1st Grade News

Yea!  We are in our newly remodeled classroom!  It is awesome.  We are all excited by how bright and cheerful it is inside. 

Our religion lessons concentrate on the Old Testament lessons.  We started with Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and are now learning about Joshua and the Children of Israel going into Egypt.

We started the year in reading doing a lot of review.  We are reading different story genres (types).  We have a special focus each week on grammar parts.  Our word of the day comes from the vocabulary list from each of the stories.  We also learn strategies to help us become better readers.  In Phonics, we have been reviewing all the consonant letters and sounds.  Our spelling lessons also started with a review of the sounds of letters and now we spelling words each week. We also practice writing the letters correctly in "first grade" style.  Writing sentences in our writing journals is another skill we are practicing each day.  

In math class, the first grade has been working on adding and subtracting since the beginning of school.  We are now getting ready for data and graph work.  we will learn about tally marks and use that data to fill in different types of graphs.

Science classes are concentrating on using the five senses to help us learn.  We learned about living and nonliving things.  We also showed our baby pictures to show our friends how we all have grown.  Our 2nd chapter is about plants and what their parts are called.

Social studies has taught us about our families and neighborhoods, cities, towns, and rural areas.  We also do some work with maps and map keys.

 

Word of the Day sheet	Due each day
Friday folders come home	due back on  Tuesday
Assignment Books	signed each day