Just a short blog this week.
GENERAL ACADEMICS: Spalding - Students will learn 8 new words on Monday, 8 new words on Tuesday, and 9 new words on Wednesday. The review of the 25 words is on Thursday and the spelling test is on Friday. Math - Comparing numbers, adding and subtracting a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number, adding tens and ones, counting on or back to add or subtract Science - The Human Body Writing - Abbreviations, 5 parts of a sentence, Titles of respect Grammar - Review of nouns, pronouns, and verbs Poetry - "My Shadow" by Robert Lewis Stevenson *Note* - This week continue to review and practice the first three stanzas of the poem. Focus on memorizing the 4th stanza of the poem. UPCOMING DATES: Wednesday, January 27 - PSO Night at Chipotle Goodyear, 4-8 PM Wednesday, February 3 - PSO Night at Papa Murphy's Pizza (Dysart Rd), 10 AM-8 PM Friday, February 5 - Half Day Dismissal - 12 PM, Trivium Spirit Day Tuesday, February 9 - PSO Night at Panera Bread Monday, February 15 - No School: Presidents Day/R&R Happy last week of January!
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It has been a week since the students came to school as characters from Ancient Egypt. The students looked so amazing! We were so impressed with their costumes and presentations. We hope they enjoyed the process of writing their summary paragraph and presenting them in front of the class dressed up as Ancient Egyptian gods, goddesses, pharaohs, or queens.
THANK YOU: We appreciate the disinfecting wipes and bottles of hand sanitizer that some of you have donated recently. You have been very generous! If anyone is willing to contribute to our weekly Rewards Treats (small chocolate bars and wrapped candies of any sort), we would be very appreciative. REMINDERS: -As stated in the family handbook, students must wear belts with uniform pants and shorts. - First grade is now into Math workbook 1B. If your scholar does not have the workbook, please send it to school. Please e-mail us and let us know if the book has been ordered and you are waiting for the arrival. - There are three tall towers of Archway fleeces and sweaters in the front office. If your scholar is missing a sweater or fleece, please visit the front office to look. We do suggest that you call the office ahead of time so they know to expect you. GENERAL ACADEMICS: Spalding - Students will learn 8 new words on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 16-word review is on Thursday and the spelling test is on Friday. Math - Numbers within 40 with a focus on Number Sense. This is a large unit. The concepts taught are no longer being built on review concepts from kindergarten. the concepts taught are now building on what was taught during the "Numbers to 20" unit at the beginning of second quarter. Science - Human body systems Literature - "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" - Five parts of a sentence Grammar - Nouns, pronouns, and verbs Poetry - "My Shadow" by Robert Lewis Stevenson *Note - By now your scholar should have at least the first two stanzas completely memorized. This week be sure to focus on the 3rd stanza and begin to be familiar with the fourth stanza. - You can always find the current poem on the homework logs each week. HOW CAN I HELP MY CHILD IN MATH?: A few general tips: -Xtramath homework (at least 3 times per week) will help your student become more comfortable with their basic math facts. - The "Friendly Notes" give general information and steps that are taught in the classroom. Use it as a guide when helping with homework. - Look over your scholar's workbook pages. If you notice mistakes or a particular page in which your scholar struggled and they did not have time to correct them in class, work with them to correct their mistakes. - Look over the weekly math quiz that goes home in the blue folders each week. - Keep workbook 1A. Since the math concepts do build on each other, use it as a review and extra practice. If you have specific questions please e-mail is. UPCOMING DATES: Friday, January 22 - Trivium Spirit Day Wednesday, January 27 - PSO Night at Chipotle Goodyear, 4-8 PM Wednesday, February 3 - PSO Night at Papa Murphy's Pizza (Dysart Rd), 10 AM-8 PM Friday, February 5 - Half Day Dismissal - 12 PM, Trivium Spirit Day Have a great week! This is Project Presentation Week! We always look forward to their presentations and their costumes.
