2009 -  2010 School Year  

General Information

Monday - Music and Computers

Tuesday - Gym and Library

Wednesday - Spanish

Thursday - Art

Friday - Show and Tell

Science Fair

The children received their Science Fair packets today.  Please fill out the proposal and return by March 18th.

The children should buy a poster board that has 3 sides.  These are easy to stand up on their own.

Have fun beginning your project.

The Science Fair is on April 20th.

Reminders for Specials

Music folders are needed for Music with the songs. 

Girls should not wear earrings to Gym class.

Please remember library books for library on Tuesday.

The children need a Spanish folder that they are to keep in school for the next Spanish class.

Bring in glue or glue sticks for Art.

Show and Tell is every Friday.

Class Schedule

Morning prayers

Check homework

Spelling

Reading

Snack

English - Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives

Groups - Reading, Computer, centers, sentence strips, and sight word cards

Religion

Writing - 4 sentences

Lunch and Recess

Math

Science

Phonics

Social Studies

The Time Lines look great.  Thanks to all the hard work the students put into it.  The class had fun looking at their friends' family pictures.

The Time Lines are also a big hit around the school.  Students from other classes stop by to look at them.

All tests should be signed and returned to the teacher.

Jobs in the First Grade

Messenger

Board erasers

Writes pages person

Sticker person

Line leaders

Lunch Baskets    

Vowels

Computer person

Paper person

Helper

Closet Closer

Turns off the lights person

Bell ringer

Cleans the desks

Events 

The First Grade is now having weekly Spelling Bees.  This keeps them up to date on their spelling words and creates for a nice whole class activity.

We also have Math Bees.

Project Mailbox  

               Homework

In Order to save on paper, the math workbook pages will be ripped out and sent home.  The children will do both sides of the math page.

The Science or Social Studies textbook will also be sent home every week in our effort to conserve paper.  These books are very colorful and educational but, they are heavy.  Please help your children carry them when they leave school.  The Science or Social Studies textbook may be returned on Friday (the day of the test).

Spelling words of the week - Test Friday

Every Friday, they will either have a Science or Social Studies Test.

1 Math workbook page each night - both sides

1 Reading sheet each night - both sides

Please fill out the Reading Log.  Some children are already on their second sheet.

BOOKS

We are starting to make books.  Each day we write and edit 4 sentences and put them into our writing folder.  When we are done with our book, we will make a cover. 

Here is what each group is doing.

Jack and Jordan - Club Penguin

David and Kieran - Star Wars

Raymond and Danny K. - St. Patrick's Day

Connor and Anthony - Spies

Alex and Danny J.  - John the DS

Samantha and Ayssa - Twilight

Kylie and Daniela - Princesses

Dawn and Gianna H. - Club Penguin

Caitlin and Timmy - St. Patrick's Day

Emma and Matthew - Diamonds

Nicole and Kayla - Webkinz

Lauren and Gigi - Our Friendship

As you can see, the class has written on a wide variety of topics.

GO FIRST GRADE AUTHORS!

Word Wall

The First Grade has a word wall.  We use the word wall to copy words that we need to spell and use during the day. We have lists of sports, animals, colors, plants, opposites, places, shapes, people, food, action words, and holidays.

We also have 33 colorful sentence strips that help us know what a sentence is.

Here are some of our sentences:

A puppy is a baby dog.

The Yankees won the World Series in 2009. 

Friends are nice.

Here are some pictures of our class.

At snack time

At gym time

 Religion

Please send in rosary beads for your child.  We say one decade of the rosary each day.

We are learning how Jesus is important to us.

We show our love to him by caring for others.

Reading is fun!

Reading Groups

Each day we do something different in our reading groups.

We go over sight word cards.

We read from a small leveled reader and answer questions.

We read a story from the class reader.

We complete a phonics worksheet.

We listen to Miss Riedi read a story.  Then we answer questions about the story.

Children learn  together.

Activities of the Week

The children are working on writing skills.  They are remembering to start with capital letters and end with end marks.

Morning Work

Here are some of the activities we do in the morning.

1.  Write 4 facts about a learning book.

2. Alphabetical Order

3. Write 5 words that begin with the letter f.

4. Handwriting

5. Math facts

6. phonics - bake, cake, lake, and wake

7.Word Search

8. Word Web

9. Writing sentences

10.nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Math Time

The First Grade is practicing addition and subtraction in many different ways. 

We use a number line, counters, and dice to solve math problems.

We use flashcards in groups.

We play Math Baseball in the computer room on Mondays from 1:00 - 1:40 p.m.

We copy addition and subtraction math sentences and solve them in our notebooks.

We need to remember to watch the signs (plus + and minus -).

Place Value

Now we are starting to learn tens and ones.  We use a tens and ones mat and blue manipulatives.

Graphs

We are learning about bar graphs and pictographs.

The First Grade is starting to make graphs.  We made a bar graph showing the number of students who made each Science diorama.

We will be making pictographs of different topics such as: favorite sports, favorite foods, etc.

MONEY

We started money today.  Please go over the values of the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter with your child.

Science

OUR DIORMAS 

The first grade made dioramas of different animal habitats.  All of the dioramas look great.  I can tell that a lot of hard work was put into each and every one of them. Here are the number of children who did each project. 

Ocean habitat- 10

Desert habitat- 2

Safari habitat- 2

Wetland habitat- 1

Forest habitat- 2

Jungle habitat- 3

Arctic habitat- 4

Great job, First Grade!

The First Grade is learning about living things.

We learned about different habitats such as the forest, wetland, ocean, and desert.

We are learning about tadpoles, frogs, butterflies, and plants.

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Centers

1. Cash Register and Money

2. Animals and their habitats

3. Reading cards

4. Sentence Strips

5. Shapes and Blocks

6. Math Dice work

7. Math Cards

8. Clay

9. Science Center

The End of the Day

At the end of each day, the first grade has to clean up the classroom.  We have to pick up the pencils, erasers, scissors, markers, colored pencils, and sharpeners off the floor.  We put the items in the Lost and Found box.  We have to put our chairs up on top of our desks. 

We also have to check the closets to make sure we remember all of our sweaters, bookbags, coats, hats, gloves, and scarves.

At the end of the day, we get our lunchboxes too.

Book List

Here is the incoming 1st grade summer reading list.

Authors for read-aloud books:

Ian Falconer

Susan Marie Swanson

Ezra Jack Keats

Kevin Henkes

David Shannon

Leo Lionni

Eric Carle

Numeroff

David Kirk

Authors for wordless books:

Monique Felix

Brian Wildsmith

Pat Schories

David Wiesner

Books:

"I Can Read" leveled readers

Levels one, two, and three

  GRADE 1 SUPPLY LIST

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