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: Bubble day
Tuesday: Camping Day
Wednesday: Craft Day
Thursday: Science Day with Sea Turtle exhibit visiting from the Clearwater aquarium
Friday: House Day- wear yellow to support Eheys! Also, some special guests are coming for a visit.
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: gone, upon, best
Continue to practice the following words: all words from the first, second and third nine weeks' list, which, right, these, every, write, those, live, water, always, their, both, pull, about, going, use, even, old, cold
(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: identify the lesson or moral of a story, identify who is telling the story (point of view)
Writing: writing a narrative paragraph
Grammar: pronouns and interjections
Math: review math benchmarks from the year
Social studies: opportunity cost and scarcity, importance of saving money
Science: needs of plants and animals, review life science benchmarks
Phonics:
- A makes a short o sound when followed by -l (examples: ball, walrus, fall, bald, small)
- Syllabication- open syllables in the beginning and middle of two and three 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
Friday, April 24- Field Trip to Camp Margaritaville
Tuesday, April 28- PM3 STAR Reading
Wednesday, April 29- PM3 STAR Math
Wednesday, May 6- Bowling Field Trip
Friday, May 15th- House Day! Wear yellow to support Eheys!
Tuesday, May 19th- End of year celebration!
Thursday, May 21- Last Day for Students EARLY RELEASE, Chick-fil-a Spirit Night
