Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – September 17, 2012

We will not have reading groups the rest of this week due to a state pre-test being give Tuesday-Thursday and our field trip on Friday.  If you volunteer to help during reading groups you do not need to come this week. 

 

 Reading and Language Arts:

·        We will be doing an author study on Eric Carle this week. We will be reading Rooster’s Off to See the World, The Mixed Up Chameleon, A Grouchy Ladybug, Pancakes, Pancakes, The Foolish Tortoise and many others!

·        This will also include our Reading Street basal reader.  Please be looking for it to come home with your child on Wednesday and read Get the Egg!

·        We will study the short e sound this week. 

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        bed, men, red, step, ten, net, leg, jet, sled, wet, saw, your

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 be counting by 10’s and learning about odd and even numbers

Please have your child work on counting 1-120. 

Language Arts:

This week we will continue studying sentences including:

·        Sentence structure and telling sentences.

Don’t forget our field trip to Lee University is on Friday, September 21!