Welcome to first grade at Lincoln Academy! We are thrilled to partner with you and your child this year.  Please view this 1st Grade Information Presentation for details about this year and let your teacher know if you have any questions. 

Nov. 27 - Dec. 1

Math 

• Monday - 5-7
• Tuesday - 5-8
• Wednesday - 5-9
• Thursday - Practice Test (due tues.)
• Friday - No homework

Reading (due Monday 12/4)

• Sight Word Grid - Week 13 - (complete, sign, and return )
• Decodable: Purple - (read and complete all activities) 

Sight Words this Week: 

sentence   man   think   say   great   where 

• Segmenting and replacing the initial sounds in words.
• Focus phonics sounds and spellings: schwa followed by /l/, ink, ank, onk, unk, qu_.
• Blending and segmenting words. 
• Segmenting first sounds in words. 
• Reading Comprehension - compare and contrast, classify and categorize, making connections,  questions, summarizing the story, visualizing and predicting text.  

Writing

• Students will plan for and write a "how-to" paragraph.
• Writing full, complete sentences with proper mechanics.

Math:

Students will: 

• use a fact family to subtract.
• find an unknown number in a subtraction equation
• show that subtraction equations are true. 

Core Knowledge: Sun, Moon, and Stars 

Students will learn:

• The sun appears to move across the sky, and rises and sets in a predictable pattern.
• Sunrise and sunset times can be predicted for future dates.
• The amount of daytime and nighttime changes during different seasons.
• The moon is an object in the sky that moves in a predictable pattern
• The appearance of the moon changes as it moves and can be predicted.
• Stars and constellations are objects in the night sky.
• The Big Dipper appears to move in the sky and its movements can be predicted.