Jamieson Elementary School

Dear Parents,
In the weeks to come you will find this web page to be very helpful. It will contain information on what is being taught in my classroom, week by week. This will help you support your child at home and give you insight on the topics we will cover. Your child will work hard on writing their daily homework entry into their assignment notebook. Please read it nightly with your child. Homework will also be entered daily on my web page.  With reinforcement at home your child will become a strong first grader.
Thank you for your help,

Susan Toushin

Language Arts

*Featured Story - “Mole and the Baby Bird”
*Concept Question – What difference can a great idea make? How can new ideas help us see things differently?
*Genre – Animal Fantasy
*Phonics – Dipthong ou/ou and Syllables VCV (If a word has one consonant between two vowels, the consonant usually goes with the second syllable, making the first syllable long. If you don’t recognize the word when pronounced with a long vowel sound, put the consonant with the first syllable, making the first vowel short. Ex. siren–cabin)
*Comprehension Skill – Sequence
*Comprehension Strategy – Summarize
*High Frequency Words – 1.door 2.loved 3.should 4.wood 5.usually 6.below
*Spelling Words – 1.mouth 2.house 3.found 4.our 5.out 6.cloud 7.ouch 8.shout 9.round 10.count 11.should 12.loved

Writing and Grammar
*Conventions – Conventions are the rules for writing, such as ending every sentence with a punctuation mark.
*In the story, “Mole and the Baby Bird,” Mole wants to keep a wild animal as a pet. Do you think this is a good idea? Write your opinion telling why or why not. Give examples to support your answer.
*Exclamation – An exclamation is a sentence that shows strong feeling.
*Voice – Voice is the way a writer feels about a topic.
*Commands – A command is a sentence that tells someone to do something. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
*Adjectives That Compare – Adding er to an adjective when comparing two objects. Adding est to an adjective that compares more than two objects.
*Adjectives for How Many
*Nouns/Proper Nouns
*Action Verbs
*Verbs that add -s – A verb can tell what one person, animal, or thing does. Add -s to show what is being done now.
*Compound Words – A compound word is made up of two shorter words.
*Contractions – A short way of saying two words….is not- isn’t    there is- there’s
*Syllables
*Homonyms – Words that sound the same but have different meanings (sun..son)
*Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning (cry..sob)
*Antonyms – Words that are opposite in meaning (hot..cold)
*Special Titles – Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr.
*Capitalization – Sentences begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
*Punctuation – All sentences should end with a period, question mark, or an exclamation mark
*Daily Fix-It – Children find errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Math  - Unit 9
*Tens and Ones Patterns on the Number Grid
*Adding and Subtracting Tens
*Number Grid Puzzles
*Adding and Subtracting 2- Digit Numbers
*EXPLORATIONS – Exploring Capacity, Symmetry, and Heights
*Fractional Parts of the Whole
*Comparing Fractions
*Many Names for Fractional Parts

Social Studies
Geography
Vocabulary Words: 1.planet 2.earth 3.continent 4.North America 5. country 6.United States of America 7.state 8.Illinois 9.city 10.Chicago
*Children need to be able to write their address, spelling their street name correctly.

Science
Land, Water, and Air
*Vocabulary Words: 1. clay 2.erosion 3.humus 4.minerals 5.natural resource 6.rocks 7.sand 8.weathering

Homework
Monday – Write Spelling Words 3x each; Reading Sheet; Home Link
Tuesday – Spelling and Reading Sheets; Home Link; Please bring in a small amount of dirt in a baggie for Science; Walk-a-thon Permission Slip due the 24th.
Wednesday – Write 10 Spelling Sentences; Reading Sheet; Please bring in Walk-a-thon Slips
Thursday – Study for the Reading and Spelling Tests; Reading and Spelling Sheets; Home Link
Friday – Study New Words; Math, Reading and Grammar Sheets; Walk-a-thon slips and $ due 5-24. Thank You!

