I am composing this newsletter on our new classroom iPad. I am excited to explore all of the possibilities that this will bring to our class.
We were given the opportunity to attend a performance of The Christmas Carol at SUU on Thursday, Dec., 15. I put a permission slip in your child's backpack today. Please sign and return this by Wednesday. To help cover the cost of the play, we are also asking for a $1.00 donation.
Thanks to those who have already sent supplies for our gingerbread houses. If you can please send your supplies by Dec. 14. Remember that we will be constructing our houses on Thursday, Dec.,15 at 1:00. If any of you would like to help I would definitely welcome it. Thanks too, for those of you that have helped your child earn $1.00 for a "secret gift". Send the $1.00 to school with your child. Your child will bring the fragile gift home on Wednesday.
The school librarian and the take home librarian have asked us to encourage all of our students to return all of their books before the Christmas holiday. We have library on Thursday. Please help your child to remember to bring their books back then. Please return your take home books too.
We will have spelling words this week, but not poetry performances. I will also test on the sight word list on Friday.
Our next DIBELS test will be on January 12. Try to squeeze some reading time in over the break!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! School resumes on January 2.
Friday, December 9, 2011
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Congratulations to Kanden! He was our Catch the Vision award winner for November. He is very deserving of this award. He is a wonderful first grader!
We have two more weeks until our Christmas break. We will have spelling words and poetry performances for the next two weeks. This week we will construct a "Gingerbread Noun Town" and compare and contrast several different versions of the Gingerbread Boy story. We will also do an opinion writing on our favorite version of the story. Hopefully, after reading How Santa Got His Job, we can squeeze in our "Elf job application" and make a cute elf to go along with it.
On Thursday, December 15th at 1:00 we will be making Gingerbread houses. I am sending this information home also because I realized that we have such a little amount of time until that date. I will need help with several items, such as: graham crackers, stick pretzels, small candy canes, foil wrapped Santas, Christmas-tree shaped marshmallows, and any other type of Christmas candy to decorate the houses. Last year, I had things like, green and red M&M's, Christmas Dots, gum drops, gummy bears,starlight mints, Necco brand candy, etc. I will send home a list with your child and ask for specific items, but you can also send something additional if you see something that you think would work well. If you could please help by sending items to help decorate by next Tuesday, December 13th, I would so greatly appreciate it. If any of you would like to help, I would welcome you that day at 1:00.
Next week, we will be making a "secret" Christmas present. I have talked to my students about earning money for these gifts. Could you please help your child earn $1.00 for these secret gifts? You can send the $1.00 with your child anytime during the next couple of weeks.
Please send your child dressed for the weather! Unless it is snowing or raining profusely we go outside, especially during lunch break. Please have your child bring a coat, gloves, boots, hats etc. It is so hard to send cold little kids back outside for break.
I love this time of year and being surrounded by 20 First graders at Christmas time makes it even better. Spend your reading time reading some great Christmas books together.
Happy Reading!!
We have two more weeks until our Christmas break. We will have spelling words and poetry performances for the next two weeks. This week we will construct a "Gingerbread Noun Town" and compare and contrast several different versions of the Gingerbread Boy story. We will also do an opinion writing on our favorite version of the story. Hopefully, after reading How Santa Got His Job, we can squeeze in our "Elf job application" and make a cute elf to go along with it.
On Thursday, December 15th at 1:00 we will be making Gingerbread houses. I am sending this information home also because I realized that we have such a little amount of time until that date. I will need help with several items, such as: graham crackers, stick pretzels, small candy canes, foil wrapped Santas, Christmas-tree shaped marshmallows, and any other type of Christmas candy to decorate the houses. Last year, I had things like, green and red M&M's, Christmas Dots, gum drops, gummy bears,starlight mints, Necco brand candy, etc. I will send home a list with your child and ask for specific items, but you can also send something additional if you see something that you think would work well. If you could please help by sending items to help decorate by next Tuesday, December 13th, I would so greatly appreciate it. If any of you would like to help, I would welcome you that day at 1:00.
Next week, we will be making a "secret" Christmas present. I have talked to my students about earning money for these gifts. Could you please help your child earn $1.00 for these secret gifts? You can send the $1.00 with your child anytime during the next couple of weeks.
Please send your child dressed for the weather! Unless it is snowing or raining profusely we go outside, especially during lunch break. Please have your child bring a coat, gloves, boots, hats etc. It is so hard to send cold little kids back outside for break.
I love this time of year and being surrounded by 20 First graders at Christmas time makes it even better. Spend your reading time reading some great Christmas books together.
Happy Reading!!
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