McCollough Resources

Hello everyone!

It’s hard to believe there are only 17 days left of school! This will be a short week since we do not have school on Friday. We are also off on Monday for Memorial Day! The kids are counting down the days of school with our ABC countdown. Tomorrow is Jammie Day, Tuesday is Kings Day, Wednesday is Lollipop Day, and Thursday is Mismatch Day.

I would like to thank you for helping make field day possible this year. Your donations are greatly appreciated at McCollough. Our field day will be this Thursday. Let’s hope it does not rain.

I want to thank ALL the parents who chaperoned at the Detroit Zoo. We got very lucky with the weather and the kids had SO much fun! Thank you to Ahmad Bazzi’s mom, Zeinab Haidar’s mom, Hussein Elmokdad’s dad, Ali Harp’s mom, Hussein Harb’s mom, Adam Afara’s mom, and Ali Bazzi’s mom. I have attached some pictures below.

Spelling: This will be our last spelling unit for the year!! YAY! For the next two weeks students will be working with contraction words. Here are the spelling words for the next 2 weeks. Our spelling test will be on Friday, June 3rd.

can’t, won’t, don’t, I’d, I’ll, I’ve, it’s

Enjoy your long Memorial Day weekend!

The students are well on their way to becoming experts about their research animal. Students are researching and using informational resources to find facts about their animals appearance, diet, and habitat.

Today students worked with their CRAZY HAIR to research some fun facts about their animals. Please make sure they bring in their photos for their animal report by tomorrow. Here are some pictures of your amazing writers during writer’s workshop.

May is finally here!! Hopefully the weather warms up soon. I can’t believe we only have a month and a half of this school year left. There has been some truly proud moments these past few months. Your children have really out shined their academic success since January. I am so eager to see their NWEA growth results this week. I am confident they will ALL show tremendous growth. Please take some time and tell them how proud you are as a parent to have such a smart child. Here is what we will be learning about this week.

Spelling:

This week students will be learning all out the vowel teams /ea/ and /oa/ If a syllable or one syllable word has two vowels, the first vowel usually stands for the long sound, and the second vowel is silent. These are often called vowel teams. The saying is used: We sing: “When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking.” Please look for our weekly spelling words in this weeks newsletter.

Math:

Students will be writing and reading numbers up to 120 this week. We will be using a hundreds chart to help us through this weeks lessons. We will also be solving number grid puzzles. These can be a little challenging but I will show them some tricks to help them solve these puzzles. Some of this weeks homework will have number grid puzzles. An example is provided below.

Have an awesome week & Happy Mother’s Day to all you amazing moms!

Hello everyone! It’s hard to believe May is only a week away. We will be SUPER busy this week prepping for our upcoming NWEA assessments. We are scheduled to take the reading NWEA on May 5th and the math NWEA on May 9th. Students have been reviewing past concepts during our Daily 5 and math workshop time.  Here is what we will be learning this week.

Spelling:

Students will be learning the ‘r’ controlled vowel sounds: /er/ /ur/ and /ir/ Our spelling words this week:

bird, shirt, fern, flower, hurt, burn

Phonics Game /UR/

Phonics Game /ER/

Math:

Students will be taking their unit 8 math test this Wednesday. A study guide will be sent home on Monday. Please make sure to review the study guide with your child and assist them with any concepts they may be struggling with. We will also be learning about symmetry this week.

Have a great week!

I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend.  Field trip forms were sent home last week. If your child did not return their permission slip yet, please make sure they do so by the end of this week. Here are some topics we will be learning this week:

Spelling:

Students will be reading and writing words with the sound of ‘y’ at the end of words. The letter ‘y’ can make a long i or long e sound. Spelling words for this week: baby, happy, sunny, fly, cry, sky

Math:

This week students will be learning how to read and write fractions in halves, thirds, and fourths. Students will also be subtracting two-digit numbers using base-ten blocks. Below are some fraction and subtraction games your child can practice on education city:

Subtraction with base-ten blocks

Fractions of 2 and 4

Fractions of 2, 4, and 8

Science:

Students will be identifying and explaining the 4 stages of a frog’s life cycle.

Frog Life Cycle Video

Have a great week!

It was great seeing the students transition right back to learning this past week! I am proud to announce that our class won for the most reading minutes during the month of March!!! Our class read for a total of 7,645 minutes.  A big congratulations to Hussein Harb, he won for the most minutes read in all of first grade! Hussein read for a total of 1,545 minutes! Our class earned a pizza party for this big accomplishment.

Below are some topics we will be learning about this week.

Spelling:

This week students will be reading and writing words with the two sounds of /oo/ Our spelling words for this week are:

moon, spoon, tooth, wood, took, bloom

Here are some more examples of words with /oo/ Notice how the sound of /oo/ is different in each box of words.

Math:

We will be prepping for our upcoming NWEA test.  This week students will be learning about odd and even numbers.  Students will also be adding two digit numbers without regrouping.  Below is an odd/even game from educationcity.com:

Odd/Even Math Game

Science:

We will be learning all about animal life cycles! This week we will focus on the butterfly life cycle.

Our concert was earlier today. The children did such a great job singing and they all looked so adorable! Here are some short videos and pictures in case you missed it.

Video 1

Video 2

It was so great seeing many of you during reading night! We have a short and busy week ahead of us. Please make sure your child reads during the break and logs onto educationcity.com and raz-kids.com. I will be sending home a short packet this Wednesday. Again, thank you to everyone who came in read a book to our class this month. (pictures below) Below are some topics we will be learning about this week.

Spelling:

Students will be adding the suffix –ed to the end of verbs. Here are the spelling words for the week:

add, added, want, wanted, stay, stayed, jump, jumped

Math:

This week students will be solving addition and subtraction word problems. Students will also be making groups of ten using tally marks and ten frames.

Last weeks mystery readers:

-Have a safe and enjoyable spring break!

This is the last week for marking period 3. Students will be getting their third report card real soon. Parent-teacher conferences are next Wednesday. I will be notifying some parents this week and scheduling a conference to discuss your child’s progress. All parents will receive a report this week that indicates your child’s current reading level. Below are some topics we will be covering this week.

Spelling:

This week we will be reviewing past spelling patterns. Here are this weeks spelling words:

playing, yell, small, stop, globe, who, what

Math:

Students will take the unit 7 math test this Thursday. The study guide will be sent home on Monday. Please make sure to review the study guide with your child and assist them with problems they may be struggling with.

Writing:

Students have been working on opinion writing these past few weeks. Each student wrote an opinion piece about the spring season. I will be checking their writing and grading it using a writing rubric. Please make sure to look for this graded assignment in your child’s homework folder this week.

Have a great week!