April 23rd-27th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is "Cool Jobs." We will be learning about pronouns and how to properly use commas in our writing. 

Spelling Words: retry, reuse, remake, unpack, unsafe, untie, saw, cause, goes, & build.

Sentence: It is unsafe to pet a sleeping bear!

Sight Words: build, goes, laugh, & only.

Vocabulary Words: duty, equipment, profession, satisfaction, thorough, interesting, & ordinary.

Math: We are working on adding and subtracting "tens". 

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation

Mrs. Barton: Rocks

Mrs. Anderson: Music 

Ms. Miller: Earth Day

Ms. Potter: Music 

April 16th-20th

Language Arts: The theme for this week is "I Can Do It!" We will be talking about Pronouns, Capitalizing "I", and making Inferences.

Sight Words: along, early, instead, nothing, thought

Vocabulary Words: errand, suddenly, dare, humble, permit, predicament, solution.

Spelling Words: haul, because, saw, claw, paw, dawn, book, took, nothing, along.

Sentence: My dog is walking on our lawn.

Math: We are working on building subtraction and addition sentences and story problems.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Splatter Art

Mrs. Anderson: Music (Program Practice)

Mrs. Barton: Rocks

Ms. Potter: Music (Program Practice)

Ms. Miller: Math Remediation

* Remember to be on the lookout for a BLUE shirt for our program!

March 25th-29th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Watching Animals Grow. We will be learning about summarizing a story and sequence of events.

Spelling Words: spoil, coin, join, joy, toy, boy, town, mouse, eyes, & enough.

Sentence: The boy can join the club.

Sight Words: air, enough, eyes, learn, open

Vocabulary: mature, newborn, process, remain, slender, cub, & wild.

Math: We are learning about how to add and distribute equal groups. We are also working with counting by 2's and 5's.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Butterfly Life Cycle

Mrs. Anderson: Music

Mrs. Barton: Math Camp

Ms. Miller: Plants

Ms. Potter: Music

March 5th-9th

Language Arts: Our theme this week focuses on all kinds of weather. We will be reading and writing about different types of weather. We will also be learning about synonyms and antonyms and how to use a venn diagram.

Spelling: born, cork, horn, corn, fork, pork, barn, arm, know, & great.

Sentence: I tore my shirt on a branch!

Sight Words: great, know, sound, their, & warm.

Vocabulary Words: breeze, commotion, conditions, forecast, tranquil, predict, & extreme.

Math: We are finishing up Topic 10. We will be taking our math test on Thursday. Please work with your child at home naming coins and their amounts and counting up random amounts of coins up to 99 cents.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Pop Art

Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols

Mrs. Barton: Math Camp

Ms. Potter: Changes in movement of non-living things

Ms. Miller: Plants

February 27th-March 2nd

Language Arts: This week we our theme is all about what Scientists do. We will be reading and writing about a variety of different Scientists.

Spelling: cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, her, dirt, would, & house.

Sentence: How far is the park from here?

Sight Words: grew, house, knew & would.

Vocabulary Words: career, curious, fascinating, improve, & investigate.

Math: We are continuing to work on solving a variety of addition and subtraction problems.

* There will be no rotations this week due to SEP's.

February 20th-24th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is all about outer space! We will be doing some really fun writing activities to go along with our space theme! We will also be learning about adjectives, cause and effect in stories and what a biography is.

Spelling: her, bird, fur, fern, dirt, burn, funny, penny, full, & through

Sentence: The girl got hurt when she fell.

Sight Words: another, climbed, full, poor, & through.

Vocabulary Words: discover, dusk, mysterious, pale, & scatter.

Math: We are learning about missing addends in addition and subtraction sentences.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Starry Night (ART)

Mrs. Barton: Insects

Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols

Ms. Miller: Math Camp

Ms. Potter: Changes in the movement of non-living things.

February 13th-17th

Language Arts: This is review week in Treasures. We are going over everything we have learned over the past 5 weeks and will be taking our Unit Assessment on Thursday.

Spelling (sight word review): walked, eight, give, write, move, better, never, should, night, because, & or. Sentence: You should be my friend.

Math: We are taking our Topic 8 math test on Monday. We will be starting our next math topic on Tuesday, which focuses on addition and subtraction, money, and ordering numbers from least to greatest.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Flower Art
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Mrs. Barton: Insects
Ms. Potter: Living and Non-Living Things
Ms. Miller: Math Camp

Reminders:
* Monday is an early out @ 2:00pm!
* Tuesday @ 2:30 is our Valentines Party!
* Thursday is Math Night! Dinner @ 5:00 and games from 5:30-7:00pm!
* No School on Monday the 20th!

February 6th-10th

Language Arts: This week we are learning all about different Animal Teams. We will be focusing on retelling stories, as well as learning about contractions and adverbs.

Spelling: bumpy, puppy, funny, penny, sandy, bunny, or, & because.

Sight Words: also, blue, because, or, other, & until.

Vocabulary Words: behavior, group, plead, soar, vivid, beautiful, & danger.

Math: We will continue to learn how to add and subtract using a number line. We will also work on solving story problems. We will be testing Topic 8 next Monday.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Valentine Art

Mrs. Anderson: Math Camp

Mrs. Barton: Dental Health

Ms. Miller: Water Cycle

Ms. Potter: Parents & Their Offspring

January 30th-February 3rd

Language Arts: Our theme this week focuses on friendship. We will be focusing on the different plots of stories as well as visualizing future events.

Sight Words: ball, head, never, should, & shout.

Spelling Words: find, night, by, kind, right, my, never, & should.

Vocabulary Words: approach, assist, determined, quarrel, view, meadow, & perhaps.

Math: This week we are focusing on larger addition and subtraction problems and learning about story problems.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Jobs Within A School

Mrs. Anderson: Math Camp

Mrs. Barton: Dental Health

Ms. Potter: Similarities & Differences Between Parents And Their Offspring

Ms. Miller: Water Cycle

January 17th-20th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is "Family Time." We will be focusing on asking questions about a story as we read to help build our comprehension as well as learning about characters and setting.

Spelling: me, feed, seat, we, keep, beak, give, & write.

Sight Words: about, give, pretty, says, were, & write.

Vocabulary Words: concerned, fortunate, member, share, & trust.

Math: We are wrapping up our unit on 2d & 3d shapes, capacity, and weight. We will be taking our topic test this week!

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Art

Mrs. Anderson: Math Camp

Mrs. Barton: Nutrition

Ms. Potter: Similarities & Differences Between Partens & Offspring

Ms. Miller: Matter

* On Monday January 23rd we are celebrating our 100th day of school. Each 1st grade classroom is dressing up as if they were 100 years old. Please also send your child to school with 100 small edible items to be part of our 100th day snack mix!

January 9th-13th

Language Arts: This week we are discussing what it means to be part of a team. We will be working on asking questions while we read and making and confirming predictions.

Spelling Words: mail, chain, play, rain, way, day, walked, & eight.

Sight Words: across, carry, eight, once, saw, upon, & walked.

Vocabulary Words: encourage, friendship, relationship, rely, & suggest.

Math: We are learning about measurement and geometry. Last week we learned about 2D and 3D shapes. This week we will continue learning about shapes and introduce using the balance scale and learning about capacity of containers.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Art

Mrs. Barton: Nutrition

Mrs. Anderson: Utah

Ms. Miller: Sink & Float