First Grade News Week of April 28, 2025

We are doing our end of the year and end of the unit testing activities, Please make sure your child is well rested for this action packed week!

ELA & Reading: Students are preparing a skit in which they will persuade the audience that their chosen season is the best all year long!

Spelling: We are working on the short u sound to finish out the year. This can be spelled with oo and u.

Phonics: We are learning about the consonant /le/ syllable type and will review all syllable types from midweek on.

Math: Unit 12 involves using numbers to 120 in various ways of counting.

Mobymax Challenge: Congratulations to our students who received their certificates already for math facts! Our goal is to make 100% on Mobymax fact fluency for BOTH addition & subtraction by the end of the year. Reach out to me if you need to borrow some flash cards.

Remember you can always order from Scholastic Book Club using the first-grade class code: YRWZB

Important Dates:

The Earth Day Balloon visit was postponed until this week.

We will be touring and learning about the new firetruck on Friday afternoon.

REAL FAMILY NIGHT on Tuesday from 5:00 - 6:30, come enjoy some games and refreshments with your student!

Please notify the office by 3:15 if you have a change in transportation for your child.

Spelling List - Unit 5-6 short u

book

shook

good

stood

full

pull

push

put

High Frequency words to spell:

through

another

High Frequency Words:

mother

father

another

through

picture

Week 5-5

years

warm

world

today

should

Week 5-4

only

learn

move

house

eight

Week 5-3 review

sentence

off

open

because

laugh

Week 5-2 review

once

done

water

wash

upon

Week 5-1 to review:

people

would

write

about

buy