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.