Dear Parents,
In the weeks to come you will find this web page to be very helpful. It will contain information on what is being taught in my classroom, week by week. This will help you support your child at home and give you insight on the topics we will cover. Your child will work hard on writing their daily homework entry into their assignment notebook. Please read it nightly with your child. Homework will also be entered daily on my web page.  With reinforcement at home your child will become a strong first grader.
Thank you for your help,

Susan Toushin

Language Arts

*Featured Story – “Tippy -Toe Chick, Go!
*Concept Question – What difference can a great idea make? When does a problem need a clever solution?
*Genre – Animal Fantasy
*Phonics – Dipthong ow/ou/ and Syllables c + le
*Comprehension Skill – Character, Setting, and Plot
*Comprehension Strategy – Story Structure
*High Frequency Words – 1.along 2.behind 3.eyes 4.never 5.pulling 6.toward
*Spelling Words – 1.how 2.town 3.down 4.now 5.brown 6.cow 7.clown 8.frown 9.crowd 10.growl 11.eyes 12.never
Writing and Grammar
*Voice – Voice is the way a writer feels about a topic.
*Commands – A command is a sentence that tells someone to do something. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
*Adjectives That Compare – Adding er to an adjective when comparing two objects. Adding est to an adjective that compares more than two objects.
*Adjectives for How Many
*Nouns/Proper Nouns
*Action Verbs
*Verbs that add -s – A verb can tell what one person, animal, or thing does. Add -s to show what is being done now.
*Compound Words – A compound word is made up of two shorter words.
*Contractions – A short way of saying two words….is not- isn’t    there is- there’s
*Syllables
*Homonyms – Words that sound the same but have different meanings (sun..son)
*Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning (cry..sob)
*Antonyms – Words that are opposite in meaning (hot..cold)
*Special Titles – Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr.
*Capitalization – Sentences begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
*Punctuation – All sentences should end with a period, question mark, or an exclamation mark
*Daily Fix-It – Children find errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Math  - Unit 9
*Tens and Ones Patterns on the Number Grid
*Adding and Subtracting Tens
*Number Grid Puzzles
*Adding and Subtracting 2- Digit Numbers
*EXPLORATIONS – Exploring Capacity, Symmetry, and Heights
*Fractional Parts of the Whole
*Comparing Fractions
*Many Names for Fractional Parts

Social Studies
Geography
Vocabulary Words: 1.planet 2.earth 3.continent 4.North America 5. country 6.United States of America 7.state 8.Illinois 9.city 10.Chicago
*Children need to be able to write their address, spelling their street name correctly.

Science
Land, Water, and Air
*Vocabulary Words: 1. clay 2.erosion 3.humus 4.minerals 5.natural resource 6.rocks 7.sand 8.weathering

Homework
Monday – Write Spelling Words 3x each; Reading Sheet; Home Link
Tuesday – Spelling, Reading and Math Sheet
Wednesday – Write 10 Spelling Sentences 6(?) 3(.) 1(!); Math Sheet; Home Link
Thursday – Study for the Reading and Spelling Tests; Reading and Spelling Sheets
Friday – Study New Words; Math, Reading, and Grammar Sheets

Dear Parents,
In the weeks to come you will find this web page to be very helpful. It will contain information on what is being taught in my classroom, week by week. This will help you support your child at home and give you insight on the topics we will cover. Your child will work hard on writing their daily homework entry into their assignment notebook. Please read it nightly with your child. Homework will also be entered daily on my web page.  With reinforcement at home your child will become a strong first grader.
Thank you for your help,

Susan Toushin

Language Arts
*Featured Story – “Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper’s House “
*Concept Question – What do we treasure? What treasures can we share with neighbors?
*Genre – Realistic Fiction
*Phonics – Suffixes -ly, -ful and Vowels  oo  in moon
*Comprehension Skill – Cause and Effect
*Comprehension Strategy – Preview -Preview chapter titles to help you set a purpose for reading and predict what will happen in the story.
*High Frequency Words – 1.across 2.dance 3.because 4.only 5.opened 6.shoes 7.told
*Spelling Words – 1.slowly 2.careful 3.quickly 4.useful 5.painful 6.playful 7.sadly 8.gladly 9.nicely 10.wonderful 11.because 12.across

