First Grade Weekly News

Skills covered in this story: nursery rhymes, text structures, conjunctions, 'or ' spelling pattern

Vocabulary: heights, terrified, bandage, idea, admit

or spelling patterns

born

fort

north

thorn

cord

horn

storm

torch

write

go

see

This week we will be: fact families, relating special addition and subtraction facts, subtraction fact strategies attributes of shapes.

We will work on: vowel-consonant-silent e syllables.

Words students should be able to spell without much thought: the, is, who, said, says, you, some, come, do, what, mother, of, was, want, have, are, father, to, too, two, they, their, there, from, when

Map Skills

Geography

Thursday 3/13: Title One Night 5-7 PM

Friday: 3/14: Spelling and Reading tests

March 13: Title One Night (5-7 PM)

March 17: No School: Staff Development for teachers

March 21: End of 3rd Quarter

March 24: No School: Teacher Work Day

April 5: School Carnival

April 11: Spring Concert 1:30PM

April 14-18: No School: Spring Break

April 21: No School: Staff Development Day

April 24: Experiential Learning: Hormel Nature Center

April 26: Grandparent's Day

May 2: Mid term for Quarter 4 and Grandparent's Day

May 9: Service Learning Day

May 16: Pancakes with Pals

May 23: First Grade Field Trip: Mystery Cave and Historic Forestville

May 26: No School: Memorial Day

Email: bsloan@gm.k12.mn.us

Phone number: 507-754-5310 ext 151

School Web: gm.k12.mn.us