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!
- Fall Food Drive: Students can earn house points when they send in canned goods, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, jelly, and canned meat (No boxes or glass please).
- Book fair is this week! Please let me know if your child has money and you would like your child to shop at school.
- Tuesday: It is Veteran's Day; school is in session. Your child may wear red, white, or blue shirt with uniform bottoms. It will be chilly, so dress warm.
- Thursday: Family Night 5-6:30pm at MAC. Play Bingo and check out book fair. Pizza, chips, and drink dinner combo available for $5 (prepay on MOO).
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.
ATTACHMENTS
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: one, stop, sleep
Continue to practice the following words: all words from the first nine weeks' list, here, may, way, why, wash, wish, there, because, before, her, men, then, been, us, its, say, green, over
(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: subjects and predicates
Math: addition and subtraction within 10, finding missing numbers in equations, addition and subtraction word problems
Social studies: comparing life in the past with life today, Veteran's Day
Science: Demonstrate and describe the various ways that objects can move, such as in a straight line, zigzag, back-and-forth, round-and-round, fast, and slow.
Phonics:
- Beginning s-blends (scan, skip, smash, snub, spot, step)
- 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
November 10-14- Fall Book Fair
Thursday, November 13- Book Fair Family Night (5pm-6:30pm at MAC), 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
