Mrs. Scott's First Grade Blog: 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!