Week of November 26, 2018

          I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I would like to thank all of the parents that made our Thanksgiving feast a great success.  The food was fantastic and the children loved having you there.
       This week will be extremely busy as we prepare for the 1st/2nd grade program.  The program will be on Thursday, November 29th.  We will have dress rehearsal on Wednesday, November 28th at 10:15 in the high school gym. Your child will need to bring their shirt for the performance to school for the dress rehearsal. Please put your child's name in their shirt.  Your child will need to be in our classroom by 6:00 dressed for the performance on Thursday.

Here is what is needed for their costumes: A PLAIN yellow t-shirt (no writing, design or print-please see attachment, you can find these at places like Hobby Lobby) with either black or orange pants (Girls can choose to wear leggings or tights) We are asking you to send $5 for the costume head piece (Mark envelope for musical). Dark shoes or tennis shoes.  They need their costume for "dress rehearsal/pictures" on November 27th., Tuesday. Please send costume to school that day.  

       Other than practicing for the performance the children will be working on the following skills:

• Reading the story "The Little Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Baby" comparing and contrasting the stories.
• Identifying, decoding and reading words with the soft /c/ and soft /g/
• Identifying and generate rhyme in the poem The Gingerbread Boy" 
• Reading and discussing the weekly memory verse:  You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  Deuteronomy 6:5
• Read, retell, and rewrite the weekly Bible story. "Joseph has a Dream" 
• Count and write numbers by 2's, 5's, and 10's
• Reviewing addition and subtraction facts
• Solving addition/subtraction word problems
• Read and discuss how others celebrate the holidays around the world
• Reviewing inflectional endings -ed and -ing
• Decode words with 1,2,and 3 syllables.
• Read stories and identifying the setting, characters, and main idea within the story.
• Weekly Spelling words:  rice, nice, page, age, wedge, ledge, mice, ice, face, slice, 

           Bonus Words:  gingerbread     cookie