IMPORTANT DATES:
• December 16~ First Grade White Christmas program at 9 am.
Wear a red shirt and blue jeans.
• December 17~ Half-Day and Class Christmas Party
Please send $1.50 to help cover the cost of goodies and supplies
If you would like to volunteer to help at the party, please let me know.
If you are planning to bring a younger sibling, please send $ for them to eat, too.
WHITE CHRISTMAS Food drive and Money Collection will continue through the rest of December. I am so overwhelmed by the compassion that our children have already shown! So far, our class has collected 51 food items and $58.49! (This has been a wonderful opportunity to practice counting money, too!) Thank you for encouraging your child to think of others at this special time of year.
SNACKS: Please continue to send snack for the rest of the week, except for Friday!
TAKE HOME READERS: Please set a timer for 15 minutes as your child reads. I realize that one Take Home Reader doesn’t take 15 minutes to read, so please begin to set up an area with library books and personal books that your child can read after reading the THR. You may also use this time to review the first grade high frequency words.
Language Arts: We are reading and writing about Christmas traditions and holiday traditions from around the world. We will write our letters to Santa Claus tomorrow.
We’re learning about vowel “teams,” such as ea, ai, and oa. We are also beginning to learn more about reading and spelling BLENDS, such as sn, sl, pr, cl, st, etc. We will learn more about contractions, such as can’t, I’ll, I’m, isn’t, etc.
In writing, we are focusing on getting good ideas for writing. We’re continuing to work on spelling basic high frequency words correctly. We are using our dictionaries. We’re including finger spaces in between the words as we write. We are working on writing complete sentences, with capital letters at the beginning and a period or question mark at the end.
M&M Math Masters: Congratulations to our Math Masters! 114 of our students are already Math Masters!! We are beginning “Rocket Math” this week, focusing on speed and memorization of addition facts.
We’re adding & subtracting on the number line, the number grid, & with number stories. We’re telling time to the HALF-HOUR & counting dimes.
