Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – September 4, 2012

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and enjoyed the break!

This week we will be focusing on zoos.

Reading and Language Arts:

·        We will be reading My School’s A Zoo, Curious George, Birthday Zoo, How Leo Learned to Be King Good Night Gorilla, Deep in the Jungle, and many others!

·        We will studying the short vowel “o” this week

·        Reading Groups start Wednesday, September 5^th.  Please look for a book to come home with your child every day except for Friday.  Please read the book with your child every night and return to school the next day.

Spelling:

Please practice daily!  We will have spelling test on Friday.

Spelling Words:

·        mom, hot, hop, pot, pop, ox, lock, mop, got, rock, help, use

Math:

This week in math we are continuing to practice counting to 120, starting at any number less than 120 and read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

We will also be comparing and ordering numbers.

Language Arts:

This week we will continue studying sentences including:

·        Naming and Action parts of sentences and sentence structure

Science:

We will be focusing on what living things need and zoo animals.

Don’t forget our Grandparent’s Day celebration is on Friday, 2:00-2:45!