Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade and I look forward to seeing you tonight at Back to School Night!
Please Note
- Back to School Night is tonight at 7:00pm. Please review the presentation and have your questions ready. Please use the Zoom link to access the meeting. - Please be sure to check your child's "Home Folder" every night. You can empty out any papers that were completed in school. If anything needs to be sent to school, please send it in this folder so they will see it to give to me in the morning. Please make sure that the Sight Words and Reading Copybook are returned each day. - Journals need to be decorated and covered by Friday, September 25th. They will be sent home Tuesday. - On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. We will be talking about "Finding Gobi" and having a live meeting with Dion, the author. - Friday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 with your child. Please also review the dress down day policy in the school handbook. - Please email me with any questions or concerns. Thanks!
Our Week
Religion
Chapter 1 - "God is Our Father
We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!
Reading
Story: "Jack and the Wolf" Target Skill: Characters Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words Grammar: Complete sentences Magic Words: every, come, call, hear, said, away SpellingWords: an, bad, can, had, cat, ran,
Math
This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards.
Science
This week, we will begin a Science unit on Light and Sound. We will learn all about the scientific
method and put it into practice with some fun experiments and investigations. Here are the
topics we will learn about in Unit 1:
• The Scientific Method, Science Safety and Tools Scientists Use
• States and Properties of Matter
• Sound and Vibrations
• Light
• Using Light and Sound to Communicate
Social Studies
This week we will begin a Social Studies unit on Responsible Citizenship. Here are some of the
important things we will learn about in Unit 1:
• Rules and laws in our home, school, and community
• How we can be responsible citizens:
-Following our rules and laws
-Respect and responsibility
-How we can be a good friend
-Why truthfulness is important
-Cooperation and sportsmanship
-Perseverance
This unit will teach us about how we can make our classroom
community the best that it can be!
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