Week of January 2, 2017

       Happy New Year!  We hope you all had a great break.  We are excited to get back to school and get back on a regular routine.  Below are some of the skills the children will be working on this week.

• Discuss and write New Years Resolutions. 
• Listen to the story the "After Christmas Tree" and retell and rewrite the story in sequence.
• Read about winter and the signs of winter
• Students will take a book walk through a winter book and write details within the story.
• Students will be introduce to place value up to 100.
• Students will review addition and subtraction facts.
• Students will begin addition of two digit numbers.
• Students will work addition and subtraction word problems
• Students will begin a STEM unit of study of Rolling things in Motions
• Students will create a snow globe and write a narrative about living in a snow globe.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:   winter, snow, icy, frozen, blizzard

                                                        Bonus words:  January - Resolution

Students should study for the first grade spelling bee.  They should study the words that was sent home before the break.  Make sure your child is studying the 2016-2017 word list.

Week of 12-12-16
      This week the children will be doing the following things:

• The children will continue to be assess in reading and math.  
• Read the story "Polar Express"
• Rewrite and retell stories in sequence 
• Write a letter to Santa Claus
• Continue to work on learning addition and subtraction number facts
• Continue to learn about different holidays celebrated during this time of year

The children will not have a spelling or Bible test this week.  

Your child will bring home a list of spelling words that they can study during the holiday for the school spelling bee.  The spelling bee will be in January when they return to school

The children will have a Christmas breakfast Wednesday morning.  Parents are invited to come and assist with the breakfast.  Please check with your child's teacher, if you do not know what your child will need to bring to the breakfast.

The children will be dismissed half day Tuesday thru Friday.

Wishing all our families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Week of December 5, 2016

        Wow! This is going to be a fun and exciting week as we continue to decorate and get ready for the Christmas holidays.  The children will be working on the following skills.

• Identify, read and decode words with the /oo/ u sound.
• Identify and use adjectives in their writing.
• Write a narrative about Christmas or a holiday that is celebrated during the winter
• Read the story "Polar Express" and do activities about the story.
• Identify, read, and use words with inflectional ending -ed and -ing
• Learn about estimation
• Continue to work on addition and subtraction number facts
• Learn about different holidays that are celebrated during the winter
• Continue to learn about phoneme segmentation of words

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

    book, look, cook, took, hood, buy, done, shook, brook, stood 

     BONUS WORDS:  December - Christmas

• The children will be going to Chuck E Cheese on Friday.  The children will not need to have any money.  This activity was included in the activity fee at the beginning of the year.  The children will leave school around 10:45. They will eat lunch at Chuck E. Cheese.  They will also be given tokens to play the games.   Parents are invited to attend.  Parents can meet us at Chuck E. Cheese at 11:00.  Parents will need to pay when they arrive at Chuck E Cheese.  Children will need to wear jeans and an Ezell Harding shirt.
• The first graders will have a Christmas breakfast in their classroom on Wednesday, December 14th.  The party will begin around 9:45.  You will get more information about the Christmas breakfast from your class room mother.  
• Remind your child to bring in can goods.