Week of November 11, 2019

      This week we will begin the week by learning the importance of observing Veteran's Day.  We will have a special guest speaker to talk with the children.  The children will begin preparing for the first grade Thanksgiving Day feast.  We will send more information home about what you will need to send for the feast.

       The children will work on the following skills. this week:

Math: 

Creating and solving word problems. 

Determining when to add and when to use process elimination.

Mental math strategies (no hands)

Addition strategies boot camp

* adding 10 + a number

* adding 9 + a number

* review doubles plus one and minus one 

(Practice with your kids at home. Randomly quiz them in the car their doubles. ) 

We will be moving on to subtraction the week after. Addition MUST be mastered first.

Science:

The three states of matter 

Gas 

Liquid 

Solid 

Reading:

Identifying, decoding, and reading words with soft /c/, soft /g/, and /dge/

Identify the cause and effects within a story.

Generate rhymes within poems

Write narratives about the first Thanksgiving.

Use a flow chart to rewrite a story in sequence.

Continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding.

Compare and contrast using a class Venn digraph

Social Studies:

Read about the first Thanksgiving

Lean about the Native Indians that was at the first Thanksgiving.

Bible:

Read the Bible story "Jacob Returns Home"

Weekly Bible Verse:

Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:1

Spelling Words:

ice, page, wedge, price, dance, nice, age, ledge badge, bridge

Bonus words:  Indians - Pilgrims

CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• First/Second Grade play December 12th
• Children's Theater - November 21st
• Thanksgiving Day Feast - November 22nd
• Thanksgiving Break - November 25th-29th
• Christmas Party - December 17th
• Field Trip to Nashville Public Library and Chuck E Cheese - December 18th
• First Grade Game Day - December 19th
• Your child should continue to study their sight words and addition number facts at home.