Weekly Newsletter

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!