First Grade Weekly News

January 20-24, 2025 No School on Monday!

This Week's Story: Over and Under the Snow

Skills covered in this story: information from a picture vs information from a text, verb tenses, ea spelling patterns

Vocabulary: *forest, *tunnel, doze, huddle, glide

Over and Under the Snow Read-A-Loud

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Nonfiction Story: It's Not Just Bears

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Spelling Words: January 24 (ea spelling patterns)

beat

meat

seat

pleat

heat

neat

wheat

treat

she

do

how

Math Skills to Work On

This week we will be: Measuring a path, exploring: base 10 exchanges, lengths and path measurements, more comparison symbols.

VoWac (Phonics)

We will work on: initial blends (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw,)

EXTRA ACTIVITIES

Scholastic News

Map Skills

Mystery Science

Events this Week

Monday: 1/20: No School: Teacher Work Day

Friday: 1/12: Reading and Spelling tests

Looking Ahead

February 14: Valentine's Day Party

February 17: No School, President's Day

February 21: Mid term for Quarter 3

March 17: No School: Staff Development for teachers

March 21: End of 3rd Quarter

March 24: No School: Teacher Work Day

How to Contact Ms. Sloan

Email: bsloan@gm.k12.mn.us

Phone number: 507-754-5310 or 507-857-1120

Phone extension: 151

School Web: gm.k12.mn.us