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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – October 23, 2012

We are going to end our pumpkin unit of study on Friday with pumpkin measuring.  Please have your child bring in one medium or small sized pumpkin by Friday.  They have to be able to carry their pumpkin to different stations so please don’t send one that is too heavy.  Thank you!

 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be learning about Pumpkins this week. We will be reading many different books like I Like Pumpkins, Pumpkin Hunt, The Runaway Pumpkin, Perfect Pumpkins, From Seed to Pumpkin, and many others!

·        We will study the long o sound this week. 

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        home, hope, rose, woke, those, bone, hose, joke, rode, stone, there, together

Math:

This week in math we are working on addition to 20.

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be studying proper nouns such as days, months and holidays.

Don’t forget Yates PTO meeting tonight at 6:00!

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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – October 15, 2012

  Report cards come home on Tuesday.  Please look over them and sign.  They need to be returned to me as soon as possible.  If you have any questions please let me know. I cannot send home your child’s report until I have had a conference with you.  If you have missed your conference please get in touch with me to reschedule. 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be learning about Community Helpers and Fire Safety this week. We will be reading many different books like Officer Buckle and Gloria, Firefighters, Fire, Fire!, When I Grow Up, Daisy the Firecow, 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 Who Works Here?

·        We will study the long i sound this week. 

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        like, ride, smile, time, white, bike, dime, hide, ice, kite, who, work

Math:

This week in math we are starting addition to 20.

Please continue working with your child at home on counting and writing the numbers 1-120. 

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be studying nouns and proper nouns.

Don’t forget there is no school on Friday and Monday!

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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – October 1, 2012

If you have not sent in your child’s permission slip for the Mayfield trip please do so ASAP.  Our trip is Friday! If we don’t have enough in donations to cover the trip we will not be able to go.  This is a fun trip and I really don’t want us to miss it!  If you can help as a chaperone I would love to have you!!

 

 Reading and Language Arts:

·        We will be learning about apples this week. We will be reading many different books on apples like Apples, Amazing Apples, Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time, The Apple Pie Tree, Apples A to Z 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 A Big Fish for Max.

·        We will study digraphs sh and th this week. 

Spelling:

Please practice daily!  We will have spelling test on Thursday this week because of our field trip.

Spelling Words:

·        ship, fish, then, shut, with, rush, shell, shop, trash, thin, want, good

Math:

This week in math we are learning about solid shapes.  We will be able to name, describe and create them. 

Please continue working with your child at home on counting from 1-120. 

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be studying nouns.

Don’t forget our Fall Festival is on Friday!! I hope to see you all there!