4 = 8 …That’s great!
5 + 5 = 10 …Again
6 + 6 = 12 …That’s swell!
7 + 7 = 14 …Let’s lean
8 + 8 = 16 …Know what I mean
9 + 9 = 18 …Jellybean
10 + 10 = 20 …That’s plenty!
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Saxon Math (additional)
- We will be working on writing numbers 0-20 as well as our Calendar routine and learn number poems that correspond to the number.
- 1 - One is fun
- 2 - Around and back on a railroad track
- 3- Around a tree, around a tree that's how we make a number 3
- 4- Down and over and down some more that's how we make the number 4
- 5- Down and around but then don't stop, we have to put a hat on top - silly old 5
- 6- Make a hoop and then a loop
- 7- Across the sky ad down from heaven, that's how you make a number 7
- 8 - Make and S but don't be late, hurry up close up the gate, that's how you make a number 8
- 9 - Make a circle then a line, that's how you make a number 9
- 10 - a number one and a big, fat hen, that's how you make the number 10
Character Trait:
This month we will focus on teaching our students all about Respect
students will have their picture taken.
● March 29th - Dress of Choice day
● March 30th- 8:30-11am Bunny Hop 5K & Egg hunt AVA field
● April 19th- No School Teacher Plan Day
● May 21st- Field Day (PreK, K-2)