1^st Grade Homework Letter Week of 11/30-12/4

Helpful hint….Give spelling tests at home to help make testing easier!

my                  try                   by                   any                 body

fly                    cry                  lucky              silly                 puppy

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

Monday             Write spelling words in the agenda

Tuesday            Read story

Wednesday       math sheet

Thursday           Sight word test day/ fluency passage

Friday               No homework

 We will be working on literacy stations and small groups a lot this week.   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. 

Extra Credit:  For these last weeks of 2009, there is one final extra credit assignment.  Create a snowman with your child for display in our hallway.  Be creative and think beyond just markers and crayons.  You can make a snowman using cotton balls, buttons, pieces of fabric, sticks, etc.  Your homework is to enjoy each other J

*  The book fair is coming to West Elementary!  There will be dress-up days (check my calendar and your child’s agenda for agenda for updates), special lunch days and tons of fun!!

*  Yearbooks are on sale!

*  Our class Christmas Party will be on Friday, December 18^th .  We will be doing a book exchange, so please be looking for a book to wrap and bring in.  We will play a game to exchange them on this date.  More information will follow.

Have a wonderful holiday season with your family, much love, Mrs. Kerney

Book Fair – Dec. 1-11

Monday, Nov. 30^th - Set Up in the Library

Tuesday, Dec. 1^st – Teacher Preview

Friday, Dec. 4^th – Door Decorating Contest Participants will be judged

Tuesday, Dec. 8^th - Lunch with Someone Grand (K & 2)

Tuesday, Dec. 8^th (5-7 pm) - Family Build-a-Book & Chick-fil-A

Wednesday, Dec. 9^th - Lunch with Someone Grand (1 & 4)

Thursday, Dec. 10^th - Lunch with Someone Grand (3 & 5)

Dress Up Days

Tuesday, Dec. 1^st – Dress Like an Explorer

Friday, Dec. 4^th – Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character

Tuesday, Dec. 8^th – Dress Like a Tourist

Thursday, Dec. 10^th – Hat Contest Day (Classrooms will select their top 3 hats to enter in the contest.  The winning hat will earn a snow cone party for their class.)