Writing and Grammar
*Writing Descriptions – Children work in a whole group. They participate in writing a description together of the neighborhood around the school.
*Children write their own description of the neighborhood around their house.
*Students create a word web that lists examples of how neighbors help each other in a community.
*Students describe Mrs. Hoppers house in their story, “Henry and Mudge.”
*Adjectives That Compare – Adding er to an adjective when comparing two objects. Adding est to an adjective that compares more than two objects.
*Adjectives for How Many
*Nouns/Proper Nouns
*Action Verbs
*Verbs that add -s – A verb can tell what one person, animal, or thing does. Add -s to show what is being done now.
*Compound Words – A compound word is made up of two shorter words.
*Contractions – A short way of saying two words….is not- isn’t    there is- there’s
*Syllables
*Homonyms – Words that sound the same but have different meanings (sun..son)
*Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning (cry..sob)
*Antonyms – Words that are opposite in meaning (hot..cold)
*Special Titles – Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr.
*Capitalization – Sentences begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
*Punctuation – All sentences should end with a period, question mark, or an exclamation mark
*Daily Fix-It – Children find errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Math  - Unit 9
*Tens and Ones Patterns on the Number Grid
*Adding and Subtracting Tens
*Number Grid Puzzles
*Adding and Subtracting 2- Digit Numbers
*EXPLORATIONS – Exploring Capacity, Symmetry, and Heights
*Fractional Parts of the Whole
*Comparing Fractions
*Many Names for Fractional Parts

Social Studies
Geography
Vocabulary Words: 1.planet 2.earth 3.continent 4.North America 5. country 6.United States of America 7.state 8.Illinois 9.city 10.Chicago
*Children need to be able to write their address, spelling their street name correctly.

Science
Food Chains

Homework
Monday – Write Spelling Words 3x each; Reading Sheet; Home Link
Tuesday – Spelling and Reading Sheets
Wednesday – Write 10 Spelling Sentences; Reading Sheet
Thursday – Study for the Reading and Spelling Tests; Reading, Spelling and Grammar Sheets.
Friday – Book Report (5-6 sentences telling the plot of the story); Math and Grammar Sheets; Study New Words 

Dear Parents,
In the weeks to come you will find this web page to be very helpful. It will contain information on what is being taught in my classroom, week by week. This will help you support your child at home and give you insight on the topics we will cover. Your child will work hard on writing their daily homework entry into their assignment notebook. Please read it nightly with your child. Homework will also be entered daily on my web page.  With reinforcement at home your child will become a strong first grader.
Thank you for your help,

Susan Toushin

**Our Zoo Trip will be held on Thursday, April 25th. Please send a bag lunch with your child.

Language Arts

*Featured Story – “Peter’s Chair”
*Concept Question – What do we treasure? What treasures can we share at home?
*Genre – Realistic Fiction
*Phonics – Compound Words and Vowels  ew, ue, ui
*Comprehension Skill – Character, Setting, and Plot
*Comprehension Strategy – Story Structure….the important parts of a story-who the story is about, where and when it takes place, and what happens.
*High Frequency Words – 1.remember 2.picture 3.stood 4.thought 5.room
*Spelling Words: 1.backpack 2.outside 3.baseball 4.herself 5.flashlight 6.bluebird 7.lunchbox 8.suitcase 9.inside 10.brainstorm
11.picture 12.remember
Writing and Grammar
*Trait of the Week – Conventions – Conventions are rules that good writers follow.when they write. Good writers spell words a certain way. They begin sentences with capital letters. They finish sentences with end marks.
*Adjectives for How Many
*Nouns/Proper Nouns
*Action Verbs
*Verbs that add -s – A verb can tell what one person, animal, or thing does. Add -s to show what is being done now.
*Compound Words – A compound word is made up of two shorter words.
*Contractions – A short way of saying two words….is not- isn’t    there is- there’s
*Syllables
*Homonyms – Words that sound the same but have different meanings (sun..son)
*Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning (cry..sob)
*Antonyms – Words that are opposite in meaning (hot..cold)
*Special Titles – Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr.
*Capitalization – Sentences begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
*Punctuation – All sentences should end with a period, question mark, or an exclamation mark
*Daily Fix-It – Children find errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Math – Unit 8

*Review Money – Counting and Exchanging Coins

*Dollars – The dollar is introduced;Children express amounts of money using dollars-and-cents notation.
*Extending place value concepts to hundreds
*Providing practice in solving number stories that involve addition and subtraction
*To develop the use of counting up as a strategy for making change
*Dividing regions into halves, thirds, and fourths; showing equal parts
*To further understand fractional parts of a whole
*To introduce finding fractional parts of collections
*Exploring Fractional Parts and Addition Facts
* Addition and Subtraction Facts through the sum of 15

*Measuring in Centimeters
*Fact Families and Fact triangles
*Finding the Rule in “What’s My Rule?”
*Solving Number Stories
*Quarters
*Time in 5 minute Intervals/Digital Clocks

Social Studies
Geography
Vocabulary Words: 1.planet 2.earth 3.continent 4.North America 5. country 6.United States of America 7.state 8.Illinois 9.city 10.Chicago
*Children need to be able to write their address, spelling their street name correctly.

