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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

February 18-21, 2025

This Week:

-February 21st Fine Arts Friday

Upcoming Events:

Homework: Unit 5 Lessons 13-17 Focus page, math pages, reading passage Nonsense words, and spelling list for this week and next Skills pages.

Return: (Please write your name or student number on each page.)

Read the Focus page and Spell words for Wednesday's test.
Math practice page and missing numbers.
complete the skills page.
Read Nonsense words and Reading passage "Volcanos" time for one minute.

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 contact me.

February:

18-21

24-28

WHAT WE’RE LEARNING!

Skills: Unit 5 Lessons 13-17

Phonemic Awareness:

-Review: /j/= ge (germ, large) /j/=j (jump) /j/ dge= (judge). /ch/=chin, much, /ch/- catch

-Learning: /f/ (unvoiced) and /v/ (voiced) made the same in your mouth.

-/f/> spelled 'f' and 'ff' fish and stuff (ff in short vowel words).

-/v/> 'v' and 've' twelve, have, and cave ('ve' at the end of words. no word can end with a v in the English language)

Phonics:

-The letter sounds and spellings for consonant and consonant/blend consonant clusters /r/ > 'r' and 'wr' rat, write, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, spr, trp shr, and thr. (brim, crab, drip, free, greed, pride, spring, tree, shrink, three).

-Spelling words: Unit 5 Lesson 15

-Assessment on Thursday: gem, magic, fringe, charged, jumping, germ, jars, *your

-Tricky and Sight words: picture, would, done, what, who, why, because,

-Reading: "The Visit", "The Hike"

Words in the stories: stuffed, hoist, flipped, telling, standing, betting, morning, finished, biggest, cliff digging, popped, running.

- Vocabulary: paw, foxes, rabbits, clatter scraps cave.

-Phrases: scram, get lost! a bit, drifted off.

-Grammar: Learning statement, questions, and exclamation sentences and knowing when to use a ( . ? or ! ), Plural Nouns/endings: s, es, er, est,

Knowledge: Unit 7 lessons 7, 8, Domain Review, and Culminating Activity.

-Stories: "Fossils" and "Dinosaurs"

-Comprehension: Students will learn about the geographical features of the earth's surface. The shape of the earth, the North and South Poles, the equator, layers of the earth, three types of rocks, minerals, fossils, and dinosaurs.

-Vocabulary: fossil impression, paleontologist, preserved, debris, excavating, extinct, meteorite, and meteors.

Math: Chapter 8 test

-Chapter 9 Measurement Lessons 1 and 2

Social Studies:

Science: rocks, Fossils, Dinosaurs, and meteors.

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