I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. We have many exciting and challenging learning activities planned for our first grade classes. We will study holidays around the world and “travel” to other classrooms to learn about the traditions of many countries. Our class will also be focusing on subtraction facts, geometric shapes and making fair trades with money. We will continue to develop our writing of narrative stories by using correct sentence structure of capital letters, punctuation, nouns, verbs and adjectives. We will finish comparing and contrasting stories and begin looking for facts and opinion in stories. Lastly we will continue our word building skills by focusing on letter blends, word families, antonyms, synonyms, prefixes and suffixes.

Our sound unit begins this week. Miss Cappadona will lead our lessons. Please remember to send in your students homemade instrument by this Friday.

ARTS NIGHT– Tuesday, November 27th.

 

Focus of Lessons this Week

Reading– compare and contrast stories and characters in stories

Open Court and Make a Word- Letters sounds and word building

Writing– Using adjectives in writing/synonyms and antonyms

Math– 2d and 3d shapes

S.S./Science/Health– Sound

Homework this Week

Regular homework of math and Language arts packets will resume this week.  Student need to continue reading at least 15 minutes a night.

**It is helpful to practice addition and subtraction facts up to 18.

Reading Log Goals– Each time a student reads 60 minutes they earn a star. For every 5 stars, the student goes to the Treasure box.

Look for AR updates in the folder. Remember in order to get AR goal credit the student must score at least 80% on the test.

My email: cynthia.brake@cobbk12.org