¡Queridos Padres!
Happy 2020! I hope you all have had a great time during the Christmas vacation! I am excited to see and spend time with your child again. To me after Christmas is where you see the growth! I am looking forward to celebrating and enjoy your child’s growth in First Grade. Here is a glim of our first week of 2020 and some important information and dates.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions, suggestion or advice.
Grace & Peace;
Maestra Ruiz
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Important Dates:
January 6 Students Return
January 6-7 Hearing/Vision Rescreens
January 17 End of 2nd Marking Period – School in Session
January 20 No School (Preschool-8th) – Teacher Professional Development
January 21 Second Semester Begins
January 23 All School Chapel – 9:00 a.m.
January 31 Family Groups – 11:45-12:45
NO Busing Dates 2019 – 2020:
January 15 & 16: NO AM for Middle School
January 17: NO PM
February 13: NO PM for Elementary
March 13: NO PM
April 24: NO PM
May 7 and 8: NO PM
June 3: NO PM for Elementary. No AM for Middle School
June 4: NO AM for Middle School
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Curriculum
BIBLE:
– Walking with God:
Joseph: Joseph’s Dreams, Joseph is sold, Joseph the Slave, Joseph the prisoner, Pharaoh’s dreams
– Bible Memory:
Exodo 15:2 “El Señor es mi fuerza y mi cántico, él es mi salvación. Él es mi Dios y lo alabaré, Él es el Dios de mis padres y lo enalteceré”
MATH:
– Unit 4 Place Value Concepts
- Introduction to tens grouping
- Explore teen numbers
- Represent and compare teen numbers
SCIENCE:
Phenomenal Science
- Finishing the Unit
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Unit #2: How Do We Get What We Need or Want?
Lesson 5: Trade
Lesson 6: Money
GRAMMAR:
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- Suffixes: -ito (niñito) -cito (hombrecito), -illo (perrillo) to express that something is small
- Indefinite articles: un, uno, unos, unas
- Word Wall Words: va, verdad, vamos, sí, en
- Syllables: va, ve, vi, vo, vu
- Phonetic Book: Vamos de visita
- Poems: La vaca de Vicente
- Culture and language – Phrases: Voy a ir a ____.
- Mentor Text: ¿Quién nacerá aquí?
- Vocabulary words: el estanque (the pond), la espuma (the foam), nacer (to be born), diminuto (small), acercar (to get close), arrastrar (to drag), estar con ganas (to want something), descubrir (to discover)
WRITING:
The craft of revision: Realistic Fiction
Writing stories with problems, solutions, beginning, middle and endings.
Wonderfully made, B-day, and lunch duty schedule:
(Tuesdays from 11:55 – 12:20)
Supervise students while they are having lunch, make sure they go out to recess when the bells rings, wipe down the tables)
** If we are celebrating wonderfully made and B-day the time to be at school will be 11:30 – 12:20 **
January 7 Olivia (Jan 5) Wonderfully made & B-day
January 14 Doreen VanderVeen
January 21 Vivian (Jan. 17) Wonderfully made & B-day
January 28 Kayla (June 26) Wonderfully made & ½ B-day