Week 29

The office has added a new email to report student absences, tardiness, early pickups and current school day end of day transportation changes. Please email frontdesk@cologneacademy.org for any of the listed reasons.  Please include your child's full name, grade, and specific information about the information you are reporting.

Here’s what our first graders are learning this week: March 28th - April 1st

Interactive Read Aloud:  Oceans:  Stories that will help us in this genre this week are Over the Ocean, The Seashore, A House for Hermit Crab, Swimmy, and Hello Ocean.

Phonics: ai and ay words

We have started our end of the year study on learning to spell high frequency words, vowel team words, as well as words we have generated from our own lists. Each Friday your child will have a spelling test of 6 words they have been practicing all week through various activities.  This week we will focus on ay and ai words.

Writing:   We continue studying Laura Numeroff, who is the author of the "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" series. Students have studied her stories and writing style, have created their own versions using Laura Numeroff's writing style, and are in the final stages of putting together their final product.

Math:  Our new math unit is Money.  Students will identify coins and name the value of each coin from its front and it's back.  Students will be able to count coins of the same type as well as be able to count mixed coins.  

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

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    Data and Graphs (Section M)

    Geometry (Section K)

    Measurement (Section N) 

    Time (Section S)

    Money (Section O)

Core Knowledge:   Our new Core knowledge unit will be Animals and Habitats. This domain introduced the students to the connection of all living things with their physical environment and each other.  Students have learned what a habitat is, what the different habitats we find on our planet are, what plants and animals live there, as well as what adaptations they have made for survival.  They have learned about a food chain, a food web and will discuss endangered animals and what can be done to stop this from happening.  Habitats we will and have already talked about are Arctic Ocean, tundra, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, ocean and freshwater.

Core Virtue: Compassion: sympathy, care or concern for the feelings of others.

Week 28

The office has added a new email to report student absences, tardies, early pick ups and current school day end of day transportation changes. Please email frontdesk@cologneacademy.org for any of the listed reasons.  Please include your child's full name, grade, and specific information about the information you are reporting.

Here’s what our first graders are learning this week: March 14th - 18th

Interactive Read Aloud:  Animal Fantasy Stories:  Animals act like human and show human characteristics.  Stories that will help us in this genre this week are Koala Lou, Too Many Pears, Marsupial Sue, and Petunia. 

Grammar/Phonics: Prepositions:  Words that indicate location.  (on, above, beside, behind...)  We continue to review adjectives, verbs, and pronouns. 

We start our end of the year study on learning to spell high frequency words, vowel team words, as well as words we have generated from our own lists.  Each Friday your child will have a spelling test of 6 words they have been practicing all week through various activities.  

Writing:   We continue studying Laura Numeroff, who is the author of the "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" series. Students will study her stories and writing style, then create their own versions using Laura Numeroff's writing style. 

Math:  Our time in math this week will be in reviewing and taking the Interim 1:3 math test.   You can help by helping the, tell time to the hour and half hour, practice their tens and ones places, know 3D shapes names, # of faces, vertices, and edges, be able to count side and angles of 2D shapes, and know how to balance an equation while adding or subtracting.  

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

·     

    Data and Graphs (Section M)

    Geometry (Section K)
  Measurement (Section N) 
  Time  (Section S)

Core Knowledge:   Our new Core knowledge unit will be Animals and Habitats. This domain introduced the students to the connection of all living things with their physical environment and each other.  Students have learned what a habitat is, what the different habitats we find on our planet are, what plants and animals live there, as well as what adaptations they have made for survival.  They have learned about a food chain, a food web and will discuss endangered animals and what can be done to stop this from happening.  Habitats we will and have already talked about are arctic ocean, tundra, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, topical rainforest, ocean and freshwater.

Core Virtue: Compassion: sympathy, care or concern for the feelings of others.

Week 27

Here’s what our first graders are learning this week: March 7-11th

Interactive Read Aloud:  Animal Fantasy Stories:  Animals act like human and show human characteristics.  Stories that will help us in this genre this week are Koala Lou, Too Many Pears, Marsupial Sue, and Petunia. 

Grammar/Phonics: Prepositions:  Words that indicate location.  (on, above, beside, behind...)  We continue to review adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.

Writing:   We continue studying Laura Numeroff, who is the author of the "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" series. Students will study her stories and writing style, then create their own versions using Laura Numeroff's writing style. 

Math:  This week students will be leaning about Time.  Students will be able to write and tell time to the hour and to the half hour.  We will also introduce the quarter hour and three quarter hour concept.  

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

·     

    Data and Graphs (Section M)

    Geometry (Section K)
  Measurement (Section N) 
  Time  (Section S)

Core Knowledge:   Our new Core knowledge unit will be Animals and Habitats. This domain will introduce the students to the connection of all living things with their physical environment and each other.  Students will learn what a habitat is, what the different habitats we find on our planet are, what plants and animals live there, as well as what adaptations they make for survival.  They will learn about a food chain, a food web as well as discuss endangered animals and what can be done to stop this from happening.  Habitats we will talk about are arctic ocean, tundra, desert, grassland, temperate deciduous forest, topical rainforest, and freshwater.

Core Virtue: Compassion: sympathy, care or concern for the feelings of others.