Week of December 17, 2018

Dear Families,

Thank you for taking time out of your schedules and coming to our First Grade Winter Sing!  The students did an excellent job singing and reciting their lines! Can you tell that they love Rudolph (with the “surprises”)?  

Thursday is our class Holiday Party!  The party will run from 9:00-10:30.

On Thursday Students can wear their pajamas to school, but please make sure they are wearing regular shoes for recess and PE.  They can also bring one small stuffed animal.

We will have a sub, Mrs. Threet Thursday afternoon, so I can watch my daughter’s kindergarten Nutcracker performance.

There is no homework or Spelling for next week and over the Winter Break.   I will send home the next homework packet in January 2019!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Important Dates:

Monday, 12/17, Cornerstone

Thursday, 12/20, Class Holiday Party 9:00-10:30

12/21-1/4: Winter Break

What We’re Doing in Class this Week:

Language Arts:  Finishing up the review of short vowels in Phonics. We are also working with nouns (common, proper, and possessive), verbs (present, past, and future), and adjectives.

Math: Module 2 incorporates place value through addition and subtraction within 20.  We are working on writing a statement answer for our word problems.

Writing: learning about informative writing.

Social Studies: Winter holidays

Technology: Seesaw, Lexia, RazKids, Reflex Math, Zearn, Codespark

Sharing Assignment: A favorite book

Special Person of The Week: Lily

Week of December 10, 2018

Dear Families,

We had some great lessons this past week!  It Art Vistas we learned about the Color Wheel. We also discussed the different groups of colors: primary, secondary, complementary, warm and cool.  We also glazed our fall clay projects. We made two trips to the Makerspace this week. On Monday, we worked with Mrs. Hammer's 5th grade class on the constellations and the solar system.  Today we worked with our 4th grade buddies on Coding Osmos and the CodeSpark app for The Hour of Code.

Monday, December 10th, the first graders will sing as a gift to you.  The show will begin at 2:10 prompt in the cafeteria. Students may wear their holiday outfit for the performance.  If your child wishes, they may wear a Santa hat. Please no reindeer antlers, bells, or hats that would obstruct the view of another child.  I hope you can make it!

Thursday, December 13th, we will have our Be Seen and Be Heard Assembly.

I hope you enjoy a great weekend!

Important Dates:

Monday, 12/10, 2:10: 1st Grade Holiday Sing

Thursday, Dec. 13: Be Seen and Be Heard Assembly

Thursday, 12/20, Class Holiday Party

12/21-1/4: Winter Break

What We’re Doing in Class this Week:

Language Arts:  Finishing up the review of short vowels in Phonics. We are also working with nouns (common, proper, and possessive), verbs (present, past, and future), and adjectives.

Math: Module 2 incorporates place value through addition and subtraction within 20.  We are working on writing a statement answer for our word problems.

Writing: learning about informative writing.

Social Studies: Community Workers, winter holidays

Technology: Seesaw, Lexia, RazKids, Reflex Math, Zearn

Sharing Assignment: Something that makes you happy!

Special Person of The Week: Lily