week of Dec. 15!

Reminders:

1.  Wear full chapel dress tomorrow for our Christmas concert!  Parents are welcome!

2.  Wednesday at 2:00 is our Christmas party!  Feel free to join us!

3.  Thursday is a 1/2 day.  Dismiss at 11:30.

4.  No school Friday!  Happy Christmas break!!!


Homework this week:

no spelling….
no math….

only Reading comprehension questions/ First Reader!  Practice those fluency skills!

Thank you to the many presents who sent in the Gingerbread house supplies!  It was a success!

December fun!

A Starry night in Bethlehem...

 The Star of David

 A Mosque from learning about Islam

 A Santa hat kind of day!  (with a special guest Luke Bryant for a little while too!)

McCallie Band

December 8

Reminders:

1.  Book orders are due MONDAY if you would like to order.  They will be back before we leave for Christmas break!  

2.  Gingerbread  House building will be on Friday!  Please send in a few of these items if you would like to help:  icings, candy, plastic table cloths, etc.  THANK YOU!!!!

3.  We need your JUNK!  If you are cleaning out for Christmas, we would love your little toys for the prize box!  One man's trash is another's treasure!



Spelling:

1.  make
2.  take
3.  came
4.  game
5.  gate
6. late
7.  chin
8.  graph
9.  some
10.  today

Reading:  o, o_e, u, u_e,   We will be reading Snow is Good and a Trip to Grandma's this week in our First reader.  The First Reader will come home everyday along with comprehension questions and we do expect these to be done daily and First Readers returned as well.  

In writing, we will continue working on friendly letters!

In math, we will be counting dimes and pennies ,and learning all about symmetry!

We will continue to learn about Christmas and the meanings of why we do some of the things we do!

Please read!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send your child's first reader back every single day!  We are limited in our supply of these books and need them for reading instruction and fluency!  Thank you for your help!

Parts of a friendly letter….first grade style!

HEADING

GREETING

BODY

CLOSING

SIG-

-NA-

-TURE!  

(the end)

Week of December 1

Spelling words:

1.  whip
2.  whale
3.  catch
4.  match
5.  chin
6.  graph
7.  shop
8.  with
9.  many
10.  around  


Reminders:

1.  Friday, December 5th is the lighting of the Christmas trees spirit day!  Join us!
2.  Wednesday, December 10 is a half day for teacher professional development.
3.  Christmas Party is on December 17 at 2:00.
4.  Wish list items!  We will be making gingerbread houses next week and could use your help in collecting some things for our creations!  If you would like to participate and send some items in, here is a list of things that we need!  THANK YOU!
- graham crackers
-icing
-red hots
peppermints, candy canes
-gumdrops
-sprinkles
-plastic table cloths, paper plates
-any fun candy that we can decorate with!


This week:

We will learn about Judiasm, Islam, and Christianity!

In writer's workshop we will learn how to write friendly letters!

In reading, we will be learning about firefighters and other local heroes.  We will learn the sounds and spellings for -Ce ,-Ci, ge, gi, and review i_e.  We will learn more about sentence structure and imperative sentences too!

In math, we will continue to learn addition and subtraction facts in a snap!

it's getting a little Turkey-ish in here!

 We did some math that was WAY harder than first grade today!  We made turkey's and then added all of our feathers up!

 We have also learned about the Pilgrims so we did a little writing and creating!