Week of January 25, 2016

       This will be a fun and busy week as we prepare for 100 Days of School and our First Grade Play.

Below are some skills we will be learning and reviewing this week:

• The children will work on learning their spelling bee words.  They will have a practice spelling bee in our class on Thursday.  The children will need to say the word, spell the word, and then say the word again.
• The children will continue to work on addition, subtraction, word problems, tallies, and counting and writing by 2's, 5's, and 10's.
• The children will be doing fun activities as they prepare for 100 Days of School.
• The children will write several narratives using good letter formation, spacing, and using their editing skills.
• The children will read and discuss several stories about 100 Days of School

First Grade Reminders:

Hello 1st and 2nd grade parents,

Please remember that our Winter Musical will be next Thursday, Jan. 28, at 6:30 pm on the stage in the HS gym.

If your child has a speaking part, it is HIGHLY important that you help your child to memorize their lines for the show so that they will be confident. Everyone needs to work together as a team for a wonderful program. I know that it will be great! Stay safe and warm, and I will see you next Thursday night.

Mrs. Northcutt

• Your child should return their 100 day jar to school on Thursday
• We will have our classroom spelling bee on Thursday.  We will have 1 boy and 1 girl winner
• We will celebrate 100 Days of school on Friday.  The children will be doing fun activities throughout the day.
• The children will practice each day for the play doing 9:25 -10:30
• Please make sure your child is on time for school each day
• Don't forget to have your child to bring their 100 day of school snack
• This week the children will participate in the Coming Home activities:  The can wear the following: 

Monday: Teacher Day (dress like one of the teachers)

Tuesday: Crazy Socks Day

Wednesday: America Day (red, white, blue)

Thursday: Crazy Red and White

Friday: Super Bowl (favorite team jersey)

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

dollar         penny        greater       less        hundred        school        count       celebrate       number      first

Bonus Words:  Ezell Harding Christian School

Week of January 18, 2016




      This will be a very busy week as the children prepare for the First/Second play.  The play will be about snowflakes.
      Below are the skills that your child will be working on this week.

• The children will learn about the Bible story about Moses
• The children will read stories and identify the cause and effects within the story.
• The children will continue to work on reading, retelling, and rewriting stories that read
• The children will learn about the sound of long a spelled /ai/ and /ay/
• The children will write several narratives as they prepare for 100 Days of School
• The children will review ABC order
• The children will begin a unit of study of measurement.  They will be measuring by using inch and centimeters.  They will continue to review addition and subtraction. Continue to allow your child to review their math facts at home.

The children will continue to study about weather.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:  mail, way, chain, day, play, rain, brain, stay, train, clay
Bonus Words:  measurement-centimeter

CLASSROOM INFORMATION:

• Continue to allow your child to review their sight words and math facts at home as much as possible.
• Your child will bring a jar home this week.  They will need to put 100 things in the jar and decorate the jar.  This is their 100 Day of school project.  The jar will need to be return to school by January 28th.  More information will be sent home along with the jar.
• The first/second grade play will be on January 28th.
• The children will celebrate 100 Days of School on January 29th.  The children will be doing 100 Days of School activities throughout the day.
• The children will have a special 100 Days of School snack.  More information will be sent home letting you know what your child will need to bring to school.
• Sunday, January 24th  Open House for New and Prospective Families

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