DAILY REMINDERS:
- Homework: Math pattern worksheet, read, practice spelling words and addition facts.
- Library on Friday: Several students brought home overdue notices yesterday. Please return books this week. Thank you very much to those who already have returned their overdue books!
- Support-A-Family: We are collecting cleaning supplies and paper products this week.
- Holiday Party: Dec. 20 @ 2:00. The only donations we still need are the felt squares and the sparkly items. All donated items are needed by Monday, Dec. 3, please. THANK YOU!!
- Spelling Test on Friday.
- Shared Reading: We have been reading The Lady With the Alligator Purse. We identified rhyming words and words with the long a sound in the story.
- Word Work: Our sorts this week are words/pictures with the c, h, and ch sound. Along with vowel sounds, blends (st, gr, fl, etc...) and digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) have been our main focus during word work lessons.
- Writing: Yesterday we wrote letters to our buddies in the Buddy Notebook we share with them, and today I introduced how to plan for a 5 page story. I modeled the web, called My Writing Plan, we will use to plan our stories. Your first grader will soon be writing stories that include a beginning, a middle with details, and an ending. Very exciting! After the holiday break your student will have monthly writing assignments that will help build their writing stamina. More details to come soon!
- Math: Subtraction is our main focus this week. We learned what the math vocabulary word difference means in a subtraction sentence, and we discussed the minus and equals to symbols. In addition, we modeled subtraction stories with bears and wrote the matching subtraction sentences.
- Social Studies: Transportation has changed quite a bit since the 1800's, and we have been talking about different transportation inventions and how they have improved how people move from place to place. We also compared and contrasted schools from long ago to our school/education now.
- Buddy Activity: Today we had our buddy activity. It was a lot of fun! We made Rudolph by tracing one of our feet onto brown paper and cutting it out, tracing and cutting our hands for the antlers. We glued the antlers to the head (our foot) and glued on googly eyes and a red fuzzy ball for Rudolph's nose. These Rudolphs will be given to the residents at the Bethesda Nursing Home next month. We also colored holiday cards for the Bethesda residents. Finally, we ate "reindeer food" while we worked with our buddy. Take a look at our buddy activity pictures:
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