We will be doing a unit on Summer Safety. Students will not have a spelling test this week. We will continue to review all skills learned throughout the year in Reading, Math, and Language.

Students will get to see our Drama Club’s production of Alice in Wonderland on Tuesday, May 17.

Our Field Day is May 18. Please apply sunscreen to your child. We will be outside most of the day. Cross fingers it does not rain.

This week is testing week for the older students. In order for primary kids to understand the importance of this week, we will also be testing this week. We will take our final Reading and Math Common Assessments. We will also take our End-of-Year reading test that goes with our series. We will take a language test and our End-of-Year math test.

We won’t have any homework for the rest of the year!!

This week our story will be the biography Ben Franklin and His First Kite.

We will be working on prefixes un-, re-, and long vowel pattern o(st), o(od), i(nd), i(ld)

Our Amazing Words this week are contraption, curious, doubt, energy, glider, intelligent, soar, (un)manned. Students should be familiar with these words and know their meanings.

Our vocabulary words are carry, different, answered, brothers, poor

Our spelling words this week are (bold words above are bonus words)

1. refill
2. refund
3. reopen
4. repay
5. retell
6. undo
7. untie
8. undress
9. unhappy
10. unkind

In Language we will continue to work on writing complete sentences

In Math we will review all our skills.

Our story this week is the biography Alexander Graham Bell

We will be learning about vowels aw au (as in saw, auto). We will review diphthongs oi, oy, suffixes and inflected endings.

Our Amazing Words this week are biplane, determined, inventor, sketch, speech, stable, stall, technology. Students should be familiar with these words and know their meanings.

Our vocabulary words this week are: science, though, built, early, learn.

Our spelling words this week are: (bold words above are bonus words)

1. crawl
2. draw
3. hawk
4. jaw
5. law
6. lawn
7. paw
8. saw
9. straw
10. yawn

In Language we will continue to work on writing sentences correctly using correct capitalization and end marks.

In math we will be reviewing all our skills from the year.

Our story this week is Simple Machines. This is an expository nonfiction story in which we will learn about real simple machines.

We will be learning about the diphthongs oi, oy and the suffixes -er, -or.

Our Amazing Words this week are: cellar, convenient, engine, equipment, furnace, gadget, pilot, steer.

Our vocabulary words are: against, heavy, goes, kind(s), today

Spelling words this week are (bold words are bonus words):

1. boil
2. boy
3. coin
4. join
5. oil
6. oink
7. point
8. soil
9. toy
10. voice

Happy Spring Break!!! See you on Monday, April 16!

This is the last week before Spring Break! We’re looking forward to having a fun, successful week.

Please remember to send in 12 pre-filled eggs for our Easter celebration. If you’d like to send in treats please do so. We do NOT need drinks this time.

Our story this week is Mole and the Baby Bird. This story is Animal Fantasy.

We will be learning about the diphthong ou/ou. We will talk about V/CV & VC/V (as in pi/lot, lem/on). We will review diphthong ow/ou and consonant+le.

Our amazing words this week are: dawn, fond, freedom, miserable, proper, scaly, scarcely, selfish, speckled. Students need to be familiar with these words and know their meanings.

Our vocabulary words this week are: loved, should, door, wood.

Our spelling words this week are: (bold words above are bonus words)

1. could
2. count
3. found
4. house
5. mouth
6. ouch
7. our
8. out
9. round
10. shout

In Language we are working on writing a short story with help. We will be using what we’ve learned about parts of speech and righting correct sentences as we write our own stories.

In math we will continue to review all previously learned material. We will be working on understanding the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6=6, 7=8-1, 5=2=2+5, 4+1=5+2

We will also compose two-dimensional shapes or three-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape.

Our story this week is Tippy-Toe Chick, Go! This story is animal fantasy.

We will be learning about diphthong ow/ou and consonant + le. We will review suffixes ly and ful and vowels ew, ue, ui, oo that make the oo sound in moon.

Our amazing words this week are advise, clever, intend, plump, predicament, proudly, scrawny, wise. Students need to be familiar with these words and their meanings.

