Mr.

Masons

Week of January 15th

http://asagrade1.weebly.com
masonm@asamadagascar.org

Dear First Grade Families,

I cant believe that we are already reaching the end of
quarter 2 this week. I have begun looking back at your
little ones work in order to generate grades and
comments for their report cards. Reflecting on each childs
progress, I am amazed with how far all of my learners
have progressed during the first half of the year.
Reflecting on your childs abilities and areas for growth
leads me to look introspectively at my own practice, and
how I can improve my teaching to better support their
learning. With this in mind, I will be sending home a
questionnaire this week for you to fill out, in order for me
to find areas for growth in my teaching. Think of this like
you writing a report card for me.
This week we will continue to use the flipped learning
model. Videos can be found in the Flipped Classroom
section of our website under the unit of inquiry of
weather and will be listed below in the flipped classroom
section of our newsletter.

Mr. Mason
January

18th

Early Dismissal 12:15

Student Homework: Weather Week 1

Sunday Check out the Weather
Monday Seasons and the Sun
Tuesday Pizza Box Solar Oven
Wednesday Weather 101
Thursday All About Clouds

Math:
Topics Covered: place value, tens and ones,
dimes and pennies, less than > more than <
and equal to =.
How You Can Help: Continue to drill and
practice mental addition and subtraction to
10. Look at two digit numbers; identify how
many tens and ones are in the number.
English Language Arts:
Topics Covered: digraphs: ch, sh, th, ph, wh,
gn. Soft and hard c and g.
How You Can Help: When reading at home,
identify words where c makes the s sound
and g makes the j sound. Point out how
this happens when the c or g is followed
by e, I, or y.
UOI: Weather
Topics Covered: seasons, weather
vocabulary, tracking and measuring weather
How You Can Help: Watch flipped learning
videos and answer discussion questions.
Track the weather from your window.

Your child should

be reading every
night on
Kids A-Z,
and watching
flipped
classroom videos.
If we continue to
have power
outages I will take
a new approach to
homework.