We are still working on saying letters and sounds of the alphabet as quick as possible, short vowels sounds and word segmenting. The students are doing a good job with these skills. They will have their winter Fast Bridge/ Dyslexia Screening next week. I will share the results with you at your child's conference at the end of January.
Writer's Workshop:
We have been very busy writing informational books. This week they will start writing non -fiction chapter books- wait what?? Yes, chapter books. They are so excited! They will think of a topic that they know a lot about. Come up with 3 or more chapter titles for their topic, sketch their ideas on each page, add words to each page, and draw teaching pictures. Wow! It is amazing to see the things they are doing during Writer's workshop! I can't wait to share their work with you in January.
Math:
Addition strategies is still our focus until Winter Break. They know the terms: addend, plus, sum, count on, number line, make ten, doubles fact, and doubles plus 1. They are enjoying the math stations and using Dreambox to practice these strategies. Please keep in mind that your child may get on Dreambox as often as they like outside of school hours, but it is not required that they use Dreambox at home.
Important Dates:
12/5 Early Release Day : This Wednesday, December 5th, Concord will be having a World Holiday Celebration. Mrs. Carson and Mrs. Kelsch’s students will be sharing with classes different holidays their families celebrate. We would like for everyone to wear their BEST holiday clothes no matter what holiday your family celebrates. If you celebrate Christmas, wear your special clothes, Diwali, wear your special clothes, Bajram; wear your special clothes, and Chinese New Year, wear your special clothes. What a great way to see everyone all dressed up and celebrating all holidays!
12/7 Macy's Believe Day
Each First Grader will be writing a letter to Santa for this Friday. Louie from the St Louis Blues will be here to receive our letters to Santa for the "Macy's Believe Day". For every letter written to Santa and given to Louie, Macy's will donate a dollar to Make a Wish Foundation.
We also have a Assembly with Fredbird on Friday- YAY! Wear Cardinal Gear on Friday.
12/ 9 Winter Musical:
Please see the email from Mrs. Creech regarding the musical. The details about your child's costume are in the email. Our class will be dressed up as Winter Birds ( Cardinals, Blue Jays, Chickadees, Woodpeckers...) Students can wear yellow or orange tights/ sweatpants and decorate a body and feathers to go with the winter bird that your child chooses. This costume needs to be created at home for this Sunday. Students need to be at the LHS auditorium no later than 1:45pm dressed in their costume and ready to sing! Thank you in advance for your support with this! They will look so cute up their as Winter Birds!
James was in the Spotlight last week! We really enjoyed his Show -n- Tell!
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