We are so excited to celebrate the 120th day of school tomorrow. Students will be going to each of the first-grade classrooms tomorrow to do different activities all day! We’ll be making crowns with 120 dots on ten frames, making trail mix with 120 snack items, doing math, writing and reading activities all having to do with 120. If you haven’t yet brought pretzel sticks or m&m’s, it’s not too late to send them in with your student tomorrow. It’ll be a fun day and a great way to send the students off to spring break. They are so deserving of a much-needed break.
Reminders
NO SCHOOL: Spring break is next week. There will be no school March 12-16.
REPORT CARDS: Report cards are going home today in your child’s Thursday folder. If you have any questions or would like some clarification, please don’t hesitate to contact me. In first grade, the best thing you can do to help your child be successful for years to come is having them read to you at home and ask them questions about what they read after. Fluency and comprehension are HUGE and will help your child greatly for years to come. Number sense (being able to count on or back from any number and recognize any number) and place value (100’s place, 10’s place, and 1’s place) are other great things to practice and really solidify for your student.
BOOK ORDER: Book orders went home last week. It is due back tomorrow, Friday March 9. You can also order online: http://mssandberg.weebly.com/scholastic-book-orders.html
HOMEWORK: Is due tomorrow! There will be no homework or packets over spring break. Enjoy the time with your child and I hope you all have a restful, fun break.
SUMMER BIRTHDAYS: Over the next few months, each child that has a birthday over the summer will be getting to celebrate their summer birthday. you would like to bring a snack to celebrate, or we will do extra recess to celebrate your child’s special day. Here is what day we will be celebrating your child’s summer birthday:
March 22- Thien
March 29- Maggie
April 5- Peighton
April 12- Logan
April 19- Sam
April 26- Penny
May 3- Isabella
May 17- Emma
May 18- Elliyah
120th Day: Tomorrow, we will be celebrating the 120th day of school. As a first-grade team, we are going to be sharing a special snack and doing rotations around the classrooms. We’re asking that students donate snacks. Our class will be contributing pretzel sticks and M&M’s. It’s not too late! Please bring in either M&M’s or pretzel sticks tomorrow.
Specials Next week
Mon: Science Lab
Tues: P.E., Library
Wed: Art
Thurs: Computer Lab
Friday: Music
Here’s What We’re Learning After Spring Break
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Expository
- Strategy: Ask Questions
- Skill: Compare and Contrast
- High-Frequency Words
- great, know, sound, their, warm
- Oral Vocabulary
- breeze, commotion, conditions, forecast, tranquil, extreme, predict
- Fluency
- Repeated Reading: Prosody
- Phonemic Awareness
- Rhyme, Phoneme categorization, Phoneme blending/segmentation
- Phonics
- r-controlled vowels: or, oar, ore
- Grammar:
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Book Titles
- Story: We are going to begin learning how to write stories with characters, setting, a problem and a beginning, middle, and end.
- Spelling words:
- Phonics words: born, cork, horn, corn, fork, pork
- Challenge words: know, great, sound, their
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: breeze, commotion, conditions, forecast, tranquil
- Students will use addition to solve subtraction problems
- Students will work with addition and subtraction by using their knowledge of the part-part-total nature of addition and subtraction to write count on fact families.
- Students will count on and back to subtract.
- Students will decompose numbers to solve subtraction problems that bridge 10.
- Students will work with cycles of time (years, months, etc)