Week of February 27, 2017
        The children have been very busy preparing for their African American presentation that will be held this Friday at 8:15 in the Eagle's Nest.
        This week the children will enjoy having guest coming in their class to read stories to them.
        They will be working on the following skills this week:

• Identifying words and decode words with /ar/ sounds. 
• Students will read sentences and stories with /ar/ words in them.
• Students will read stories about Frog and Toad
• Students will have phonemic drills on reversal and deletion of sounds within a word
• Read stories from the author Dr. Seuss 
• Continue to learn how to tell time by the hour and half hour
• Students will be introduce to fractions:  whole, 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4
• Continue to review addition and subtraction facts
• Word problems on lapse time, addition and subtraction
• Continue to work on reading for fluency when reading, comprehension skills, retelling and rewriting stories that they read
• Students will be introduce to irregular plurals

Weekly Spelling :  cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, four, star, barn, farm  (Bonus Words:  African Americans

                                                            .CLASSROOM NOTES:

• All children will participate in the first grade African American Presentation.  Children should come to school dressed as their famous African American.  Your child should bring clothes to change in after the presentation.  The presentation will be at 8;15 in the Eagle's Nest
• Your child should read books  at home and record on their reading log in their binder.  (This log  sent home on Friday)
• There will not be a Catapult summer program this summer. 
• This is Read Across American Week.  Your child may wear the following attire:

Monday:  Pajamas or comfy clothes (no leggings please)

Tuesday:  Green Eggs and Ham Day - Wear green

Wednesday:  Wacky Wednesday -Wear clothes backward, inside out, or mismatched.

Thursday:  Cat In the Hat Day (Wear favorite hat)

Friday:  Fox in Socks Day (Wear silly or mismatched socks)

                   If your chooses not to participate they must wear uniform.

Week of February 20-24
We have been working hard and enjoying this spring-like February weather. The children continue to learn lots about the weather, famous African-Americans, and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Don't forget that Monday is President's Day and a school holiday! Enjoy your day off!

This week we will be covering the following:

• Review of long and short vowel sounds
• Identifying a decoding a variety of words and sounds
• Spelling the names of the months of the year
• Reading assessments
• Reading for comprehension and fluency
• Writing a short biography
• Famous African-Americans
• Weather
• Dental Health
• Weights and measurement
• Addition and subtraction
• Telling time
• Bible story: Moses Leads the People Through the Red Sea

This week's Spelling words: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Memory Verse: Exodus 14:31 "The people feared the Lord and put their trust in Him."

Complete your re-enrollment for next year now! We want to see you next year!!

Remember our cookie dough fundraiser! Everyone loves cookies and we can help out our school.

Monday, February 20   No School

Thursday, February 23  Parent Teacher Conferences 3-6 pm

February 27-March 3   Read America Week

March 3  Famous African-American Program

Week of February 13-17

It has been another busy week in first grade. We are continuing to learn about long vowel sounds, Famous African-Americans, dental health, and weather, just to name a few things. 
On Valentine's Day we will share cards and fun with our classmates.

Here is some of what we will be covering in the upcoming week:

• Reading nonfiction texts
• Comprehension and fluency
• Strategies: visualizing, sequence, and identifying main ideas and details
• Identifying compound words and root words
• Recognizing and using adverbs telling when
• Writing using descriptive words
• Weather and the water cycle
• Identifying and decoding words with the long e sound spelled with e, y, and ey
• Measurement and Weight
• Continuing to practice basic addition and subtraction facts and 2 digit addition and subtraction
• Famous African-Americans
• Dental Health
•  Bible Story: Moses Leads the Children of Israel Out of Egypt

This week's Spelling words: key, bumpy, puppy, funny, penny, sandy, money, sunny, rainy, windy

Bonus words: precipitation, evaporation

Memory Verse: Exodus 13:18 "God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea."

Remember our Otis Spunkmeyer fundraiser. Everyone loves cookies and it helps our school!

Sign up sheets for Parent Conferences have been sent home in your child's white binder. Conferences will be on February 23rd from 3-6 pm. Don't forget to send in your sheet to sign up for a time. We look forward to discussing your child's progress with you.

Be looking for information coming home about our Famous African-American reports and presentations. This is a fun project!

