Jeffrey Clark School

*Starting 9/6/24, please send your child to school with a peanut free/ nut free snack for the afternoon everyday.  Please send your child with a snack that is easy to open and eat. I recommend sending your child’s snack separately inside his/her backpack, especially if your child brings a lunchbox/lunch bag when packing lunch from home.

*Children are allowed to bring a water bottle to school. 

Fundations: Unit 10: We will begin Unit 10 on 3/7. We will read, sound out, spell, and write closed syllables that have five sounds.  We will work with suffixes s, ed, and ing.  We will also introduce the following vowel teams: oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, and aw.  Unit 10 practice box words: many, any, how, now, down, out, about, our.  Unit 10 story; The Skunk.  

Journeys: Unit 4 Lesson 17: week of 3/17: theme ways to travel.  Practice box words: about, by, car, could, don't, maybe, sure, these.  Comprehension skills: compare and contrast: tell how two things are alike or different, dialogue: who is speaking in a story; visualize: picture what is happening as you read.  Grammar; compound sentences.  Vocabulary: define words.  Phonics: long e like me, these, tree, eat; word family -ink, final ng and nk.  Superstar words: complain, delighted, horizon, lonely, pleaded, shelter.  

Math: We will begin Unit 5 on 3/10: Operations with Tens and Ones.  This unit introduces students to addition with two-digit numbers. 

Unit 5 vocabulary: addend, make a ten, ones, tens, total, combine, solution, add, count on, decompose, digit, subtraction.   

Week of 3/10: Unit 5 Lesson 18: Add and Subtract Tens.  Vocabulary/skills: digit, ones, tens, total, chart, represent.  

Week of 3/17: Unit 5 Lesson 19: Addition with Two-Digit Numbers.  Vocabulary/skills: addend, digit, ones, tens, total, describe, predict.  

Social Studies: some September topics that will be included in read aloud stories include: what makes a good friend, growth mindset, the zones of regulation, citizenship, school rules, Fall/Autumn.  We will begin Young Citizens on 10/11. We will begin with Unit 2 and learn what you know about school.  November will also include Veterans Day and Thanksgiving.  December: we will learn about the winter holidays. January: we will review citizenship and growth mindset, plan New Year goals, and learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and winter.  We will begin Young Citizens Chapter 3: What do we find in our neighborhood? on 2/3.  During February, we will also learn about African American heroes when celebrating Black History Month, the 100th day of school, Valentine's Day/friendship, Groundhog's Day, and Presidents' Day.  March topics will include St. Patrick's Day and spring.  We will also finish Young Citizens Chapter 3: What do we find in our neighborhood? and begin Young Citizens chapter 4-What Makes a Town? on 3/18.                

Grammar skills: September: we will review proper sentence mechanics (starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation).

Writing skills: September: we will review proper letter formation and will write one/two sentence(s) using various sentences starters or prompts.  Focus will be placed on starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation. We will use various read alouds to learn how writers work.  October, November, December: we will work on writing personal narratives.  Focus will be placed on having a beginning, middle, and end to each story, using proper sentence mechanics (uppercase letter to start, finger spacing between words, neatest writing, and punctuation), and adding details to sentences and illustrations.  We will begin Unit 5: nonfiction/informational writing on 1/6.  We will begin Unit 3: opinion writing/writing a book review on 2/19.  We will continue with Unit 3 fiction writing on 3/24.       

Tues., 9/10/24: Please refer to the letter inside your child's school folder concerning a practice word box-you can use your old one from Beginners or make a new one for first grade-the word box is for home and does not have to be brought to school.

Week of 3/17/25 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

Mon. reading practice page; Please review the new practice box word list.  

Tues. reading practice page

Wed.  math practice page

Thurs. math practice page 

Fri. none

Homework: please refer to your child's Jeffrey Clark school folder...homework or papers that need to be signed and returned are placed in Return to School/ Homework pocket/yellow dot side.  The other side of the folder is Keep Home/green dot side...please remove papers from this side each night.