First Grade News
November 28 - December 2, 2016
This Week's Lifework
Monday is day 3 of the Encore Rotation
Monday - Write Spelling words 3 times each
Read 10 minutes
Tuesday - Math Worksheet
Read 10 Minutes
Wednesday - Rainbow Spelling
Read 10 minutes
Thursday - Phonics Worksheet
Read 10 minutes
Friday - Read 20 minutes.
*Finish Gingerbread Man Project. Due on Monday, December 5th.
Gingerbread Man Project
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:
Be sure to do your gingerbread project over the holiday! You can take him/her anywhere you like. We look forward to sharing your stories! (Don’t forget to color your story page and include a photo.) We plan to post them in the hallway for everyone to enjoy!
Parents:
Thank you for helping your child(ren) with the gingerbread projects over the Thanksgiving break! They are so much so fun and we will enjoy reading and sharing them in class!
Spelling List 8 TEST Friday
here
come
away
one
rain
tail
wait
day
spray
tray
play
**This week the students will write down a sentence that is dictated to them using the spelling words. They are expected to use proper capitalization, spacing, spelling and punctuation. The sentence will count as part of the writing grade. The children also need to start using proper letter formation in their spelling words. Improper use of capital letters and/or backwards letters will be marked incorrect from now on.
Curriculum Corner
Langauge Arts: Gingerbread Man Story and Poem. Phonics - Long A (a_e, ai, ay). D'Nealian Handwriting Letter Ii. Candle writing with thinking maps.
Math: Shapes, Vertices, Right Angles, Repeating Patterns - finding the core (the part that repeats). Finding Congruent Patterns.Labeling patterns with A, B (etc). Sorting shapes and buttons. Unit Test Friday.
Social Studies: Now and Then. Timelines. Compare schools, communities, transportation, and family life (clothing) now and then (hundreds of years ago).
Star Students
Mrs. Brandt - Leul Ephraim
Mrs. Buck - Libin Deef
Mrs. Moore - Rohit Ghimire
Thanks for a great music concert!
December 5 - 9
PTO Movie Night December 2nd
Toys for Tots Nov. 28 - Dec. 7
Winter Party Dec. 21st
Order your Yearbook Online in November!
It's cold! Send in a warm coat every day. No coat? No outdoor recess.
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.