Week of January 2, 2017

       Happy New Year!  We hope you all had a great break.  We are excited to get back to school and get back on a regular routine.  Below are some of the skills the children will be working on this week.

• Discuss and write New Years Resolutions. 
• Listen to the story the "After Christmas Tree" and retell and rewrite the story in sequence.
• Read about winter and the signs of winter
• Students will take a book walk through a winter book and write details within the story.
• Students will be introduce to place value up to 100.
• Students will review addition and subtraction facts.
• Students will begin addition of two digit numbers.
• Students will work addition and subtraction word problems
• Students will begin a STEM unit of study of Rolling things in Motions
• Students will create a snow globe and write a narrative about living in a snow globe.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:   winter, snow, icy, frozen, blizzard

                                                        Bonus words:  January - Resolution

Students should study for the first grade spelling bee.  They should study the words that was sent home before the break.  Make sure your child is studying the 2016-2017 word list.

Week of 12-12-16
      This week the children will be doing the following things:

• The children will continue to be assess in reading and math.  
• Read the story "Polar Express"
• Rewrite and retell stories in sequence 
• Write a letter to Santa Claus
• Continue to work on learning addition and subtraction number facts
• Continue to learn about different holidays celebrated during this time of year

The children will not have a spelling or Bible test this week.  

Your child will bring home a list of spelling words that they can study during the holiday for the school spelling bee.  The spelling bee will be in January when they return to school

The children will have a Christmas breakfast Wednesday morning.  Parents are invited to come and assist with the breakfast.  Please check with your child's teacher, if you do not know what your child will need to bring to the breakfast.

The children will be dismissed half day Tuesday thru Friday.

Wishing all our families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Week of December 5, 2016

        Wow! This is going to be a fun and exciting week as we continue to decorate and get ready for the Christmas holidays.  The children will be working on the following skills.

• Identify, read and decode words with the /oo/ u sound.
• Identify and use adjectives in their writing.
• Write a narrative about Christmas or a holiday that is celebrated during the winter
• Read the story "Polar Express" and do activities about the story.
• Identify, read, and use words with inflectional ending -ed and -ing
• Learn about estimation
• Continue to work on addition and subtraction number facts
• Learn about different holidays that are celebrated during the winter
• Continue to learn about phoneme segmentation of words

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

    book, look, cook, took, hood, buy, done, shook, brook, stood 

     BONUS WORDS:  December - Christmas

• The children will be going to Chuck E Cheese on Friday.  The children will not need to have any money.  This activity was included in the activity fee at the beginning of the year.  The children will leave school around 10:45. They will eat lunch at Chuck E. Cheese.  They will also be given tokens to play the games.   Parents are invited to attend.  Parents can meet us at Chuck E. Cheese at 11:00.  Parents will need to pay when they arrive at Chuck E Cheese.  Children will need to wear jeans and an Ezell Harding shirt.
• The first graders will have a Christmas breakfast in their classroom on Wednesday, December 14th.  The party will begin around 9:45.  You will get more information about the Christmas breakfast from your class room mother.  
• Remind your child to bring in can goods.

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.