Weekly Newsletter

Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – February 4, 2013

Don’t forget our Pennies for Pads!  Ipad Fundraiser that is going on now.  Please send in any loose change you can spare for the next two weeks.  Thank you!

Reading and Phonics:

·        We will be focusing on weather this week. We will be reading many different books like Weather Words, What Will the Weather Be? The Best Book of Weather, The Reason for the Season, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Down Came the Rain and many others!

·        We will be studying long e: ea.

·        We will learn about Theme.  

Grammar:

·        We will be learning about adjectives for color or shapes.

Spelling:

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

·        eat, sea, each, team, please, dream, treat, beach, clean, lean, colors, sign

Math:

This week in math we are working on missing addends and subtracting with missing numbers. Example: 2+_=6 or 6-_=4

*We have started our timed addition math facts.  Please make sure your child practices at home.  We are working on plus 1, 2 and 3 

Science:

·        Weather

Dates to Remember:

February 7, 2013               Creative Discovery Math Night             6pm