Mrs. Eller's 1st Grade
December Edition
It's the most WONDERFUL time of the year!!!!
Mark Your Calendars & Looking Ahead
December 1 - PTO Executive Committee Meeting (8:15 am)
December 7 - Progress Reports
December 13 - Sing-a-long
December 15 - Birthday Celebration
December 15 - Spirit Day
December 16 - Early Dismissal (12:30 pm)
December 19 - January 3 - No School / Christmas Break
December Weekly Updates
Week of December 5th-9th
We will be sending Progress Report #3 home this Wednesday. Please look over these and let us know if you have any questions or concerns. You may keep the report at home and sign and return the reports envelope. We are SO proud of everyone and their progress this quarter!
Specials Schedule
5th: Monday - Day 6: PE (wear those tennis shoes)/Spider
6th: Tuesday - Day 1: Art/Mega TOY
7th: Wednesday - Day 2: PE (wear those tennis shoes)/Track
8th: Thursday - Day 3: Media (bring library books)/Spider
9th: Friday - Day 4: PE (wear those tennis shoes)/Mega TOY with First Grade Friends
What are we learning this week?
Phonics: Decoding and spelling words with "l-blends" (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl)
Reading: Characters, settings and major events.
Math: Adding and subtracting within 20 with missing numbers.
Writing: Informative writing and "how-to" writing. Santa Letters.
Health: Communicate to express emotions.
Social Studies: Basic economic concepts. Christmas celebrations and traditions.
Week of November 28th - December 2nd
December is my FAVORITE!!!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Happy December!
December is a busy month here at WES, and we are SO excited to share this special time of year with our school community.
This week we will begin to "deck the halls" of our school by participating in our annual tree trimming on Friday. Students will have the opportunity to create their own ornaments and to decorate our school tree. This is always an exciting event, and we will send these decorations home in time for you to add them to your family tree if you wish.
A Few Reminders:
*Birthday Celebrations for December are on Thursday, December 15th. Sign up to volunteer below!
*Don't forget to bring a water bottle each day! Many students are not bringing a water bottle to school daily and we are unable to use water fountains except for bottle filling.
Specials Schedule
28th: Monday - Day 1: Art/Mega TOY
29th: Tuesday - Day 2: PE (wear those tennis shoes)/Track
30th: Wednesday - Day 3: Media (bring library books)/Spider
1st: Thursday - Day 4: PE (wear those tennis shoes)/Mega TOY
2nd: Friday - Day 5: Music/ Mega TOY with First Grade Friends
What are we learning this week?
Phonics: Decoding and spelling words with "s-blends" (sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw)
Reading: Characters, settings and major events.
Math: Adding and subtracting within 20 with missing numbers.
Writing: Informative writing and "how-to" writing.
Health: Communicate to express emotions.
Social Studies: Basic economic concepts, Christmas celebrations and traditions.
Homework Help
Each night, Monday through Thursday, we will have opportunities for you to work with your child on literacy, writing and spelling! These routines should take between 10-20 minutes each night. The nightly recommendations are listed below:
*Read your baggie book.
*Read your spelling words to your parent 2X.
Tuesday Night
*Read your baggie book.
*Write your spelling words 3X each.
Wednesday Night
*Read your baggie book.
*Write 5 sentences. Use a spelling word in each sentence.
Thursday Night
*Read your baggie book.
*Take a practice spelling test. (Tricky words, list words, and 2 sentences)
Friday Night
*Check your folder!
*Have a great weekend!
As always, if you have questions or need help, please let me know!
Resources
Use this link to sign into Clever. Here you can access Dreambox and Razkids from home!
https://clever.com/Use this link to sign into Scholastic News from home! If you are prompted to log in select I am a student and then the password is our class link, WES1E (password is case sensitive).
Let's Celebrate!
Field Trips
More information on field trips to come, but here are the dates we have scheduled!!! These may change due to weather and unforeseen circumstances.
- Monday, March 20, 2023 - JAWC Tales as Tall as the Sky
- Friday, May 5, 2023 - Tweetsie for Letterland Day
Attendance
School starts at 7:50 each day. Students will be marked PRESENT or ABSENT. If your child is not in school, you will need to send in absence notes the next day and it will be coded as excused or unexcused. Written notes are required and can come directly from the parent/guardian or a medical office. Also note that ClassDojo messages are great for communicating an absence, but they do NOT serve as legal documentation of absences. Please send a written note. Thanks in advance for your help!
Daily Reminders
*Bring a water bottle daily. We have bottle fillers available for student use.
*Don't forget to pack a healthy snack for snack time! (If you would like to send extra snacks for our class, we would greatly appreciate it!)
*It is either hot or cold in our classroom. Feel free to send a light jacket for your child to leave at their seat for times that they may get cold.
*Remember to read together each night and complete Letterland homework!
*Return Green Folder and Little Book each day.
*If you have not returned the beginning of the yellow field trip information sheet, please do so asap.
*Transportation Changes: Please make sure that I know how your child will go home each day. If you have transportation changes, please call the office and message me on Class DOJO.
Classroom Wish List
We have just about emptied out the prize box. The items that were in the prize box at the start of the school year were left from the teacher that was in the classroom last year. Therefore, we need to fill that box back up with an small items of fun!
We encourage students to eat a healthy snack each afternoon. You can help by sending in healthy individually wrapped snacks for our snack basket.
Small individual wrapped candies (peanut free).
Thank you SO much for supporting our classroom! We couldn't do it without you!
Contact Me!
Feel free to contact me using Class Dojo anytime.
Email: ellerm@wilkes.k12.nc.us
Website: wes.wilkescountyschools.org/
Location: 1248 School Street, Wilkesboro, NC, USA
Phone: 336-838-4261