First Grade: Week of December 12th

We hope you enjoyed your weekend! We have a week with many exciting events!

I want to congratulate our fantastic First Graders for their fabulous performance last Friday. El Jardin was a tremendous success! They all did amazing!!

This Tuesday, December 13, 2016 we will be taking a group picture with Santa. Please have your kids come to school in Christmas attire. This time of year, Santa Clause is really busy, so please do your best to have your child come to school on this day. No make-up pictures will be available!

Our class Christmas celebration will take place this Friday, December 16th. We will celebrate this day by enjoying our annual gift exchange, watching a movie, and having Christmas breakfast and lunch. The students may come dressed in their pajamas, Christmas hats and bring their favorite stuffed animal.

We would like to give a big thank you to all the parents that are helping out with this celebration. Children will enjoy pancakes, fruit, and chocolate milk for breakfast and pizza, cookies, and juice for lunch. They will also eat popcorn while watching the movie.

The first grade gift exchange is a tradition in our class and we hope to have everyone participate this year. We ask that you buy a gift for your own child. The gift should not be more that 200 Lps. Please bring the gift wrapped and labeled with your child´s name as soon as possible. Please do not show your child the gift since we want this to be a surprise for them.

We are requesting Lps. 50.00 to take a picture with Santa. Please send it by Tuesday, December 13^th if you have not done so.

*We do not have school starting Monday, December 19^th. The students will return on Monday, January 9^th, 2017

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. We will not have a spelling challenge this week.

We will continue writing narratives. The students will learn the components of a narrative, and then they will create their own narratives.

We started learning about nonstandard measurement. We will be doing various measuring activities.

This week your child will continue to apply concepts of addition and subtraction throughout the chapter. They will learn how addition and subtraction are related. They will also learn how to identify and use related facts. To wrap up this chapter, we are going to have a Math Test on THURSDAY.