First Grade Happenings
February is here! We are having so much fun in first grade! It is hard to believe that we are approaching the midpoint of our school year. We will be celebrating our 100th Day of school on Friday, February 6th. See below for details. Your precious children have grown so much this year, and it is a blessing to teach them. Thank you for your continued support and prayers!
Important Notes For The Week
100th Day Celebration- Friday, February 6th
We will be celebrating our 100th Day of School on Friday. Students are welcome to dress up as a 100 year old. Have fun and be creative with glasses, canes, hair and outfits. It will be a lot of fun. As always this is a completely optional activity. Please let us know if you have any questions!
Unit 5 Math Test on Monday
A practice test for our upcoming math test over Unit 5 is inside of your child’s homework folder. Please have your child complete this to prepare for Monday’s test.
Valentine’s Day and Service Project
We will have a Valentine’s exchange on Wednesday, February 10th in the afternoon. We will enjoy a pizza lunch in the classroom that day. Before the big day, your child will make their own personalized Valentine bag to hold their cards (this will be done in class). Class Lists will be placed in homework folders on Monday. We are also excited to have an opportunity to spread the love of Christ to those who may not receive a Valentine. Your child will be makingValentines for the residents of an assisted living facility in Acworth.
February Book It
We are proud of our first grade readers! The form for February will be inside of your child’s homework folder on Monday. Remember, you only have to read for 100 minutes each month! This can also be recorded on your 100 Book Reading Challenge form.
What are we learning ?
Bible
This week’s Bible verse comes from Ephesians 4:32.
Click on the picture to get a preview of this week’s Bible story!
Math
Thank you for partnering with us in math! Have your child watch the videos by clicking on the pictures below to help them count money, memorize doubles facts and enrich their understanding of using doubles as helper facts.
Reading
We are starting a new unit on Character this upcoming week. We will be analyzing characters based on their appearance and actions.
When reading with your child at home, ask them:
Who is in the story?
What does the character look like?
What does the character do?
How would you describe the character’s personality?
Phonics
This week in phonics we will continue learning about vowel teams. We will learn “oa” which is typically found in the middle of a word. We will also learn “oe” which typically comes at the end of the word. By the end of the week we will know 4 different spellings of the long o sound: o-e as in bone; o as in clover; oa as in goat and oe as in toe. We will have a spelling test on Thursday.
How can I help my child this week?
Call out a word from this chart:
Have your child build it with letter stamps, magnetic letters or even Alphabits cereal. If he/she is unclear of whether to use o-e or oa, prompt them like this:
“Roach” has the o spelling like goat. “Broke” has the o spelling like bone.
Writing
We will begin learning how to write a character description based on their appearance and actions.
Science:
We will continue our weather study. Your child will take on the role of meteorologist as they observe and evaluate weather using our classroom weather station.
