First Grade Weekly Update March 24th-28th
Weekly Syllabus: March 24th-28th, 2025
Reminders
Please continue to work on the Lenten Homework and turn in the grapes and leaves with acts of kindness. Also, take time to look at the Lenten Path packet with ideas for practicing the three pillars: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Religion
We continue to focus on Lent. We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Circumspection- Circumspection falls under the virtue of Prudence which enables one to reason and to act rightly in any given situation.
Circumspection is the careful consideration of the circumstances and one’s options to determine the best course of action. For example: I think before I act and ask for advice when making important decisions as well as praying to ask for God’s guidance.
Saints associated with this virtue are: Blessed Miguel Pro, St. John Baptist de la Salle, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, and St. Edmond Campion.
Language Arts
Unit 13 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify, decode, and write ar and or words and understand the use of the suffix -ful.
Memory Words: both, again, laugh, cold, does, and know
Spelling Words: paper, even, silent, open, super, their, now, always, because, and been
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read memory words fluently, understand characters and characters feelings, connect self to text, connect character feelings to problem and solution plot, identify key details, and identify main topic and retell key details.
Writing: Problem-Solution Fictional Stories
Author Study: Marc Brown
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 6 Module 2: The activities in this module continue to focus on addition and subtraction story problems and fact strategies to 20. Students make double-flap dot cards and picture cards, writing sets of fact family equations and story problems to match. They model and solve addition combinations to 20 on their number racks, identifying such strategies as working with easier combinations like 10 + 4 and 7 + 7 to solve more challenging combinations such as 9 + 4 and 7 + 8. A game at the end of the module, Pick Two to Make Twenty, sets work with addition combinations in an appealing and challenging context. The module concludes with a short checkpoint assessment.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.