Q2 W4 November 4th-8th (Library Cycle A)

Welcome to 1st Grade

 Hello families this week is Field Day! Hopefully everyone shows their school spirit make sure your scholar practices their classroom chant. On Feild Day scholars are allowed to wear Athletic shorts or pants and tennis shoes. We are so excited for this week! :) Thank you and we hope everyone has a great week!


Important Dates:

November 7th: 1st-4th Field Day (Wear Field Day shirt and athletic pants/shorts)

November 11th: Veteran’s Day Lunch 

November 11th-14th: Book Fair 

November 20th: Grandparent’s Day Grade: 3-5th 

November 21st: Grandparent’s Day Grade: K-2 

November 22nd: Literary Character Day & Spirit Day 

November 25th-29th: Thanksgiving Break

December 16th-20th: Spirit Week

December 16th: Crazy Hat/Hair 

December 17th: Tie-Dye Tuesday 

December 18th: Wacky Socks or Shoes 

December 19th: College Shirt/Career Day 

December 20th: Spirit Day, End of Q2

December 22nd-Jan 3rd: Christmas 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:

  • Math Chapter 5 Test Friday
  • Unit 2 History Test Wednesday

Week at a Glance:

Spalding: Review phonograms 1-62 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: Now that students have reviewed and further built the skills of adding and subtracting in this chapter, they will start to use the inverse operation of addition to solve subtraction problems. Strong knowledge of fact families is beneficial to students using the related addition facts strategy to solve subtraction problems. At the end of the week, students will demonstrate their mastery of the concepts of adding and subtracting numbers within 20. Learners will use learned strategies, number bonds, and fact families to add and subtract on a final assessment.  

Grammer/ Writing: Students will define what an interrogative sentence is and write a complete interrogative sentence, retell the sequence of events in a story, and review and identify subject and predicate in a sentence.

History& Science: This week in History, students will close Unit 2: Mesopotamia with our assessment on Wednesday. We will begin Unit 3: Ancient Egypt! In Science, we will be diving deep into our unit in plants & animals. Scholars will be able to describe how animal sensory structures capture information that animals need for growth and survival. 

Literature: Frog and Toad are Friends who love spending time together. From getting organized to growing a garden, from learning about willpower to proving their bravery, these amphibious amigos show readers what friendship is all about. We are continuing to practice retelling each story.

Table Manners (The Goops) By Gelett Burgess is about the Goop Family who do not demonstrate their table manners while eating. First grade will be working to memorize this poem for recitation (Nov. 14-15) using proper voice tone and drama ( Dramatization should be accomplished by speeding up, slowing down, and emphasizing exclamations and hand gestures.)

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


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