1. Our 1st Grade Classroom News
Week of November 5th – 9th
Important Information
Dates to know
* Thank you so much for sending in lots of pillowcases! We are excited to share a Thanksgiving Breakfast with you on Nov. 16th! Our Room Mom, Kate Doran, will send out a sign-up genius for needed items very soon! Thank you in advance for all of your help to make this a memorable celebration for our 1st graders and their families! Please make every effort to send at least one family member to be present for your child (grandparents & siblings are welcome too)!
11/9: RES Spirit Day
11/12: No School - holiday
11/13: Fall Pictures (Retakes) & Zaxby’s Family Dinner Night from 5:00-9:00
11/14: Progress Reports
11/16: Thanksgiving Breakfast from
9:00-9:45
11/21 – 11/23 : No
School (Thanksgiving
Break)
12/7: RES Spirit
Day
12/19: Christmas
Party at 2:15
3/28: Field trip to Marbles/IMAX
Our Learning Focus
Theme: The First Thanksgiving
Math: Using counting on & counting back as an addition/subtraction strategy; building numbers with tens and ones
Phonics: Glued Sounds am & an (these sounds stick together like glue & are tapped together)
Reading Focus: Identifying main idea and retelling key details of a text
Writing Focus: Writing informative or explanatory text that names a topic, gives facts, & provides a sense of closure
Science: Balance and Motion
Words to Remember
WWW: would, could, should, each, over, number
Word Families: -op, -ox, -og