Updated 1/5/2023
Mrs. Coyle's
First Grade
Lillie Hayden Dempsey Beckett Lyra Teddy
Van Jack Margeaux Miles Klym Job
Spencer Sean Lily Quinn Molly Virginia
Harry James Cailin Juliet
(22 students)
January
1/3 School Reopens
1/16 Martin Luther King, Jr Day
No School
1/17 Board of Education Meeting
1/19 9am Class Play "Bunnies"
1/26 Multicultural Book Day
1/31 2nd Marking Period Ends
Homework is assigned nightly (Mon.-Thurs.) in First Grade!
Homework is the same every night for the most part...
some fun projects will be sprinkled in throughout the year!
Some Helpful Reminders:
- Special Schedule 2022-2023
Monday: Spanish & Gym
Tuesday: Enrichment and Innovation
Wednesday: Music & Gym
Thursday: Art
Friday: Art & Music
*Media Center time TBD
-Empty your child's folder nightly.
-Plastic water bottles are allowed.
-Please make sure you child wears sneakers on Gym days (Mon & Wed).
Order Scholastic books by clicking the link below
and use our Class Code HTCCJ:
https://clubs.scholastic.com/
FUNdations
- Unit 7 is 3 weeks long and is all about glued sounds. We will be learning how to read, write, and spell words with: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, and unk. We will also incorporate suffix -s. We are reviewing tapping to read and spell as well as practicing word and sentence dictation on our white boards and in our Student Notebook.
Reading
-Students are participating in daily center activities to reinforce concepts previously taught as well as engage them at their individualized reading abilities.
Our Centers include:
-Read to Self (Book Shopping for Book Baggies)
-Listen to Reading (Choice Books on EPIC)
-iReady Reading
-Work on Writing (Monthly themed journals)
-Word Work (Stamp weekly tricky (heart) words, practice writing and building words with personal sight word lists)
(*www.starfall.com is a great beginning reader site*
Take a look at the Learn To Read link.)
Language Arts/Writing
Units: Launching, Nonfiction: All About Books, Poetry, and Personal Narrative, How To
We just started our unit on Personal Narrative. We currently are reading and responding to mentor texts and collecting ideas and memories that inspire us.
Social Studies
-We are learning all about community helpers and rules vs. laws
Math
-We are working on making teen numbers using place value blocks.
Next Up: Making a 10 to add
-We are learning how various strategies can lead us to the same answer, and we are practicing how to talk about those strategies with each other.
-Keep practicing basic addition and subtraction.
-Some strategies we have learned to help us add and subtract:
chips, ten-frame, draw a picture, number line, make a 10, doubles, near doubles
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*Please continue to practice basic math facts at home!
**Encourage your children to use various strategies to help them solve problems (number bonds, ten frames, draw it out, number line, etc...)**
Science
Continues in Marking Period 3.
Spelling
We are stepping away from a traditional weekly spelling list and test again this year. Instead, spelling will be embedded in our phonics program (FUNdations) and Writer's Workshop. Spelling will be assessed formally during FUNdations unit tests, and informally through daily application in authentic writing.