Sanders' Sunflowers
Classroom Newsletter
Week of December 2-6, 2013
Information and Reminders
- Students will have a reading response journal due this Friday.
- Students need to bring money for the Christmas Shop on Wednesday if they want to buy gifts for their family.
Important Dates
Dec. 3 - Good News club; Bellacino's night 5-8pm
Dec. 4- Christmas Shop during computer lab
Dec. 9-13th - Book Fair
Dec. 10- Parents' Night at the book fair
Dec. 13- Moms meet Moms @ 8am with Mrs. Ward
Dec. 19- first grade Christmas party @ 8:45
Dec. 20- Last student day before Chrismas break; school wide movie; students wear pajamas
Jan.6- students return after Christmas break
Jan. 13 - end of 2nd nine weeks
Important Connections and Links
This is a direct link to my email and my website. I have also included the school's phone number.
Email: sandersr@anderson1.k12.sc.us
Website: http://www.anderson1.k12.sc.us/Domain/658
Phone: 864-850-5950
Reading
This week's story: The Big Race
Skills:
- reading long a words with silent 'e' (race , cake, made)
- drawing conclusions from the text
- reading words with soft c and g (cage, city)
- identifying past and present tense verbs (look, looked, walk, walked)
Sight Words:
1. four 2. five 3. into 4. over 5. starts 6. three
7. watch 8. two 9. made 10. place 11. same 12. gave
Word Wall Words
1. great 2. just 3. most 4. very 5. right
Math
We will continue to work on subtraction to 20. We will also begin an introduction to place value. The class will atart with ones and tens and work up to hundreds.
Homework
Monday- worksheet; spelling practice
Tuesday- worksheet; spelling practice
Thursday- worksheet; practice spelling test
Friday- reading response journal is due