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:
·
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.
