Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Back To School 2019-2020



The first day of school is TOMORROW, and I am bursting with excitement! I am looking forward to a year full of mind-expanding concepts and fruitful experiences. I wanted to first introduce myself. I am Mrs. Kelsey Stacy Pearson, and I will be your child's first grade teacher. We are going to have so much fun this year! I also wanted to post a friendly reminder that Back to School Night is September 5th from 6:30-7:30. I am looking forward to meeting all of you!

Monday, March 18, 2019

March 18-21, 2019


Hi Families!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Thank you to everyone who volunteered Friday. I believe the students had a great time at the RICE museum. Just a reminder that next week is Spring Break. Also, on April 4th I am taking the students to see The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors at the Oregon Children’s Theater and I am looking for volunteers. If you’d like to volunteer, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=w.ProcessCreate5

The PTA is auctioning off baskets this year. Our theme is Home and Garden. I have created a list of item ideas if you’d like to donate, but feel free to donate anything you’d like. These items are due April 1st. To sign up for items, see list here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=w.ProcessCreate5

Please let me know if you have any questions. Here is our week at a glance:

Riggs: Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Monday: price, money, class, horse, copy
Tuesday: copied, copies, more, delay, pound
Wednesday: behind, around, fifth, return, camp
Thursday: clear, bear, bare, clean, finish

Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student will understand that:
                    numbers can be shown using a drawing or picture
                    when adding two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
                    there are five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
                    the median is the number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest

Essential Questions:
                    How can I draw a picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
                    How can I tell if the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
                    How can counting by 5’s help me tell the time?
                    How do I find the median of a set of numbers?


Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference, flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart, fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus, o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction     

Reading: The Leprechaun’s Gold by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of text types.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key word outlines. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence and paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing Wednesday! We then practice illustrating our writing. 

Core Knowledge: American Revolution
·         FROM COLONIES TO INDEPENDENCE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
o    Locate the original thirteen colonies.
o    The Boston Tea Party
o     Paul Revere’s ride, “One if by land, two if by sea”
o    Minutemen and Redcoats, the “shot heard round the world”
o    Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .”
o    Fourth of July
o    Benjamin Franklin: patriot, inventor, writer
o    George Washington: from military commander to our first president
§  Martha Washington
§  Our national capital city named Washington
o    Legend of Betsy Ross and the flag
·         EARLY EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICA WEST
o    Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
o    The Louisiana Purchase
§  Explorations of Lewis and Clark
§  Sacagawea
o    Geography: Locate the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mississippi River.


Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy

Monday, March 11, 2019

March 11-15


Hi Families!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We are now studying the American Revolution and Westward Expansion. In first grade, we only discuss a few events from this time. Further details regarding the American Revolution and the Westward Expansion will be addressed in third and fourth grade. This Friday is our field trip to the RICE Museum. If you have volunteered to chaperone, I will send a separate email to you shortly. Please remember students can wear their red field trip t-shirt (or any red t-shirt) with jeans, or they may wear their uniform. Students must wear tennis shoes. Please also remember that school lunch is not provided on field trip days. When packing your student’s lunch, keep our healthy school lunch policy in mind. Thank you.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Here is our week at a glance:

Riggs: Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Monday: even, without, afternoon, Friday, weigh
Tuesday: state, head, juice, great, gentle
Wednesday: story, open, short, reach, fruit
Thursday: guide, worse, water, round, cost

Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student will understand that:
                    numbers can be shown using a drawing or picture
                    when adding two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
                    there are five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
                    the median is the number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest

Essential Questions:
                    How can I draw a picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
                    How can I tell if the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
                    How can counting by 5’s help me tell the time?
                    How do I find the median of a set of numbers?


Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference, flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart, fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus, o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction     

Reading: Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of text types.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key word outlines. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence and paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing Wednesday! We then practice illustrating our writing. 

Core Knowledge: American Revolution
·         FROM COLONIES TO INDEPENDENCE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
o    Locate the original thirteen colonies.
o    The Boston Tea Party
o     Paul Revere’s ride, “One if by land, two if by sea”
o    Minutemen and Redcoats, the “shot heard round the world”
o    Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .”
o    Fourth of July
o    Benjamin Franklin: patriot, inventor, writer
o    George Washington: from military commander to our first president
§  Martha Washington
§  Our national capital city named Washington
o    Legend of Betsy Ross and the flag
·         EARLY EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICA WEST
o    Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
o    The Louisiana Purchase
§  Explorations of Lewis and Clark
§  Sacagawea
o    Geography: Locate the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mississippi River.


Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy


Monday, March 4, 2019

March 3-7, 2019


Hi Families!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I cannot believe I missed such a crazy week last week. I hope you had a wonderful snow day! I wanted to remind you that this Thursday night is our Core Knowledge Showcase. Here is some information regarding the showcase:
You are invited to join the staff and students of Cascade Heights on March 7th at 6:30 PM for an evening performance highlighting Core Knowledge units by all 9 classes.  Each class will perform twice, once in the gym and once in the cafeteria, so feel free to sit in either room. 

