1. First Grade Homework & Classroom News:
Jan. 8th – Jan 12th
Homework Menu:
Choose one appetizer and one main course to do for homework every night. If you are still hungry for practice, help yourself to some dessert!
Appetizer (5 minutes)
Practice any of the listed Daily Math skills
Addition or subtraction flash card games
Choose a word family word to write in a complete sentence
Main Course(15 minutes)
Read a “just-right book” to a stuffed animal or a family member for 13 minutes. Spend 2 minutes retelling the story with as many details as possible.
Dessert (10 minutes)
Xtra Math/Prodigy Math
Raz-kids (message us on Dojo if you need us to resend log-in information )
Word families
Words with long vowel sounds for y (e, i)
Long e sound:
-Y (puppy, funny, tummy, lucky)
Long i sound:
-Y (fly, why, shy, my, by, cry)
Daily Math skills:
Place value-determine how many tens and ones are in 2-digit numbers
Count forward and backwards from any number within 120
Find ten more and ten less from any number within 120
Create your own story problems using place value and have someone in your family solve them!
STEM focus and Words of the week
Questions:
How are snowflakes formed? What can we use to create our own snowflakes? How can we add to a classroom community to make it an even better place to learn?

2. A note from the teachers…
Homework and Newsletter
January 8th-January 12th
A note from the teachers…
Happy New Year! We are glad to be back with some new friends and exciting new things to learn! This week we are focusing on reading and writing words with long vowel sounds for the letter y. You can encourage your child to look for y acting like a vowel when you are reading and also in text that you see around like signs, cereal boxes, directions for games! We are writing narratives about a small moment that happened over winter break and following the writing process to draft, add details, edit, publish, and share our stories with our classes. In Math, we are continuing our unit on place value. Place value is knowing the values of different digits and being able to recognize numbers as ones and tens. In order to keep our fluency skills growing, they should continue to practice their addition and subtraction facts to 20. The kids seem very excited to be back at school and I have loved the bajillion hugs they have been giving me 
As always, thank you for the wonderful opportunity to teach your child!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Watson.
Upcoming Events:
January 15th-Martin Luther King jr. Day-No School
February 6th-8th- early dismissal for Spring Conferences
February 13th- Bugz musical for K-1 students at 6:30pm
February 22nd-23rd- Rodeo Break No School
Star Student
Mrs. Watson’s class: We would like to welcome Elijah to our wonderful classroom family! We are glad that you are joining our learning community! Welcome to Innovation Academy!!!

3. The following pages are NOT REQUIRED but are here if you would like to use them with your child 

4. Choose y as a vowel words from the word bank to write in sentences:
Paper for writing complete sentences  my
try
why by
funny
puppy
lucky
slimy
baby
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