Weekly Newsletter

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

We will not have reading groups again until after Christmas Break. 

This week the first grade is studying Christmas around the world.  They will be visiting three countries each day.  They should have a lot of information to share with you each night! 

Don’t forget our Christmas party is on Wednesday morning.  Please send in your assigned item.  Thank you! Dismissal on Wednesday will be at 11:20.

Help! We are out of glue sticks!  If you could donate some more to the classroom I would appreciate it!

Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be focusing on Christmas again this week. We will be reading many different books like Santa’s Reindeer Games, Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear, Merry Christmas, Splat and many others!

Spelling:

No spelling words or test this week.

Christmas Break                             December 20-January 8

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year! 

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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – December 10, 2012

We will not have reading groups again until after Christmas Break. 

This Friday is Polar Express Day in First grade.  Please have your child wear their favorite pajamas to school.  They can bring a small stuffed animal, blanket or pillow too.  They have to be able to fit everything in their backpack. Thank you!

Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be focusing on Christmas this week. We will be reading many different books like The Night Before Christmas, Hurry Santa!, I’ve Seen Santa, Santa’s Stuck, Olive, the Other Reindeer, Moosletoe, The Christmas Humbugs, The Polar Express and many others!

·        We will review Compare and Contrast, Sequencing and Fiction/Nonfiction.

Spelling:

No spelling words or test this week.

Math:

This week in math we are working on place value and greater than/less than.

Language Arts:

·        This week we will be reviewing nouns and verbs.

Polar Express/Pajama Day          December 14^th

Christmas Break                             December 20-January 8

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Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – December 3, 2012

Don’t forget your child needs to wear Christmas colors tomorrow to school.  We are performing our Christmas program during the day.  They need to be back at school Tuesday night at 6:30 pm wearing nice Christmas clothes.  The program starts at 7:00. 

If you have not turned in your child’s permission slip and donation for our field trip on Friday.  Please do so ASAP.  Thank you!

 

 Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be focusing on gingerbread this week. We will be reading many different books like The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers, The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School and many others!

·        We will study words with the ending -es this week. 

·        We will learn about Theme. We will also review Compare and Contrast with our different books.

Spelling:

Please practice daily!  We will have spelling test on Friday. No enrichment spelling this week!

Spelling Words:

·        fix, fixes, class, classes, wish, wishes, kiss, kisses, bus, buses, friends, very

Math:

This week in math we are working on place value.

Language Arts:

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

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