Dear First Grade Families,

      The first grade will have an Open House on August 6^th 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 6^th to learn more about making this an incredible year for you and your child.

                                                                            

                                                                             Sincerely,

                                                                             First Grade Blue Pod

 

                                                                         

                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

Weekly Plans for March 16-20

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: flew, blue, threw, fruit, glue, unpack, remake, unzip, restart, retest, him, has

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

Reading: We will learn about /ew/as in new, /ue/ as in clue and /ui/ as in fruit. We will also learn about the prefixes /un/ and /re/. Our reading skill will be story mapping and structure of a story. Our grammar skill will be finding adjectives (describing words) in a sentence.

High-Frequency words: such, because, turn, here, why, ask, went, men, read, need

Math: We will continue our unit on measurement. We will be using non-strand units of measurement. Non-standard units of measurement are paperclips, cubes, pencils, etc.

 

Social Science: We will be learning about spring and St. Patrick’s Day!

Plans for March 9-13

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: lie, tie, high, might, right, night, bright, light, pie, tight, them, so

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework

 

 

 

Reading: We will learn about long i /ie/ as in tie and /igh/ as in high.  We will also learn about beginning blend /wr/ as in write and /kn/ as in knife. Our reading skill will be to tell the difference between realism and fantasy. Our grammar skill will be finding adjectives (describing words) in a sentence.

High-Frequency words: set, end, put, does, another, well, large, big, must, even

 

Math: We will begin our unit on measurement. We will be using non-strand units of measurement. Non-standard units of measurement are paperclips, cubes, pencils, etc.

 

Social Science: We will be learning about space.

Plans for March 2-6

Weekly Plans

Spelling: There will not be a spelling test this week.

 

 

Reading: We will review skills that have been taught this nine weeks.

High-Frequency words: Review all words in FISH notebook. This test will be this week. Remember the word must be said in three seconds or less.

 

Math: We will review skills (adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers, identify and sort shapes, and identify fractions) that have been taught this nine weeks.

 

 

Social Science: We will be talking about Dr. Seuss. Please send any resources (books) about Dr. Seuss.

 

Plans for the week of Feb. 23-27

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, February 27th.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: boat, road, snow, row, yellow, loaf, coat, soap, blow, pillow, write, will

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about long o /oa/ as in boat and /ow/ as in snow.  We will also learn about 3 letter blends as in scream. Our reading skill is learning about author’s purpose for writing a story. Our grammar skill will be to learn about conjunctions to combine sentences such as and, also, but, so, and because.

High-Frequency words: Review all words in FISH notebook.

 

Math: We will learn about fractions. Our focus will be how shapes are equally divided into halves and quarters.

 

 

Social Science: We are learning about famous Americans. Don’t forget about your famous American project which is due on February 25th. Please have your child dressed as their assigned famous American.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson Plans for Feb. 16-20

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, February 20th.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: beach, clean, dream, each, eat, learn, please, sea, team, treat, into, more

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about /ea/ as in sea.  We will also learn to change the y to i before adding inflected endings to a word. Our reading skill will be to learn about themes from the story and drawing information out of a story. Our grammar skill will be to learn about conjunctions to combine sentences such as and, also, but, so, and because.

High-Frequency words: Review all words in FISH notebook.

 

Math: We will learn about geometry. For example: How many sides and vertices are on a triangle? (3) How many sides and vertices are on a square? (4)

 

 

Social Science: We are learning about dental health.

 

Weekly Plans for Feb. 9-13

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Thursday, February 12^th.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: afraid, day, gray, mail, may, play, rain, tail, train, way, would, some

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about /ai/ as in train and /ay/ as in day.  We will also learn about possessives such as: This is Jan’s book. This week’s reading skill is to draw conclusions from the story. Our grammar skill is to review pronouns.

High-Frequency words: boy, follow, also, around, came, form, want, three, show, small

 

Math: We will learn about 2-digit addition along with problem-solving.   Please review with your child how to count to 120 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s. There are also many websites to help your child review addition and subtraction. Review 10 more and 10 less (such as, “What is 10 more than 24?”) Here are a few: mathfactcafe.com, coolmath4kids.com or aplusmath.com We will also introduce geometry.

 

 

Social Science: We be doing Valentine activities.

Lesson Plans for Feb. 2-6

 

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, February 6.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: bigger, biggest, faster, fastest, sadder, saddest, bridge, pledge, fudge, lodge, many, these

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about comparative endings –er and –est and /dge/ as in fudge. 

We use –er when comparing two things and –est when comparing three or more things.

 Our reading skill will be to learn about the sequence of a story.

Our grammar skill is to learn about pronouns like me, he, we, she, and they.

High-Frequency words are: much, mean, line, right, too, before, old, any, same, tell

Math: Students will learn to add and subtract two-digit numbers. (Ex. 50+20=70 or 60-30= 30).  We will also practice finding 10 more and 10 less than a number. For example: What is 10 more than 22? What is 10 less 63? There are also many websites to help your child review addition and subtraction. Here are a few: mathfactcafe.com, coolmath4kids.com, and aplusmath.com

 

Social Science: We be learning about animals that hibernate.

 

Lesson Plans for the week of Jan. 26-30

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, January 30^th.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: bird, perch, burn, fern, first, fur, girl, let’s, we’ve, you’re, other, because

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about /ir/ as in first, /er/ as in her and /ur/ as in nurse. We will also learn about contractions: ‘s as in that’s, ‘ve as in we’ve, and ‘re as in they’re.   Our reading skill will be to learn how to draw conclusions from a story.

Our grammar skill is to learn about the verbs: am, is, are, was, were

High-Frequency words: name, good, say, great, man, where, help, think, sentence, through

 

Math: Students will learn about expanded notation. For example: 56 is 50+6=56. There are also many websites to help your child review addition and subtraction. Here are a few: mathfactcafe.com, coolmath4kids.com, and aplusmath.com

 

Social Science: We will doing 100^th activities.

 

 

 

 

Weekly Plans for Jan. 20-23

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, January 23^rd.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: bark, cart, farm, park, shark, star, help, helped, plan, planned, what, when

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about the r-controlled /ar/ like in part.  Our reading skill will be plot. Our grammar skill will be root words and verbs from present and the past. For example: Help (root word and present tense verb) and helped (past tense).

High-Frequency words: live, very, back, give, most, me, after, thing, our, just

Math: Students will learn about comparing two-digit numbers with the greater than (>), less than (<), and equal (=) to symbols.

For example 45 (4 tens and 5 ones) < 89 (8 tens and nine ones).

 

Social Science: We will be discussing winter animals.

 

 

 

Lesson Plans for Jan. 12-15

Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Thursday, January 15^th.  As a reminder, 3^rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: fix, fixes, wish, wishes, bus, buses, storm, fork, wore, more, do, if

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about the ending –es and the plural –es like in classes. We will also learn about the r-controlled /or/ like in thorn and /ore/ like in chore.  Our grammar skill will be putting words in ABC order.

High-Frequency words: over, new, little, work, sound, take, only, know, place, year

Math: Students will learn about place value as in 23 has 2 tens and 3 ones or that 55 has 5 tens and 5 ones.

 

Social Science: We will be discussing the season of winter.