1st grade Indian Creek News
November 18- November 22 2019
College to Career Week
Happy Thanksgiving
Weather and Clothing
Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the colder weather. We do plan on taking your children outside if weather permits. The district set the caps for safe play outside at 34 degree with a wind chill. We will use WFAA's data to make that determination. We want your children to run and play outside. If you send sweaters, knit hats, mittens or jackets, please make sure you have written your child’s name on the tag or in the article of clothing. We are still planning on going outside unless it is raining or snowing. All misplaced items are usually taken to the cafeteria and placed in lost and found. If you child is missing an article of clothing that is a good place to check.
Guided Reading Books and Library Books
LOOKING FORWARD
Field Trip to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science
We have been approved for a grade level field trip to the Perot Museum. It is going to be an amazing adventure on Friday, January 17th. . We will be asking for students to pay $15 for buses, entrance fee to the 11 permanent exhibits and museum classroom experience about bugs. We must have the signed permission slips back and have the students paid for before we leave for Winter Break. Permission slip will come home Tuesday December 3rd after that we will start collecting funds. We will send home more details as we get closer.
Gingerbread House Building
As a tradition in 1st grade we have a week where we work on the stories about "THE GINGERBREAD MAN." We will be sending home a list of items we need donated in order to build gingerbread house. If you would like to come and volunteer to help per build our houses please contact Mrs. Mc Duffie via e-mail. Our build date is December 17th. You will need patience and a hot glue gun. Then the students will put the finishing touch of icing and candy decoration on the 18th of December. They will come home to you by the 19th of December.
Shopping in the Peppermint Village Holiday Shop
PTA gives your children a safe place to shop for friends and family. This event is supported by the PTA. Students will have the chance to go and shop for holiday gifts for family and friends. Dates are December 9th-13th.
Winter Class Party-Thursday December 19th
Our winter class parties will be on Thursday December 19th at 12:15-1:00 pm. If you would like to help, please let our room mothers know. We are sure they would love extra helping hands to pull the parties together. More information will be coming about the parties.
Early Release December 20th
Please make arrangements for early release on December 20th, 2019. Release time is 11:45 am.
Winter Break
December 22nd - January 5 NO School. First day back January 7th.
Classroom News
Sight Words-We will have a new list of sight words coming home on Fridays . The words are when, will, would, yes, your . We will test on the following Friday. Please review last weeks words. Many students had problems with the words.
Word Their Way- please do not have your child glue word or picture items to their sorting mats until Thursday. They need to be moving the pieces around. Students are bring sorts back with pictures glued to them on Tuesday. This makes us sad. They are practicing moving the pictures or words over and over again. They do need to have a sort set for home. They will have another one for school. On test day the spelling teacher will provide a 3rd sort set. We will be retest students to see how they have grown and what they have mastered over the last 14 weeks.
Reading
We are working on reading students have been placed in small reading groups. They are working on various skill-rhyming, initial sounds, final sounds, syllable counts, adjectives and sight words. Each reading group is different and supports what the students are learning in class.
We are starting a change on our reading this 9 weeks. We are going to wrap multi-cultural stories about different holidays and traditions with our socials studies themes. Students will be reviewing noun, verbs and learning about adjectives. We are working hard to see improvement on our monthly I-station testing which will be December 2nd. We are seeing growth on many levels.
Social Studies- We will be working on the family traditions and holiday. We will be discussing different Holiday and Traditions around the world. We will explore how they are different and how they are the same. Monday December 26th your child will come home with an interview.
Math- We are going to test on skip counting and knowing the 100's charts. We have been working on this the last few weeks. Now we will be moving into place value, expanded notation of a number and making models of the numbers using cubes to build groups of 10s and 100s. For example 25 is a group of 2 tens and 5 ones. Student will be given tools to explore the true meaning of the numbers on the 120's chart. You can make counting sticks at home with pinto beans and popsicle sticks. Glue in place 10 beans on the sticks and 1's are individual beans.
Science - We will be learning about how force and movement. Student will be working with different materials to see how a marble will roll on these different materials. We will be expanding our vocabulary with words like friction, forward, backwards, zig-zag, and loopy.
Cold and Flu season is HERE!
Your child’s health is of great importance. It is that time of year when colds, flu and viruses run wild in schools, churches, and other public places. We will take every precaution to have a healthy and safe environment. Please consider getting a flu shot for yourself and your child. Having the flu is not any fun and can be life threatening for young children.
We would like you to consider keeping your child home if they have fever, diarrhea and vomiting. It is requested that students be symptom free for 24 hours before returning to school. Please don't give your child a fever reducer and send them to school. Our bodies create a fever to fight viruses and to give us a warning that we are sick. When you send a child to school sick you will be impacting 20 plus families in addition to the teachers and their families. Teachers don't like missing days of school due to illness.
If your child becomes ill while at school, we will take them to the school nurse. The nurse will evaluate your child and contact you to let you know if you need to pick your child up. Please keep in mind the only person on campus that can give any medication is our school nurse.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mrs. Freedenberg
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Mrs. Cambere
Office 469-713-5180
Email: CambereK@LISD.net
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net