Week of January 11, 2016

This week the children will work on the following skills:

• Students will review inflectional ending -ed and -ing
• Decode, identify, and read words with /u/oo,u
• Count and write by 2's and 5's
• Practice subtraction numbers with 2 digits
• Read and write about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Review, identifying, and reading contractions
• Read stories, discuss, and the write sequence of stories

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:
book, look, cook, took, hood, wood, buy, done, foot, brook,
Bonus words:  snowflake-sunshine

Weekly News:

• Students will continue  to practice for the first/second grade play
• Parents will be working on decoration on Tuesday morning at 9:30.  All parents are welcome to come and help.  We will also need some parents to come and assist with putting up decoration on January 26th. 
• Please encourage your child to read their AR book daily and study math facts

Week of January 4, 2016

       Happy New Year to all!  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  We are so glad to be back in school.  We have missed each one of our students.
      This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Reading words with long  /o/ and /u/ vowels with CVCe
• Comparing and contrasting things from the past and now as the children read the following story: "Long Ago and Now" and "From Horse to Plane"
• Read and discuss poems for winter
• Discuss and write New Year Resolutions
• Add and subtract two digit numbers
• Work word problems with two digit numbers
• Identifying and reading compound words
• Begin a unit of study on weather
• Write a narrative about living in a snow-globe
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understand

Weekly Spelling Words:  hope cute nose cube none note ago rope long people

                                          Bonus Words:  January      Resolution

REMINDERS:

• Continue to study words for spelling bee
• The children will practice for the 1st/2nd grade program.  The program will be January 28th.
• Special thanks to Kara Morris (Tate's Mom) for painting the first grade shirts.

Week of December 14, 2015
This week the children will do the following things:

• Learn about the First Christmas and other ways people celebrate the holiday around the world
• Continue to work on addition of two digit numbers 
• The children will have a special story read from Coach Riley
• The children will make special gifts for some special people
• Write a letter to Santa
• They will view a special movie on Friday 

REMINDERS:

• All children should bring in a long sleeve white t-shirt for the First Grade Play in January
• The First Grade Play will be on January 28, 2016
• If you are able to come in and help with decoration please let your child's teacher know before the holiday.  We will begin making the decoration after the holidays.
• All children should bring in a book to exchange at our party.  Please wrap the book
• The children will have their Christmas party on Thursday morning.  Parents are welcome to attend.
• There will not be a spelling test this week.
• The children can wear their pajamas to school on Friday.

Week of December 7, 2015

• This week the children will be assessed on sight words, reading for fluency and understanding, and decoding word.
• The children will read the story "Polar Express" and learn and review many reading and math skills while enjoying the story.
• The children will continue to work on retell and rewriting storing in sequence.
• The children will continue to work on addition and subtraction math facts.
• The children will continue to work with place value and adding numbers with two digits.
• The children will learn about estimation and interpreting data on a graph
• The children will review previous Bible Stories

Weekly Spelling Words:

star-candle-Christmas-gift-bell-carol-Jesus-present-Santa-reindeer

Bonus Words:  Polar Express

                         train

CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• All children will need to bring in a long sleeve white tee-shirt to be used in the first/second grade play.
• Any parents that are able to come in and help decorate the tee-shirts please notify your child's teacher.
• The children will be going to Chuck-E-Cheese on Friday December 11th.  The children will leave school around 10:30.  Parents are invited to meet us at Chuck-E-Cheese.
• All children should be a book for exchange by Tuesday, December 11th.
• Our Christmas party will be Thursday morning.  We will have a breakfast.
• There will not be any AR due to the book fair.  If your child has a book out please return it as soon as possible.
• Your child may shop at the book fair during the week.

The week the first graders will be working on the following skills:

Bible Verse:  Genesis 37:5  Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers.

READING

•                                
• The sound of the soft c and soft g sound.Retell and rewriting a story in sequence
• The children will read and retell and rewrite the story about The Gingerbread Man
• Continue to work on sight words
• Sorting adjectives, nouns, and verbs,
• Identifying the cause and effect within a story
• Compound words 
• Reading for comprehension and fluency

WRITING

• Write narratives about the 'If the Gingerbread Boy came to our school......
• Use correct punctuation and capitalization when writing
• Use correct spacing and letter formation

MATH

• Continue to work on addition and subtraction number facts
• Begin addition speed drills.
• Begin adding numbers with two digits
• Continue to work on word addition/subtraction word problem
• Identifying and explain a graph

SPELLING

Weekly Spelling words:  rice, nice, page, age,wedge, ledge,like,ride,from, dice

Bonus Words:  holiday - gingerbread

• Movie Night                                             12-04-15
• Decorate a Gingerbread Man                   12-10-15    More information will be sent home about this project.
• Scholastic Book Fair                                12-7 thru 12-11
• Children will go to Chuck-E. Cheese on 12-11-15
• Christmas Parties (Breakfast)                   12-17-15

This week the children will be working on the following skills:

• Identifying, decoding, and reading words with long /i/ silent e
• Read for fluency and understanding
• Comparing and contrasting Indians and Pilgrims using a venn diagraph
• Rewrite and retell a story in sequence.
•  Identify and sort nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Finding the missing addend in an addition work problem
• Finding the missing addend in an addition problem
• Practicing adding and subtracting using different strategies 
• Students will be learning about balls and ramps as they prepare for a lesson in the Stem Lab

Weekly Spelling Words:
like       spike       ride      hide      bike      mine      shine      dime      drive      glide
Bonus Words:  Thanksgiving       Parade

Reminder:

• Students will enjoy a special Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday at 10:45 (Parents are invited)
• Students will go to Chuck E. Cheese on December 11th.  The cost of the field trip is $7.00.  This should be paid to Ren-Web by November 20th.

Week of November 9-13

Bible Story: Jacob Has a Dream Genesis 27, 28
Memory Verse: Genesis 28:15 "Behold I am with you and will keep you wherever you go."

Reading:
Read for fluency and understanding
Identify and decode words with -ay and -ai
Story elements(Character, setting, main idea, details)
Sight words
Short and Long vowel sounds                                  

Language:
Identify and name adjectives
Write a narrative
Listen and respond to oral texts

Math:
Clocks-Telling time to the hour and half hour
Basic addition and subtraction facts

Social Science:
Thanksgiving/Pilgrims and Indians
Veteran's Day
Balls and Ramps(Inclines and velocity)

Spelling :pail, mail, tail, hay, say, may, day, jay, stay, rail
Bonus words:  Pilgrims - Indians


Science:  Balls and Ramps
This week the children will be learning about balls and ramps as they prepare for an experiment in the STEM lab.  We are asking the children to bring as many toilet paper and paper towel rows to school this week.  We will be using them on Friday in the STEM lab.

Notes of interest:
Don't forget the Cherrydale Fundraiser!!!
11/10- Bring in gently used coats for the Warm Coats give Away
Look for more information to come about our First Grade Thanksgiving Feast!
11/23-27   Thanksgiving Break
11/30-12/4   Food Drive