November 18-22 in First Grade

Teachers Notes:

Hello!

I hope that you have all had a wonderful weekend and a great day today! Thank you for all of your support and help. This week is going to be the last week of spelling test until we come back from Christmas Break. We are going to shift our focus on to the sight words that we have learned this year so far and revisiting all of the words so far. On the spelling word list I have added the 4 bonus words that you child can try this week. If they do not want to try these words that is more then okay. I am adding these words since I had a lot of students who were asking for harder words and wanting to try them. I have also added a bunch of photos that I have been meaning to post. I am so sorry that it has taken so long to get these uploaded. Thank you for all that you do and if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me and I will get back as soon as I can.

Things Coming Up:

Monday November 18th- Hearing recheck
Tuesday, November 26th- Thanksgiving Celebration, Mass at 10:30
November 27-29th - No School Thanksgiving Break
December:
Friday December 6th- Jazz band and Singers
Thursday, December 12th- Christmas Program 7:00pm
Friday, December 13th- Family Picnic Day Lunch at Noon
Wednesday, December 18th- Preschool Christmas Program
Friday, December 20th- Reading Party, Tiger Day, Early Dismissal (1:00pm)
December 23-January 3rd- Christmas Break

Homework:

Monday- Read for 10 minutes; practice sight words, spelling words, and math facts
Tuesday- Read for 10 minutes; practice sight words, spelling words, and math facts
Wednesday- Read for 10 minutes; practice sight words, spelling words, and math facts
Thursday- Read for 10 minutes; practice sight words, spelling words, and math facts
Friday- Read for 10 minutes

Spelling Words:

ride
like
side
bike
hike
hide
fine
dine
know
don't
Bonus Words:
antennas
cheer
gargantuan
cowlick

Sight Words:

after
don't
know
many
into

Reading:

In reading we be learning about the long i sound when an e is at the end of the word. we will be also talking about when the consonants c and g say /s/ and /j/. We will be finishing our 2nd unit in reading. We are going to look back at all that we have read and compare the readings. We will also be talking about our Essential question in the unit "How do living things grow and change?" We will be doing a group project where the students will pick an animal that they think should be added to the zoo. They will do find some facts about their animal and write a letter to the zoo keeper trying to convince the zoo keeper to add their animal to the zoo.

Handwriting:

In Handwriting this week we will be working on the letters q, Q, j, J, and G, g. Along with words that have these letters in them.

Sound Case:

In our sound case we will be reviewing the sounds that the letter u, w, v and digraph sh make. We will be reading the following books: Ella's Umbrellas, Inch by Inch, A Home for Hermit Crab, and LOVE From The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Math:

In math we will be comparing the efficiency of counting on and making ten when one addend is 9. We will be using the commutative property to make 10. We will make ten when one addend is 8. Lastly, we will be comparing the efficiency of counting on and making ten when one addend is 8.

Science:

In Science we will be talking about the similar characteristics between parent and baby animals. We will be using three different kind of birds to explore the similarities and differences between these animals.