Week of January 4, 2016

       Happy New Year to all!  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  We are so glad to be back in school.  We have missed each one of our students.
      This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Reading words with long  /o/ and /u/ vowels with CVCe
• Comparing and contrasting things from the past and now as the children read the following story: "Long Ago and Now" and "From Horse to Plane"
• Read and discuss poems for winter
• Discuss and write New Year Resolutions
• Add and subtract two digit numbers
• Work word problems with two digit numbers
• Identifying and reading compound words
• Begin a unit of study on weather
• Write a narrative about living in a snow-globe
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understand

Weekly Spelling Words:  hope cute nose cube none note ago rope long people

                                          Bonus Words:  January      Resolution

REMINDERS:

• Continue to study words for spelling bee
• The children will practice for the 1st/2nd grade program.  The program will be January 28th.
• Special thanks to Kara Morris (Tate's Mom) for painting the first grade shirts.

Week of December 14, 2015
This week the children will do the following things:

• Learn about the First Christmas and other ways people celebrate the holiday around the world
• Continue to work on addition of two digit numbers 
• The children will have a special story read from Coach Riley
• The children will make special gifts for some special people
• Write a letter to Santa
• They will view a special movie on Friday 

REMINDERS:

• All children should bring in a long sleeve white t-shirt for the First Grade Play in January
• The First Grade Play will be on January 28, 2016
• If you are able to come in and help with decoration please let your child's teacher know before the holiday.  We will begin making the decoration after the holidays.
• All children should bring in a book to exchange at our party.  Please wrap the book
• The children will have their Christmas party on Thursday morning.  Parents are welcome to attend.
• There will not be a spelling test this week.
• The children can wear their pajamas to school on Friday.

Week of December 7, 2015

• This week the children will be assessed on sight words, reading for fluency and understanding, and decoding word.
• The children will read the story "Polar Express" and learn and review many reading and math skills while enjoying the story.
• The children will continue to work on retell and rewriting storing in sequence.
• The children will continue to work on addition and subtraction math facts.
• The children will continue to work with place value and adding numbers with two digits.
• The children will learn about estimation and interpreting data on a graph
• The children will review previous Bible Stories

Weekly Spelling Words:

star-candle-Christmas-gift-bell-carol-Jesus-present-Santa-reindeer

Bonus Words:  Polar Express

                         train

CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• All children will need to bring in a long sleeve white tee-shirt to be used in the first/second grade play.
• Any parents that are able to come in and help decorate the tee-shirts please notify your child's teacher.
• The children will be going to Chuck-E-Cheese on Friday December 11th.  The children will leave school around 10:30.  Parents are invited to meet us at Chuck-E-Cheese.
• All children should be a book for exchange by Tuesday, December 11th.
• Our Christmas party will be Thursday morning.  We will have a breakfast.
• There will not be any AR due to the book fair.  If your child has a book out please return it as soon as possible.
• Your child may shop at the book fair during the week.