Weekly Newsletter

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!