Our evening performance begins at 6:30 PM. Family and friends may take their seats beginning at 6:10 while students make their way to their classrooms. We are expecting a full house, so be there early for the best seats. Guests may park in the staff parking lot on the north side of the building, in front of our building, and in the gravel parking lot south of the building. We ask that everyone enter through the front doors, unless you need an accessible entrance. If you have someone with you that needs a more accessible entrance, you may pull into the staff parking lot, park in the accessible spot, and use the buzzer on the breezeway door. 

Reminders: 
~ Students can wear their school uniform.
~There will be concessions available for purchase.
~ The single user bathroom is located to the right as you exit the gym. 
~ You are more than welcome to take pictures or film the show, but please do so from your seat or standing in the back of the room. 
~ Please silence your cell phone and all other noise making devices. 
~ At the end of the performance, students will need to be picked up from their classrooms. Please send one parent down to pick them up. In order to minimize interruptions to the performance, students will not be released until the end of the show

Please let me know if you have any questions. Here is our week at a glance for the next two weeks:

Riggs: Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Monday: shall, may, might, would, could
Tuesday: week, weak, mile, sent, cent
Wednesday: cents, sense, seem, seems, six
Thursday: were, see, saw, seen, even

Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student will understand that:
                    numbers can be shown using a drawing or picture
                    when adding two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
                    there are five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
                    the median is the number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest

Essential Questions:
                    How can I draw a picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
                    How can I tell if the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
                    How can counting by 5’s help me tell the time?
                    How do I find the median of a set of numbers?


Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference, flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart, fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus, o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction     

Reading: The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of text types.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key word outlines. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence and paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing Wednesday! We then practice illustrating our writing. 

Core Knowledge: American Revolution
·         FROM COLONIES TO INDEPENDENCE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
o    Locate the original thirteen colonies.
o    The Boston Tea Party
o     Paul Revere’s ride, “One if by land, two if by sea”
o    Minutemen and Redcoats, the “shot heard round the world”
o    Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . . .”
o    Fourth of July
o    Benjamin Franklin: patriot, inventor, writer
o    George Washington: from military commander to our first president
§  Martha Washington
§  Our national capital city named Washington
o    Legend of Betsy Ross and the flag
·         EARLY EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICA WEST
o    Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
o    The Louisiana Purchase
§  Explorations of Lewis and Clark
§  Sacagawea
o    Geography: Locate the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Mississippi River.


Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

February 19-22 & 25-28


Hi Families!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I wanted to send a quick reminder that this Friday is field trip Friday. Students can wear their red field trip shirt (or any red t-shirt) and jeans. Please remember our healthy school lunch policy when packing their lunch and snacks. We do not offer school lunch on field trip days. If you are chaperoning, I will send out an email regarding Friday’s details soon. I also wanted to let you know that I will be out all next week. Because of this, I am also sending next week’s week at a glance. As always, thank you for supporting your child’s education.

Here is our week at a glance for the next two weeks:

Riggs: Continuing multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun! Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Monday: No School
Tuesday: rain, keep, start, bit, bite
Wednesday: biting, mail, male, female, eye
Thursday: I, town, city, cities, glass

Monday February 25 – party, parties, two, twin, twice
Tuesday February 26- twenty, between, twelve, will, can
Wednesday February 27 – shall, may, might, would, could
Thursday February 28 – should, week, weak, mile, miles

Math:
Enduring Understandings - The student will understand that:
                     numbers can be shown using a drawing or picture
                     when adding two-digit numbers, the sum may be greater than 100
                     there are five-minute intervals between each number on the clock
                     the median is the number in the middle of a set of numbers ordered from least to greatest

Essential Questions:
                     How can I draw a picture to show the amount for a three-digit number?
                     How can I tell if the sum of two-digit numbers will be greater than 100?
                     How can counting by 5’s help me tell the time?
                     How do I find the median of a set of numbers?


Mathematical Language:
• capacity, cubes, cup, difference, flip, full, gallon, greater than, half-inch, median, liter, minute, quart, fewest, greatest, half hour, hour, least, left, length, line segment, minus, o’clock, parallelogram, subtract, subtraction      

Reading: Brave Irene by William Steig
Next Week’s Book: Little Polar Bear, Take Me Home! By Hans do Beer
Comparing texts using a Venn diagram
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. Reading a range of text types.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral reading of source texts, create story sequencing charts, locate nouns and verbs in sentences, and write key word outlines. Using those key word outlines, we are now practicing sentence and paragraph writing. We also write about our weekly reading on Writing Wednesday! We then practice illustrating our writing. 

Core Knowledge: Space
             Sun: source of energy, light, heat
             Moon: phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, new)
             The eight planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) (Note: In 2006, Pluto was classified as a dwarf planet.)
             Stars, Constellations, Big Dipper, The sun is a star.
             Earth and its place in the solar system
             The earth moves around the sun; the sun does not move.
             The earth revolves (spins); one revolution takes one day (24 hours).
             Sunrise and sunset
             When it is day where you are, it is night for people on the opposite side of the earth.

B. WHAT’S INSIDE THE EARTH
             Inside the earth
             Layers: crust, mantle, core (draw and label)
             High temperatures (draw and label)
             Volcanoes and geysers (draw and label)


Thank you,
Ms. Kelsey Stacy