Home Page-2

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

March 24-28, 2025

 This Week:

Upcoming Events: 

-March 28^th: Last day ordering Yearbooks

-March 31^st -April 6^th Spring Break.

=April 14^th First Grade Field Trip to Hogle Zoo

Homework: Unit 6 Lesson 12-16 Focus page, math pages, reading passage Nonsense words, Skills pages.

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

• Read the Focus Page  (Spelling word for this week)
• Math practice: Grater than Less Than and equal, (><=) and Graphing Data.
• complete the skills page. 
• Read Nonsense Words and Reading passage "Cocoa" (Time for one minute each)

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 22 students. We have a student who is allergic to red dye. If you need to change to a different week, please contact me.     

April:  

Loni           7-11     

 Kaliana     14-18

Rowann     21-25                                                                                                   

WHAT WE’RE LEARNING!

Skills:  Unit 6 Lessons 12-16

Phonemic Awareness:

Two-Syllable Words

Phonics:

/n/>n (nut, nice, note, cent)

/n/>nn (dinner, running, fanning)

/n/>kn (knot, knit, knife, knock, knee, knapsack)

/w/>w (wet)

/w/>wh (when whimper, while)

s>/s/ (cats, steps, bikes)

s>/z/ (dogs, kids, eggs)

es>/ez/ (foxes, lunches, wishes)

Double consonants: (soccer, winner, Jill, matter, stuff, shutter, pepper)

Two and Three-syllable words: (thunder darkness shelter, hanger, finish, expect, exercise)

Compound words: (cupcake, bookbag, sunset, sunscreen)

-Spelling words: Unit 6 Lesson 15 for Thursday's Test

hammer, maps, mice, trimmed, skipped, scrub, space

-Tricky words: *could

-Reading: "The Storm", "Dark Clouds and Wind", "In the Storm Shelter", "The Visit", "The Soccer Game"

Words in the stories: 

• Phrases: 
  • Blacked out
  • State Champs
  • run of bad luck

• Vocabulary: winces, scamper, shelter, shutters, basement, darts, gusts, cracks, booms, peeks, flip-flops, cove, wade, yelping, shot, keeper skins, pouts, wing

Grammar:                                                                                                                                                

• Nouns and pronouns 
• Adjustive: (to help expand a sentence by describing the noun) 
• Prepositions(to expand a sentence like, in, out, at… adding where and when)  

Writing: Expanding sentences

Knowledge: Unit 9 Lessons 3-6 Fairy Tales "Rapunzel", "The Frog Prince" Part 1 and 2, "Hansel and Gretel" Part 1

 -Learning the elements of Fairy Tale; Setting (Where and When), Characters (Real and Magical), Fantasy (events and Plot) Problems, Solutions, and Ending.

-Comprehension: Learn to look at similarities and differences in many fairy tales.

-Vocabulary: delight, longed, merciful, rage, court, glee, retrieved, wailed, will, contented, disgusting, glared, scold, comforted, glittered, shocked

Math: Chapter 10  Data Test

Chapter 11 Lesson 1-4 3-D shapes

Social Studies: 

Science: 

Daily Schedule:

- School starts at 8:55

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

-Math 9:05-9:4

-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