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First Grade Overview

September 18, 2026

  

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

Assessment: September 25th

Spelling: Spelling list 2 test will be on Friday, September 25th.

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. Unit 2 overview here


Assessment: Fact test - September 25th & Unit 2 quiz - October 2nd 


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


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


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. Parent Conferences will be held from October 5th through October 23rd. These are required conferences. Please look out for a sign-up from your teacher. 

  2. Fall Break is October 8-12th, resuming school on October 13th.

  3. Fall Festival is 5-8 p.m. on Friday, October 23rd.

  4. The Tennessee Aquarium field trip is on October 30th.

  5. 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 about 15 minutes. 

  6. Snacks: NO peanut/tree nut snacks in Dahlke’s classroom. Grade-level: No cookies, potato chips, or candy, please. Students have the option to bring a small healthy snack to school each day.