First Grade is Fabulous!
Miss Kerri Koepke
St. Mary's Visitation School

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First Grade

Miss Koepke's Class

 Homework Chart

Week of: March 15-19

 

 

Parent initial each night when homework is completed!

Monday

 

 NO SCHOOL

Tuesday

 

Bring library books back for tomorrow. 

Wednesday

 

 

 

Thursday

 

 

Friday

 

Bring library books back for Monday!

 

Reading

Read 10-15 Minutes

Read 10-15 Minutes

Read 10-15 Minutes

 

 

 Spelling

Study Spelling Words Study Spelling Words

 Study Spelling Words

Test Tomorrow

 

Math

 

Practice counting money. Practice counting money. Coin Worksheet

 

Social Studies

Study vocabulary on website.

Test Tomorrow

 

Specials

 

 

Library & Gym

Mass, Music & Computers

Library & Gym

Computers

Mass & Music

Notes from Miss Koepke: 

 

·         Please e-mail Mrs. McQuide a baking recipe and contribute $5 to $10 towards the first grade auction basket. It will be greatly appreciated! THANKS!

 

Reading

 

Week of March 8th

Story:   Seven Sillies

Skills:   background knowledge, introduce and apply long e (e and ee), make predicitions, introduce –ing, vocabulary (all, four, many, so, over), dictionary words

 

Week of March 15th

Story:   Shrinking Mouse

Skills:  background knowledge, make predicitions, vocabulary (before, right, off, come, our), review long e (ie, ea, e, ee), review –ing, reading a newsletter

 

Week of March 22nd

Story:   You Can’t Smell a Flower With Your Ear

Skills:   background knowledge, make predictions, draw conclusions, introduce and apply long o (o, oa, oe, ow), review context clues, vocabulary (by, high, kind, find, more), using a list, work on fluency

 

Week of March 29th

Story:   Owl and the Moon

Skills:   background knowledge, make predictions, introduce and apply long i (i, y, igh), review oa    oe    ow, review draw conclusions, review context clues, reading signs, work on fluency

 

Week of April 12th

Story:   The Night Animals

Skills:   review long e    o    i, review making predictions and drawing conclusions, review –ing, review context clues, review using various texts

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Math

 

Unit 5 Objectives

(Chapters 13 and 14)

 

~ Tell time to the hour and half-hour using analog and digital clocks. *

~ Compare time, order events and determine elapsed time. *

~ Use a calendar.*

·   ~ Find the value of a group of coins including pennies, nickels, and dimes.

~ Show the same amount in different ways, including ways to make .25 cents.

~ Apply skills and strategies to solve problems.

 

Math this week: Students will continue to learn how to count money.   

Science 

 

 

     

Unit E: Matter, Matter Everywhere

 

·        Properties of Matter

·        Solids

·        Liquids

·        Gases

·        Solids in Mixtures

·        Solids and Liquids in Water

·        Heat Changes Matter

 

Science this week: 

 

 

Social Studies  

    

Unit 3 Good Citizens

·         Different Groups we belong to.

·         The need for rules.

·         Using directions: North, South, East and West

·         People follow laws.

·         Leaders in the community, state and country.

·         Mary McLeod Bethune

·         Being a good citizen.

·         Votes count!

·         Symbols of our nation.

·         Using a calendar.

A look at first graders in Japan

  Social Studies this week: Students will work on an American symbols coloring book. The Unit 3 test will be on Thursday.

Religion

  Unit 3- We Live

·        We Live as Children of God*

·        We Live as a Family*

·        We live as a Community*

·        Moses Leads God’s People: A Scripture Story

·        We Love God

·        We Love Others

·        We Love Through Forgiveness

·        Jesus and the Children: A Scripture Story

 

 

We are working on being attentive and participating during mass.  Being attentive includes following along (sitting, kneeling, and standing) and listening.  Right now, for participation, we are working on doing the sign of the cross, praying the Our Father, and responding when we can. 

We are also learning about God's love for us!

 

We will be learning different religious songs in the classroom!  

We are learning that there are different ways to pray!

 

Religion this week:  Children will learn the story of David and Goliath and Joseph and his Brothers.

 

 

Writing

We are working on:

~ using illustrations to tell a story and writing sentences

 ~stretching out words

~leaving spaces between words and sentences

~capital letters at the beginning of every sentence

~punctuation marks at the end of every sentence

~writing a beginning, middle, and an end

 

Grammar this week: Students will learn about adjectives that compare (big, bigger, biggest).

 

Spelling

The spelling tests have 2 different skills, recognition and recall.  The first six words have a spelling pattern:  short or long vowel, blends, etc.  The last four words are high frequency words, words that are often seen while reading.

 

Week of March 15-19

1.   reached

2.   fields

3.   read

4.   sea

5.   piece

6.   leaf

7.   before

8.   off

9.   our

10.        come

 

 

 

 Birthdays

 

January

 Ayden   23

February

Anthony   20

John John 28

March

April

Samantha   13

Josh   28

May

Isaac   29

June

July

Michael   9

August

Luke   5

Sonali   7

Max   26

September

Mitchell   23

Will   27

October

Molly   10

November

December

 




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