Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter

November 14-18, 2011

Don’t forget the Book Fair is this week!  Your child will bring home a wish list on Wednesday. 

We are still collecting item for our Operation Christmas Child boxes.  Please send something in if you haven’t.  This is a wonderful project for our class.

We are also having a school wide food drive for the

Caring Place

.  Please send in a donation if you can. 

This is what we are working on this week:

Reading story:  An Egg is an Egg

Comprehension skill:  Compare and Contrast

Vocabulary words:  things, always, day, become, nothing, stays, everything

Spelling words:  my, by, try, any, body, fly, cry, lucky, silly, puppy

 *bonus words: things, always

       

Phonics:  long e and long i using y

Grammar:  Action Verbs

Math:      

·        Making numbers 11-20

·        Using Numbers 11-20

·        Counting by 10’s to 100

·        Counting Patterns on a Hundred Chart

·        Using Skip counting

Science:  Living Things, Growth, Change

Theme:      Thanksgiving

A Look Ahead…

November 14-18, 2011               Yates Book Fair

November 23-25, 2011               Thanksgiving break