Week of Jan. 7

No school Monday, January 6- teacher work day…  We’ll see everyone on Tuesday the 7^th!

Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important

	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Thomas	PE	music	PE	art	Rotation with PE
Graviett	PE	art	PE	music	“
Herreman	art	PE	music	PE	“
Johnson	music	PE	art	PE	“

In Language Arts this week, we will…

·        Celebrate our writing!

·        Begin our nonfiction writing unit

·        Use our schema and experiences to make good predictions

·        Change predictions as needed

·        Spell high frequency words

·        Sort words to learn word patterns and help our spelling

·        Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud.

In Math, we will…

·        Apply touch math when adding 2 numbers

·        Use the strategy of counting on when adding

·        Continue to solve our problems of the day.  We use “CUBES” strategies.  (Circle the numbers, Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our work)

·        Visit our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.

In Science, we will learn about living and nonliving things.  We’ll also investigate the food chain.

Upcoming Dates:

***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the second semester.

Second Semester High Frequency

Spelling Words

an	are	because	from
of	one	play	said
that	there	they	was
went	were	when	with
your

Week of Dec. 16

HOLIDAY PARTIES!  Friday at 2:00  Everyone’s invited!

As a special treat, first graders will have...

Monday- shoes off!

Tuesday- PJ and stuffed animal day

Wednesday- Hat day and game day

Thursday- show and tell

Friday- eat lunch with another first grader at any table

After this week, we'll see you again on Tuesday, January 7.  (Monday is a teacher work day.)  

               

               Happy Holidays!!!

Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important

	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Thomas	PE	music	PE	art	Rotation with PE
Graviett	PE	art	PE	music	“
Herreman	art	PE	music	PE	“
Johnson	music	PE	art	PE	“

In Language Arts this week, we will…

·        Choose a piece to publish

·        Revise

·        Fix up our writing

·        Predict

·        Review contractions

·        Sort words to learn word patterns and help our spelling

·        Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud.

In Math, we will…

·        Play Christmas math games

·        Graph

·        Create a gingerbread glyph

·        Continue to solve our problems of the day.  We use “CUBES” strategies.  (Circle the numbers, Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our work)

·        Visit our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.

In Social Studies, we will learn about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. We’ll also learn about fables.

Upcoming Dates:

Upcoming Events

December:

19^th      Kids Rule the School

            All Pro Dads

            Holiday Sing Along

20^th      Holiday Parties

            End of the 3^rd 6 Weeks         

***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the first semester.

First Semester High Frequency

Spelling Words

all	as	be	but
by	for	had	have
he	his	not	on
or	this	to	what

This week... reposted :-)  Excuse the technical difficulties!

Week of Dec. 9

Thank you so much for your involvement in the Christmas is for Children gift program.  The children loved being involved in making another child’s Christmas special!

We hope your enjoyed your “snow-really ice” days!  We will have many ideas for our writers’ workshop time.  We’d love for you to encourage your children to write about particular memories made this weekend!

Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important

	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Thomas	PE	music	PE	art	Rotation with PE
Graviett	PE	art	PE	music	“
Herreman	art	PE	music	PE	“
Johnson	music	PE	art	PE	“

In Language Arts this week, we will…

·        Continue to write small moments

·        Check for period use

·        Visualize while reading

·        Predict the end of the story

·        Review alphabetical order to the first and second letter

·        Sort words to learn word patterns and help our spelling

·        Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud. We will be introduced to 3 new words.  All week, we’ll keep track of when we use them in our writing, speaking, or see them in our reading.  The new words will be posted so that we will have a reference for future use.

In Math, we will…

·        Add money to total $1.00

·        Count coins and total their value

·        Identify name and values of coins and sort money

·        Continue to solve our problems of the day.  We use “CUBES” strategies.  (Circle the numbers, Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our work)

·        Visit our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.

In Social Studies, we will learn about Christmas traditions around the world.

Upcoming Dates:

Upcoming Events

December:

19^th      Kids Rule the School

            All Pro Dads

            Holiday Sing Along

20^th      Holiday Parties

            End of the 3^rd 6 Weeks         

***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the first semester.

First Semester High Frequency

Spelling Words

all	as	be	but
by	for	had	have
he	his	not	on
or	this	to	what