Quarter 3 Week 7 February 19-23
Welcome to 1st Grade!
This week we have only a 4 day week and we do not have school on Monday the 12th due to Presidents Day. I hope everyone did enjoy their 4 day weekend. We are so happy to have your scholars back! Please continue to remind your scholar that at recess they need to play gently and to have respect for their fellow scholars and listen to their teachers as well. We hope you all have an amazing week!
Important Dates:
February 19th: No School Presidents Day
February 23rd: Full School Day
February 23rd: Spirit Day
March 6th: Last Day for Food Drive
March 7th: 1st Grade Feild Trip to the Zoo
March 8th: Great Hearts Day!
March 11-15th: Spring Break
March 22nd: Spirit Day
March 25-28th: Book Fair & Read-a-thon
March 29th: No School Good Friday
April 4th: My Shadow Poem Recitation
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 outside 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. During recess time they can wear a non-Great Hearts jacket.
- Every Tuesday we will send home the scholar's yellow folder please sign and return anything that needs to be returned and signed 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 Upper school 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.
- We will be sending home book bags and checking the scholar's comprehension and understanding of their book so please go over it with them every night.
-If you are able to bring snacks for your class for scholars who are not able to bring one that would be extremely helpful! Please make sure it is in individual packaging.
- Please go over playground etiquette with your scholar and remind them to please keep their hand to themselves and to not push and shove other scholars.
Week at a Glance:
Spalding: Review phonograms 1-70 will be reinforced with daily OPR/WPR and applied through analysis of daily spelling instruction. An emphasis on base words continues as the teacher helps children discover the meaning transferred to the derivatives as endings are added and prefixes introduced.
Math: Students will add ones to a 2-digit number without renaming and add ones to a 2-digit numbers with renaming. Students will add two 2-digit numbers without renaming.
Literature: My Father’s Dragon chapters 3 and 4. .In chapter 3 Elmer manages to survive the journey and leave the ship unscathed. He arrives at a new place—Tangerina, and eats its fruit. But he doesn’t stay there for long! In Chapter 4 Elmer has finally made it to Wild Island! He is quickly caught by one of the animals.
My Shadow -Stanza 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson - The theme of the poem is to portray how a child gets excited and thrilled by his own shadow. The child is curious and wonders how the shadows keep changing for everyone. He is impressed by his own shadow and so he starts noticing everything about his shadow. Stanzas 1-4 will be for recitation Apr 4, 2024.
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