Holy Cross Catholic School - First Grade: 2022

Spelling - ank, ink, onk, unk

Hank

tank

thank

sink

wink

honk

bonk

junk

bunk

chunk

Math - We have been working on even and odd numbers, adding 2 to even and odd numbers, telling time to the hour and the half hour, missing addends, and fact families.

Phonics - We have been working on the -ng glued sounds, learning new trick works, and practicing dictation. This week we will start our next group of glued sounds - nk.

Science - We finished up our first PLTW module - light and sound. We ended with our project - how to make a communication device - Something that could either make light or sound to alert someone. The students were given objects and then had to come up with ways to make their communication device.

We also had our weather guest speaker - Steve Beylon. The students loved learning about weather from a meteorologist!

This is amazing! These are all the toys we collected for Toys for Tots!

We sent the toys to WBAY with Mr. Beylon.

Weather Cupcakes :)

Writing thank you letters to Mr. Beylon

Social Studies - We have been learning about "me on the map" - What is a continent, country, state, and city. We are learning about some map skills. We learned about directions and the compass rose. This week we will continue to learn about map skills, a map key, and scale.

Religion - We have been learning about Advent. We have an Advent wreath in our classroom. We have learned about the four weeks - hope, peace, joy, and love. We made Advent wreaths out of beads and pipe cleaners. In our Promise Paper we learned about John the Baptist. This week we will learn about Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadelupe. We have a Jesse Tree in our classroom. Each day for 17 days we read a Bible story. We add a piece to our tree each day with each Bible story. Our current virtues and values word is generosity.

Reading - We continue to work in our guided reading groups and daily 5 centers.

Knowing basic sight words is a big part of reading. By the end of first grade, the goal is for the students to know the first 175 sight words. Some of the students already know all 175. Some of the students know only a few words. Some of the students are somewhere in between those. :) The sight words that we use are in our Bee Binder. Please take some time to practice sight words with your student.

Reading with your child for 20 minutes a day is another way for your child to strengthen their reading skills!

Remember, you can access Raz Kids and Vocabulary A-Z at home to practice both reading and spelling.

To access Raz Kids, you can either go to the website or download the app.

The website is https://www.raz-plus.com/

The app is Kids A-Z.

Once there, go to kids login.
The teacher name to enter is jsullivan100.
Once in, the student will click on their name.
The password is the apple.
Press go.

The student can click on the purple planet for reading or the yellow plant for spelling. (It says vocabulary)

*If the student would like to choose books on their own, they will click reading room.

In reading room, they have lots of options on how to choose the books they want to read. If they want to read books at their level only, they may press leveled books. Every student has their level entered in the website. This allows them to read books at their level, as well as 2 levels above and below.

*If the student would like to practice their spelling words, they will click on vocabulary. Their assigned spelling list will pop up. Click on the list. From there you can choose phonics, spelling, or vocabulary. Whichever one is chosen, it will bring you to games that use the spelling list.

Some Daily 5 Pictures -

Finding all the words to Jingle Bells and putting them in order