Our vocabulary words this week are: eyes, never, along, behind, pulled(ing) toward, breath, disagreed, favorite, potato bug, tippy-toe.

Our spelling words this week are (bold words above are bonus words):

1. brown
2. clown
3. cow
4. crowd
5. down
6. frown
7. growl
8. how
9. now
10. town

In Language we will be working on writing a simple story. We will continue to work on writing complete and correct sentences using adjectives.

In Math we will continue to work on fractions, addition and subtractions. We will be learning about composing two-dimensional shapes or three-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend weather!

Our story this week is Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper’s House/This story is realistic fiction.

We will be learning the vowels oo as in moon this week. We will also learn about suffixes ly, ful. We will review the vowels ew, ue, ui.

Our amazing words this week are: admire, discover, dwell, resident, sadness, substantial, tremendous, welcome. Students need to be familiar with these words and their meanings.

Our vocabulary words this week are: across, because, dance, only, opened, shoes, told.

Our spelling words this week are (bold words above are bonus words):

1. careful
2. gladly
3. nicely
4. painful
5. playful
6. quickly
7. sadly
8. slowly
9. useful
10. wonderful

In Language we will be discussing adjectives that compare. We will review other parts of speech including adjectives that tell what kind, how many, size, shape, color. We will also review nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.

In Math we will be learning about fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 by cutting shapes from real life. We will continue to work on addition and subtraction facts

Remember NO school on Friday, March 16

Please be aware that homework has increased. Students will now have a weekly Spelling Menu to complete. This will come home on Monday and needs to be returned along with the activities completed on Friday. Students will be required to do activities totaling 10 points.

Students will also have a daily fact sheet come home. This might be simple one digit addition or subtraction or two digit addition or subtraction. First graders are not required to learn how to regroup (borrow/carry).

Students will also bring home their reading book on Thursday night so they can read their story. Please be sure to return the book on Friday.

Our story this week is Peter’s Chair. We will be learning about compound words and words with the vowels ew, ue, ui.

We will review long i spelled ie, igh, inflected endings, and possessives.

Our amazing words this week are: collector, flourish, jealous, porridge, relatives, secret, seriousness, sibling. Students need to be familiar with these words and know their meanings.

Our vocabulary words are picture, remember, room, stood, thought.

Spelling words this week (bold words above are bonus words):

1. backpack
2. baseball
3. bluebird
4. brainstorm
5. flashlight
6. herself
7. inside
8. lunchbox
9. outside
10. suitcase

In Language we will continue to work on writing complete sentences with capitals and end marks. We will review parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions. We will also review homophones.

In Math we will continue to work on addition facts. These must be learned fluently. We will also complete any assessments needed for report cards.

I’m so thankful that everyone stayed safe over the weekend. Please continue to pray for those communities that have been effected by the storms.

I’m also thankful that most of our classmates are back to school after suffering from flu, strep, and stomach bugs. Please remind your child to wash hands often to keep sickness down.

Midterm ends Friday, March 9. Report cards go home district-wide March 19.

Picture day is Friday, March 9.

Our story this week is the realistic fiction story The Lady in the Moon.
We will be learning about long i spelled ie, igh. We will also work on beginning sounds kn/n/, and wr/r/.

We will review long e and long a, inflected endings, er and est endings, and possessives.

Our amazing words this week are: delightful, errand, festive, fiesta, memory, ordinary, refreshments, symbol. Students need to be familiar with these words and know their meanings.

Our vocabulary words are: above, laugh, eight, moon, touch.

Spelling words this week (bold words above are bonus words):

1. bright
2. lie
3. might
4. pie
5. tie
6. high
7. light
8. night
9. right
10. tight

In Language we will continue to work on types of sentences and their end marks as well as remembering that all sentences begin with capital letters. We will review antonyms and synonyms and conjunctions. We will use adjectives that describe what kind in our writing. Homophones (words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings) will be introduced.

In Math we will continue to work on mentally adding and subtracting 10 from a number. We will learn about the fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 by cutting shapes into these fractional parts. We will learn what a written fraction looks like and that a fraction is part of a whole.