November 28, 2016

        This will be a fun week as the children learn new skills and get ready for the holidays.
The children will work on the following skills:

• Identify and generate rhyme
• Retell and rewrite a story in sequence
• Read for fluency and comprehension
• Identify, read, and decode words with /ice/, /age/, and /edge/
• Read the story of the "Gingerbread Man" and do several activities 
• Identify and read words with multi-syllable words
• Tally numbers to 100
• Count and write by 2's, 5's, and 10's
• Continue to review addition and subtraction facts
• Work addition and subtraction word problem
• Do several experiments in the STEM lab associated with the story "The Gingerbread Man"
• Begin a unit of study about winter holidays around the world
• Continue to work on editing skills in writing
• Write a narrative about the Gingerbread Boy
• Continue to review sight words
• Reading assessment on comprehension, sight words, and decoding skills

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

stage, rice, wedge, nice, ledge, page, from age, once, mice

Bonus Words:  Gingerbread - holiday

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Week of November 14, 2016

This week the children will work on the following skills:

• Identifying, sorting, and reading words with long /o/,/e/, and /u/
•  Read and write about things now and long ago.
• Make items that the Pilgrims and Indians used long ago.
• Read stories and do activities about turkeys.
• Find the missing numbers in addition and subtraction problems
• Work addition and subtraction word problems
• Continue to work on learning addition math facts with sums 10 or less
• Begin a unit of study on ramps in science
• Review previous learned Bible stories
• Identify and read words with multi syllables in poems

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

globe, broke, hope, nose, note,  rope, cute, cube, ago, people

Bonus Words:  Thanksgiving - Friendship 

THANKSGIVING LUNCH:

• The children will have a special lunch on Friday 18, 2016 at 10:45.
• Children will not have to bring lunch on Friday.
• If you do not know what to send for the special lunch please contact your child's teacher or class room-mother,
• Parents are invited to attend this special luncheon.

P.E. and Recess: 

The children will have P.E. daily.  The children will be going outside on most days.  Therefore, it is important for your children to wear a jacket or sweater.  All children will need to go outside.

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Week Of November 7-11

Week of November 7-11

This week in first grade we will be working on the following:

• identifying and decoding words with long i
• spelling words with long i
• sorting long and short vowels sounds
• reading for fluency and understanding
• retelling a story
• sequence in a story
• story elements
• present tense verbs
• compound words
• identifying and describing shapes
• mixed addition and subtraction
• basic addition speed drills
• Thanksgiving
• PIlgrims and Indians
• Balls and Ramps
• The story of Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

Spelling Words: slide, like, smile, ride, hide, bike, mine, make, should, water

Bonus words: Pilgrim, Indians

No School on Monday-Teacher In-Service

Don't forget about our Yankee Candle fundraiser. Packets went home yesterday.

Field trip next Friday to Children's Theater.

Our first grade Thanksgiving Feast will be on Friday, November 18th. Be looking for sign ups from your room mother concerning this.