1st Grade Newsletter
Please check your child’s Friday folder for a permission slip for our March field trip to Owl’s Hill Nature Sanctuary. We will only be able to take a limited amount of parent chaperones on this field trip. More information about chaperones will be sent home via email next week.
February 24: Visit from Channel 2 Meteorologist Marcus Bagwell from 1:30- 2:30pm
March 2: Read-A-Thon reading logs are due by 3pm.
March 6: Book Character Dress Up Day/Dismissal at 11:30am. March 9-13: Spring Break
March 16: Students return to school.
There will be no homework other than reading during the Read-A-Thon.
Social Studies:
Spelling Words: No homework other than reading during Read-A-Thon. Phonics: Blending, segmenting, tricky words, and decodable texts
Skills: Spelling Alternatives ‘p’ and ‘pp’ for /p/; Spelling Alternatives ‘b’ and ‘bb’ for /b/; Spelling Alternatives ‘c’ ‘k’ ‘cc’, and ‘ck’ for /k/
Tricky Words: how
Wit & Wisdom
Focusing Question: What are feelings?
Focusing Question: How do characters respond to the powerful force of the wind?
Texts: Feelings, Aliki; Gilberto and the Wind; Marie Hall Ets, Owl at Home, “The Guest”, Arnold Lobel
Math: Start 2-Dimensional Shapes on Wednesday
Science: Plants and Seeds
Inventor’s Club Now Open to 1st Graders!!
Sign Up and Return in Friday Folders
