Language Arts Review Q2

Language Arts Review

Grade 1 Quarter 2

Unit 1: The Sentence

·         What is a sentence? (page 21-22)

Writing a complete thought.

·         Naming/Action parts (pg.23-26)

Recognize each part and use them to write sentences.

·         Telling sentences (pg.27-30)

Understanding they begin with a capital letter and end with a period.

·         Questions (pg. 31-34)

Begin with a capital letter and ends with a question mark. Questions words are what, where, when, who, how and why.

·         Differentiate between telling sentences and questions (pg. 35-36)

Unit 3: Nouns and Pronouns

·         Nouns for People and Animals (pg.61-62)

Understand nouns are words that name people (boy, man, nurse, mom) and animals (cow, cat, horse).

·         Nouns for Things and Places (pg.63-63)

Understand nouns are words that name things (chair, car, pencil) and places (parks, school, house).

·         One and More than One (pg.67-68)

Recognize when to use s at the end of a word to make it plural or leave it out for singular. (1 umbrella and 2 umbrellas, 1 girl and 5 girls.

·         Special Nouns, Pronouns (pg. 69-72)

Understand that pronouns use names of regular nouns and must be written in capital letter. (Dominican International School, Kaohsiung City, Ms. Lopez, Aozidhi Park)

·         Naming Yourself Last (pg. 73-74)

When naming yourself in a sentences with more people in it, always name yourself last. (Carlos and I went to the park. Maria, Ms. Lo and I drew pictures.)

·         Pronouns (pg. 75-76)

Using pronouns to replace nouns or proper nouns. Pronouns:  she, he, they or it.

·         Be able to spell and write sentences with some of the previous spelling words.

List of spelling words for quarter 2:

Make

Give

Want

Know

Use

Try

Call

Have

Feel

Find

Tell

Ask

Come

Get

Take

More

Work

Was

Were

Great

Done

Under

Around

Your

First

There

Don’t

About

Before

Because

Once

Over

Like

Other

Every

Said

Only

After

Then

They

Think

This

Thank

Each

Will

He

She

Huge

Fast

Cute

White

Smart

Nice

Funny

Ugly

Pretty

Orange

Brown

Black

Slow

Yard

Barn

Bark

Chart

Card

Art

Jar

Arm

Better

Turn

Line

Window

Awful

Told

Story

Spring

Winter

Autumn

Summer

Seeds

Leaf

Roots

Stem

Bright

Sight

Right

Night

Light

Plane

Monday December 7th 2015

Hello everyone,

 I hope you are all enjoying this nice cooler weather!I am updating you with Minor and Major exams today as well as sending Major Exam reviews home. This week there will be no homework as the kids will have to study for Chinese this week and can begin to use their study guides to study with mom or dad at home for major exams next week.The phonics review will be the only one which will be sent home Thursday as Id like to advance a little more in the Unit before we begin the review.Today I am also sending out a Reading Log Survey if you could please take a few moments to fill it out with your child and send it back to me.

Minor Exam Schedule:

December   7th- 11th
Monday - Health  
Tuesday
Wednesday - PE / Chinese
Thursday - Christian Living and Music -
Friday - Computer

Major Exams: 

December 14-15th
Monday:Social Studies / Science
Tuesday: Math/ Language Art/ Phonics

Wednesday 12/16/15 - Field Trip in the morning and in the afternoon Student Council is offering tickets for a movie in the Auditorium at 2:00 pm, the cost is of 70NT.

Thursday 12/17/15 - Mass Rehearsal and Christmas Show Rehearsal in the morning. After lunch we will have a Christmas party in the classroom.The students will have in their assignment book a small snack or drink to bring for our party. 

Friday 12/18/45 - Christmas Show! Half Day, please pick up students no later than 11 if you can not be here for the show, as teacher and staff will be leaving the school grounds for a faculty lunch. Thank you!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Hello parents! Happy December!

Hope you are having great week. Today in Grade 1 we:

Completed our continents booklet, spoke more about each continent, where it is in reference to the equator and important facts about them as well. We also used new block shapes to count the number of faces, edges and corners on shapes such as cubes, cylinders, pyramids, spheres, rectangular prisms and cones. We continued with Unit 3 in Phonics and moved on the the Long i sound. We reviewed the long A and compared long vowel sounds to short vowel sounds. 

The field trip has been approved for Wednesday December 16th. We will be walking to the Kaohsiung Art Museum from school and the cost will be of NT 100.

