First Grade: Week 19 January 4-8

January 6, 2015

Dear Parents,

We hope you enjoyed your long holiday break! We have a short week, due the break!

Next Friday, the report cards will be going home. We will also have a half day for conferences. These conferences are on a need-to-meet basis.

There is no school on Monday, January 18th for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

This month your child will have the opportunity to purchase books through the International Scholastic Book Clubs. This is an optional activity offered by the school, in case you want to motivate your child to read at home and to increase their own library. With you purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of you children in our school. The Due date to purchase the books online is January 25. The books will arrive to the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date.

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

Language Arts

Word Wall- This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. Due to the short week, there will be no spelling challenge this week. The words will be continued to next week and the spelling challenge will be on Thursday, January 14th.

Vocabulary: little, place, work, do, know, years

Reading: For this week, we will start creating resolutions for the new year; therefore, we will read The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper.

Writing: We will continue writing narratives. We will start writing a personal narrative about our holiday break.

Science: We will begin our unit in Solids and Liquids. Students will begin comparing the similarities and differences between two objects.