Mrs. Faris's 1st Grade 2023/2024

MARK YOUR CALENDAR November 22-24: No School - Thanksgiving Break November 27 - December 1: Lakeside Scholastic Book Fair  *Bedtime Stories: Wednesday, November 29 from 6:30-7:15 p.m December 15: Winter Showcase 9:15 am (Families Welcome) WEEK AT A GLANCE Reading/Phonics : The SSDA (Super Secret Detective Agency) is at it again! We have received a new set of missions to help us become expert word detectives. We have worked on: The Case of the Twin Letters: Using double consonants in the middle of the word to help us break words apart. The Case of the Sticky Letters: Looking at THREE consonants (trigraphs) at the beginnings of words The Case of Words in Disguise: We are becoming experts at contractions and using an apostrophe to combine two words into one smaller word! (I am, I’m) Math: In number corner this month we have been working with fractions (whole, half, fourth) and telling time to the hour. We have also been looking at the tens place and ones place and knowing the value...

MARK YOUR CALENDAR November 22-24: No School - Thanksgiving Break November 27 - December 1: Lakeside Scholastic Book Fair  *Bedtime Stories: Wednesday, November 29 from 6:30-7:15 p.m. WEEK AT A GLANCE Reading/Phonics: The SSDA (Super Secret Detective Agency) is continuing to challenge us now that we’re official agents. This week we focused on how Word Detectives Use Snap Words to Read: We used snap words as clues to think about what world make sense when we got stuck on a word We solved mystery words by thinking of similar snap words Writing : We’ve been making sure that our snap words are spelled correctly in our writing and that we’re making sure to let our readers know whether our vowels are short or long by using the silent e when needed. We’ve also been using a checklist to make sure we have all the parts needed in How-To writing. Math: This week our focus was again on addition and subtraction facts. We used the Number Rack as a tool to help recognize number combinations ...

  MARK YOUR CALENDAR November 7: Planetarium Field Trip (AM) November 10 : Veterans Day Assembly - 1:00 (Wear Red, White and Blue)  November 22-24: No School - Thanksgiving Break November 27 - December 1: Lakeside Scholastic Book Fair  IMPORTANT NOTES November 7: Field Trip  Grand Rapids Public Museum & Planetarium  Please remember to send your child with his/her booster on Tuesday morning. Please make sure your child’s booster is labeled with their name.  Our programming begins at 9:00 and we will leave the museum around 10:45 to make it back to school for lunch and recess.  While at the museum we will be attending a planetarium showing and exploring the exhibits.  Library : Just a reminder that both library books need to be returned every Thursday in order for your child to check out new books. If your child would like to turn them in prior to Thursday that works, too. They can simply place them onto the black library cart outsid e our ...