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: Holiday picture with Wilber for $5, Last day for toy drive
Tuesday: Otis Spunkmeyer Fundraiser pick-up between 3:30-5:30 at MAC, Holiday Shop in the gym from 7:45am-8:15am
Wednesday: Bring your library book, Holiday Shop in the gym from 7:45am-8:15am
Thursday: Holiday Shop in the gym from 7:45am-8:15am
Friday: House Day! Wear a yellow shirt and accessories with uniform bottoms. Go Eheys!
Holiday Toy Drive: We are collecting new, unused, and unwrapped toys for Lighthouse Ministries from now until Dec. 8th.
Holiday Meet & Greet with Wilber: Wilber is coming to MAC this holiday season for a special meet & greet on Monday, December 8th. Students who pay $5 to participate will be able to wear their favorite holiday shirt with uniform bottoms, get their photo taken with Wilber, and will receive a candy cane treat. A 4x6 copy of the photo will be sent home on Friday, December 12th. Parents can pre-pay on MOO by Friday, December 5th, or send in $5 cash with your child on Monday, December 8th.
Candy Cane Grams: First grade is selling candy cane grams in the gym before school for $1 until Dec. 12th. Students can buy them for themselves, friends, family members, and teachers.
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:
- 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, fragments, complete sentences
Math: addition and subtraction strategies within 10, finding missing numbers in equations, addition and subtraction word problems, true and false equations
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)
- 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
Monday, December 8- Holiday picture and meet and greet with Wilbur for $5
Thursday, December 11- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
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
