Week 10

 

Creative dioramas from our animal research projects

Owl at Home snack to celebrate our reading and our hard work during first quarter!

Greetings 1B Families!

I hope that you and your children have had a restful break! Before break, we greatly enjoyed sharing our animal research projects. I was very impressed by the effort and creativity that was put into these projects.  The students felt very proud and honored to share them with their classmates!

We also ended the quarter on a high note with a fun and delicious Owl at home snack!  I'm looking forward to jumping into second quarter and continuing our wonderful learning together.

As we start second quarter, there are a few important things coming up! Please ensure that you have signed-up for parent teacher conferences. I look forward to discussing your child's progress with you! Please be advised of the schedule changes due to conferences (see below) as well as some important upcoming events!

Here's to a wonderful 2nd quarter as we continue to seek truth, beauty and goodness together!

Warmly,
Shannon Dawson

HomeworkNightly: Read for 15 min. using the book bags.
Please have your child practice our monthly poem for 1 minute each night. A copy of the poem will be sent home or find it here!

Phonograms to practice nightly:  ir, oo, ear, ee, ur, oi, ai, th, or, ay

Monday: bird, cool, earth, feed, fur and math wkbk pg. 61-64

Tuesday: green, oil, paint, pool, tooth, teeth and math wkbk pg. 65-68

Wednesday: worm, day, eat, sit, sits and math wkbk pg. 69-72

Thursday: Review all words and phonograms and test B

Friday: Please read a book of your child's choice for 15 minutes. 

Calendar
Monday, October 14th: School Resumes
Wednesday, October 16th: Math Groups (sign up here)
Thursday, October 17th: Reading Groups (sign up here)
Monday, October 21st- October 25th: Fall Conferences; Half day schedule (dismissal begins at 11:45)
Monday, October 28th: No School
Wednesday, October 30th- Friday Nov. 1st: Scholastic Book Fair. Sign-up here to volunteer and visit here for book fair hours.
Thursday, October 31st: READATHON Day! Students may dress-up as a classically aligned story book character or historical figure. Please return your child's costume proposal. Please be on the lookout for emails from out class mom, Melissa, for ways to get involved and participate in this exciting day!
Friday, November 1st: Half Day of school for Teacher professional development

Academics

Idiom: Practice Makes Perfect

Poetry: The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess

I never saw a purple cow;

I never hope to see one;

But I can tell you, anyhow,

I'd rather see the be one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04FPpL0-kA

Spalding: We will learn 16 new words this week because we have two words that should be learned together. On Thursday, we will review all 16 words. On Friday, we will have a test on all 16 words and 10 phonograms.

Phonograms to practice nightly: ir, oo, ear, ee, ur, oi, ai, th, or, ay

Monday: bird, cool, earth, feed, fur

Tuesday: green, oil, paint, pool, tooth, teeth

Wednesday: worm, day, eat, sit, sits

Thursday: Review all words and phonograms

Grammar/Writing: We will read and write about narrative passages from Mary Poppins. Students will practice listening comprehension and copy model sentences in to their writing journals. 

Literature:  We will be enjoying various versions of the  Little Red  Riding Hood story including Lon Po Po and Tselane. Please start sending in your child's copy of Frog and Toad are Friends as we will begin reading it the following week. 

Math: We will be learning about position and direction including ordinal numbers, proximity, and sequential counting.

History:  We will continue our exciting adventure studying ancient Egypt! 

Science:  Students will learn about a food chain and how living things rely on each other for food and how energy is moved from one living thing to another.