Wooden's Fabulous First Grade
Week 26
This is the weekly first grade newsletter! It will inform you of what is happening in first grade and at Wooden during the upcoming week. Scroll all the way through each week to stay in the loop! In every newsletter, you will find "What are we learning this week?," our weekly spelling words, school & grade-level announcements, and a video describing how to help your child with his/her reading homework! Thank you for partnering with us in your child's education!
New books
What are we learning this week?
English Language Arts and Reading
We can recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including
the central idea and supporting evidence. Discuss the author's purpose for writing text.
Math
We can use identify U.S. coins, including pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, by value and describe the relationships among them.
Science
We can sort and classify living and nonliving things based upon whether or not they have basic needs and produce offspring.
Social Studies
We can locate the community, Texas, and the United States on maps and globes;
Library day is Tuesday for all of 1st grade
Spelling words
Below are the sight words, pattern words, and practice sentences that we will be learning in class and students should practice at home! Practice other words that follow the same patterns so students learn the pattern, not just the words!
Email your child's teacher if you have questions. Thank you!
1st Grade Spelling
Week 26 //March 2-6th
This list includes 5 sight words and 10 words from our weekly spelling pattern.
*There WILL BE a test on FRIDAY the 6th this week.
It will include:
· 2 of the sight words,
● the 4 of the pattern words,
● 3 more words following the same pattern.
(Please practice words following the same pattern
Sight Words more find
or we’re their
Pattern Words -ow and –ou how
gown clown howl
growl shout proud
count mouse pout
Did she pout when she didn’t get the toy?
Will the dog howl at the moon?
I said “ouch!”, when the dog bit me.
She’ll scream when she sees a mouse.
School Report Card
The 2018-2019 School Report Card (SRC) is now available on the Texas Education Agency website at the link below. The school report card (SRC) combines accountability ratings, data from the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR), and financial information to give a broad view of campus performance. Available for each campus in Texas, the SRC is intended specifically to inform parents and guardians about a school’s individual characteristics and its academic performance.
Link to the Wooden Elementary Website
Link to TEA Website-School Report Cards (select to search by campus or district and then enter campus/district name)
A glossary of terms used in the school report cards can be found at the link below:
Link to SRC Definitions (definiciones en español)
Paper copies can be requested from the Curriculum Department Accountability Division at 972-617-2941 from Nancy Toney
Federal Report Card
The 2018-2019 Federal Report Card is now available.
Red Oak ISD is sharing this information about the district and your child's campus with you as part of its obligations under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).
Federal Report Cards for the state, the district, and each of the district's campuses are now available on the Texas Education Agency's website at:
Link to Wooden's Website
Link to TEA Website-Federal Report Cards
For list of information included on the Federal Report Card, please visit the Texas Education Agency's website at:
Link to TEA Website-Information Included on the Federal Report Card
Coming up:
March 2nd - Open House 6-7pm
March 2nd-March 6th - Book Fair
March 9th - March 13th - Spring Break
Party Dates
End of Year - May 18th
Planners
Your child's planner should come to and from school every day. It should be signed each night and the book read/minutes should be written down. Each Friday, your kiddo will write how many gold tags they earned that week. You may communicate through the planner. Your child could possibly also receive a signature for bad behavior, but we hope this does not happen!
Take home folders
Tapping words
If your child is stuck when reading or when spelling a word, encourage them to tap it out! See the video below to learn how we tap our words to read and to spell.