November 28, 2016

        This will be a fun week as the children learn new skills and get ready for the holidays.
The children will work on the following skills:

• Identify and generate rhyme
• Retell and rewrite a story in sequence
• Read for fluency and comprehension
• Identify, read, and decode words with /ice/, /age/, and /edge/
• Read the story of the "Gingerbread Man" and do several activities 
• Identify and read words with multi-syllable words
• Tally numbers to 100
• Count and write by 2's, 5's, and 10's
• Continue to review addition and subtraction facts
• Work addition and subtraction word problem
• Do several experiments in the STEM lab associated with the story "The Gingerbread Man"
• Begin a unit of study about winter holidays around the world
• Continue to work on editing skills in writing
• Write a narrative about the Gingerbread Boy
• Continue to review sight words
• Reading assessment on comprehension, sight words, and decoding skills

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

stage, rice, wedge, nice, ledge, page, from age, once, mice

Bonus Words:  Gingerbread - holiday

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Week of November 14, 2016

This week the children will work on the following skills:

• Identifying, sorting, and reading words with long /o/,/e/, and /u/
•  Read and write about things now and long ago.
• Make items that the Pilgrims and Indians used long ago.
• Read stories and do activities about turkeys.
• Find the missing numbers in addition and subtraction problems
• Work addition and subtraction word problems
• Continue to work on learning addition math facts with sums 10 or less
• Begin a unit of study on ramps in science
• Review previous learned Bible stories
• Identify and read words with multi syllables in poems

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

globe, broke, hope, nose, note,  rope, cute, cube, ago, people

Bonus Words:  Thanksgiving - Friendship 

THANKSGIVING LUNCH:

• The children will have a special lunch on Friday 18, 2016 at 10:45.
• Children will not have to bring lunch on Friday.
• If you do not know what to send for the special lunch please contact your child's teacher or class room-mother,
• Parents are invited to attend this special luncheon.

P.E. and Recess: 

The children will have P.E. daily.  The children will be going outside on most days.  Therefore, it is important for your children to wear a jacket or sweater.  All children will need to go outside.

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Week Of November 7-11

Week of November 7-11

This week in first grade we will be working on the following:

• identifying and decoding words with long i
• spelling words with long i
• sorting long and short vowels sounds
• reading for fluency and understanding
• retelling a story
• sequence in a story
• story elements
• present tense verbs
• compound words
• identifying and describing shapes
• mixed addition and subtraction
• basic addition speed drills
• Thanksgiving
• PIlgrims and Indians
• Balls and Ramps
• The story of Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

Spelling Words: slide, like, smile, ride, hide, bike, mine, make, should, water

Bonus words: Pilgrim, Indians

No School on Monday-Teacher In-Service

Don't forget about our Yankee Candle fundraiser. Packets went home yesterday.

Field trip next Friday to Children's Theater.

Our first grade Thanksgiving Feast will be on Friday, November 18th. Be looking for sign ups from your room mother concerning this.

Week of October 31, 2016

         This will be another very busy week as their will be lots of new skills introduced during the week.

• The children will be introduced to the long /a/ silent e sound.
• The children will sort long and short vowel sounds.
• The children will work with verbs.
• Weekly high frequency words: away, now, some, today, way why
• Student will be introduced to compound words
• Students will continue to work on measurement
• Students will continue to work on addition and subtraction facts
• Students will be introduce to shapes
• Students will continue to learn about the duties of the President of the United States
• Students will begin a science unit of study on balls and ramps
• The children will write about things they are thankful for
• The children will begin learning about the first Thanksgiving

Weekly Spelling Words:

make, take, came, game,gate, late, today, some, become, away

Bonus Words:  Thanksgiving / November

Reminder:

• The children should continue t collect boxtops
• The children will be going to the Children Theater on November 11th.
• The children will have a Thanksgiving feast on Friday, November 18th at 10:45. (More information will be sent home)
• Remind your child to read their AR book daily.

Week of October 24, 2016

       This will be another busy week as we prepare for our Fall Harvest fun day on Friday.  The children will be doing fun activities throughout the day.  The children will have some special treats at 1:45.  Parents are invited to come help and join in on the fun.

       This week the children will learn and review the following skills:

• The children will continue to work on learning sight words, reading for fluency, and comprehension skills.
• The children will review the short vowel sounds
• The children will learn how to identify words with one, two, and three syllables.
• The children will learn their double number facts
• The children will learn to add 3 or more addends with sums less than twenty.
• The children will learn to measure my using an inch ruler and tape measure
• The children will continue to work addition and subtraction word problems.
• The children will read the story "Where the Wild Things Are" and do several activities associated with the story.
• The children will learn about the duties of a president
• The children  will write a narrative about if they were President of the United State 
• The students will learn about Jacob having a Dream (Genesis 27:41-45; 28:10-22)

Weekly Spelling words:  pumpkin, patch, seed, fall, candy, trick, tree, mask, orange, green 

                                        Bonus Words:  harvest - costume

                                               WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

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Week of October 17-21

This week we will be covering the following:

Fiction and Informational texts

Reading for Fluency and Comprehension

Topics, Main Ideas, and Details of a story

Adding -es to a noun to form a plural

Irregular Verbs

Writing with Capital Letters and Periods

Compound Words

Consonant Diagraphs-Words with -ch, tch, wh, -ph

Addition and Subtraction and Fact Families
Fire Safety
Writing a Narrative

Bible Story: Jacob Tricks Isaac
Memory Verse: Genesis 25:34 "Jacob gave Esau some bread and stew."

Spelling Words: whip, whale, catch, match, chin, graph, shop, with, many, around
Bonus: October, scarecrow

Don't forget Book Character Pumpkins for the Pumpkin Patch in the Eagle's Nest can be brought in beginning Monday, October 24th. Judging will be on the 28th. 

   

 This will be another busy and fun week as we prepare for our field trip on Friday to the fire station.  We will be working on the following skills this week:
Week of October 10, 2016

• Reading for fluency and comprehension
• The children will continue to learn new vocabulary and review sight words.
• The children will learn greater than, less than, and equal to. <,>,=
• The children will continue to work addition and subtraction word problems
• The children will continue to work with learning addition and subtraction facts
• They will learn to decode words with /sh/, /th/, and /ng/
• The children will be introduced to closed syllables
• The children will write several narratives about fire safety and firefighters
• The children will learn about fire safety.
• The children will read and discuss the weekly Bible story " Genesis 26:12-33

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

fish, shop, ship, with, thing, sang, want, call, flash, shell

Bonus Words:  firefighter, safety

REMINDERS:

• All children should be reading AR books daily at home. Please remind your child to return their book daily.  
• The children will go to the fire station on Friday, October 14th.  We will leave the school at 8:15.  Parents are welcome to attend.
• Children should continue to study sight words and math facts at home as much as possible.

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