Old Union Elementary First Grade

Week of May 4

Thank you so much for an AMAZING Teacher Appreciation Week! The lunches were delicious, and the gifts and kind words were wonderful!

The staff of Old Union is so lucky to have such supportive parents!

Here is the encore schedule.  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes on PE days.  Fridays will be a rotation that includes PE along with music or art. 

Class	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Thomas	PE	Music	PE	Art	rotation
Evans	PE	Art	PE	Music	rotation
Graviett	Art	PE	Music	PE	rotation
Johnson	Music	PE	Art	PE	rotation

This week in language arts, we will…

·      Finish up our poetry unit

·      Write small moments and revise

·      Recognize different types of media (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.)

·      Discover new vocabulary through a weekly read aloud

·      Categorize words to learn spelling patterns

·      Practice using proper capitalization and punctuation on paragraphs that have none.

·      Work on IStation while in computer lab.  We encourage children to take advantage of the program at home as well!

This week in math, we will…

·      Learn about the responsibilities attached to money such as saving and spending on the things we need

·      Solve problems of the day independently, then as a class

·      Participate in our math stations

·      Work on Reflex Math and First in Math while in computer lab

In Science we’ll continue to learn about magnets.

May Events:

6^th        National School Nurse Day

8^th        Dragon Day

11^th      National School Resource Officer Week

14^th       Pei Wei Spirit Night for OUES

18^th      PTO Board Meeting

21^st      Magician Performance for the Campus (1:30-2:30 pm)

22^nd     Field Day at Dragon Stadium

25^th      Memorial Day/No School

28^th      All Pro Dads in the Cafeteria (7:00-7:45 am)

29^th      May, June and July Birthday Lunches on the Stage

            Relay for Life at CHS (6:00 pm-12:00 am)  

June Events:

2^nd       CiCi’s Night

4^th        Last Day of School (10:35 Dismissal)

5^th        Teacher Workday

           

This is a list of high frequency spelling words that all first graders will need to be able to spell by the end of the second semester:

an	are	because	from
of	one	play	said
that	there	they	was
went	were	when	with
your