Weekly Note

First Grade Weekly Note       

December 5, 2019

Christ Light-  The first graders were completely fascinated by the story of Moses and the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea Wednesday, though I know they have heard it before. It is a wonderful story about God’s providence and rescue, a message that never gets old for us, either.  

We are singing “Rejoice, Rejoice Believers” as our hymn of the week. 

TODAY- we had our first whole school Christmas service practice. Hooray!

Reading Street- Our theme this week in reading is “How is an insect community like a community of people?” The Amazing Words (vocabulary) we studied are teeter, shuffle, growth, population, crooked, makeshift and spindly. Ask about our class read-a-loud “Mr. George Baker,” about a 100 year-old man and his friendship with his neighbor boy and their zeal to learn to read. 

The spelling test is tomorrow. We are practicing words that end with -y pronounced long i (try) or long e (lucky). 

English/Writing I hope you were able to take a peek at your child’s Thanksgiving cinquain poem last Tuesday. They were adorable. We will do more! Today we started our study of verbs.  

Science- One of my favorite units to teach is Simple Machines. There are so many hands-on things to do. I will post pictures of our levers from Wednesday. 

Gym- We have started our Jump Rope unit. 

Math Stations- 1) Skipbo game 2) Groups of …. (multiplication with manipulatives)

3) STEM Maze challenges 4) Thanksgiving Graph 5) Moby Max math.

IE Each day we do stations during Intervention/Enrichment time, too. This week 

our stations are 1) Listen to Miss Rumphius on CD.  2) Read with Mrs. Midthun (IE sub) leveled books that go with Reading Street 3) Sewing with Mrs.D/J 4) Kids A-Z on pads and 5) Write a letter with me.  

Thanksgiving Caroling! We were appreciated there. Thank you, drivers.