Mistake!

The spelling list on your newsletter this week is wrong.  #2 should be trunk instead of think.  Sorry for the confusion!

Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – November 26, 2012

We are starting something new in spelling this week.  I am giving a pretest on Monday so you can see how well your child understands the phonics skill and words for the week.  If your child gets all the words correct I will send home an enrichment list for them. 

Please make sure your child is practicing their part in the Christmas program at home.  Our play is next week (December 4^th) and they need the extra practice at home.  Thanks for your help!

 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be doing an author study on Laura Numeroff this week. We will be reading many different books like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If you Give a Pig a Pancake, If you Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Dog a Donut and many others!

·        We will study digraphs of –ng and -nk this week. 

·        We will learn about Plot and Cause and Effect. We will also review Compare and Contrast with our different books.

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        bring, think, pink, bank, sang, wing, rink, blank, rang, sunk, every, sure

Math:

This week in math we are working on subtraction to 20 and fact families.

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be learning about verbs (action words) that add –s.

First Grade Christmas Program – December 4^th @ 7:00 pm

Book Fair info

The book fair is at Yates  Nov. 12-16.  It will be open Monday - Thursday from 7:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. and Friday from 7:45 a.m. - noon.   Tuesday evening, Nov. 13  will be our Build-a-Book event.  Come create a memory with your child.  This event is FREE for Yates students thanks to the generosity of the PTO and Title 1 funds.  If you have other children who wish to make a book, they will need to purchase their book kits. Build-a-Book will be from 6-7:30 p.m. and the fair will be open as well.

 

Breakfast with the Grands will be Thursday and Friday.  We hope your child's grands (or other important adult in his/her life) will visit our school, find out what their grand student is learning and celebrate with us.  Adult breakfasts will be $2.00 each; student breakfasts are $1.25 unless your child participates in the free or reduced food plan.  Students from Ms. Fuller, Painter, and Rogers' classes and First Graders are invited for Thursday from 7:45 - 8:15 a.m., while Ms. Morris and Whitlock's classes and Second Graders are invited for Friday.

Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – November 12, 2012

 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be learning about the traditions of Thanksgiving and turkeys this week. We will be reading many different books like Plump and Perky Turkey, The Littlest Pilgrim, The Great Turkey Race!, Thanksgiving Turkey, Turk and Hunt and many others!

·        We will study the sounds of y this week. 

·        We will learn about sequencing and compare and contrast.

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        my, by, try, any, body, fly, cry, lucky, silly, puppy, things, always

Math:

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

Please work with your child at home on their addition and subtraction math facts.

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be learning about verbs (action words).

Social Studies:

·        Thanksgiving

*First grade Thanksgiving Feast November 16.

*Thanksgiving Break is November 19-23.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!! 

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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – November 5, 2012

Yates is having a canned food drive this week for the Caring Place.  Please send in nonperishable canned foods to donate.  Thank you!

 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be learning about Elections and Thanksgiving this week. We will be reading many different books like Grace for President, Duck for President, The First Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thankful World, Me and on the Map and many others!

·        We will study the long e sound this week. 

·        We will learn about sequencing and compare and contrast.

Spelling:

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

Spelling Words:

·        be, feet, he, see, we, green, me, she, tree, week, some, family

Math:

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

Please work with your child at home on their addition math facts.

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be studying nouns in sentences.

Social Studies:

·        Elections, Thanksgiving and map skills.

*First grade Thanksgiving Feast November 16.

*Thanksgiving Break is November 19-23.