The week of Dec. 13- 17

Only 4.5 days left this semester!  It has flown by and I am so proud of how much the class has grown academically, socially, and behaviorally this quarter!  

ELA--This week we are having fun reading Holiday books and doing various arts and crafts!  Look for a Gingerbread house pop-up coming home today! It might be a keeper to hold on to as the Gingerbread Man has a special person's picture on it! :)

Phonics:  Long o and Long u with the magic e on the end.  

Heart words:  don't, other, put, use.

Math this week--We are finishing Chapter 4 on subtraction from 20.  Our math test will be tomorrow!  The kids will be bringing home their Math Book 1.  We will begin the Math Book 2 in January.

Last week we enjoyed doing a STEM project by making a bed for Goldilocks out of  notecards, straws, pipe cleaners, and tape.  The only requirement is the bed had to be off of the floor.  The kids did a great job!  If your child is not pictured, several were gone that day.

Coming Up!

Tues. Dec. 20.    1/2 day school- Winter Celebration!

Dec. 20-Jan. 4     Christmas break

Jan. 5                  3rd quarter begins!

Mon., Jan. 9th: Grades Posted

Tues., Jan. 10th: Food Night at The Other Place

Mon. Jan. 16. No School

Thursday,  January 26th: 1st Grade Evening Music Program--Mark it on your calendars!!!

 

The week of Dec. 5-9

 I hope you all had a great weekend!  I was quite happy that the Wildcats won!  

Thank you for sending in those winter coats!  It looks like we will need them all week!

This week we are going to enjoy reading several different versions of the Gingerbread Man books to compare and contrast.

Phonics:  Long vowels a and i with a magic e on the end.  

-ake--cake, make, bake, etc.

-ate--late, fate, date

-ike--like, bike

-ide-- hide, ride

Heart words:  carry, of, water, that

Math:  Subtraction to 20.  Today we had a difficult concept breaking down the subtrahend we were subtracting to make a 10.  We worked on this together and the kids began getting the concept.  We did the homework together.  It's much easier to just count back we found out!  :)

Sight words:  Thank you for continuing to practice these at home with your child!  

Coming up!

Thurs. Dec. 8.   PTO Food Night at Papa Murphy's

Tues. Dec. 20.    1/2 day school- Winter Celebration!

The week of Nov. 28-Dec. 2

 I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

We are up and running in first grade!  

Phonics:  Can you child read these words?  We just started today reading -ing, -ong, ink words.  Writing them down for them to read would be great practice!

ing-sing, sting, bling 

ang- sang, rang, fang

ong-song, tong, pong

ung-sung, rung, lung

ink-sink, blink, wink

ank-sank, plank,thank

onk-honk, bonk, tonka

unk-sunk, plunk, flunk

Math--Chapter 4

Subtraction to 20--Continue practicing doubles facts to 20 to help with adding and subtracting.

ELA--Fairy Tales!

We are learning about the Fairy Tale Elements, reading various fairy tales and doing activities with them. 

Elements of a Fairy Tale:

1.  A make-believe story

2.  Magical Elements

3.  Good Wins over bad

4.   Wicked characters

5.  Royalty

6.  Problems and events often happen in 3's--The Three Little Pigs

7.  The setting is often enchanted forests, castles, or kingdoms

8.  Happily ever after endings

Coming up!

Thurs. Dec. 8.   PTO Food Night at Papa Murphy's

Tues. Dec. 20.    1/2 day school- Winter Celebration!

4th Grade Buddies making turkeys together!

The week of Nov. 14-18

I hope you had a great weekend!

It sure is cold outside!  Please try to pack gloves and stocking hats with your child's winter coat each day.  Our Recess Attire Rules say if it's 0-49, your child must have a winter coat to wear or he/she will have to stay inside with a teacher that does not have recess duty.

Book Fair!  Our class goes to the book fair on Wednesday.  It will be PJ day at the book fair for us!  It's handy to put money for book fair shopping on the ewallet explained on the CCE Parent Smore.  Mrs Arter will have every child's ewallet amount, but you may print off the amount also and send it.  You may also send in cash in an envelope with your child's name, so we know whose it is and it doesn't get lost.  Can parents join their child at our time on Wed. at 1:40-2:40?  Of course!  If you have already shopped with your child, that is great too!  Let me know if you have any questions!

Phonics:  This week our digraphs are:  beginning ch-, ending -ch, and -tch.  

When do you use a ch at the end of a word?  A word that has a consonant in front of the /ch/ sound is a -ch. 

lunch, bunch, search

A word that has a vowel in front of a /ch/ sound makes it a -tch at the end of a word.  match, patch

But then there are exceptions like: such, much

Heart words:  our, too, they, eat

Math--

We finished chapter 3 on Adding to 20.  We took our test today.

The rest of the week we are going to work on place value with Tens and ones--4 tens, 3 ones is the number 43.

Science:  The class has done well learning the phases of the moon.  Friday we had fun making the phases with Oreos!  See the pictures below.

We are learning about the 8 planets (Pluto is not considered a planet anymore.  It is called a Dwarf Planet).

Then, we will have fun learning what our constellation is!

Veterans!  We learned so much about who a Veteran is from Barrett's Dad, Jesse and Gabby's Dad, Christopher!  

We thank you so much for coming!  Enjoy the pictures below!

Jesse ended as a 3rd Squad Team Leader .

Christopher ended as a Company Commander!

Coming up!

Wed. Nov. 16.    Scott's class at the book fair-1:40-2:40, Wear PJ's!

Sat. Nov. 19.     Winter Wonderland 9-12 pm

Tues. Nov. 22    Chipotle food night

Thurs. Dec. 8.   PTO Food Night at Papa Murphy's

Tues. Dec. 20.    1/2 day Winter Celebration!

Nov. 23-25.        Thanksgiving vacation

Thank you for your service Mr. Breen!

Thank you for your service Mr. Cepeda!

8 Moon Phases with Oreos! Yum!