Jean DeLisle

First Grade Teacher

423-623-3811 x 316

Courses Taught:

First Grade General Education

Jean De Lisle

Welcome to First Grade

 

 3rd Quarter ELA
                         OUR LEARNING FOCUS

Week 5 Story → Koko & Penny

How do people work with animals? How do adverbs change the meaning of a verb? How do I correctly use commas in my writing? What are compound words? How can visualizing help me become a better reader? How do I identify Main Idea & Supporting details? Spelling Patterns: Long e with y and ey

Wonders Unit 5 Essential Questions: 

Week 1 Story → A Lost Button

How do people work with animals? How do adverbs change the meaning of a verb? How do I correctly use commas in my writing? What are compound words? How can visualizing help me become a better reader? How do I identify Main Idea & Supporting details? Spelling Patterns: Long e with y and ey

Week 2 Story → Kitten’s First Moon

What can you see in the sky? What are adjectives and how can I use them to improve my writing? What is the inflectional ending “-er” and how does it change a word (ex. teach → teacher)? How do I identify cause and effect? What is the difference between questions and statements? Spelling Pattern: “Bossy r”

Week 3 Story → Thomas Edison, Inventor

What inventions do you know about? What is a biography? What are adjectives that compare (ex. fast/faster) and how can I use them to improve my writing? What is alliteration? What are abbreviations? How do I identify the problems/solutions in a text? Spelling Pattern: or, oar, & ore words

WRITING FOCUS: Persuasive/Opinion Pieces

SS/Science Unit:  Life Science & Earth Science Unit

Wonders Unit 4 Essential Questions: 

Week 1 Story → Little Rabbit

How do animals' bodies help them? How can sequence (first, next, then, last) help me to retell a story in my own words? How do I put words in ABC order? How do I correctly use was/were in a sentence? What are contractions and how can understanding them help me to be a better reader? What is a folktale? Spelling Pattern: ai, ay, and oo

Week 2 Story → Animal Teams

How do animals work together? How can identifying the main idea and key details help me to understand a text? What are prefixes and how do they change the meaning of words? How do I correctly use have/has in sentences? Spelling pattern: e, ee, e_e, ea, and y

Week 3 Story → Vulture View

How do animals survive in nature? How do I correctly use go and do AND went and did in sentences? How do I identify Main Idea & Supporting Details? What are common and proper nouns? What are open syllables? Spelling Pattern: Long o with o, oa, ow, oe, o_e

Week 4 Story → Fly Guy

What insects do you know about? When do I use see/saw in sentences? Why are Titles of Books important? What is point of view? Spelling Pattern: Long i with y, i, ie, igh, and ide


 

 

 

 

 

Bio

First Grade Requires: Endurance, Focus, Kindness and Fun!! Get ready for a year when we all will grow!

 I appreciate you                    ready                    you are essential

My Class List:

BOYS:

Paul C.

Crixus C..

Joshua M.

Drexel E.

Korbyn N.

Zayden C.

Jaxon E.


GIRLS:

Eleanor D.

Maddelyn V.

Ruby W.

Kyrie W.

Mallory R.

Lydia S.

Isabella W.

Kennedy S.

Aurora. C

 

Supply List

  • 3 boxes of Kleenex
  • Boys:2 boxes of sandwich ziploc bags
  • Girls: 2 boxes of gallon size bags
  • HEADPHONES for individual use for Chrome books (not ear buds) -These are difficult to stay in a student's ear. 
  • WATER BOTTLE/PLASTIC with student name and flip top
  • Thin black EXPO markers

Please do not send anything other than what is on this list. The school is providing our school supplies this year. 

A BIG smile and positive attitude -These will be returned.

ALSO  CHANGE OF CLOTHES MARKED IN A PLASTIC BAG FOR YOUR CHILD!      ( Accidents?)

Watercolor trays

 

Classroom Wish List:

Classroom donations are always appreciated, but not expected. Thank you so much in advance for donating to our class. The following items are needed continuously throughout the school year:

-Mr. Sketch markers

TEACHER Flair Pens

-Band-aids  ASSORTED SIZES

-Treasure box items (Happy meal toys, erasers, small toys, etc.)

-Astro bright colored paper

Colored outdoor chalk/ bubbles

-Snack donations as you wish

-Individually wrapped candy


 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


Events

Homework

There is a newsletter and homework pack sent in the YELLOW Folder every week.

    Reading each night

    Math addition and subtraction

    Math fluency timed tests

    Journal Written Expression

 

SPECIALS SCHEDULE:

MONDAY:Music TECH

TUESDAY:LIBRARY

WEDNESDAY: ART 2ND

THURSDAY:PE (TENNIS SHOES)

FRIDAY:PE (TENNIS SHOES)

Homework Hotline 615-298-6636

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