Weekly 1st Grade Newsletter
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Hot Topics in this week’s newsletter: *Sight Words:year, can’t, tell *Reading/Writing:contractions and All About Me books *Math:Addition and Subtraction story problems & strategies *Social Studies:jobs and how things are made *Conferences: Tuesday, Feb. 12th & Wednesday, Feb. 13th *Book Fair: February 8th through the 14th *Valentine’s Day Party:Feb. 14th at 2:10pm
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New Sight Words: New Sight Words next week are: year, can’t, and tell. Please help your child learn to read, write, and spell our new words.
Language Arts: We will continue our unit in Literacy by Design called Away We Grow and theme called “Animals Grow and Change.” Our vocabulary words will be: mammal, reptile, and young. We will be learning about contractions and practice identifying parts of a story. In writing, students will continue their All About Me books, adding labels and captions to their pictures and organizing their book to match the table of contents.
Math: We will continue our math unit called Number Games and Crayon Puzzles. Students will continue working with combinations of 10, focusing on subtraction and learning strategies we use to help us solve problems. We will also use games to help us learn our addition and subtraction facts quickly.
Social Studies: Students will continue discussing jobs that provide goods and services. We will talk about factories and how people work together to create a product. We will be watching video clips about how different things are made and students will be able to participate in an assembly line right in our classrooms!
Things to work on at Home: Talk with your child about how your family decides to spend or save money. We have been talking about how people earn money from their jobs, but have to make choices about how that money is spent. For example, families must pay for things they need before they can purchase things they want.
Special Notes:
*Conferences are Tuesday, Feb. 12th and Wednesday, Feb. 13th. If you need to reschedule, please call the office at 402-898-0449 or email your child’s teacher.
*Valentine Party is Thursday, February 14th at 2:10pm. Your child is welcome to bring valentines but must have one for each child in the class. You can have your child write other students’ names and their own on the valentines or you can just have them sign their name and leave the “To” blank if you would like.
* You are invited to our Scholastic Book Fair, an exciting, fun-filled event for students and families scheduled from Feb 8 to Feb 14. Please stop by to see what we have available.
We will be open:
Fri, Feb 8: 3:00 to 5:00
Mon, Feb 11: 3:00 to 5:00
Tue and Wed, Feb 12 and 13: 3:00 to 7:15
Thur, Feb 14: 3:00 to 5:00
If you are unable to attend, you can still support our Carriage Hill Library and shop the Book Fair online at: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/carriagehill
We are looking for volunteers to work at the Book Fair.
If you can help by working Mon from 3 to 5 or Tues or Wed from 3:00 to 5:15; please email Mrs. Hilbers at khilbers@paplv.org or call the school, 404-898-0449.
We look forward to seeing you at the Book Fair!
*Bist Bit: I accept help!
In order for students to improve their skills academically and behaviorally, it is our job as the adult to help them problem solve and practice those skills. What we want from students is for them to be able to partner with the adults so we can support them in problem solving!
*Feel free to contact your child’s teacher if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!
Mrs. Anderson: mjanderson@paplv.org
Mr. Radicia: jradicia@paplv.org
Miss King: dking@paplv.org