FIRST Full Week of School

Speaking and listening are important skills for a First Grader. Your child will learn to express themselves in a clear, concise way. First Grade students will also learn to follow multiple step directions, and become active learners.

First Graders will explore all areas of math with the use of manipulatives. Your child will learn to write, count, and compare numbers, and solve addition and subtraction facts.

Learning to tell time, reading graphs, measuring and patterning will be taught in First Grade. Your child will have a busy, exciting year in First Grade!

Our spelling program will begin in late October or early November. We will focus on word families and the 100 most frequently used words in First Grade.

We will conduct some informal assessments of each student as we progress through the year to determine mastery.

Each student is important and precious to us. You can be assured that we are committing ourselves fully to this significant year in your child's life.

We are enjoying getting to know your children and we are excited for a successful year in first grade! We will communicate with you through email, our blog that comes out every Friday and with take home notes.  If you have any questions please don't hesitate to email us.

   
This first week....We jumped right into our Language Arts centers.  We have started with the writing center and the word work center. They have been busy reviewing rhyming words, proofreading sentences for the correct beginning and end, writing the word wall, listening to Brand New Books, Brand New Pencils with headphones, and completing short A activities for review just to name a few. Eventually, we will add the reading center and your child will visit each center weekly.  Take a look at the pictures below:

Opposite Words Match up

Listening Center

Rhyming Words Sort

Starfall.com (Phonics short "a" Zac the Rat Story)

Correcting Sentences

Wet Dry Try App HWOT on the  iPads

Slide Cards short "a" words this week

In math this week we have been busy with number corner, which the kids love! We use the date (ie: 20th) to review many concepts such as odd/even, tallies, equations, etc. They are math whizzes. We have also been reviewing repeating patterns and have introduced growing patterns.

NUMBER CORNER

We are working on growing patterns....We used Fruit Loops to show the pattern growing. 

Growing Patterns with our story book....Evan & Zion show us how to make them on the board using pictures.

TNT (Try New Things) Myself Art Project

Creating our Classroom Rules

HWOT (Handwriting Without Tears)

Grammar/Phonics Books Practicing short "a" & how to write a good sentence.

Lots of BIG things happen in First Grade at St. Paul's Episcopal Day School and the teachers are always excited to watch the change and growth your child will experience this year. Learning to read is our main emphasis. Your child will learn to incorporate phonics skills, reading strategies, and sight words to read with understanding and fluency.

First two days of school check it out our Bulletin Board by the bathrooms in the hallway...

Eating our Watermelon

 In Hands-On Science Friday, Miss Fate and Mrs. Waller led the students as the made ALKA-Rockets! Don't worry, no one was hurt. The students had a blast and experienced their first FIRST GRADE chemical reaction. Check it out below:

Computer Lab with Mrs. Wyllie & Mrs. Lorfing did www.abcya.com & worked on Moonrock Patterns & Counting Fish to reinforce what we are teaching in math.
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REMINDERS:

• No school Monday, September 2nd-LABOR DAY
• Lower School curriculum night is Thursday, September 5th @ 6:00 pm.
• Please return the Lower School Pledge signed by you & your child

We are having a great time getting to know your children. WHAT A GREAT CLASS!!! Have a safe weekend. See you on Monday!
Love, Miss Fate & Mrs. Wyllie
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