This week in First Grade...

December 12-15

We have made it halfway through First grade! Time sure does fly! We have so many fun things planned this week! I can't wait for the kiddos to come home and tell you all about it!

Monday (12/12): Menu Homework only this week!
Tuesday (12/13): Tuesday Folders will go home.  Please unload them and return them Wednesday.
Wednesday (12/14): First grade Celebrates Reading Day
Thursday (12/8): Winter Party 1:15pm-2:15pm
Friday (12/9): No School! See you on January 3rd!

Looking Ahead: 

Friday, January 6th: Fairy Tale Parade

This week in Reading Workshop...

We will begin reading Fables.  We will discuss the differences and similarities between Fairytales, Folktales and Fables.  We will learn that Fables usually are short, have animals as characters and have a moral.  We will read different Fables this week.

               First grade Fairy Tale Parade

First Grade will be having a Fairy Tale Parade on Friday, January 6th  at 8:30am 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 8:30am and we will walk all around the school.  We would love for you to come and cheer us on!  

This week in Writer's Workshop...

We are going to wrap up our unit on Imaginary Stories.  The boys and girls have been hard at work writing stories.  We are working on revising our stories by adding describing words.  We are also editing our stories by making sure we have a capital letter at the beginning of our sentences and a period at the end. 

This week in Math...

We will explore graphing! We have some fun activities planned! We will collect data on some gingerbread men then graph our results.  We will also survey our friends on their favorite winter activity and make a graph to represent those results also! 

This week in Social Studies...

We will continue our study of cultures and celebrations around the world.  Last week we learned about Hanukkah, Christmas and Diwali.  This week we will travel the world and learn about their celebrations.  We will create a mini book to write about our learning of these traditions.

*If your family celebrates a special holiday that is not noted above please email me.  We want to learn all about the celebrations of the students in our class.

A note for Parent Helpers...

On Wednesday and Thursday the students will be rotating classrooms.  We will be in our own classroom until 8:30am.  You are still welcome to come but please feel free to take some extra time for yourself this week!