Week of January 1-8-18

        This week will be a very busy week.  I will introduce new skills in all subjects.  The children will continue to practice for the first/second grade play.  The play will be on January 25th,  More information will be sent home letter.  This information will give you the time and what your child will need to wear.  If your child has a speaking part please review this with your child daily until the play. Parents are needed to assist in making the scenery for the play . If you  are able to help with making the scenery for the play please contact me as soon           as possible.
        Below are the skills that your child will be working on this week:

• Phonological Awareness Identifying and generating rhyme in poems
• Identifying and reading compound words
• Identifying plot, main idea, and cause and effects within a story
• Write a narrative about living in a snow-globe
• Counting and writing by 5's 10's to 100
• Adding groups of 10's
• Introduce addition of two digit numbers
• Begin a unit of study about weather
• Identify, decode, and read words with /ai/ and /ay/
• Rewrite and retell stories in sequence
• Decoding words with multi- syllables.
• Weekly Bible Story will be "Joseph Helps Pharaoh" Genesis 39:1-41-49
• Learn about the life of Dr. Marin Luther King Jr.

Weekly Spelling Words:

mail, chain, rain, train, brain, play, way, day, pray, stay

Bonus Words:  snowflake - January

Weekly Reminders:

• Student should dress warmly each day.  If your child will be wearing a sweater or jacket during the day it should be a EHCS sweater or jacket.
• Children will begin practicing for the first grade play.  The play will be about winter.
• Continue to study sight words and addition and subtraction facts.
• Children will begin bringing home AR books on Tuesday.