December 2018 Reminders Conferences December is here! First Grade News Mark Your Calendars! The end of the 2nd Nine Weeks Is approaching! Our heroes will continue to develop their Reading, Writing, Math, and all other skills. Our reading goal for this nine weeks continues to be 40 wpm. These are some great online resources your child can use to practice their reading and math skills: Starfall.com, funbrain.com, abcya.com, storylineonline.com, mathblaster.com, pbskids.org Thank you for your continued support! SISD is scheduled to have our Winter break the week of December 21 – January 7, 2018. We resume classes on Tuesday, January 8, 2018 Reminders Dec. 5 Progress Reports will be sent home Dec. 6 Pictures with Santa Dec. 11 Holly Jolly Christmas Night Dec. 13 Terrific Kids Ceremony Dec. 19 Winter Dance Dec. 20 Heroes Have Heart Assembly Dec. 21 End of second 9 weeks/ Early Release/ Classroom Celebrations What are we learning? Reading – Author’s Purpose, Making Predictions, Reading Non-fiction Writing – Writing a brief composition Mathematics – Time to the half hour, organizing data to create a picture and bar graph Science – Magnets, Motion and Soil Social Studies – Bodies of Water and Landforms Conferences Our conference time is 1:15 – 2:10 p.m. Please contact your child’s teacher to set up an appointment.