REPORT CARDS/EVALUATIONS: It was announced in the Athenian Echo on Friday that report cards are available on the Power School Parent Portal. If you are having password trouble and are unable to log onto the portal, please contact Mrs.- Miller at [email protected]. A couple of parents of first graders have e-mailed teachers and asked how to access the grades on the parent portal. If you are having trouble seeing the grades, one first grade scholar's parent wrote out some great steps, tips, and explanations on how to easily access them. The parent wrote as follows: "Here’s how I look at the grades on my iPhone. I’m not sure if it will look different on android phones. I open the link sent by the school and log in. I then turn my phone sideways to get the biggest view of the website. It really helps!!! At the top left corner, directly under the students’ names, there are 2 arrows. One Up/down arrow and one side to side arrow. Open the side-to-side arrow by clicking on it. This opens a menu on the left-hand side. The menu has links for report card, grades and grade history and some other items that don’t seem to give any real information. Click on the report card link. That gives access to your comments and number grades for each subject. You have to keep scrolling down to see everything. This gives the most information. It also gives last quarters grades so you can compare. The grades link is where I find the “IP” and “P” grades for classes including specials. The Grade history link shows me kinder and first grade “P” and “IP” grades. I find the report card and grades to be the most beneficial links in the menu.” PROJECT WEEK: Last week the first-grade team sent home a letter about the project week presentation taking place this Wednesday, January 13th. The letter was placed in your scholar's red homework folder and an email sent out. There was additional information included in the Athenian Echo that was sent out on Friday. As far as for the written essay, today (Monday) we continued to work on it in class. Those students who are finished with their final draft had a copy to bring home and be able to look at and practice presenting. Those who have not finished their final draft will need to finish it Monday night as homework. Students will also have their copy for Tuesday night so they can be confident when presenting their information to the class on Wednesday. CLASSROOM SUPPLY REMINDERS: As stated in the blog last week, scholars will need math WORKBOOK 1B - COMMON CORE edition starting tomorrow (Tuesday the 12th). If your scholar does not have the workbook at school, please make sure it is here tomorrow. Also, please make sure that your scholar has A Bargain for Frances at school by this Friday. Thanks! GENERAL ACADEMICS: Spalding - Students will learn 8 new words on Monday - Wednesday. The 24-word review is on Thursday and the spelling test is on Friday. Math - Graphs, Numbers to 40 (Students need to have their 1B workbook starting Tuesday.) History - Project week lessons and presentations Monday - Wednesday Science - The Human Body (Starting Thursday) Literature - The Tales of Peter Rabbit Grammar - Introduction of verbs, parsing nouns, verbs, and pronouns in sentences Poetry - "My Shadow" by Robert Lewis Stevenson *Note - By now students should have the first stanza memorized. This week focus on the second stanza. Today's half day really went fast! Remember that tomorrow is a Wednesday, and we get out at 1:00. Thursday and Friday are the normal 3:10 release times.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thank you so much to everyone who gave us Christmas gifts. We loved opening every single one of them. We are sending home handwritten thank you cards. We know from past experiences that the thank you cards placed in the red homework folders do not always make it home, so we will send them home in their blue folders. If you sent a gift and don't end up getting a thank you note, please know that one was written and sent home this week. Thank you so much to everyone who donated to the teacher snowstorm. That is always a much appreciated gift too! WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2ND SEMESTER / 3RD QUARTER: From a teacher's perspective, each quarter of the year brings its unique challenges, and unique gifts. The gift of 3rd quarter is that the scholars are settled. They are settled into the classroom, and they are settled into their own first grade bodies. They generally know what to expect. They have confidence with procedures, classroom rules, and their ability to learn. Second semester academics are more challenging. Books, discussions, and history journals are more detailed. In math we are now building on new concepts that were taught during the 2nd quarter. It is important that students are confident and knowledgeable with all 70 phonograms. Do not hesitate to e-mail us if you have questions or would like tips on how to support your scholar at home. HOMEWORK THIS WEEK: In order to allow time for your scholar to complete the history homework for project week, there will be no math or spelling homework. Xtramath is listed on the homework log. For this week only, Xtramath is optional. 1B MATH WORKBOOKS: Please make sure your scholar brings his/her Math Workbook 1B to school by this Friday, January 8th! Remember, the math workbook MUST say, "Primary Mathematics Workbook 1B - Common Core Edition." If it doesn't say all of those things on the cover, it is not the correct workbook. GENERAL ACADEMICS: Spalding - Students will learn 5 new words on Tuesday and 5 new words on Wednesday. The 10-word review will be on Thursday and the spelling test will be on Friday. In order to allow time for you and your scholar to focus on project week assignments, the spelling homework which is usually sent to be completed at home will be completed in class. The words that students will be learning and then practicing in class are: away, paper, put, each soon (Tuesday) and came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon (Wednesday) Math - Looking at a graph and interpreting the information. There will be no math homework for this week. However, a "Friendly Notes" packet was sent home in the red homework folders. Completing Xtramath is encouraged but not required for this week. History – Project Week with the focus on the Ancient Egyptians. PLEASE BE SURE TO COMPLETE THE DAILY ASSIGNMENTS AND RETURN IT EACH DAY IN THEIR RED HOMEWORK FOLDERS. Grammar - Nouns with a focus on ideas as nouns Poetry - "My Shadow" by Robert Lewis Stevenson *Note - The poem, "My Shadow" is a longer poem and includes four full stanzas. Instead of focusing on all four stanzas at once which can be intimidating, focus on only the first stanza this week. From our experiences over the last several years, we have found that when students focus on one stanza each week, they are able to memorize the poem with ease and confidence. PROJECT WEEK: A parent letter, an example packet, and your scholar's assigned character was sent home in the red homework folders today. Please look over the parent letter and example packet carefully as it will give you the information needed for this week's history homework. It is important that that the history homework packet and example packet get sent back to school everyday as we are also using it in the classroom. For our presentations next Wednesday, our class will go out to the field and form a "Wax Museum" with our dressed up scholars. A recorded video will be created to share with our families. Please look for more details to come soon. Have a great week! |
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