I do hope that everyone enjoyed family and friends and had some time to relax! I returned to Virginia to be with my family. I was able to see beautiful leaves of many colors and actually wear a sweater. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I am very thankful for today. The children were well rested and focused. We accomplished a great deal. I will hope the rest of the week will prove to be the same!
Tonight's responsibilities are as follows:
Math... workbook page 90 and study 6's and 7's
Spelling...abc order on the sheet with the list of words
Geography.. study Waterways Map for a quiz on Wednesday.. they should have this map in their homework folder
Wordly Wise... page 52
Reading Comprehension...The Hickory Toothpick due on Friday
Scholastic Book Order due tomorrow
We began Lesson 6 of Wordly Wise. The words are as follows: schedule, chasm, continent, credit, enable, foul, gust, ordeal, plateau, rig. Please make sure that the children review the definitions each time they bring home the workbook for homework,
Our Spelling list this week is a group of words with a double consonant ff, ll, and ss. The words are as follows: difficult, gruff, squall, success, stress, staff, press, floss, thrill, stroll, sniff, scroll, classic, stuffy, massive, messy, willing, blissful, passing, skillful.
We are continuing with out study of Unit 4 in Math. We will be doing a great deal of work with Multiplication and Division fact families. Please make sure your child is studying the basic math facts nightly. We will use arrays to help with math facts. The children also learned a new game today, Baseball Multiplication. They seemed to really enjoy this game. I will show them a challenging option for this game tomorrow and then they can bring these games home to play with you. We are working towards having a test on this unit by the end of next week.
We took some time today to play "The Great American History Race". The children had a study buddy and they attempted to complete a Native American History match as quickly as they can. I was thrilled to see and hear just how much they did retain from our study. I will be discussing a project with the children tomorrow and will then send home an email giving you more details.
We are completing our study of Charlotte's Web. I will provide some pictures for you to see in my next email. Your child and their first grade story buddy did a fabulous job creating a scene from the story. They had to identify if the scene represented an event from the beginning, the middle, and the end. They also had to discuss the characters in that scene and what the role of the characters were in the story.We are continuing with our new class novel, A Lion To Guard Us. The children really seem to enjoy this historical fiction book and have been very curious about this time period in history.
My goal is to complete introducing and practicing all the capital letter in cursive by Winter Break. You may see more cursive practice coming home for homework.
We are looking forward to our Author's Celebration on December 13 from 9:30 to 10:00 am.We will have a couple of personal narrative, a couple of essays, and some journal response entries to share with you. A couple of our writer's lessons this week include the use of repetition, sound effect words, similes, and metaphors
The children are becoming quite the expert at technical drawing as a result of our first 2 lessons in Motion and Design. Today they completed their first build by following a side view and top view of a technical drawing that they has not seen before. It was a huge success!!!
Please make sure you child is completing a book log at home and bringing it in to me for credit. I love to see that each child is reading at least 15 minutes nightly. They are allowed to choose their own book. Please find time to ask them questions about the book they are reading. The children love to talk about what they are reading!
Don't forget our Holiday Gift Drive. Our holiday container is beautifully decorated and waiting for your sweet donations. Thank you!
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