First Grade News
December 5 - 9, 2016
This Week's Lifework
Monday is day 2 of the Encore Rotation
Monday - Gingerbread Man Project DUE
Write Spelling words 3 times each
Read 10 minutes
Tuesday - Phonics Worksheet
Read 10 Minutes
Wednesday - Rainbow Spelling
Read 10 minutes
Thursday - Math Worksheet
Read 10 minutes
Friday - Read 20 minutes.
Spelling List 9 TEST Friday
from
all
down
was
meat
lean
team
eagle
sleep
feet
bee
street
*Improper use of capital letters and backwards letters will be marked wrong!
Curriculum Corner
Langauge Arts: Gingerbread Man Story and Poem. Focus on characters, and setting. Also making predictions when we read. Phonics - Long E (ee, e_e, ea, ey). D'Nealian Handwriting Letter Jj. Snowflake writing - adding describing words to our writing (adjectives).
Math: Fractions of a region - 1/2, 1/3, 1/4. Telling time to the half hour.
Science: Matter. Experiment to see what solids and liquids dissolve in water. How does heat effect how quickly something dissolves? Vocabulary: Classify, Liquid, Solid, Mixture, Dissolve, Matter.
Star Students
Mrs. Brandt - Kierrian Grayson-Stone
Mrs. Buck - Laveen Dhillon
Mrs. Moore - Giada Gilliam
Gingerbread Man Project Due Monday
Due December 5th.
The complete instructions and supplies needed were sent home in the Friday Folder on November 18th. Please read the directions for the Gingerbread Bread Man project carefully.
Students should practice reading their gingerbread man stories over the weekend. We will be sharing them in class next week.
Holiday Gift Shop Dec. 5 - 9
Toys for Tots Nov. 28 - Dec. 7
Winter Party Dec. 21st
CASH $3.00 Dominoes Pizza Lunch December 21st
It's cold! Send in a warm coat every day.
December Poem
The Gingerbread Man
By Rowena Bennett
The gingerbread man gave a gingery shout:
"Quick! Open the oven and let me out!"
He stood up straight in his baking pan.
He jumped to the floor and away he ran.
"Catch me," he called, "if you can, can, can"
The gingerbread man met a cock and a pig
And a dog that was brown and twice as big
As himself. But he called to them all as he ran,
"You can’t catch a runaway gingerbread man."
The gingerbread man met a reaper and sower.
The gingerbread man met a thresher and mower;
But no matter how fast they scampered and ran
They couldn’t catch up with a gingerbread man.
Then he came to a fox and he turned to face him.
He dared Old Reynard to follow and chase him;
But when he stepped under the fox’s nose
Something happened. What do you s’pose?
The fox gave a snap. The fox gave a yawn.
And the gingerbread man was gone, gone, GONE.