Monday, July 20, 2015


Dear First Grade Families,

      The first grade will have an Open House on August 6th from 12:00-7:00 pm.  You can come any time you choose during these hours. Please allow at least 30 minutes to learn about first grade expectations and to complete some information we will need before the first day of school. You will receive pertinent information concerning your child and the school year to take home with you to review. 

           Please email your child's teacher with any questions or concerns about Open House. We look forward to meeting you and your child and sharing with you all the news for the upcoming year. 

          Please bring your child’s school supplies to Open House.  This will make the first day of school more successful.  The supply list is on this blog.  You don’t need to put your child’s name on his/her supplies EXCEPT for the inside of the t-shirts and the inside of the pillowcase.

          Be sure to mark your calendar for Thursday, August 6th to learn more about making this an incredible year for you and your child.

                                                                            

                                                                             Sincerely,
                                                                             First Grade Blue Pod
 

                                                                         

                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, May 1, 2015

Plans for the week of May 4-8


Weekly Plans

 

Spelling: We are finished with spelling for this school year! J

 

 

Reading: We will review in order to prepare for end of the year reading test.

High-Frequency Words: review words from list in FISH notebook

 

 

Math: We will review to prepare for our end the year math test. We will also give practice addition and subtraction timed test to prepare for second grade. 

 

 

Social Science: We will be preparing for End of the year activities and Mother’s day activities.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Plans for the week of April 27-May 1st


Spelling: Please remember that words and dictation sentences are graded.

There are practice dictation sentences in your child’s FISH notebook.

Words: boil, boy, coin, join, oil, oink, point, soil, toy, voice, who, find

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: We will learn about the /oy/ as in boy and /oi/ as in boil.

We will learn about words with the suffix –er as in writer and –or as in collector.

Our reading skill will be main idea.

Our grammar is a review of sentences, pronouns, articles, and prepositions.

High-Frequency words are: Review all words.

 

Math: We will review time, measurement and graphs. Please review addition and subtraction facts with your child.

 

Social Science: We will be learning about the ocean.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Plans for the week of April 20-24


 

Weekly Plans

Spelling: Please remember that words and dictation sentences are graded.

There are practice dictation sentences in your child’s FISH notebook.

Words are: book, food, foot, good, look, moon, noon, pool, took, zoo, people, been

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: We will learn about the sound /oo/ like in moon. We will learn about words with inflected endings /ed/ like in hoped, /s/ as in rivers, /es/ as in guesses, and /ing/ like in hoping. Our reading skill will be compare and contrast. Our grammar is to review articles like the, an, a.

High-Frequency Words: most, wild, behind, fold, kind, wind, post, gold, child, cold

 

 

Math: We will continue to learn about collecting data and putting the data into graphs (bar graphs, tally graphs).

 

Social Science: We will discuss and learn about the importance of Earth Day.

Friday, April 10, 2015

Lesson Plans for April 13-18


Weekly Plans

Spelling: Please remember that words and dictation sentences are graded.

There are practice dictation sentences in your child’s FISH notebook.

Words are: about, count, found, house, mouth, ouch, our, out, round, shout, number, could

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: Reading: We will learn about the diphthong /ou/ like in house.

We will learn about words with a vowel constant vowel pattern like cabin and how to break these words into syllables (ca  bin).

Our reading skill will be sequence of a story.

Our grammar skill is to learn about possessive nouns like mom’s brush.

High-Frequency words are: letter, answer, study, learn, world, mother, found, still, America, should

 

Math: We will learn about collecting data and putting the data into graphs (bar graphs, tally graphs).

 

Social Science: We will learn about the rainforest.

 

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Plans for the week of April 6-10


Weekly Plans

Spelling: Please remember that words and dictation sentences are graded.

There are practice dictation sentences in your child’s FISH notebook.

Words are: brown, frown, clown, growl, cow, how, crowd, now, down, town, come, no

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: We will learn about the diphthong ow /ou/ as in town. We will also learn about words with 2 syllables that end with a constant plus -le like in saddle. Our reading skill will be story mapping. Our grammar skill is to find prepositions (by, in, on, ect.) in a sentnece.

High Frequency Words: change, play, away, house, air, off, spell, animal, point, page

 

Math: We will continue our unit on measurement. We will be learning about time. We will be telling time to the hour (9:00) and half hour (9:30).

 

Social Science: We will learn about plants and insects.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Lesson Plans for the week of March 30-April 2


Weekly Plans

Spelling: Please remember that words and dictation sentences are graded.

There are practice dictation sentences in your child’s FISH notebook.

Words are: bloom, goose, broom, smooth, tooth, quickly, gladly, useful, spoonful, wonderful, two, go

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: We will learn about /oo/ in moon.  We will also learn about the suffixes –ly and –ful. We will learn that the suffix –ly means “in a ____way” and the suffix –ful means “full of.”  Our reading skill will be cause and effect.  Our grammar skill will be to learn about adjectives that compare.

High Frequency Words: land, home, different, us, move, try, kind, hand, again, picture

 

Math: We will continue our unit on measurement. We will be learning about time. We will be telling time to the hour (9:00) and half hour (9:30).

 

Social Science: We will discussing Easter and spring.