1st Grade News

May 7- Mother's Day Tea at 12:30

May 8 - College T-shirt day

May 8 - Lower School Assembly at 9:30

May 21 - Last Day Summer Send Off Dismissal at 11:45 NO AFTERCARE

1. Classroom Comfort:
   Please send a jacket in your child's backpack if they tend to get cold in the classroom.

Girls: Wear leggings or shorts under dresses.

Boys: Wear pants or shorts.

1. Daily Water Bottle:
   Send a reusable water bottle with your child every day to help keep them hydrated.

Thank you for your support! 💛

3. Shoes:

Make sure they are not bright colors. They must be black, blue, gray, white, royal, or navy.

Please make sure your child can tie their shoes. If they can not, please send them with shoes that do not have laces.

Reading

• We are learning about parts of speech - reviewing nouns, verbs, and introducing adjectives.

• Writing a personal narrative

• R-Controlled Vowels: w Exceptions

• Special Vowel Sounds

• Key details of a story

• Author purpose

• What is a Plot

• Conjunctions

Writing

• Learning formatting skills, research skills, and descriptive skills.

Math

• Addition and Subtraction of double-digit numbers, Graphs, Money

Social studies

• Maps

Pattern Words that follow

Skills:

• Special Vowel Sounds look like adjacent vowels, but these do not spell a long vowel sound. The Special Vowel Sounds spell a new sound that is neither long nor short.

Most Common Words ( These will be on the test)

1. Between
2. find
3. ask
4. them
5. after

Pattern Words (these will not be on the test, but there will be words like these)

1. joy

2. boom

3. coin

4. royal

5. look

Paper Homework Chapter 13.3

We will begin a program called “Hot Pencils” soon. This program introduces the concept of timed tests in a shorter, more manageable way. There are 30 problems that the children will try to complete in 1 minute. If they complete all 30 problems correctly within that time, they will move on to the next level. As the math problems get longer and more challenging, the students will be given more time on the page.

We have been practicing addition facts with zeros, ones, and twos this week, and the students have been very excited about it!

In our classroom, we will have a chart to track progress. Each time a child passes a level, they will earn a sticker on the chart. Once all students have earned two stickers, we will celebrate with a fun ice cream party!

We will be working on these in class, and each child will move at his or her own pace. Our goal is to introduce the idea of timed work in a relaxed and encouraging way—it should be a fun and positive experience for everyone!

Here is an example of what it looks like.