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1st Grade Overview

September 13 - 19

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Phonics: We will review letters K, C, B & spelling with C&K.

Assessment: September 19th

Spelling: Spelling list 2 test will be on Friday, September 19th.

a, an, at, tap, lot, nap, tan, zip, lap, pit

  1. Nap on it.

  2. Zip a top

Foundations and Frameworks: 

We will continue our mini-unit, Biographies.


MATH: We will work on counting, comparing, and adding with dominoes.

Assessment: Fact test - September 19th & Unit 2 test - October 3rd 


SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: Light & Sound, Asia, & Responsible Citizenship

Weekly Memory Work: A copy of each will be in your child’s folder - Philippians 2:3-4 & The Tiger are below:

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

“The Tiger”

We can never touch them,

so we love them from afar;

they are wild and distant—

the Tiger and the star.

We can never know them;

they are not what we are:

fire, fire, burning bright—

the tiger and the star.


REMINDERS:

  1. Fall yearbook pictures in uniform are on September 18th.

  2. Spartan Race is September 26th, from 10:30-11 for 1st grade. This is a full day of school. Please let your teacher know if you plan to take your child early. Send an extra set of clothes/shoes/socks for afterwards. 

  3. The Tennessee Aquarium field trip is on October 24th.

  4. Please help your child unload their “leave at home” side of the homework folder and allow them to read with you, or to you, each day for 10-15 minutes. 

  5. Snacks: No cookies, potato chips, or candy, please. Students may bring a small healthy snack to school each day.