Q1W5 September 9th-13th (Library Cycle B)

 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! Also, the weather has begun to shift so please remind your scholars to bring their sweater and if they do bring a jacket that is not a Great Hearts Sweater, they CAN NOT wear it inside only when outside the building. Have a great week everyone! :)

Important Dates:

September 12th- Curriculum night @6-8PM

September 13th- Progress Reports Go Home

September 16th: Constitution Week

September 27th- Spirit Day!

October 3rd: Fairy Tale Celebration (More info TBA)

October 4th: End of Quarter 1 

October 11th: No School 

October 14th-15th: Parent/ Teacher Conferences 

October 16th-18th: Fall Break 

Important Information:

- Scholars with Upper School siblings (who wait in the MPR at carline) must have a silent reading book everyday with them or in their backpack.

- Please make sure your scholar packs a snack everyday so they can refresh their energy. It doesn't have to be a big snack but just something to tie them over till lunch time.

- Scholars have Math and Spalding Homework daily except for Fridays so please make sure you are checking their black folders daily for homework and math workbook and reading the agendas.

- Please send your scholar with a water bottle to school every day so they can stay hydrated.

-For Spalding homework please write the words 2 times and in 2 Columns, you will fold the paper hot dog style and write on the left-hand side and close to the folded line.

- We are going to start going to the library so please make sure when you see A Great Hearts Western Hills book make sure they return it on their next library day your lead will send an email to let you know when that is. (Schedule is down Below

Library Rotation/ Schedule:

Cycle A:

Wednesday:  1D

Thursday:  1C

Friday:  1A

Cycle B:

Thursday:  1B

Up-Coming Test Dates:

- Spalding Spelling Test Every Friday 

- Spalding Phonogram Tests Every Thursday

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: In this week’s lesson, students will develop the strategy of “counting on” to more efficiently solve addition problems. It is important for students to have a firm foundation with number sense and subitizing to successfully use the “counting on” strategy of addition. Scholars will also review the terms parts, whole, and equal(s) in number bonds. They will explore whether the order of the parts added makes a difference and connect the parts and whole to addition facts. Students will then practice writing the addition facts for number bonds. 

Grammer/ Writing: Students will continue working on common and proper nouns, including full names, cities, towns, and states.  We will also be working with commas.

Literature: Literature: We are continuing our unit on Fairy Tales - this week we will focus on Rumpelstiltskin and Puss in Boots..  We are working on retelling each story.

Poetry: Work While You Work - by Anonymous. We are continuing to work on posture and body language.

History& Science: First graders will complete a comparison chart to visually display facts about Canada, Mexico, & Central America. Later in the week we will be introduced to South America & the Amazon River. For Science, we will be moving away from the Sun and turning over to recording the moons phases. 

Teacher Information:

1A: 

(Lead) Ms. Cavazos:

Alexandra.cavazos@greatheartstxschools.org

 (AT) Ms. Bernal:

Liliana.bernal@greatheartstxschools.org

1B:

(Lead) Mrs. Martin: 

Susan.martin@greatheartstxschools.org

(AT) Mrs. Davis: 

Jameaka.Davis@greatheartstxschools.org

1C:

(Lead) Ms. Gomez: 

Stephanie.gomez@greatheartstxschhol.org

(AT) Ms. Maldonado: 

Kassandra.maldonado@greatheartstxschools.org

1D:

(Lead) Ms. Arrigo:  

Alexis.arrigo@greatheartstxschools.org

(AT) Ms. Nothstein: 

Sylvia.nothstein@greatheartstxschools.org