In your child’s red folder you will
find a copy of their trimester one report card.
Please sign only the envelope and return to me by Wednesday, December 10th.
Our holiday concert will be on Tuesday,
December 9th. Students
should wear dress clothes to school that day for the 1:00 concert. Students will not have gym on Tuesday. A
second show will follow that evening at 6:30.
Important Dates/Events:
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Friday, December 5th –
Report Cards
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Saturday, December 6th -- Christmas
Bazaar
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Monday, December 8th –
School Mass
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Tuesday, December 9th—Christmas
Concert 1:00 and 6:30
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Wednesday, December 17th—School
Mass 10:15
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Thursday, December 18th—Christmas
Party in 1A 12:15-1:15
Upcoming Star of the Week: Lilla
Math: This week we continued work in unit 6, which focuses on
subtraction facts to 20. The assessment
on this unit will be on Monday, December 8th. On Tuesday we will move to unit 7, Counting
and Number Patterns to 120. We will
begin by making numbers 11 to 19, using numbers 11 to 19, counting by tens and
using a hundreds chart.
Here are some good math games I have
found for addition and subtraction:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3565 (Ten Frames)
http://www.ictgames.com/whackAMole/index.html (Adding 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s)
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=198 (Finding Missing Parts)
Most of the math games and activities
that I suggest come from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. You can find tons of resources here:
Phonics: We are wrapping up work in our sixth unit, which
focuses on basewords and the suffix s ending as in shops. We are focusing on
pluralization as well as the second sound for s as in the word bugs.
Up next in unit seven will be eight new glued sounds. (ang, ong, ung, ing, unk, onk, ink, ank)
Writing: Next
week students will have a “Rate My Writing” lesson. Students will work to score work samples on
scale of one to four. A one is a journal
entry or story with one sentence and limited detail. A four is an entry or story with four or more
sentences and expanded detail. Once
students are comfortable and familiar with this scoring system, students will
rate their own journaling and writing when they complete their work. At this point in the year, students are
expected to have four to five sentences as part of their journal entries, with
appropriate use of capital letters and punctuation.
Religion: In religion we have been reading and discussing the Christmas
story as well as reviewing Advent and the Christmas season. If you have time, check out 1A’s written and
illustrated version of the Christmas story outside the classroom. It is very cute!
Enjoy your weekend.
Alison
