Week 1

Good evening,

It was wonderful to meet everyone on Friday, and I looking forward to the first day of school tomorrow! It is going to be a great year.

Monday morning there will be teachers at drop off to assist your children out of their cars, help unload school supplies, and remind them where to go. You don't need to worry about getting out of your vehicle.

Always feel free to contact me by email if you have any questions or if there is anything you want to let me know.

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Please remember to send school supplies (if you haven't already), a lunch, two healthy snacks, and a water bottle with you child to school every day.

See you soon!

This week in 1C:

In Spalding, this week we will focus on proper posture, pencil grip, and handwriting features. We will learn how to form all of the manuscript lowercase letters, focusing on a particular handwriting feature each day. We will also learn the single letter phonograms associated with each letter formation. We want to have a strong handwriting start, so please make sure your child is holding his or her pencil properly and forming letters in the correct way (left to right, top to bottom, etc.) We will be sending home a “Features Formation” packet to assist you in helping your child with homework!

In Writing, this week’s copy work and narration exercises come from Little House in the Big Woods.

In Literature, we have some exciting stories this week! On Monday we will read First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, discuss how we are feeling on the first day of first grade, and tie this in with the virtue of friendship. Tuesday, we will begin our first unit, which is Aesop’s Fables! We will be reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “The Fox and the Grapes,” and “The Dog in the Manger”. As we read each fable, we will discuss the moral of the story and identify common fable components.

Idiom:  We will be introduced to our first idiom “Sour Grapes”. This idiom refers to something a person decides is not worth having only after they find out that they cannot have the desired object.

Poem:  “The Caterpillar”  by Christina Rosetti

In Math this week will review how to count, read, and write numbers within 10. We will also learn all about our Rocket Math program which will allow us to practice our subtraction and addition math facts all year long. Lastly, we will practice our daily Calendar routine which will include everything from time and money to place value and measurement.

In History, we will be learning about what maps are used for and map features. Students will also create their own map.

In Science, we will begin by discussing what science is and what a scientist does. Students will learn about the steps of the scientific method by completing an experiment together.