FIRST GRADE WITH MRS. STOWERS
Lakeland Christian Academy Opens New High School for 2010-2011 School Year!
We will have a college preparatory curriculum that will offer dual high school/college credit courses, along with expanded athletic and fine art opportunities. Of course, we will continue to provide domestic travel experiences. The goal is to expand to international travel for our secondary students. Tell your friends!
Reenrollment Begins for the 2010-2011 School Year!
Reenrollment forms for the 2010-2011 school year have gone home in your student's backpack. As always, we guarantee reenrollment for our current eligible students and their siblings if the enrollment application and fee are returned by Friday, January 29, 2010. To encourage families to register early, LCA elementary and secondary schools will offer the discount enrollment fee of $250 through the month of January.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 4, 2009
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Phonics:
1. Review marking vowels: 1 vowel rule: Generally, when there is one vowel in a word, it usually says its short sound (e.g. bit). We mark short vowels with a smile. 2 vowel rule: Generally, the 1st vowel is long and the second vowel is silent (e.g. bite). We mark long vowels with a straight line and slash through silent vowels.
3. Review use of "k" or "c": "k" before "i" and "e", e.g. kick, kettle; "c" before a, o, u, e.g. cat, cot, cut
4. Special sounds: ck (duck), e (me), o (go), y (fly), ay (pray), st (stop), pl (plane), fr (frog), br (bride), tr (train), sh (ship), th (thick), th (this), bl (block), cl (clock), fl (flag), gl (glue), pr (pray), gr (grin) sm (smoke), sc (scat), sk (skate), sp (spade), cr (crab), tw (twins), spl (splash), spr (sprain), sn (snack), str (stream), sl (sleep), sw (swim), thr (three), ar (stars), ch (church), or (morning), ou (out), ow (owl), ow (bowl), er (verse), ur (nurse), ir (bird), oi (coin), oy (boy), oo (book), oo (tooth), wor (worms), igh (night), all (ball), alk (walk), kn (knot), gn (gnat), ang (bang), ing (king), ong (long), ung (strung), ank (bank), ink (wink), onk (honk), unk (trunk), wa (wash), a (adopt), y (baby), le (little).
5. Sentences: Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation.
6. Review rule: When you hear a k sound at the end of a word and the vowel is short, you write ck. When the vowel is long, you write k and a silent e.
7. Opposites, Rhyming Words
8. Syllables; A long word may be divided between double consonants. The 2 consonants keep the first vowel short. A word may also be divided between the root word and suffix.
9. Suffixes and Root Words, e.g. -ing in pointing. Point is the root word; -ing is the suffix. Suffix -s
Reading: Students will not have reading homework on Wednesday nights or over the weekend. Please look in the planner for the pages your child is to read.
Spelling: Our next spelling test will be Friday, December 4. The Spelling List 9 homework will be sent home on Monday. Please remember that some of the spelling words appear on the student's Thursday phonics' tests.
The spelling words for December 4 are:
round, shout, cloud, south, cow, now, down, brown, clown, crown, town, slow, snow, what, was
NUMBERS: Review number recognition and counting to 100; review number words 1-10; review concept of zero; review left and right; review patterns; review concepts of 1 more and 1 less; adding 1 to a number; twin combinations, e.g. 2 1=3, 1 2=3; adding 0 to a number; concept of greater than and less than; addition fact families 1-8 (see schoolnotes flashcards); introduce place value, tens and ones, hundreds; doubles, e.g. 2 + 2 =4, 3 + 3 = 6; subtracting 1 gives the before number; the answer to a subtraction problem is called the difference, the answer to an addition problem is called the sum; bar graphs; ordinal numbers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd...; pennies; subtracting 0 gives the same number; calendar, counting by 10's; dimes; review of the 1-8 subtraction family (see schoolnotes flashcards); before after and between numbers; finding the greatest and least of 3 numbers; combining dimes and pennies, combining nickels and pennies, combining nickels, dimes and pennies; counting by 5's; the nickel; before and after numbers by 10's, before and after numbers by 2's; rulers & measurement, half of whole, the yardstick; even and odd numbers; telling time, a.m., p.m., time to half hour, 60 minutes in an hour, months of the year; triangles and rectangles; introduction of the thermometer.
SOCIAL STUDIES: This is My America: Great Places of America: Plymouth Rock, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park
BIBLE LESSON: God's Gift: Worship - Josiah - The Boy King, con'd, intro Joash - The Boy Who Forgot God (We must decided to serve the true God when we are small. We must never worship or serve idols.) Character Trait: Courtesy
Bible Memory Verse
Students will be tested on the following Bible Memory verse on Friday, December 4:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK
1. Assigned reading
2. Practice 1-8 addition fact families and 1-8 subtraction fact families
3. Study Proverbs 3:5-6
4. Math worksheet will be sent home for homework on Tuesday
5. Study Spelling List 9. Students will copy the words on Monday night.
REMINDERS:
1. Our classroom can be cool during the day. Students may wear LCA outerwear such as the red LCA hoodie or the navy LCA sweatshirt. Students may also wear a navy uniform cardigan sweater. On Monday through Thursday, light blue shirts or red pique knit shirts are worn with the uniform. On cold days, a solid red, blue or white shirt may be worn under the uniform shirt. Socks must be solid white, blue, or red in color and worn at all times. Tights must be solid white, navy, blue or red. Navy blue uniform leggings may be worn under skirts.
2. Please sign and return the Report Card envelope for the 2nd Six Week grading period.
3. Thank you PTF for the awesome chili luncheon. There was so much delicious food. Thanks for thinking of the teachers!
4. On Tuesday, December 15, first grade classes will be going to the Rosewood Center for Family Arts in Dallas to see the Dallas Children's Theater performance of the "Best Christmas Pageant Ever." The cost will be $13 per child. If you have not paid for your child, or were selected as a chaperone, please send payment as soon as possible. Chaperones selected were: Jones, Schaefer and Terrell. Students picked these names from a bag.
5. Please visit the Book Fair on December 8-9 in Angel Chapel (next to the House of Prayer).
6. LCA's Elementary Christmas Program is Thursday, December 10 at 6:30 p.m. Students will need to be in the Children's Theater at 6:00. Dress is Sunday best.
7. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! We will see you on Monday, November 30.
Sharon Stowers
sstowers@lakelandbaptist.org
