First Grade Weekly Update January 20th-24th
Weekly Syllabus: January 20th-24th, 2025
Reminders
Monday, January 20th No school in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Tuesday, January 21st Students need to be ready to recite their Oratorical reading. We will be choosing students at random, so everyone needs to be ready on Tuesday. They may not be presenting on Tuesday, but they do need to be ready. We will have presentations all week.
Tuesday, January 21st is January birthday free dress.
Wednesday, January 22nd is a noon dismissal for faculty and staff professional development and Spirit Day-Pajama Day.
Religion
Chapter 8 The Church. Students will learn: how we live as members of the Church family, how the church helps us live as followers of Jesus, how people who help us live as followers of Jesus, how to show reverence for God and service to others, and to praise and thank God for the Saints.
Language Arts
Unit 8 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Decode CVVC words with ue and ie, decode CVVC words with ing and ed endings, read an informational text, recognize and spell memory words, recognize and understand dialogue punctuation, and identify speakers in a play.
Spelling Words: blue, tie, heat, keep, would, could, some, one, new, and were
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand characters and connect ideas using cause and effect, discuss plot structure, identify the topic of an informational text, understand and use homophones, and determine the meaning of key vocab words.
Writing: Generate ideas for a debate, choose a side for the debate, use a web to plan a debate, discuss a briefly record ideas for the debate, complete a debate plan using opinions and reasons, review and practice good speaking skills for a debate, review good listening skills, and debate and respond to each side.
Author Study: Laura Numeroff
Mathematics
January Number Corner begins, and students find familiar routines infused with fresh elements. Calendar Grid markers feature single equations and story problems with missing addends, minuends, or subtrahends, and students tell math stories to match the equations and use various strategies to solve for the unknown parts. They return to collecting coins in Calendar Collector and record their collection on a graph. They also learn to use known facts to solve related facts of 1 more or 1 less. Finally, they meet a favorite frog’s little sister and join her in skipping across the number line by 5s as they come within a decade of reaching the 100th day of school.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 2: In Module 2, students work on the number line as they continue to develop a rich sense of numbers and number relationships. This engaging module challenges students’ reasoning abilities as they work to determine the value of empty number boxes placed strategically on the open number line. Students help frogs move across stones on a number line in jumps that include multiples of 5 and 10, tell stories about the frogs’ actions, and record equations to match.