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

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First Grade

Miss Koepke's Class

 Homework Chart

 

 

 

 

Parent initial each night when homework is completed!

Monday

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

 

Thursday

 

 

Friday

 

Reading

Read for 10-15 minutes.

 

Read for 10-15 minutes.

 

Don't forget to mark your minutes on your September calendar!

Read for 10-15 minutes.

 Spelling

We will have our first spelling list next week!

 

Math

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specials

 

 

Music & Spanish 

Mass, Library, Computers & Gym 

Music & Gym 

Music & Computers

  Library

Notes from Miss Koepke: 

 

 

 

·         Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year!

·         Please initial your child’s homework sheet each night.

·         Begin writing reading and math minutes on your September calendars on Wednesday.

Reading

 

Weeks of August 30th and September 6th 

 

Story:   Max, the Cat

Skills:  

Making predictions, background knowledge, vocabulary (one, give, this, likes),  

comprehension, short a, using illustrations, parts of a book

 

 

Week of September 13th

 

Story: Quack

Skills:  

Making predictions, background knowledge, vocabulary (on, what, they, your),  

comprehension, using illustrations, ck digraph, review short a, sequence of events, parts of a book

 

 

Week of September September 20th

 

Story: What Does Pig Do?

Skills:  

Making predictions, background knowledge, vocabulary (does, look, her, there),  

comprehension, using illustrations, short i, review short a and ck, review sequence of events, parts of a book

 

 

Week of September 27th

 

Story: The Path on the Map

Skills:  

Making predictions, background knowledge, vocabulary (could, down, be, see),  

comprehension, using illustrations, sh and th digraphs, context clues, glossary skills

 

 

 

Week of October 4th

 

Story: Ships

Skills:  

Making predictions, background knowledge, vocabulary (),  

comprehension, using illustrations, review sh, th, ck, short i and short a,

review –s ending, review context clues, review parts of a book and glossary

 

 

 

 

  Math

 Unit 1: Number Concepts, Operations and Graphing

  • Chapter 1: Number Concepts
  • Chapter 2 Addition Concepts
  • Chapter 3: Subtraction Concepts
  • Chapter 4 Data and Graphing

  Math this week:  

            

Science 

 

 

     

Unit A: Plants Are Living Things

  • Your Senses
  • Living and Nonliving things
  • Plants Are Living Things
  • Plants Have Parts
  • Roots
  • Stems and Leaves
  • Seeds
  • Plants Grow and Change

 

Science this week:  We will be talking about living and non-living things. Also, we will discuss all about the 5 senses.

 

Social Studies  

     

 

 Unit 1: All About Families

  • Many Families
  • Families Celebrate
  • Where Families Live
  • Using Addresses
  • Family Rules
  • Problem Solving
  • Families on the Move
  • Using Charts
  • Families and Change
  • Thomas Edison
  • Being a Good Citizen
  • Celebrating Kenya

 

 

  Social Studies this week:  We will start to talk about families.

 

 

 

 Religion

    

 

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:  What to excpect at school Mass.    

 

 

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: 

 

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.

 

OUR FIRST SPELLING LIST WILL BE FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 6th!

 

 

 

 

  

 Birthdays

 

January

 February

17th Nathan

March

18th Joe

April

19th Jack

30th Sophia

May

10th Jeslyn

30th Therese

June

18th Molly

July

22nd Sebastian

31st Kate

August

September

3rd George

25th Sarah

29th Micki

October

7th Charlie

18th Faith

November

December

 




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