First Grade News!

Week 8
Mrs. Baca, Miss Faber, Ms. Jubb, Mrs. Lee Oct. 3, 2016

REMINDERS:
Book Reports!
o Pre-Approval Due Date: OCTOBER 4TH
o Book Report Due Date: OCTOBER 12TH
SPRIT DAY! This Friday is Spirit Day, the students may wear
their spirit shirts and dress code bottoms. If your child does not
have a pre-paid ice-cream card from VAPO, you may send them
with $0.50 so they may enjoy an ice-cream after lunch.
Language Arts
Phonograms: This week there will be a 30 phonogram. However, please
continue to practice all 70, especially the last 25. The last 25 are some of the
most difficult for the students to remember.
Writing: We will continue to create oral/written declarative, interrogative and
exclamatory sentences using this weeks spelling words. We will also learn about
an imperative sentence (a command). Ex: Sit down here. Put that away. *Always
have student read you the sentences that come home in their folders. Please
keep in mind that some of these sentences may still have errors. Correcting the
errors is a good one on one practice at home.
Reading: We spend two days on each story.
Day 1: We read the story chorally, check for comprehension, sequence the
events, and summarize it. It is reading homework. Return it for use in
class tomorrow. Please sign the green sheet daily. This ensures us that
your child has read it to you.
Day 2: We re-read the story and give them a comprehension test. THEY GET
TO USE THEIR STORY. Please keep these stories, when we have finished
both sides, so you can go over and wrong answers that may be on your
childs test.
Please note: This Wednesday and Thursday we will have sequencing stories
instead of the normal story. Please follow the directions at the top of the
page to help your student practice sequencing a short story.

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Week 8
Math:
Lesson 29- Writing Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
Lesson 30-1- Fact Assessment 5/ Add. Facts: Sums of 8 and 9/ Drawing a
Picture to Solve a Problem/ Looking for a Pattern to Solve a Problem
Lesson 31- Creating and Reading a Bar Graph
Lesson 32- Tallying/ Counting by 5s
Lesson 30-2- Written Assessment 5/ Identifying Geometric Shape Pieces
That Are Alike in Only One Way

Science: We will have a one-week unit on Living and Non-Living. This will
include an observation of a rock and a meal worm. Your student will be
taking their own meal worm home this week with instructions about how to
care for it. Once the meal worm goes home, it should not return to
school.
The students will be taking a Chapter Test on Friday. There is no study
guide that will come home. Each student must pay close attention
during all lessons in class.

Calendar:
October
October
October
October
October
October

4th
7th
7th
10th
12th
19th

Pre-approval Form
SPIRIT DAY
Book Logs Due!
NO SCHOOL- Columbus Day
Book Report
Report Cards (Quarter 1)

Specials This Week

Monday

Tuesday

Day 1

Day 2

Wednesda
y
Day 3

Thursday

Friday

Day 4

Day 5

Skills to practice to make a well-rounded student:

First Grade News!

Week 8
Give you child multiple steps when telling them to do things! We often
give multi-step directions, and practicing this at home will help your
child be more
prepared to learn!
Example:
1. Brush your
teeth.
2. Comb hair
3. Put on