Happy Friday 1C families,
I'm getting a head start getting next week's blog post out to you because I will be out on Monday. Mrs. Miller will be filling in for me in my absence.
Have a wonderful weekend!
In pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,
Sarah Kaye
Announcements
Music Concert: Our Spring Concert is this week! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts on May 1st. Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform. Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white dress shirt, black pants, black socks and black closed toed shoes. Solid dark colored vests and ties are optional for gentlemen. Ladies are expected to wear a white top, black skirt, black tights and black closed toed shoes. Please have your 1st graders at Higley Center for the Performing Arts by 5:00pm.Please visit aretek-2music.blogspot.com or emailjweddle@archwayarete.org for questions regarding the concert!
Calendar
Wednesday, May 1st: Spring Concert
Wednesday May 22-24: Half Days
Homework
Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute)
Practice phonograms: th, ie, ei, au, aw, ch, sh, ey, i, y,
Monday: thread, thunder, try, tried, vein, except, ant, aunt, capture, else and math wb pg. 150-152
Tuesday: bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, run, running, rule, carry, chain and math wb pg. 153-155
Wednesday: no homework this night due to the spring concert
Thursday: Review all words and Test B
Friday: Read for 15 minutes
Academics
Spalding: We will have 30 words this week and the Spelling Test will be on Friday!
Monday: thread, thunder, try, tried, vein, except, ant, aunt, capture, else
Tuesday: bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, run, running, rule, carry, chain
Wednesday: death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check, prove, hear, heard
*no homework this night due to the spring concert
Phonograms: th, ie, ei, au, aw, ch, sh, ey, i, y,
Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from The Nightingale and The Glow Worm poems by William Cowper as well as Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.
Grammar: This week we will be learning about pronouns. A pronoun is a word that is used in the place of a noun. We will learn these pronouns: I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, him his, she, her, hers, it, and its. We will practice reading them, identifying them, and using them in a sentence, both orally and written
Math: We will continue to explore numbers 1-100 as we identify 1 more, 1 less, 10 more and 10 less. We will also work to manipulate numbers into various parts and order the numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest.
Literature: We will read chapters 4-5 in my Father’s Dragon as we retell and respond to what we have read.
History: We will continue to journey westward as we learn about Sacagawea’s influence on the Lewis and Clark expedition. On Friday, we will make a lap book page to show what we have learned about Lewis and Clark.
Science: This week we will continue our exploration in to the solar system. We will be studying Saturn and Uranus this week. We will compare and contrast Saturn and Uranus to see how a day on their planet might be like in terms of time, temperature, size, and weather.