First Grade Newsletter
Reminders
*We don't eat lunch until 1:20, so please send a snack (or three) with your child every day.
*Please send a spill proof water bottle each day.
*Volunteer 101 must be completed to volunteer at the school or on field trips. This can be completed on your own at anytime. See Mrs. Elgin's newsletter for more information.
Important Dates
8/25 - Bring a Teddy Bear to School
9/4 - Student Holiday
9/7 - Labor Day - No School
9/8 - Big Kahuna Fundraiser Begins
9/11 - Patriot Day! Wear red, white, and blue!
Reading
Anchor Story of the Week: The Bad Seed
Other Stories: Nobody Hugs and Cactus and Rules Don't Apply to Me
We will describe characters and the reasons for their actions. We will integrate our reading and social studies by discussing the characters as citizens and discussing the traits of a good citizen.
Grammar
We will practice using capitals in the correct places.
Writing
We will go through the process of creating a circle map by brainstorming describing words about a Teddy Bear. We will then take that circle map to a tree map. Finally, we will turn the tree map into complete sentences about the Teddy Bear. We will make sure our sentence are complete, with a subject and a predicate. We will also make sure all sentences begin with a capital letter and end with an end mark.
Math
We will be collecting and organizing information to be put in a pictograph or a bar graph.
Science
We will identify scientists and engineers such as Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride and Ernest Just and explore what different scientists and engineers do.
Social Studies
We will explain the purpose for rules & laws in the home, school and community and identify how they establish order, provide security & manage conflict.
