12/3

 Hello Families!

This was a great week in First Grade. This is an important communication! 

Tis the Season:

As we are approaching the end of the calendar year, we have several upcoming holidays. Please discuss with your student what your family celebrates and your traditions. Also please discuss how other families may celebrate differently. Usually around this time of year my students start to have discussions about Santa and how he may or may not operate along with Elves on the Shelf. I am writing this so you can talk about this with your student ahead of time.

With the upcoming holidays I know several families that will be travelling. Please let the front office and I know AHEAD of time about any planned absences. This will help me plan and accommodate for students.

Reminders:

STUDENTS NEED TO HAVE CHARGED COMPUTERS! We are entering testing season and it is imperative that students have a computer that is charged. 

Dec. 17th Homework due

Dec. 17-Jan3: Winter Break/NO SCHOOL

Next week (Dec.6 -10) is business as usual. At the bottom on this communication is a description of what we are going to cover and accomplish. The First-Grade teachers have discussed, and we are planning on doing an academic review week (Dec. 13-15). This week will include several fun review activities, that include an author study of Dr. Seuss. I will send more details later. We will need some supplies to help us make that week (Dec. 13-15) magical and fun. Below is a Signup Genius of some supplies we will need. If you are interested in donating, please read carefully, and take notice of the due date and whether the item is "top secret" or not. We will have several surprise activities that will occur and don't want to spoil the fun for the kids.

Sign Up Genius for Dr. Seuss Review week

On Dec. 17th we will end our author study of Dr. Seuss with the 2018, Dr. Seuss's The Grinch. This is currently a SECRET. This animated movie is rated PG. Please fill out the movie permission slip out below.

Updated Permission Slip for The Grinch

Academics (Dec. 6-10):

Moral Focus: Self-Control, waiting calmly and quietly for your turn. This is a great virtue to have in December. Please discuss other ways you can show self-control with your student! 

Phonics: We are going to continue to grow and develop our skills in reading and breaking apart multisyllabic words. These are words like Pan-cake, but-ter-fly, fan-tas-tic, etc.

Comprehension: Students will be looking for and identifying key details in nonfiction text. Key details tell the read the most important information about a subject.

Writing: We are going to continue working on opinion papers. Your students are rocking this unit and I can't wait to send their work home!

Math: This unit in math is strengthen student's addition and subtraction strategies within 20. Students have also been working on doubles. 2+2=4, 4+4=8, etc.

Social studies: We have discussed what locations are special to us and will work on map skills next week.