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Main Office
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8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Booras, Jennifer - 1st
Jennifer joined Southfield in 2011 as a first grade teacher. She joined the school with over 20 years of experience in education. She has a BS in Elementary Education from LSUS.
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Weekly News
May 21-25
Reading- working on the "aw" and "all" sounds. End of the year assessment.
Spelling- Top 50 first grade words.
Math- facts to 20, more fractions, symmetry, end of the year assessment.
Reminders:
Wednesday- End of the year 1st grade party. Bring beach towels, favorite book, sack lunch, favorite ice cream topping. We will start at 11:00 lunch time, followed by ice cream and cookie cake.
First Grade Weekly News
April 9-13
Reading- phonics: y as the long e and long i sound, the “ay” sound, comprehension and fluency of the story In Case of Rain.
Spelling- too, hungry, sky, empty,
work, first, happy, many, try, down.
Math- more practice with money, place value, introduction to dollars
Science- magnet unit
**We will begin SAT testing on Friday, April 13th. Please have your children to school on time!!
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
March 5 - 9, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: This week we will be assessing the end of our Rowland reading unit. We will also be testing word recognition and reading fluency.
Spelling: Review test from 30 “Dolch Words”.
Math: Complete Unit 6: Developing Fact Power. We will introduce the use of the second hand for timing tasks; introduce the statistical landmarks range and middle value; practice collecting data and making bar graphs and review and assess ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
March 5 - 9, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: This week we will be assessing the end of our Rowland reading unit. We will also be testing word recognition and reading fluency.
Spelling: Review test from 30 “Dolch Words”.
Math: Complete Unit 6: Developing Fact Power. We will introduce the use of the second hand for timing tasks; introduce the statistical landmarks range and middle value; practice collecting data and making bar graphs and review and assess ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
Feb. 27 - March 2, 2012
Reading/Language: Introduce “CVVC” word patterns. Distinguish short-vowel and CVVC words. Add “er” and “est” endings to “CVVC” words.
Decodable Book: The Contest.
Spelling: NO Spelling due to Civilization Fair
Math: Continue Unit 6 Developing Fact Power. We will extend the “What’s My Rule?” routine to finding missing input numbers; we will find the value of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies and show money amounts with coins.
Social ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
Feb. 20 - 24, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: Continue to discuss CVCe words with “ed” and “ing” endings.
Decodable Readers – Straw Horse
Spelling: Words this week – would, could, some, one, new, were, rain, coat, seat, sleep.
Math: Continue Unit 6 – Developing Fact Power. We will revisit the relationship between addition and subtraction; introduce the centimeter as a unit of measure in the metric system; measure and draw line segments to the nearest centimeter; develop readiness ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
Feb. 13 - 17, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: Review CVCe words and practice recognizing short and long vowel words. Discuss the main ideas of stories and learn how to summarize stories.
Spelling: boy, two, about, girl, over, before, traded, smiling, hoping, used.
Math: Begin Unit 6 – Developing Fact Power. We will explore patterns in the sums obtained from throws of dice; introduce the Addition/Subtraction Facts Table; introduce “Name-Collection” boxes as devices for collecting equivalent ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
Feb. 6 - 10, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: Discuss plural forms of words and talk about CVCe word patterns and CVCe plurals.
Decodable Readers - When I Am A Princess and Kite Story.
We will be reading decodable readers in the classroom daily in small groups. We will discuss comprehension questions about each story.
Spelling: Words for this week are: skate, spoke, came, ride, cute, dine, joking, making, shaved, smiled.
Math: Continue Unit 5. We will ...
Parents,
We are asking each student to make a Viking project for our study of the Vikings. We would like each student to make his or her own Viking house, Long house, Viking ship, a Viking puppet, a shield, or Viking jewelry for their project. This project is due on Monday, Feb. 27th.
The Viking house (small milk carton or box) or Long House (shoebox or large box) may be covered with Popsicle sticks, broken ...
First Grade Newsletter
January 23-27
Reading- Reading Kites, comprehension of story: beginning, middle, and end of a story, decoding long vowel words with “super e”.
Spelling- oh, good, any, very, want, day, cake, shake, hide, pride.
Math- morethan and less than number stories, number stories that involve finding differences.
Social Studies- continuing the Viking unit.
REMINDERS!-
Wednesday, January 25th- Class Pictures
Friday, January 27th- First performance of Winnie the Pooh at 8:30. Please have your child ...
FIRST GRADE WEEKLY NEWS
Jan. 2 - 6, 2012
Reading/Language Arts: Discuss short and long vowels. Discuss character dialog and practice writing examples. Introduce new memory words and pattern words.
Decodable Reader – Foolish Giant
Spelling: only, out, here, smell, well, bell, slap, snap, trap, flap.
Math: Continue Unit 4: Measurement and Basic Facts
We will introduce Number Scrolls; begin making a number scroll for numbers to 100 and beyond; introduce addition facts and fact power; find addition-fact sums; practice ...