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: We will begin Unit 13 on 5/19.  We will read, sound out, spell, mark, and write two-syllable words with a suffix.  We will learn to circle the suffixes s, es, ed, and ing.  Unit 13 practice box words: work, word, write, being, first, their, look, new, good.  Unit 13 story: Brad's Lost Glasses.     

Journeys: Unit 5 Lesson 25: Week of 5/19: theme: friendship and culture.  Practice box words; buy, city, family, myself, party, please, school, seven.  Comprehension skills: understanding characters and summarizing important story events.  Vocabulary: synonyms.  Phonics: vowel teams ou, ow, oi, oy, au, aw.  Grammar: contractions with not.  Superstar words: blossom, ledge, lugging, shady, shallow, cavern.  

Journeus Unit 6: Beginning 5/27, we will cover as much as Unit 6 as possible before the end of the year.  A letter will be sent home detailing Unit 6 skills and the final practice box word lists will be sent home for review.  

Math: We will begin Unit 6 on 4/11: Unit 6: Geometry and Measurement; Unit Overview: This unit introduces children to shapes, time, length, and money.

Unit 6 Vocabulary: halves, hour, rhombus, vertex, whole, describe, prove, circle, equal parts, length, longer, minute, rectangle, shorter, square.  

Unit 6 Lesson Number 22: 2D and 3D Shapes: 4/11-4/23. Lesson 22 skills/vocabulary: attribute, compose, edge, face, flat, side, solid, rhombus, trapezoid, vertex, describe, clue.  

Unit 6 Lesson Number 23: Break Shapes into Equal Parts: 4/25-4/30: Lesson 23 skills/vocabulary: circle, rectangle, square, equal parts, fourths (quarters), halves, quarters (fourths), unequal parts, whole, always, prove.  

Unit 6 Lesson Number 24: Telling Time to the hour and half hour: 5/1-5/8: Lesson 24 skills/vocabulary: analog clock, digital clock, half hour, hour (h), hour hand, minute (min), minute hand, o’clock, after, between.  

Unit 6 Lesson Number 25: Compare and Order Lengths: 5/8-5/15: Lesson 25 skills/vocabulary: attribute, compare, length, longer, shorter, taller, longest, shortest, tallest, arrange.  

Unit 6 Lesson Number 26: Measure Length: 5/15-5/22: Lesson 26 skills/vocabulary: compare, length, measure, unit, describe.  

We will review and assess Unit 6 the week of 5/27.  

Lesson Number 27: Money: 5/23 and week of 6/2.  Lesson 27 skills/vocabulary: cent (¢), dime, dollar ($), nickel, penny, quarter, sort, value.  

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.  May/June: Unit 6 author study of Mem Fox.        

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 6/2/25 Homework (Please refer to Return to school/yellow dot side of school folder.

Mon. none

Tues. Please review the new practice box word list.   

Wed.  math practice pages (stapled together); Please review the new practice box word list.   

Thurs. Please review the new practice box word list.   

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.