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!
If you or a loved one wants to chaperone on any field trip this year, please complete the volunteer application process as soon as possible.
- Tuesday: Report Cards
- Wednesday: Please send your child with their library book.
- Friday: All money and order forms for the fundraiser are due. House day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories to support Eheys!
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: her, men, then
Continue to practice the following words: all words from the first nine weeks' list, here, may, way, why, wash, wish, there, because, before
(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:
- Determine a topic and relevant details in an informational (non-fiction) text
- Locate and use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts.
Writing: writing an expository paragraph with details from a source (text based writing)
Grammar: verbs
Math: adding within 10, finding missing numbers in equations
Social studies: primary sources, comparing life in the past with life today
Science: sort objects by observable properties of matter (for example: color, shape, state of matter, texture, etc.)
Phonics: syllabication (vc/cv pattern)- learning how to divide words into syllables to decode (sound out) multi-syllable words
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
Tuesday, October 21- Report Cards
Friday, October 24- Fundraiser money and forms are due. House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories with uniform bottoms. Go Eheys!
October 27-31- Red Ribbon Dress-up Week (Say No to Drugs/ Drug Prevention)- See details about the dress up schedule in files.
Tuesday, October 28- PTO Annual Skate Night
Wednesday, October 29- Field Trip to the Lakeland Police Department
November 10-14- Fall Book Fair
Thursday, November 13- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
November 24-28- Fall Break
Tuesday, December 2- Field Trip to Grace Manor
Friday, December 12- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories with uniform bottoms. Go Eheys!
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
