Week 14

OTIS SPUNKMEYER COOKIE DOUGH SALES: 

The Fall Cookie Dough Fundraiser is now due.  Checks can be made out to CA PAVE. Our goal this year is to raise $8,000 for the Music Department to purchase instruments for classroom lesson instruction.  

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning this week: Nov. 30th - Dec. 4th

November reading calendars are due.  Your goal is 400 minutes for the month, unless stated otherwise. Parents, don't forget to sign the bottom of the form.  You may send it in as soon a you reach your goal for the pizza prize!

Interactive Read Aloud:  We will be reading stories from different lands that have similar stories to those our children have heard like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.  Our students will be learning about settings, characters, plots, and identify the characteristics of a sub genre of fiction; folktales. 

Phonics:    We are starting to learn about silent "e".   These are CVCe words where the "e" is silent to allow the first vowel to say it's name as in cake, like, and tune.

Grammer:  Our students will learn about contractions.  Students will recognize that a contraction is when two words are put together and one or more letters are omitted.  An apostrophe replaces the omitted letters.

Writing:  We will also begin our "How To" writings where we use first, next, and last to organize our thoughts when giving a step-by-step writing sample.   

Math:   We are working on identifying place value.  Students will identify how many tens and ones are in a number.  They will use place value to segment a 2 digit number into tens and ones.

IXL:If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B & C)
• Subtraction (Section D & E)
• Mixed Operations (Section F)
• Recognizing Patterns (section P)

Core Knowledge:  The next few weeks your child will be learning about ancient Egypt.  He/she will learn about the importance of the Nile River for farming and for the cities that developed on the river.  Your child will also learn about the Egyptian writing system of using hieroglyphs, the existence of pharaohs, and the importance of their religion.  They will make a sarcophagus project that they will present and is due December 7th.  

Core Virtue:   December's Core Virtue is Gratitude

Week 13

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning this week: November 23-24th

November reading calendars will soon be due.  Your goal is 400 minutes for the month, unless stated otherwise. Parents, don't forget to sign the bottom of the form.  You may send it in as soon a you reach your goal for the pizza prize!

Reading:   Bear Says Thanks, and Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message are our stories for this week.  We are looking at identifying who is telling the story.

Phonics:We are starting to learn about vowel teams.  The common rule is that when two vowels go walking the first one does all the talking.  We will also talk about CVCe words where the "e" is silent to allow the first vowel to say it's name as in cake, like, and tune.

Writing:We will have our AUTHOR's CHAIR readings where each child will present their story to the class.  We will also begin our "How To" writings where we use first, next, and last to organize our thoughts when giving a step-by-step writing sample. 

Math:  We are working on identifying patterns in numbers by adding 2, 5, 10 to existing numbers.  Students will be able to create simple patterns using objects, pictures, and numbers.  They will also identify what the pattern rule is.

IXL:If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B & C)
• Subtraction (Section D & E)
• Mixed Operations (Section F)
• Recognizing Patterns (section P)

Core Knowledge:  The next few weeks your child will be learning about ancient Egypt.  He/she will learn about the importance of the Nile River for farming and for the cities that developed on the river.  Your child will also learn about the Egyptian writing system of using hieroglyphs, the existence of pharaohs, and the importance of their religion.  They will make a sarcophagus project that they will present and is due December 7th.  

Core Virtue:Novembers Core Virtue is Generosity- being kind and generous to others

Week 12

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning this week: November 23-24th

Reading:   Bear Says Thanks, and Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message are our stories for this week.  We are looking at identifying who is telling the story.

Phonics:We are starting to learn about vowel teams.  The common rule is that when two vowels go walking the first one does all the talking.  We will also talk about CVCe words where the "e" is silent to allow the first vowel to say it's name as in cake, like, and tune.

Writing:We will have our AUTHOR's CHAIR readings where each child will present their story to the class.  We will also begin our "How To" writings where we use first, next, and last to organize our thoughts when giving a step-by-step writing sample. 

Math:  We are working on identifying patterns in numbers by adding 2, 5, 10 to existing numbers.  Students will be able to create simple patterns using objects, pictures, and numbers.  They will also identify what the pattern rule is.

IXL:If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B & C)
• Subtraction (Section D & E)
• Mixed Operations (Section F)
• Recognizing Patterns (section P)

Core Knowledge:  The next few weeks your child will be learning about ancient Egypt.  He/she will learn about the importance of the Nile River for farming and for the cities that developed on the river.  Your child will also learn about the Egyptian writing system of using hieroglyphs, the existence of pharaohs, and the importance of their religion.  They will make a sarcophagus project that they will present and is due December 7th.  

Core Virtue:Novembers Core Virtue is Generosity- being kind and generous to others

Week 10

Here’s what our CA first grader scholars are learning in week 10:

Reading:We are starting an author study revolved around Gail Gibbons.We will be focusing on non fiction characteristics of the stories Pumpkins and Apples, while studying the main topic of the story (apples and/or pumpkins).We will also be finding text evidence within Gail Gibbons stories. Then, we will be comparing and contrasting Pumpkins and Apples at the end of our two week author study unit.

Phonics:We are starting to learn about digraphs, -sh, -ch, -th, -wh, -ck, -ph. Digraphs are two consonants put together that make a new sound. Students will be learning to read and write words with these digraphs in them.

Writing:Students are continuing to work on their small moment pieces. This week they will continue editing, revising and publishing their pieces. Students will be using a check list to edit their writing pieces and then getting them ready to publish and finalize.

Math:Interim Week! Students will be reviewing concepts learned from the beginning of the year in order to prepare for their first interim. First grade will be taking the interim on Wednesday and Thursday. 

IXL:If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B & C)
• Subtraction (Section D & E)
• Mixed Operations (Section F)

Core Knowledge:Students will be learning about how to read a map using the directions north, south, east and west. Students will also be identifying the continents and oceans by creating their very own maps of the world. 

Core Virtue:Novembers Core Virtue is Generosity- being kind and generous to others.