Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – January 8, 2013

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

Report cards are coming home today.  Please look over it and the insert of standards for the nine weeks.  If you have any questions please let me know.  Sign and return your child’s report card as soon as you can. 

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 New Years and frogs this week. We will be reading many different books like Squirrels New Year’s Resolution, Frog and Toad Together, Why Frogs Are Wet, Tadpole to Frog, A Frog in a Bog, Frog and Toad are Friends, Finklehopper Frog, and many others!

·        We will be studying inflected endings –ed and –ing this week.

·        We will continue learning about the Plot in stories (beginning, middle and end).

Spelling:

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

·        ask, asked, plan, planned, help, helped, jog, jogged, call, called, again, soon

Math:

This week in math we are working on 10 More and 10 Less, Making Numbers on a Hundred Chart and Ordering Numbers on a Hundred Chart.

Please make sure your child is still practicing writing and counting numbers to 120.

Science:

·        Frog life cycle, comparing frogs and toads

January 21, 2013               Martin Luther King Day              No School