This week in First grade...

December 10-14 Reminders: Thursday, December 13th Family Art Night Wednesday, December 19th Winter Parties December 21st- January 7th (Students return on the 7th) Last week you received an invitation to view our Caraway Cares Adopt a Family Sign Up on signupgenius.com. We are excited to share with you that 4 out of the 6 items listed are already being purchased by first grade families. Thank you so much for your generosity during this holiday season! Don't forget, if your family would like to donate you can send $1-$2 with your child. There will be an envelope in each first grade classroom for donations. The link to the actual sign up is http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4EAEA72AA64-caraway Calling all parents!! We are learning and discovering new holiday traditions from around the world each day in our classrooms! We would like to have parents present (see last week's email) your family's holiday traditions in the form of a booth on Monday, December 17th or Tuesday, December 18th. Please email Mrs. Caballero at erin_caballero@roundrockisd.org or your child's teacher to sign up and help! Reading Workshop: In Reading Workshop we will be exploring holiday traditions from around the world. This unit will correlate with our Social Studies unit on Culture. We will learn about holidays in other countries as we travel around the world with our elf. Writer’s Workshop: During Writer’s Workshop we will be writing facts about the holidays that we research. We will record our learning in our Elf Around the World book. We hope to gain an understanding of different traditions and cultural celebrations. Math: In math we will continue our unit on Patterns. The students will create and extend patterns with pictures, numbers and concrete objects. The students will learn about even and odd numbers and how they are a pattern. They will also identify rules of patterns. For example a shape pattern that is square, circle, square, circle is an ABAB pattern. Social Studies: We will continue our unit on cultural celebrations this week with The Elf on the Shelf: Holidays around the World. Our very own Elf has been busy traveling to different countries and reporting back to us what he learns about their holiday traditions. We have been keeping track of his travels on the map and in our Elf file book. Where will he go next?