Week of December 19th-December 23rd

First Grade Newsletter

December 19th-December 23rd

Literacy

KNOWLEDGE

Reading Street: Unit 3 Week 3

Main selection:  The Class Pet

Weekly Question:  What do we learn about animals as they grow and change?

PHONICS

Fundations: Unit 7 (Week 1 of 3)

• Skill(s): Words that end with -ng (ang, ing, ong, ung) and -nk (ank, ink, onk, unk); Narrative story form: character, setting, main events; Reading with accuracy and prosody
• Trick Words: 
• Review Trick Words: the, a, and, is, his, of, as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, you, your, was, one, from, have 
• Alphabetical order*Please note that Unit 1 of Fundations and Lively Letters are very fast paced reviews of the alphabet letter sounds and formations taught extensively in Kindergarten.

Math in Focus

Chapter 4

Numbers to 20

Pre-requisite skills and number sense

**Chapter 4 Test on Wednesday, December 21st)

Objectives

- Count on from 10 to 20

- Read and write 11 to 20 in numbers and words

- Use a place-value chart to show numbers to 20

- Use tens and ones to show numbers to 20

     -  Compare numbers to 20

      - Order numbers to 20

     - Find 1 more or2 more than a number

     - Find 1 less or 2 less than a number

-    - Find the missing numbers in a number pattern

Science

Light & Sound

    This week students will begin our second unit about light and sound. Our first lesson will be brainstorming all of the ideas students have about light.

Social Studies

Holidays Around the World

  In the month of December, students will learn about holidays that are celebrated in December all around the world. In the first two weeks of December, students discussed their own traditions and holidays, and learned about Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, and Christmas/St. NicHolas Day in Germany.

This week students will learn about Diwali and review everything they have learned about holidays around the world.

 Specialists

 

MONDAY: Art

TUESDAY: Music

WEDNESDAY: P.E.

THURSDAY: Art

FRIDAY: NO SCHOOL!

  

Writing Workshop

Gingerbread Friends-Opinion Writing

     Students have listened to 4 different versions of the Gingerbread Man story (the original Gingerbread Man, the Ninjabread Man, the Gingerbread Boy, and the Gingerbread Girl). After listening to all of the books, students will write about which gingerbread friend s/he would want to be and why. 

                 

                   Parent Reminders

1.  Library- Our class will not be going to the library on Thursday due to the first grade holiday movie.

2.    Please be sure your child returns their school folder to school everyday.  Also, please check it each day for important handouts and homework assignments. I will write about specific handouts that you should be looking for throughout the week in this section of the newsletter.

3.    Children should bring in a small healthy snack (separate from their lunch) to have in class at 10:00 a.m. Please make sure that it is nut-sensitive and has no glass products.

4.    Homework Update: This week your child will begin homework. In your child's red homework folder, you will see 4 sheet protectors and a recording page. Please keep the pages in the sheet protectors unless you are filling out the reading log. Once you have filled out the Reading Log, please make sure the paper gets back into the sheet protector. I will collect the red folders on Friday and take out all of the completed work.

a. Cluster Card 6 Video and Activity

b. Reading (Activity) Log: The first page in the sheet protector will be your child's reading or activity log. This log will be collected every week on Friday when your child brings their red homework folder back. Please check off the boxes of what activities you have complete on specific days. For the Discussion Question box, please fill in the questions that you discussed with your child while reading 1 out of the 4 days.

c. Phonics Word List: Your child should read their word list every day.

d. Pen pal Journal: Students will bring home their journals home to write 1 pen pal letter for the week. If I have written a letter to your child, please have your child read the letter and respond to it. If I did not respond to your child's letter from last week, your child can write a letter about something that they want to tell me about.

5. Login Sheet- The online websites that are listed on the login sheet are extra from the the homework given to your child unless stated otherwise. Lexia is a great program for students to practice their current phonics skills at home. I Know It Math is great math skill practice when I assign review or current skill practice activities.

6. No before school help this week.

7. Jan Brett Celebration: Our class will be celebrating our Jan Brett unit on Wednesday from 1-3PM.

8. First Grade Movie-The first grade will be watching a movie on Thursday afternoon. Movie TBD

Have an amazing week!

Mrs. Ash

Homework

Your child brought home a red homework folder today. Inside the folder is a reading log and math activity with materials. I will also include individual login information for all of our online platforms. This week students should be reading for 10 minutes, read phonics word list everyday, write 1 penpal journal entry, and cluster card 6 video & activity. 

Your child also will bring home their penpal journal this week. Please read my letter and have your child respond to it in 1 penpal letter. In future weeks, if I did not write to your child, your child can write to me about anything s/he wants. Once your child has finished his/her letter, return it to school. If I did not receive your child's journal last week, please have your child write a letter to me this week and I will check both letters once the journal is turned in. 

The homework folder and journal should always be brought to school in your child's backpack, but only returned on Fridays.