This is a tentative schedule for special exams. Art will not be having one and Chinese test will be confirmed tomorrow.

 

MONDAY 12/7	HEALTH
TUESDAY 12/8
WEDNESDAY 12/9	PE
THURSDAY 12/10	CHRISTIAN LIVING	MUSIC
FRIDAY 12/11	COMPUTER

 

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Hello everyone!

First I wanted to thank all the parents for coming and supporting G1 class for Language Festival, I like to think we finished on a good note last Thursday with the song Sugar, the kids were so excited! Also special thanks to all parents who brought snacks and new food to share with everyone, that’s what Thanksgiving is all about!

Today in Grade 1 we:

Math: Learned about corners and sides, compared shapes, colors and sizes and wrote our own problems for finding the hidden shapes!

 Language arts: Copied new spelling words for the spelling quiz this Friday and discussed what they were.

Social Studies: Began discussing Land forms in class (mountains, rivers, islands, valleys, hills, lakes). We will be covering 7 continents, cardinal directions, 5 oceans and all the different landmasses this week in SS class with fun activities and worksheets.

Homework:

Write each word three times in your spelling tab.

Math MPB 7.3

Spelling Words:

·         Spring

·         Winter

·         Autumn

·         Summer

·         Seeds

·         Leaf

·         Roots

·         Stem

·         Bright

·         Sight

·         Right

·         Night

·         Light

·         Plane

Announcements:

Exam week for second quarter will be December 7^th -15^th

 

Minor exams (Health, Christian Living, Art, Computer, Chinese, Music and PE) will be December 7^th-11^th. 

Major Exams (Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science and Reading) will be December 14^th- 15^th they will be half days.

December 16^th we are finalizing details for our Q2 Field Trip, as soon as it is approved by Administration I will be sending home all the details. 

December 17^th rehearsal for Christmas show in the morning and classroom Christmas parties.

December 18^th Christmas mass and show, also a half day. 

I will be sending home all reviews for Major exams on Monday December 7^th. We will be reviewing in class that week for finals. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 

-Ms. L

Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

Hello parents!

Today I will be sharing again with you some important information for tomorrow. 

What to bring: A bag with their change of clothes and a snack.

8:30-9:40am : Mass -  Please have your child be on time and in their complete regular uniform. 

9:40-10:00 am: Break time - Kids will eat their snack in the classroom and change into their clothes for their performance. We will also take the time to quickly practice once more.

10:10-11:45: Language Festival in the auditorium

11:45-12:30: Thanksgiving Family Lunch 

If you are not able to come, please make sure to pick up your child at 12:45, as it is a half day and staff will be leaving at that time as well.Thank you in advance for your support!

The kids will not have homework for tonight or this weekend, however I encourage they fill out some Reading Log slots by reading their Science book Unit 4 with you at home, all about Plants. We will be having an assessment on this next week. 
 

Thanksgiving Week :) Monday, Nov. 23, 2015

Hello everyone! 

I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. Since this will be a short week (Only Monday - Wednesday and Thursday events all day) we will not be having a spelling test. I encourage all student to work on filling out some Reading Log times and reviewing their old spelling words. I'd like to correct pick up time for kids on Thursday if you will not attend the lunch is not 11:30 but 12:40. We have started today our new math chapter 7 on shapes, algebra and fractions! We have also began learning rules for long A sounds and spelling. Congratulations to Julia for winning Angel of the Week here in DISK!

Homework:
MAth: MPB 7.2
Reading: Read "the Tree" pg 15 Journeys book to mom or dad.

Friday, November 20th, 2015

Dear parents,

I have a few important announcements for next week:

Homework for Monday: Bring in 1, 2 or more old magazines we can cut up for a class art project.

Thursday, Nov. 26th:

Students will come in proper uniform Thursday morning for Mass in the morning.

After Mass: Students will change and quickly rehearse their song. Please have students bring in an extra outfit to make their performance more colorful, we will change after mass. I ask they bring in bright colors; pink would go best with our “Sugar Sweet Candy land” theme.

 Language Festival: will start at 10 am, we hope you can all make it.

Thanksgiving Lunch: As soon as Language Festival is over, we will head to our Family Thanksgiving Lunch where we will get to share food and give thanks for so many blessings! If you are attending and have not sent in your confirmation form, please let me know to inform the office.

It is a Half Day if you will not be here with us for the lunch please make sure to pick up your children at 11:30.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Ms. L