FIRST GRADE NEWS
December 5-9
Christmas Concert - The Light Has Come
Practice, Practice, Practice! That is exactly what your students have been doing for many weeks. Next Monday the 12th is their dress rehearsal at First Assembly from 1:30 to 3:15. Pick-up will be at the church and begin at 3:15. The students must be back to the church by 5:45 in their festive Christmas attire.
Charge the cameras and invite the family to the performance is at 6:00 PM.
COLD WEATHER IS HERE!
Please send a coat, gloves or mittens and a hat if the coat does not have a hood. It is cold out there even when they are running around. The last thing we all want is sickness to go through the class.
LANGUAGE ARTS
SPELLING
The spelling words are incorporating the rules we are learning in phonics with both short and long vowels.
Next weeks words:
gave, save, brave, hung, sung, stung, battle, cattle, rattle, was
We are making strides on our dictation sentences. We started using question makes at the end of "asking" sentences this week. After Christmas Break we will have two dictation sentences on the test.
PHONICS
We are continuing to learn about long vowels. We are finally going to learn about long -e, with -ee, -ea and -ey. We are also learning to use commas when listing objects.
MATH
FRACTIONS!!
The final objective of the chapter on fractions is identifying equal parts, halves, fourths and quarters. This chapter has a lot of hands on work, so we will do most the work together or in small groups.
BIBLE
Elijah Opposes False Prophets
We will finish our discussion on Elijah, King Ahab and the Prophets of Baal. We will learn about speaking boldly about our faith in God.
Psalm 25:4 - "Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths."
The following week we will talk about King Josiah for two days and then we begin talking about the Christmas Story.
Christmas Party
Our Christmas Party is December 21st. If you would like to help with the party please contact me and I will get you in contact the parents who are signed up to help.
Thank you so much!!