Science
Food Chains

Homework
Monday - Spelling, Reading, and Math Sheets; Home Link
Tuesday – Spelling, Reading and Math Sheets
Wednesday – Write 10 Spelling Sentences;4(?) 5(.) 1(!); Home Link

Thursday – Study for the Reading and Spelling Tests; Math and Reading Sheets
Friday – Study New Words; Construct a zoo animal and write a 5-6 sentence story about it; Math Sheet; Math Test 4-29-13.

Dear Parents,
In the weeks to come you will find this web page to be very helpful. It will contain information on what is being taught in my classroom, week by week. This will help you support your child at home and give you insight on the topics we will cover. Your child will work hard on writing their daily homework entry into their assignment notebook. Please read it nightly with your child. Homework will also be entered daily on my web page.  With reinforcement at home your child will become a strong first grader.
Thank you for your help,

Susan Toushin

**Our Zoo Trip will be held on Thursday, April 25th. Please send a bag lunch with your child.

Language Arts

*Featured Story – “Peter’s Chair”
*Concept Question – What do we treasure? What treasures can we share at home?
*Genre – Realistic Fiction
*Phonics – Compound Words and Vowels  ew, ue, ui
*Comprehension Skill – Character, Setting, and Plot
*Comprehension Strategy – Story Structure….the important parts of a story-who the story is about, where and when it takes place, and what happens.
*High Frequency Words – 1.remember 2.picture 3.stood 4.thought 5.room
*Spelling Words: 1.backpack 2.outside 3.baseball 4.herself 5.flashlight 6.bluebird 7.lunchbox 8.suitcase 9.inside 10.brainstorm
11.picture 12.remember

Writing and Grammar
*Trait of the Week – Conventions – Conventions are rules that good writers follow.when they write. Good writers spell words a certain way. They begin sentences with capital letters. They finish sentences with end marks.
*Adjectives for How Many
*Nouns/Proper Nouns
*Action Verbs
*Verbs that add -s – A verb can tell what one person, animal, or thing does. Add -s to show what is being done now.
*Compound Words – A compound word is made up of two shorter words.
*Contractions – A short way of saying two words….is not- isn’t    there is- there’s
*Syllables
*Homonyms – Words that sound the same but have different meanings (sun..son)
*Synonyms – Words that have the same meaning (cry..sob)
*Antonyms – Words that are opposite in meaning (hot..cold)
*Special Titles – Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr.
*Capitalization – Sentences begin with a capital letter. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
*Punctuation – All sentences should end with a period, question mark, or an exclamation mark
*Daily Fix-It – Children find errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Math – Unit 8

*Review Money – Counting and Exchanging Coins

*Dollars – The dollar is introduced;Children express amounts of money using dollars-and-cents notation.
*Extending place value concepts to hundreds
*Providing practice in solving number stories that involve addition and subtraction
*To develop the use of counting up as a strategy for making change
*Dividing regions into halves, thirds, and fourths; showing equal parts
*To further understand fractional parts of a whole
*To introduce finding fractional parts of collections
*Exploring Fractional Parts and Addition Facts
* Addition and Subtraction Facts through the sum of 15

*Measuring in Centimeters
*Fact Families and Fact triangles
*Finding the Rule in “What’s My Rule?”
*Solving Number Stories
*Quarters
*Time in 5 minute Intervals/Digital Clocks

Social Studies
Geography
Vocabulary Words: 1.planet 2.earth 3.continent 4.North America 5. country 6.United States of America 7.state 8.Illinois 9.city 10.Chicago
*Children need to be able to write their address, spelling their street name correctly. 

Science
Food Chains 

Homework
Monday - Reading Sheet; Go over the ou and ow sound as in shout and shower; 2 Home Links
Tuesday – Study New Words; 2 Math Sheets; Practice counting money and giving change;Reading and Grammar Sheets
Thursday – Write Spelling Words 2x each; Reading Sheet
Friday  - Spelling, Math, and Ecology Sheet; Home Link