Welcome to First Grade! 

  

 Mrs. Jansen

 

Mrs. Wirkus

 

Mrs. Lighty

 

Mrs. Stump

 

Mrs. Green

Mrs. Argento

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 Here's what is coming up this month in First Grade:

 

Important Dates:

 Important Information
 
Nov. 6
Favorite Shirt Day

Nov. 8 
Favorite Shoes Day

Nov. 13
Favorite Color Day

Nov. 15
Favorite Hat Day

Nov. 19 & 20
Parent-Teacher Conferences

Nov. 15- 20
Scholastic Book Fair

Nov. 20-26  No school Thanksgiving Break
 
 
 
Parent Teacher Conferences:
Please remember to sign up for a fall conference with your child’s teacher.  You can do this at the following website: www.easypts.com/dallastown/parents The user ID is your child’s six digit lunch number. The password is your child’s eight digit birthdate.
Dress for the Weather:
First grade has two recess outside everyday, weather permitting.Please dress your child in warm coats and label them.
 

Lost & Found:

There is a Lost and Found Table in the school lobby where your child may find any missing clothing.
Items not claimed will be donated at the end of the marking period.
Lunch Accounts:
Your child is able to purchase extra items (ice cream, gold fish crackers, string cheese) at the cafeteria. You may block these items by sending a note in your child's folder or going online to www.myschoolbucks.com and entering your child's name and pin number.
Read everyday:
Read to your child everyday. Encourage your child to spend time looking at books independently. Return the Bag-A-Book everyday after reading and recording the tilte in the agenda  please.
 

 
Here's what we will be learning this month in First Grade:

 

Reading Strategies
*Fluency and phrasing
*Using expression
*Visualizing while reading
*Retell with details ans transition words
*Use story elements
*Make personal connections
*Identify problem and solution
*Author Study: Kevin Henkes

Word Work

* Root words and endings
* Stretching words to hear beginning, middle and ending sounds

* Consontants/vowels
* Forms letters correctly and sounds of letters

*LongVowel and Short Vowel Patterns

*Syllables in a word/and the vowel
 
 
Spelling
* Week 1: be, if, not (-ot word family)
* Week 2: with, they,that ( -ell word family)
* Week 3: her, his, as (- et word family)
 
 
Writing

*Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing


Math

*Subtraction to 12

*Related Facts to 12

*Fact families

*Mixed addiition/subtraction facts to 12
 

 

Science and Social Studies

* Election
* Family

* Thanksgiving