Weather

Weather

     The children enjoyed a great week as they prepared for the Superbowl.  The children continue to work hard as they learn and review many reading and math skills. It is strongly encourage that your child read an AR book daily at home. They will be using AR in the classroom. Your child will be assigned  stories to read and take a quiz on in class.

• Identify, sort, read words with /i/, /y/, /igh/
• Learn their address and how to write their address correctly.  (This will be part of their spelling test on Friday
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding.
• Retell and rewrite a story in sequence
• Identify the cause and effect
• Use the verbs see/saw correctly
• Add and subtract two digit numbers.  IT IMPORTANT THAT YOUR CHILD WORK ON THEIR AND SUBTRACTION FACTS AT HOME.
• Add three or more numbers
• In Bible they will continue to learn about the Ten Plagues
• Learn about the rain cycle
• Continue to learn about famous African Americans

Weekly Spelling Words:  find, night, right, fried, by   bonus word:  meteorologist  - address

Your child will write their address as part of their spelling test on Friday.  They will need to know how to write:  entire name, street name and address, city, state, and zip.  ( They may use not any abbreviations)

Groundhog Day

Week of January 30, 2017

      Wow! What an awesome week we had last week.  The children did an amazing job in their play on Thursday night.  We are so proud of this.  They enjoyed a great week last week as they prepared for the 100 Days of School celebration.
      This week will be an  extremely busy week.  We will be working on the following skills:

• Identify, decode, and reading words with the long /o/, /ow/, /oe/, and /oa
• Read and discuss the Bible story "Moses says " my People Go" Exodus-12:32
• The children will identify the 10 plagues within the story
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding
• Review open syllables within a word (This will help decoding multi-syllable words)
• Retell and rewrite a story sequence
• Compare and Contrast stories using a Venn Diagram
• Review subtraction facts
• Subtract two digit numbers to find the difference
• Interpret data on a bar graph
•  Subtraction two digit word problems
• Read a thermometer
• Review great than > and less than< of two digit numbers
• Discuss Groundhog Day

Weekly Memory Verse: Moses says, "Let my people go"  Exodus 3:1

Weekly Spelling Words:low, oat, boat, tow, no, row, over, more, blow, float

                                       Bonus Words:  temperature -thermometer

Your child should review subtraction facts this week at home.

One Hundred Days of School

       This will be an extremely busy week as we prepare for our first/second grade play and our 100 Days of School celebration.  We will work on the following skills this week.

• Write several narratives about 100 Days of School
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding
• Continue to work on identifying the main idea and main details within a text
• Review addition facts.
• Add numbers with two digits 
• The children will learn how to subtract two digit numbers to find the difference
• Review other previous learned math skills
• Work on addition/subtraction drills
• The children will continue to learn about the life of Moses. Exodus 3:14

                                             Weekly Spelling Words:  

first, one, hundred, days, school, count, number, zero, sum, add

Bonus Words:  celebration  -  subtraction          

                                               Weekly Memory Verse

Exodus 3:14 

You will say to the children of Israel that I am that I am has sent me to you.

 

First/Second Grade Play - 1-26-17  (6:30 P.M. in the high school gym) ( All first graders will need to have a bright colored long sleeve shirt.)  

101 Days of School celebration January 27th  (Children will celebrate 101 days of school throughout the entire school day.)

Week of January 16-20

Don't forget Monday is a school holiday. This week we will be covering the following:

• Identifying and decoding words with long e sounds including ee, ea
• Sight words because, blue, into, or, other, and small
• Correctly using has and have
• Using capital letters and punctuation correctly
• Identifying the main idea and key ideas of a story
• Retelling a story by sequence of events/Putting story elements in sequential order
• Exploring force and motion
• Writing a narrative on How to Build a Snowman
• Continuing to practice addition and subtraction
• Beginning two digit addition
• Identifying place value ones and tens
• The Story God Protects Baby Moses Exodus 2:1-10

This week's Spelling words: we, me, feed, keep, because, beak, seat, sleep, each, green

Bonus words: force, motion

Memory verse: Exodus 2:10 "She called him Moses because he was drawn from the water."

The first and second grade play will be on Thursday,January 26th at 6:30 pm. Your child will need a solid bright colored t-shirt and jeans for the performance.

Be looking for information about our 100 day celebration coming soon. We will be celebrating on Friday, January 27th because of our play practice schedule on the actual 100th day.