Newsletter

DATES:
· Dec. 12~ Polar Express Day! See below for more information.
· Dec. 15~ Last day to order Make Up pictures.
· Dec. 18~ White Christmas Program 1:00
· Dec. 29~ Class Christmas Party: around 1:40.

Please send $2.00 to help cover the costs of the refreshments when you can. Please let me know if you are interested in helping volunteer during the party. We could use help around 12:30 that day.

WHITE CHRISTMAS: Thanks for the participation in the food and money collection! We’re already showing generosity. Our class has collected 6 food items and $9.49 so far! We’ll be collecting non-perishable food items and money through next week.

Polar Express day: On Friday, we’ll be reading the famous book by Chris Van Allsburg and watching the movie in the afternoon. To add to the experience, the whole first grade will be wearing pajamas! We’ll enjoy hot chocolate and popcorn during the movie, after lunch.

TAKE HOME READERS: Thank you for your help! Be sure to read for at least 15 minutes daily. I appreciate the comments! Thanks to Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Carter for coming in to listen to readers and help with the swapping last week.

SNACKS: Thank you for sending a healthy snack that can be quickly and independently eaten by your child each day.

Reminders: Thank you for remembering library books on Tues. & remembering to wear sneakers on our PE days, Weds. and Fri.

Thank you for sending in Campbell Soup labels, Box Tops for Education, Tyson points, Nestle water bottle labels, and can tabs.

HOMEWORK: Thank you for continuing to review all old high frequency words. Remember that our immediate goal is for all children to be able to read these words at first sight. Then, we are working on spelling them correctly, at all times. High Frequency Word List to review: when, where, why, who, they, says, time, want, can, down, just, all, said, went, too, over, not, jump, run, and, in, is, it, can, help, got, at, eat, for, was, are, what, have, say, then, now, how, did, didn’t, do, don’t, wasn’t, can’t, it’s, that’s, I’ll, I’m

Language Arts: We will be reading and writing about gingerbread men, reindeer, and Christmas. We began a new author study, of Jan Brett. She is the author and illustrator of Gingerbread Baby, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, The Mitten and others. We are doing so well recognizing contractions, compound words, and endings: -ed, -ing, -s in our reading… now we need to focus on incorporating them into our writing. We’ll be writing questions for Santa. We are continuing to work on writing multiple sentences on one topic, focusing on handwriting, spacing, spelling, proper use of capital letters and periods & question marks.

MATH: In addition, we’re adding facts with +0, +1, +2, +3, and doubles up to 10+10. We’ll continue to count combinations of nickels and pennies. We’ll be learning about odd and even numbers, patterns on the number grid, and beginning to tell time to the half hour, using the expression “half-past ___ o’clock.”

Social Studies: During the next two weeks, we’ll be studying holiday traditions around the world. We will learn a little about life in the far north, as well as how the seasons are different in different parts of the world.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week!