Week of November 9th

Reminders

There will be no school on Wednesday.  I look forward to seeing many of you at conferences. 

Thank you to all of the parents who made our Halloween party such a huge success!  Also thanks you for the Halloween gifts from the class.  That was very kind of you all!

Please return report card envelopes ASAP. 

We have Language Arts and Math every morning.  If it’s possible, please make doctors and dentist appointments for your child in the afternoon so that they don’t miss that important instructional time.  Thank you!

Please label of your child’s clothing (even their shoes).  We have had many sweatshirt mix-ups already this year.

If you ever have any questions please feel free to email me at edevore@alphaschool.org.  

This Week in First Grade…

Language Arts

• working on –r cluster words
• learning about contractions
• practicing categorizing and classifying
• reading the stories The Trip and At the Aquarium
• reviewing the action part of a sentence
• writing about a fish
• planning a trip
• having a spelling test on Friday (you can practice your words at www.spellingcity.com)

Note:  It might be helpful to have your child write out their spelling words when they are practicing.  This will ensure that they are writing the correct letters as well as saying them.

 Math

• classifying and sorting shapes
• identifying faces of a solid shape
• problem solving
• learning about pentagons and hexagons
• taking a test on Chapter 7

Note:  There are a lot of word problems in our Math series.  I don’t expect that the children can read the problems on their own.  I always read the problems to them. 

Social Studies

• creating land forms and different bodies of water in a shaving cream activity

Religion

• talking more about The Lord’s Prayer
• talking a test on Chapter 9
• learning to say “yes” to God
• discussing promises that God keeps 

Homework

Monday

L.A.-practice flashcards each night and return envelope on Friday

Math-workbook pages 48 &49

        -Simple Solutions lessons 5-8 due Friday

Religion-review for tomorrow’s Religion Test (pages 124 & 125)

*Library Books Due Tomorrow

Tuesday

L.A.- read the stories The Trip and At the Aquarium

Math-workbook page 50

Wednesday

L.A.-none

Math-none

*Swim Tomorrow

*Return Purple Envelopes Tomorrow

Thursday

L.A.- return flashcard envelope to school tomorrow

      -spelling test tomorrow (words listed below)

Math-test tomorrow

*Mass Tomorrow

Spelling Words- Test Friday

1.trip

2. crab

3. drip

4. grin

5. grab

6. trap

7. crack

8. brown

9. trim

10. drum