1. Upcoming Important Dates December 15- 1 st Grade Christmas play; arrive at your child’s classroom by 5:30 December 21-January 1- Christmas Holiday poolea@troyschools.netpoolea@troyschools.net 566-1444 ext: 3105 This should be used to study concepts taught for unit 2. Please go over all words and concepts with your child. Feel free to use grammar sites located on my school site. I have attached the following pages to help you study with your child for the Unit 2 Benchmark test for this coming week, December 14-18. Please see the concepts in mathematics and unit time below. A newsletter will NOT go home on December 14. Math: telling time; subtraction and addition story problems; adding and subtracting Sci./S.S.: Christmas Around the World

2. High-Frequency Words catch good no want so said put be could horse paper us old of live after out people or who work down been inside now together long there around much find food water under grow also family some other which their new Vowel Sound a, al as in ball Consonant Digraphs sh, th, ph, wh, ch, tch all talk malt stalk salt fish thin then shut phone whale walk mall halt small callwhile check itch pitch graph chick ce and ci /s/; ge and gi /j/Contractions face cage age space isn’t they’ll he’ll I’m I’ll hadn’t giraffe cent civil circusaren’t couldn’t shouldn’t didn’t she’ll he’ll wouldn’t haven’t Inflected Ending –edSyllable VC/CV added walked called meltedinto marker basket rabbit puppet spelled worked talked munchedribbet nugget inside mitten kitten Long Vowel Sounds a, e, i, o, u name me tree pile stole mule mile huge lake he feet June home

3. Common Nouns (cat, dog, town, home, slide, grass, person) Proper Nouns (Montgomery Zoo, Charles, Troy, Alabama) Special Titles (Dr. Law, Mr. Bates, Mrs. Hawsey, Professor Templeton, Miss Poole) Proper Nouns: Days, Months, Holidays (Friday, December, Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July) Singular and Plural Nouns (singular: dog, mouse, hole, boat; plural: boys, girls, cats, swings) Nouns in Sentences (identifying people, places, animals, and things in a sentence) Identify the noun or nouns in each sentence by circling each one. 1.Mom gave me a cookie on my way to school. 2.Padro wanted to throw all of the balls to the center of Memorial Stadium. 3.Our teacher, Mrs. Hawsey, gave us our tests early. Write each noun correctly. Write whether each noun is singular or plural. 1.officer hawsey ________________ 1. birds _______________ 2.mayor reeves_________________ 2. home _______________ 3.fourth of july_________________ 3. rabbit _______________ 4.DeCembeR___________________ 4. cakes ________________ 5.WEDNESDAY_________________ 5. pizzas _______________ Rewrite the sentence correctly. ben went to Jerry’s house this past tuesday to go with him to the christmas parade ___________________________________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________________