Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
Welcome to First Grade!
This is my ninth year teaching at McKeel Academy Central. I graduated from Southeastern University with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. I am certified in elementary education, and I am reading, civics, and ESOL endorsed.
I love traveling, shopping, and spending time with my family and friends. I also have a passion for learning and teaching. This year, my goal is to enrich your child with engaging and differentiated learning experiences to meet their needs and help them reach their full potential. I hope to instill a love of learning in your child, and I look forward to working together this year!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns throughout the year.
Reminders for this week!
Monday: Wear your favorite holiday shirt
Tuesday: Wear a holiday hat, hair bow, headband, and/or socks with uniform bottoms
Wednesday: Dress like your favorite holiday character
Thursday: Wear your favorite flannel with uniform bottoms, PTO Family Movie Night at Lake Crago at 5:30pm
Friday: Pajama day (school appropriate with shoes- no slippers), End of 3rd nine weeks, AR goal deadline
Smencils: Second grade is selling Smencils in the gym before school for $2 until they run out.
What should we work on at home?
- Read for 10-15 minutes at least four days a week. Your child can read to someone, with someone, or listen to someone read.
- Optional Reading and Math practice: Students may turn it in weekly for a reward, but they will not be penalized for not doing it.
- High Frequency Words (HFW) for this week: review all words from this semester
Continue to practice the following words: all words from the first and second nine weeks' list
(Students will need to practice reading all the words. Students will need to practice both reading and spelling for the red words. )
What are we learning?
Reading:
- Retell a story using characters, setting, and important events
- Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
Writing: writing an expository paragraph with details from a source (text based writing)
Grammar: subjects and predicates, fragments, complete sentences
Math: addition strategies for adding within 20
- Adding doubles within 20
- Counting on to Add
- Make a 10 to add
- Add 9
Social studies: timelines
Science: review push and pull, properties of matter, and types of motion
Phonics:
- R-controlled vowels- ar, or, and ore (storm, start, chore, born, march, shore)
- R-controlled vowels- er, ir, ur, w+or (herd, stir, turn, world)
- Syllabication (vc/cv pattern)- learning how to divide words into syllables to decode (sound out) multi-syllable words. This week I am introducing 3 syllable (vccv)
Resources for syllabication:
*https://brainspring.com/orton-gillingham-weekly/syllabication-rules-division-patterns-more/ (This is the exact way I will be teaching it.)
https://sarahsnippets.com/syllable-division-rules/
https://learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/how-to-teach-syllable-division-rules/
Important Dates
Thursday, December 18- PTO Movie Night in the Park
Friday, December 19- End of 2nd grading period, AR goal deadline
December 22- January 5- Winter Break
Tuesday, January 6- Students return to school
