1st Grade Newsletter – August 22nd, 2025
IMPORTANT DATES:
September 1: No School/Labor Day
September 4: Progress Reports
September 5: PTO/Fall Event
September 10: Pictures
What We Are Learning for the Week of August 25, 2025:
Social Studies: We will start Social Studies again the week of September 8.
Phonics: Blending, segmenting, tricky words, and decodable texts
Skills: Sounds /j/, /y/; Spellings ‘j’, ‘y’;
Sounds /x/, /k/; Spellings ‘x’, ‘k’;
Sounds /ch/, /sh/; Spellings ‘ch’, ‘sh’
Tricky Words: from, word, are, have, were, one, once, do, two
Wit & Wisdom
Focusing Question: How does the Biblioburro change life for Ana?
Focusing Question: How do people around the world get books?
Texts: Museum ABC, Waiting for the Biblioburro, My Librarian is a Camel
Math: Unit 1 Addition and Subtraction
Science: Unit 1 “Light and Shadows”
CLUBS:
Be on the lookout for Club flyers in your child’s Friday folders and check out the list of clubs in this week’s PTO newsletter.