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Ms. Olrich's First Grade Class

 Welcome to Ms. Olrich's 1st grade page.
Updated Weekly Spelling lists will be on this website as well as classroom reminders etc.
 
Specials Schedule:
Monday -Spanish and Art and Gym
Tuesday -Spanish and Music
Wednesday -Spanish and Gym
Thursday -Spanish and Computers
Friday -Spanish and Computers
 
 
Spelling words for March 8-12th
because
their
it's
Easter
light
locker
chair
 
 
 
Things to Note: 
 
 
 
We are collecting one bag of plastic fake green Easter grass, per student for an upcoming project.
 
 
Students will also be doing a service project in class with Mrs. Strom for the Enis Foundation soon.
 
 
Thank you to Mrs. Strom from bringing in all of the Therapy dogs to our school! We learned a lot!
 
The school Book Fair will be April 19th-23rd. Books will be buy one GET ONE FREE.
 
 
Terra Nova testing for 1st grade starts soon. Please make sure your child is getting enough sleep, and eating breakfast.
 
 
 
***Reminders***
 
We are collecting pennies for pasta, patients in our classroom. Please send in change to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
 
Students are to STILL be doing their weekly WEB journals, after reading nightly. These are to be turned in on Fridays.
 
Please remember to be reading to your child nightly. Reading is the foundation of learning! This is the most important homework assigned to your child. Fill in any night you read to your child, or they read to you. Simply fill out the Book It chart nightly and turn in at the end of the month for a free pizza certificate. The class is excited about this opportunity!
 
 
 
 
Writing out sentences after reading a story, writing text-to-self connections, writing and describing characters, problems and main events. Working on math story problems, discussing the summary after reading a story. 
 
Here is one of our reading programs:
 
 
Go to the local library and get involved reading programs and activities!
 
 
 
 Check out http://www.curriculumcrafter.org/default.aspx to see what curriculum we use for the 2009/2010 school year.
 
First Grade GLCEs: (Michigan Standards to follow):
 
 
ELA - Curriculum Poster Grade One

Reading
  • Word Study
  • Phonemic Awareness/Phonics
  • Alphabetic Principle
  • Structural Cues (letter/sound,
  • onset and rimes, word families,
  • diagraphs: th, ch, sh)
  • Word Recognition
  • Grade 1 Frequently Encountered
  • Words
  • Progress in 220 Dolch Word List
  • Strategies – Letter/Semantic
  • Vocabulary
  • Meaning of Frequently
  • Encountered Words
  • Syntactic/Semantic Cues
  • Context Clues, Mental Images
  • Fluency
  • Intonation, Pauses, Emphasis,
  • Punctuation Cues
  • Narrative Text
  • Genres
  • Realistic Fiction, Fantasy,
  • Folktales
  • Story Elements
  • Problem/Solution, Sequence,
  • Sense of Story
  • Literary Devices
  • Illustrations, Transitional Words
  • Informational Text
  • Genres
  • Simple “How To” Books,
  • Science/Social Studies Magazines
  • Text Patterns
  • Sequential, Enumerative
  • Text Features
  • Headings, Titles, Labeled Photos,
  • Illustrations
  • Comprehension
  • Prior Knowledge
  • Text to Self Connections
  • Text to Text Connections
  • Story Element Maps, Questions
  • Knowledge from Content Texts
  • Metacognition
  • Self-monitor, Graphic Organizers
  • Predictions, Questions
  • Critical Standards
  • Personal and Shared Standards

Writing
  • Narrative Genre
  • Brief Personal Narrative
  • Approximate Poetry
  • Informational Genre
  • Informational Piece
  • One Research Question
  • Writing Process
  • 3 Connected Sentences
  • Literary Language
  • Revise/Edit
  • Personal Style
  • Oral, Written, Visual Messages
  • Grammar/Usage
  • Complete Sentences
  • Capitals/Periods
  • Spelling
  • Frequently Encountered Words
  • Structural Cues/Environmental
  • Sources
  • Handwriting
  • Upper/Lower Case Letters

Speaking
  • Conventions
  • Nouns, Pronouns,
  • Conjunctions, Contractions
  • Presentations for a Variety of
  • Audiences/Purposes in
  • Standard English
  • Spoken Discourse
  • Substantive Conversation
  • Retell Familiar Stories Using
  • Props, Eye Contact, Posture
  • Reports

Listening/Viewing
  • Conventions
  • Two Step Directions
  • Appropriate Questions
  • Listen/Respond
  • Listening/Viewing Behaviors
  • Response
  • Listen/Discuss Variety of Genres
  • Listen/View/Respond to Classic/
  • Contemporary Texts
Here are things we ended the 2008-2009 school year with: (to show your incoming student what to expect):
  • Have your child read 20-30 minutes every night. If possible you should have them re-tell the story to you and then ask them questions about what they read. For further comprehension, have them write out a short summary of the story. Reading is the foundation of learning and it is very important that it is practiced throughout the week at home.
  • Two digit addition and subtraction, counting money, graphing, and telling time, ordinal numbers, missing addends, story problems, problem solving etc.
 
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