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  FIRST GRADE TASTINGS

My “Menu” for January 23-27, 2012

Please keep weekly menu in a special place at home and refer to daily.

Please send money each week for your child’s lunch and ice cream account.

MONDAY:         

TUESDAY:                  Mr. Staples’ class bring library books on Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY:    Mrs. Lear’s  class bring library books on Thursday.

THURSDAY:            Study for spelling test on Friday.

FRIDAY:                        Mrs. Alcoke’s class bring library books on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

SKILLS

English

Math

Science/Social Studies

- participate in a variety of oral language activities  (SOL 1.1c)

-ask and answer: when, why and how questions (SOL 1.9e)

-write to communicate ideas (SOL1.12)

-Use CVC and VC patterns to decode and spell (SOL 1.6f)

- understanding equality through the equals sign (SOL 1.18)

-addition and subtraction (SOL 1.5)

-fractions (SOL1.3)

-place value – (SOL 1.1b)

- winter animals (SOL1.5 &1.7)

 

VOCABULARY WORDS

“A Bed Full of Cats”

  dream         Flora        kittens        Lee        likes        needs      number

  peach          fingers     purr            Lee’s     lamp       moves     newspaper

  Papa            please      thump       we’ll      wiggles   trees        Grandma

  Weeks         sheet        tries          she’ll     silk           wanted    something

HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS

also        moved     should     those     know     only     white

WORD STUDY

     can          pin          sun         run          fan          tan        man

     bun         fun          fin           ran          van         pan       win

     plan        than        thin        grin         skin         chin

 

 

100th Day Celebration

Dear Parents,

 

As part of our math program, we are going the celebrate 100 days of schools.  This should be on January 31, unless the weather causes us to miss school before that date.  Please send 100 small items of the same thing to school in a zip-lock bag on or before  January 30.  Some ideas are :   paper clips, pennies, buttons, beans, etc.

These items will be returned.  Thanks for your help!

 

Sincerely,

 

First Grade Teachers

 

 Snow - Homework Test Policy

If scools are closed due to inclement weather, students should have homework assignments ready to turn in the next day.  If a test is assigned ahead of time, such as a spelling test, it will be given on the scheduled day.  Thank you for your cooperati
 
                                                                        
First Grade Syllabus 

First grade is a time for investigating the world and recognizing our abilities.  Our focus is on reading, creative writing, and mathematics.  We are committed to helping our students become independent lifelong learners.
 
We feel communication between home and school is a vital part of the learning process.  Communication opportunities include Back to School Night, weekly newsletters, report cards, parent/teacher conferences, portfolios, student conferences, teacher observations and journal writing.
 
We have several special theme days in first grade.  These include Author Studies, Bargain Bazaar, Barnyard Day, Beach Day, Bubble Day, Earth Day Celebration, Field Day, Holiday Customs Around the World, Mother's Day Tea, One Hundred Day Celebration, Pet Day and Thanksgiving Feast.

 Language Arts
  • Explore and appreciate books, authors, and illustrators
  • Memorize poems and rhymes
  • Read words, sentences and stories
  • Develop comprehension skills
  • Write ideas, sentences, and stories
  • Record thoughts, ideas, and personal experiences in journals
  • Relate experiences through oral communication
  • Print legibly
  • Understand the need for English grammar and usage
  • Apply phonetic principles to read
 Social Studies
  • Study lives and times of famous Americans, both past and present
  • Use maps, globes, pictures, stories, and timelines to study geography
  • Explain resources of the world: human, natural and capital
  • Identify rules and national symbols
 Science
  • Learn to use reasoning, logic and scientific investigation techniques
  • Investigate teh effects of motion upon an object
  • Explore the interaction of water with common materials
  • Study the life processes of plants and animals
  • Study the needs, characteristics and parts of plants and animals
  • Explore the effects of weather on plants, animals and people
  • Understand basic relationships between the sun and earth
  Math
  • Sort and classify objects
  • Count, recognize and write to 100
  • Count by two's, five's and ten's
  • Add and subtract facts to 18
  • Identify fractions 1/4, 1/2, and 1/3
  • Use different methods of measurement
  • Know values of coins
  • Tell time to hour and half hour
  • Identify two and three dimensional shapes
  • Understand simple graphs
  • Solve number sentences
  • Use verbal explanations of math solutions
 

Teaching Strategies
 
Whole group  instruction       Small group instruction        Individualized curriculum      
Technology     Cooperative learning        Flexible grouping     Learning centers
 

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