DS First Grade Newsletter
March 10, 2017
Important Dates to
Remember
March 12- Daylight Savings Time
March 13- PTO Board Meeting
March 13- Chat with Principal @
10:00
March 13- Nashville Opera performs
The Three Little Pigs
March 17- Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 20- Parent/Teacher
Conferences & Report Cards
March 27-31- Spring Break
April 7- Due Date for field trip forms
April 12- Spring Pictures
April 13- Muffins with mom (7:45)
April 14- Good Friday (no school)
April 20- Cheekwood fieldtrip
Reading/Spelling
- Recognize and read words containing
an r-controlled vowel
- Segment words with two and three
phonemes
Phonics Patterns: r controlled: air,
are, oar, ore, ear, ere
 List 1: stair, chair, stare, care,
store, north, shear, dear, soar,
roar
 List 2: airplane, millionaire, area,
scare, spore, foreign, yearn,
early, hoarse, billboard
Sight Words: stood, room, fought,
picture, remember
Etymology: trans- across/through,
tele- far off, tend- stretch or strain
Special Area This Week:
Monday 3/13
Tuesday 3/14
Wed 3/15
Thur 3/16
Friday 3/17
Day 3 Music
Day 4 Art
Day 1 PE
Day 2 Lib
Day 3 Music
STEAM UNIT
Overarching Question:
How can having multiple perspectives affect our willingness to
explore and create new ideas and concepts?
Thinking like a sociologist: We will be looking into how nature
has adjusted to survive its habitat. We will continue to
explore Tennessee and the different land formations.
Weekly Overview
Writing: With our opinion writing we will fine tune our
organization by using boxes and bullets to understand how to
arrange and strengthen our writing.
ELA: We will study determiners, such as articles and
demonstratives, find them in sentences and learn what they add
to our writing. We will also identify the reasons an author gives
to support points in reading.
Math: We will add elapsed time and word problems to both
time and money. We will also work on making change and
continue to strengthen our double digit skills.
Social Studies: We will continue to study government and
important people in Tennessee. The different areas in
Tennessee (The 3 grand divisions). We will also do a Socratic
seminar on daylight savings and relate our study on time. We
will debate on the need of following daylight savings.
Science: We will continue to talk about rocks, soil, water, and
man-made materials, adding a video on underground water.
This will include information on permeable and impermeable
substances.
Birthdays: Forrest- 11th, Owen- 16th, Olivia G.- 23rd
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