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Weekly Newsletter

What first grade is learning, the week of December 3rd:
Birthdays in December: Happy Birthday to Tyler (1st), Hayden (16th), and Cody (27th).

New Sight Words: New sight words for next week are: going, where, this, could, before. Please help your child learn to read, write, and spell our new words.

Language Arts: We will continue the unit in Literacy by Design called Weather Wonders and the theme “Weather for Every Season.” Our vocabulary words will be: year, aware, and thermometer. We will learn about identifying the plot in a story, how to infer, and practice using antonyms (opposites). In writing, we will begin reading stories by famous authors to learn about different writing techniques.

Math: Next week we will begin our unit called “What Would You Rather Be.” We will learn about collecting data and graphing. Students will learn how to represent the information they collect and then analyze the results using different types of graphs.

Social Studies: We will continue our unit in Social Studies called “Everything Changes.” At the end of the unit, students will understand that communities change over time. We have been talking about how inventions make our lives easier and more efficient. Students will write and draw about their idea for an invention, and learn about some famous inventors.

Things to work on at Home: Please work with your child on addition and subtraction facts. Have them think of story problems to go with different number sentences. With the weather getting colder, our noses are running! Please talk with and show your child the proper way for blowing their nose and using hand sanitizer.

Special Notes: *The First/Second Grade Music Concert will be Tuesday, December 11th. Mark your calendars; details coming soon!

*BIST Tip: Goals for Life #2 “It was their fault. They started it!” Sound familiar? When kids have difficulty accepting responsibility for their actions it is easy to blame others. As adults we need to validate each student’s feelings while holding them responsible for their part in the conflict. “It sounds like you were angry when he pushed you which made you want to push back. But, at school that is not okay. How can you be okay when others are not okay?”

*PTO’s Holiday-Make-and-Take will be Friday, December 7th from 3:30pm to 5:30pm, and Saturday, December 8th from 9am to 12pm. There will also be a bake sale on Saturday. Students can decorate items from Creation Station to give for holiday gifts. See the order form coming home soon!

*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