Q1 W5 September 11-15th

Welcome to 1st Grade

 This week is a bit eventful! On Thursday the 14th we have our curriculum night! This is a night where parents can live a day in the life of a scholar. Yall will be learning and seeing what your scholar gets to do every day. We are so excited and thrilled to see and meet some of our new families that have joined our Great Hearts Western Hills family! Have a great week everyone! :)

Important Dates:

September 14th- Curriculum night @6-8PM

September 18th- Progress Reports Go Home

September 22nd- Big give Event

September 29th- Spirit Day!

Important Reminders:

- Please Remember to bring a snack and water bottle daily for your scholar

- It does tend to get a bit chilly in the classrooms and your scholar might want a sweater so just in case you may pack a Great Hearts Western Hills sweater or cardigan in their backpack to have.

- For Spalding Homework please have your scholar write the words or phonograms 2 times and in 2 Collums

- Every Tuesday we will send home the scholar's yellow folder please sign and return anything that needs to be returned and remove the rest to keep at home

-Please discuss with your scholars to not talk during instruction time and to respect their teachers time of teaching.

- Your scholar needs to bring an independent reading book to school every day to use during dismissal. This is especially important if your scholar is picked up at Upper School because the expectation in the MPR is that scholars read silently. 

Week at a Glance:

Spalding: Scholars will be reviewing 1-45 phonograms and starting to add new words into their pink notebook from the Ayers list. Scholars will learn the jobs of Silent Final E and test their knowledge over the new words learned this past week. 

Math: Students will tell and solve additional stories, form number bonds to add to 10 and write additional facts for given number bonds.

Grammer/ Writing: We will be reviewing Proper nouns and where scholars are able to recognize and identify Proper nouns versus common Nouns.

Literature: This week we will continue to retell and Fairy Tales using characters names, and plot sequence- Fairy Tales include: Puss in Boots, Sweet Porridge, and Tom Thumb. Our poem this week is Work While You Work. 

Science: Students will continue Learning about our Sun, moon, and stars unit focusing on the changes the sky and the sun makes when it is rising and falling from east to west. Scholars will learn about what the moon is and its purpose. Scholars have also learned about what a compass is and its purpose when finding direction.

History: Students will learn about and understand the importance of Mesopotamian inventions including written language – cuneiform. Students will learn about the first story ever written down – The Epic of Gilgamesh.