First Grade News October 26th-30th

Miss Renzi and Ms. Sutton are very excited to have the students from Mrs. Thompson's first grade room join their classes. It has been a very smooth transition for all the kiddos. Mrs. Thompson has moved up to 2nd Grade. We all wish her the best of luck with her new students.

Thursday October 29th is our Fall Festival. The evening begins at 5:30 with Trick or Trunk ! At 6:00 the fun moves inside for games and food.

On Friday, October 30th the kiddos can wear a costume to school ( no Mask). There will be a parade and a costume contest. Please also feel free to send in candy treats. Both classrooms have 25 students.

Miss Renzi ask that her class do not bring in Cupcakes. She will be bringing in cupcakes for her class to celebrate her birthday on the Friday the 30th.

Please complete the technology agreement form so your child will have access to an I-pad. Ipads will only be distributed to students who have the agreement signed.

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PLEASE COMPLETE THE 2025-2026 FIELD TRIP FORM.

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🍎 PLEASE LOOK FOR HOMEWORK IN YOUR CHILD'S BACKPACK MONDAY -THURSDAY!

Homework will go home nightly and needs to be returned the next school day.

Homework will be given (Monday-Thursday) on paper. There will a math paper and sometimes ELA work that should be be completed each night and returned to school the next morning. Please make sure your student name is on their work. Please also help your student study the sight words listed below.

🍎Parents please be on the look out for your child's reading fluency. Students must fluency read the passage to you twice each evening. Then kindly sign the paper if your child read to you.

Thank you first grade team!

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WHAT WE LEARNED IN MATH:

This week in Math students learned various strategies to solve addition and subtraction sentences with unknow parts.

Our focus standards were The following:

1.CA.1 Fluently add and subtract within 20. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten; decomposing a number leading to a 10; using the relationship between addition and subtraction; and creating equivalent but easier or known sums. Model using objects and drawings and write corresponding equations. Model the role of 0 and the meaning of the equal sign. (E)

WHAT WE WORKED ON IN READING COMPREHENSION

The Students continued to discuss Jonny Appleseed, by Steven Kellogg. They used key details from the story to write their own stories about Johnny Appleseed. Students also used various arts integration strategies to enhance their learning

FOCUS STANDARDS WE COVERED IN READING COMPREHENSION

1.RC.1 Ask and answer questions about the main idea and key details to clarify and confirm understanding of a text. (E) Focus on questions right there in the text. Use questions that use inferencing in a class discussion and teacher modeling format.

1.RC.5 Identify the basic characteristics of familiar narrative text genres (e.g., fairy tales, nursery rhymes, storybooks) Focus on character and setting, and plot/events.

1.RC.6 Retell main ideas and key details of a text. (E)

.WHAT WE LEARNED IN FUNDATIONS AND HEGGERTY

• In Heggerty week 10 students worked on rhyming words, beginning, middle, and ending sounds and segmenting phonemes of CVC words. In Fundations students completed in Unit 4 week 2.They focused on bonus letter spelling rule: FF, ll, ss, and sometimes zz. They continued to work with the glued sound "all". They wrote dictated sounds, words and sentences. Students were assessed over what they learned in unit 4.

• Our focus standards were The following:

Phonological Awareness

1.RF.2

Blend sounds, including consonant blends, to produce single- and multi-syllable words. (E)

1.RF.3

Identify and produce beginning, middle (medial), and final sounds in single-syllable words. (E)

1.RF.4

Segment individual phonemes in one-syllable words. (E)

Phonics:

1.RF.5

Use letter-sound knowledge of single consonants (hard and soft sounds), short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, vowel teams (e.g., ai) and digraphs, and r-controlled vowels to decode phonetically regular words (e.g., cat, go, black, boat, her), independent of context. (E)

1.RF.6

Decode one-syllable words in the major syllable types (CVC, CVr, V, VV, VCe), independent of context. (E)

Print Concept

K.RF.3

Identify and name all uppercase (capital) and lowercase letters of the alphabet. (E)

WHAT WE WILL BE LEARNING IN MATH:

In Math the students will be continuing to add and subtract problems with addend unknown. They will also work on counting on and counting back, and use related addition facts to subtract

Our focus standards were The following:

1.CA.1 Fluently add and subtract within 20. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten; decomposing a number leading to a 10; using the relationship between addition and subtraction; and creating equivalent but easier or known sums. Model using objects and drawings and write corresponding equations. Model the role of 0 and the meaning of the equal sign. (E)

WHAT STANDARDS WE COVERED IN READING COMPREHENSION

The Students will listen to and discuss the text, The Pumpkin Patch.

Focus Standards

1.RC.1 Ask and answer questions about the main idea and key details to clarify and confirm understanding of a text. (E) Focus on questions right there in the text. Use questions that use inferencing in a class discussion and teacher modeling format.

1.RC.6 Retell main ideas and key details of a text. (E)

WHAT WE WILL BE LEARNING IN FUNDATIONS AND HEGGERTY

• Students will be learning the glued sounds "am" and "an" in this short unit. They will be introduced to the trick words: from, have, do and does. They will also continue to review previously taught skills.

Our focus standards were The following:

Phonological Awareness

1.RF.6

⭐STUDENTS WILL NEED TO KNOW THE FIRST 50 WORDS BY THE END OF THE FIRST SEMESTER⭐

Students need to know all 109 by May

They will be given 3 seconds to name the word on the list

They will not be allowed to sound out the word

Transportation changes and absences: Please contact the school office directly to make those changes.

School hours: The school doors open at 7:15 for students to come in and eat their breakfast. Instruction begins promptly at 7:35, so please make sure they're on time. They need time to eat their breakfast and participate in all class instruction.

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