1st Grade Homework Letter Week of Nov. 30th - Dec. 4th
Spelling Words: Your child will be tested on these words on Friday
Helpful hint….Give spelling tests at home to help make testing easier!
my try by any body
fly cry lucky silly puppy
Reading Words: Your child will have a sight test over these words on Thursday
Helpful Hint….A Sight Word Test will be given on these words Thursday. Make
flash cards and go over these words nightly! The sight word test includes
these reading words and the spelling words from above.
nothing stays things always become day
everything
This weeks Homework:
Monday 11-30-09 Write spelling words 1x Each in agenda/Math WS/
Read,Sign,Return Will They Get Here?
Tuesday 12-1-09 Math WS/Read,Sign,Return The Picnic
Wednesday 12-2-09 Math WS/Read An Egg is an Egg
Thursday 12-3-09 Spelling WS/ Read,Sign,Return A Fishing Trip
Friday 12-4-09 Test day
This week in the classroom:
Our phonics skills of the week are the long vowel y that says e and i, and
reviewing long vowel sounds. Practice words with these sounds throughout the
week with your child. The comprehension strategy we will focus on this week
is Compare and Contrast along with predicting.
Extra Credit:
We are beginning Unit 3 in our reading series. Changes! For Extra Credit, I
would like you to make a timeline of the changes in your life. You may use
pictures, objects, words, etc… However, you must remember that a timeline is
a visual of events and dates that have happened all the way from the
beginning of your life. Be creative and have fun with this! I will display
these in the hall.
News and Upcoming Events:
* The book fair is coming to West Elementary! There will be dress-up days
special lunch days and tons of fun!!
* Yearbooks are on sale!
We had an excellent time at the Tennessee First Grade Workshop at the end of
November! I have many wonderful ideas to explore. This parent poem was in
our materials and I wanted to share it with you in caser you had not read it
before: If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again by Diane Loomans…
If I had my child to raise over again, I’d finger paint more, and point the
finger less.
I’d do less correcting, and more connecting. I’d take my eyes off my watch,
and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know to care more. I’d take more hikes, and
fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play. I’d run through more fields,
and gaze at more stars.
I’d do more hugging, and less tugging. I would be firm less often, and
affirm love much more.
I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later. I’d teach less about the
love of power, and more about the power of love.
