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Welcome to 1st Grade!

Hello! My name is Ms. Bigler. I am excited for our year of learning together! Please feel free to contact me at any time.

Email: kbigler@dsdmail.net

School Phone: 801-402-2000

Classroom News

Ms. Bigler’s Weekly Newsletter

November 18-22

This Week:

-November 4-22 Year Book Cover Contest

Upcoming Event:

-November 27-29 Thanksgiving Break

Homework: Focus page will contain spelling words and other learning information for each week.

Return: Reading Log/Math, all Skills pages with work to be completed with your name and RED reading books.

Focus page with spelling words to practice.
Reading Log on the back of the Focus page. (You may use the stories from Skill Unit, Read Every Day Books for the Reading Log, and add books from the Reading Log to the Read Every Day book list).
Remember to do the Math attached to the Focus/Reading Log page. Please write your name or student number on your math page.
Complete the Skills pages. Please remember to use neat handwriting and write your name. or student number.

Birthday Week:

(Bring a favorite book to share with the class. Your parents can read the book, you can read the book, or I can read it. The best time to have the parents come in to read the book would be 3:10 Monday-Thursday and 1:10 on Fridays and any early out day.) If you would like to bring in a treat for the class, we have 21 students. We have a student who is allergic to red dye. If you need to change to a different week, please get in touch with me.

November:

Ximena 18-22

December:

Oakley 2-6

Briar 9-13

Reese 16-20

WHAT WE’RE LEARNING!

Skills: Unit 3 Lessons 11-15 Test on spelling words found on the homework Focus page.

-Phonemic Awareness: Words with /oo/ soon, /oo/ book, /ou/ shout, /oi/ oil, and /aw/ paw

-Start working on /oi/ and /aw/ in words like (coin, join, point, coil, boil...) and (paw, saw, law, hawk...)

-Spelling words: brook, booth, stood, room, south, proud, shout, down

-Basic Coding: (blend and segment words with up to four phonemes).

-Tricky and Sight words: go, find, use, long, know, such, oil

-Words found in the story. Review found, loud, shout, count, coin,

Review Tricky words. Who, what, my, all

-Reading: "The Two Mules" "The Bag of Coins"

- Vocabulary:

-Phrases: foot of a tree and a bad spot

-Grammar: Verbs present and past tense (a word that names an action jump, present tents jumping, past tense jumped )

-Writing: Students will write a Book Report on "The Two Dogs" (Story mapping. Name of the tale, Who?, Where?, What? (Once, there were..., Next in the tale..., At the end of the tale...) Using correct writing conventions. Please use nice handwriting.

Knowledge: Early World Civilizations

-Stories: "Three World Religions," "Judaism," and "Christianity"

-Comprehension: Review features of the Mesopotamia and Ancient Egyptian Civilizations,

Vocabulary: faithful, Islam, Judaism, shrine, Hebrew, Jewish, prophet, rabbi, synagogue, Christian, church, eternal, messiah, and miracle

Math: Chapter 5 Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Social Studies: Mapping/Land formations

Science:

Daily Schedule:

-School starts 8:55

-Morning work and story 8:55-9:05

-Math 9:05-9:45

-Recess 9:45-10:00

-Phonics Skills 10:00-11:00

-Lunch and Recess 11:00-11:35

-Language Knowledge: 11:35-12:15

-Calendar and Haggerty 12:15-12:30

-Reading and math interventions 12:30- 1:45

**Fridays Early Out 1:30**

-Recess 1:45-2:00

-Prep 2:00-2:45 Mon. Library (2:00-2:30), Tues. Computers, Wed. STEAM, Thur. PE (wear good running shoes).

-Snack, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Social Skills, 2:45-3:15

-Clean up and go home: 3:15-3:30