Week of October 30, 2017

       Wow! This has been a great week.  The children really enjoyed their field trip to the fire station and the fall party.  Thanks to all the parents that joined us at the fire station and came and assisted with the party.
       This week we will begin learning about the first Thanksgiving as we prepare for our Thanksgiving dinner.  This week we will be working on the following skills.

• We will continue to work on decoding words with multi-syllables.
• The children will decode, read, and identify words with the long /a/ sound
• The children will sort words with long and short a sound.
• The children will begin a unit of study about the Pilgrims and Indians
• The children will continue to work on addition and subtraction facts
• The children will learn how to tell time on the hour and the half hour.
• This week the children will read the story "Jacob Trick Esau" Genesis 25:19-34; 27:1-41
• The children will use a Venn Digraph and compare and Contrast Esau and Jacob
• The children will continue to work on learning the books of the Old Testaments
• I will review contractions with "not"
• The children will write a narrative about things that they are thankful for.
• We will continue to work on identifying the main idea in a story, main details within the story, and retell and rewriting a story in sequence.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORKS:

      make, take, came, game, gate, late, shake, name, plane, lake,

      Bonus Words:  Thankful - turkey

WEEKLY REMINDERS:

• Classroom Spelling Bee will be Mondayy
• Remember to read at least 2 AR books.  All children will need to bring their library
• Field trip to the Nashville Children's Theater - November 16th
• First Grade Thanksgiving Feast November 17th