Vivian Fry
1st Grade Team
- Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Southeastern University
- Certified in Elementary Education (K-6), ESOL endorsement, reading endorsement, and Civics Seal of Excellence endorsement
- Teaching first grade for the 2026-2027 school year.
- This will be my 10th year teaching at MAC!
Reminders for this week!
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Bring your library book.
Thursday:
Friday:
General Reminders:
- Please send in your snack for November. Thank you to those who have already sent in snack!
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: say, green, over
Continue to practice the following words: review first nine week's list, here, may, way, why, wash, wish, there, because, before, her, then, men, been, us, its
What are we learning?
Reading: Identify the topic and relevant details in a non-fiction, informational text, identify and use text features (title, table of contents, glossary, captions, headings, and illustrations)
Writing and Grammar: Identifying and using proper nouns. Writing paragraphs with an introduction, two reasons, and a conclusion sentence.
Math: Addition strategies and word problems with sums up to 20
Social studies: comparing life now with life in the past
Science: Describe motion (straight, zig zig, round and round, back and forth, up and down, fast, slow)
Morpheme of the Week: prefix "under" means too little or below (For example, underground, which means below the surfacee)
Phonics: r-blends (examples: bran, crib, drip, frog, grill, truck), practice syllabication (how to break apart multisyllabic words into syllables to be able to decode, or sound out, the 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
- November 11- McKeel Open for Students and Staff (Veteran's Day)
- November 12- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
- November 9-13- Book Fair Week
- November 10- Book Fair and Bingo Family Night
- November 20-27- HOLIDAY- Fall break
- December 1- PM2 STAR Reading
- December 2- PM2 STAR Math
- December 10- PTO Family Movie Night
- December 11- House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and/or accessories for Eheys!
- December 15- Field Trip to Grace Manor
- December 18- End of 2nd grading period
- December 21-January 4- HOLIDAY- Winter Break
