Look at the Week November 10-14 2025
Homework: Your student’s Homework Packet will be sent home every Monday. Your child may work on Homework each night of the week, and then return the Homework Packet on Friday. Please read with your First Grader for twenty minutes each night, and practice our weekly Spelling Words.
Language Arts: We will complete Unit Three in our Benchmark Curriculum. Unit Three is about being a good community member. We will review punctuation, capital letters, and writing complete sentences.
Functional Phonics: We are beginning a new curriculum called Functional Phonics. Functional phonics is a systematic approach to teaching reading that focuses on the relationship between letters and sounds to build decoding and spelling skills. It involves explicit instruction, where children are taught the correlations between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) in a logical, sequential order, starting with simple concepts and moving to more complex ones. Parents can support functional phonics by encouraging phonemic awareness (hearing individual sounds in words), practicing letter-sound correspondence, blending sounds to read words, and making reading a fun, daily activities. Students will have a functional phonics homework activity nightly.
This week's spelling words will be final consent blends. The spelling words are: and, hand, mend, help, fast, must, end, ring, sing, &, thing. The spelling test will be given on Friday.
Math: We will continue Unit Three in our Everyday Math Curriculum. Everyday Math Unit 3, titled "Number Stories," focuses on solving word problems and includes concepts like using parts and total diagrams, counting on a number line, and working with unknowns. Key topics also involve number grid patterns, using frames and arrows diagrams, and skip counting with 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
Social Studies: We will continue to learn about voting and elections.
Science: We will learn about the impact humans have on the earth.
- Send weather appropriate clothing with your child daily as we will go outside for recess daily.
- Make sure your child has shoes for fitness. We go to fitness on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- Please make sure your child is reading and working on sight words every night.
- Communicate with the front office about any end of the day transportation changes by 2:00 pm.
- Please make sure you are checking your child’s red take home folder nightly. Students should bring their homework folder to school daily.
The partnership in your child’s education is very valuable... please don’t hesitate to reach out at any time.
Thank you,
Sara Gray
Grade 1 Teacher
Room 228
Phone: (763) 777-8942 ext. 8809
Email: [email protected]
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