Merry Christmas to you all. I hope this time of year finds you and your family well and enjoying the holiday festivities. We have definitely been busy at school. Your first grader is working on a special gift for a family member. Plus we have been busy working hard on our academics. In reading, I am seeing the children blossom into good readers. We have been working on tying it all together; knowing the strategies to try when figuring out a tricky word, being able to use them on our own, and then self checking ourselves to make sure the word makes sense, sounds right, and matches the letters. This is a lot to think about at one time, but the children are doing a great job. Something to work on at home to help with reading would be the sight word list. The more words the students "just know" the less words they have to figure out :)
In math, we have just finished a geometry unit. Hopefully your child came home and impressed you with some new words (sphere, cube, rectangular prism, cone, and cylinder). A few things to work on at home to help with math would be: recognizing the numbers to 100 quickly (especially the teens), writing and counting by 5's to 100, and adding and subtracting quickly.
Here are a few upcoming dates:
Class Christmas Party: Friday, December 19th at 8:45
Christmas Vacation: December 20-January 4
2nd Quarter report cards go home: January 7th
Hats on for Community Service: January 9th
December Tiger Pride Assembly: January 9th at 2:30
No School: January 19th
Have a very Merry Christmas and thank you for the gift of your child!
Debbie Newman
