First Grade News Week of April 14, 2025

ELA & Reading: Students will be reading a passage called Signs of Winter, as we continue to study seasons.

Spelling: Our words are open and closed syllable words with 5 letters: cabin vs. hotel

Phonics: Review of oo sounds, like goose and book

Grammar: Prepositional phrases and writing complete sentences.

Math: Unit 12 involves using numbers to 120 in various ways of counting.

Mobymax Challenge: Congratulations to our students who received their certificates already for math facts! Our goal is to make 100% on Mobymax fact fluency for BOTH addition & subtraction by the end of the year. Reach out to me if you need to borrow some flash cards.

Remember you can always order from Scholastic Book Club using the first-grade class code: YRWZB

Important Dates:

Earth Day is April 22nd.

The Earth Day Balloon visit is April 24th.

REAL meets each Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 3:35 - 5:00.

Please notify the office by 3:15 if you have a change in transportation for your child.

Spelling List - Unit 5-5 Open and closed syllables

begin

label

hotel

robot

cabin

melon

seven

topic

High Frequency words to spell:

today

should

High Frequency Words:

years

warm

world

today

should

Week 5-4

only

learn

move

house

eight

Week 5-3 review

sentence

off

open

because

laugh

Week 5-2 review

once

done

water

wash

upon

Week 5-1 to review:

people

would

write

about

buy