First Grade

 

Dear First Grade Families,

As we enter into March, we are also beginning our Lenten journey. This year first graders will be participating in a school wide Lenten project. Each day students will have opportunities to do activities to deepen their faith and their relationship with God. Students will spend time in prayer and finding ways to share God's love through acts of kindness.

Reading: Becoming Strong Readers
Throughout this unit students will be reading alot! We will work on building our fluency and monitoring our reading. Additionally, we will examine comprehension skills such as making infrerences and summarizing.
During phonics we will continue to review letter sounds. We will explore vowel teams. 
Thank you for practicing sight words at home with your children!

Writing:
Students will write opinion books in this unit. Students will learn to create an opinion piece and back up thier opinion with details, examples and facts. In this unit students will write about personal collections, their community place to visit, and their favorite book.
*Students will need to bring their favorite book into school on Tuesday, 4/23. We will keep the book for about a week.


Math: Measurement and Time
Students will explore measurement and time in this chapter. We will start by learning comparison words such as shortest and longest. Students will have fun measuring objects with non-standard units. As we begin the second part of the chapter about time, students will discover analog and digital clocks. We will learn about the hour and minute hand. Students will learn to tell time to the hour and half hour.
Remember, students should be spending about 10 minutes on their homework each night. Please let me know if your children are struggling so I can provide additional support to them during the school day.


Religion:
In our next unit of study we will the ways that God shares His love for us. Jesus taught his disciples and teaches us today all the ways that God shows us His love. We will learn about the parts of the Mass.



Communication is very important. I will be updating this website once a week.  This will be an important site for you to look at, as it will be the place where I post important reminders, content information that we are learning about, homework, and pictures of our class. I will also send home a weekly newsletter that outlines what we will be doing and homework assignments for the week. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns as we start this adventure together.  I can be reached at Jennifer.Cellura@dor.org.

Important Dates:
4/12: No School
4/15-4/19: Easter Break
4/22: Favorite Book at school
5/1: Planetarium field trip
5/9: May Crowning
5/23: School Talent Show
5/24: No School
5/27: No School

Thank you for sharing your children with me this year!
Jen Cellura