Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful time with your family and friends during the winter break! I enjoyed the holidays with my family, yet I am so excited to see my students tomorrow. It is going to be a busy semester, full of fun and learning. I would like to thank everyone for helping celebrate the first semester and winter break with a fantastic party. Thank you for all of the donations and all the time and energy spent preparing and helping with the party. Thank you for the thoughtful gifts and cards!
REMINDERS
Monday: No school for students
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. No reading homework due to the short week. Look for Math homework.
Wednesday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Fairy Tale Parade at 8:45. Math homework is due.
Fairy Tale Parade
First Grade will be having a Fairy Tale Parade on Friday, January 9th at 8:45am, to celebrate the end of our Fairy Tale Unit. Please have your child come to school dressed as their favorite fairy tale character. Your child may wear their costume over their clothes. Please do not go out and buy a costume for your child. You and your child can make a homemade mask and/or costume with items you have at home. This should be fun….not stressful!
Also, if you can, please have your child’s snack reflect what he/she dressed up as. For example, if your child is dressed as Snow White, send apple slices for her. If he is dressed as the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, maybe send cookies with him.
The parade will start at 8:45am and we will walk all around the school. We would love for you to come and cheer us on! If you have any questions, please ask your child’s teacher. --First Grade Teachers
READING
This week in reading we will focus on Fairy Tales. We will review the features of Fairy Tales and discuss the characters, the problem and the solution, the plot of the story, and the beginning, middle and end of the story. We will also review how to retell (tell the events from the beginning to the end in our own words) and to summarize (tell the important events in one short paragraph).
WRITING
This week, we will review procedures for writing workshop and review the writing process. We will write small moments that happened during winter break and/or rely on our imaginations and write stories.
MATH.
This week in math we will review the addition strategies including doubles, double plus one, double plus two and introduce a new strategy called "bridge to ten". 9+5 is the same as 10+4, which is 14. We will solve problems applying the addition strategies we have been learning.
SCIENCE
We will learn about the objects in the sky such as the sun, the moon, the clouds and the stars. We will also learn how the appearance of these objects change depending on weather, time of day and other factors.