Monday, November 18, 2013

Weekly Newsletter


Mrs. Ginn’s First Grade Newsletter – November 18, 2013

Our Thanksgiving feast in on Friday.  If you signed up to send in food or help I will send home a reminder later in the week.  Thanks for your help!

 

Reading and Phonics:

·        We are studying Thanksgiving this week.  We will be reading The Great Turkey Race, Turk and Hunt, Turkey for Thanksgiving, Plump and Perky Turkey, The Best Thanksgiving Ever and many others! 

·        We will studying the sounds of y (e or i) this week.

 

Grammar:

·        We will be will working on nouns in a sentence.

 

Comprehension:

·        We will be working on compare and contrast this week. 

 

Spelling:

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

·        my, by, try, any, body, fly, cry, lucky, silly, puppy, open, off

 

Math:

This week in math we are working on subtraction. We are subtraction 0,1, and 2 and using addition to help us subtract.

 

Social Studies:  Thanksgiving

 

Dates to Remember:

Friday                                                November 22, 2013                      Thanksgiving Feast

November 25-29, 2013                                                               Thanksgiving Break

Friday                                                December 6, 2013             Share your Christmas field trip