*Dismissal Change: Please remember that any change of your child's normal dismissal must be provided in a written note. Thank you for your cooperation!

*Snack: The first graders will have a small break for snack each morning (even on half days). Their morning snack must be a healthy snack. Some ideas for acceptable healthy snacks are fruit, granola bars, yogurt, pretzels, gold fish, and dry cereal (ex- cheerios...NO sugared cereals). The only drink allowed during snack time is water. Water bottles must have a sports top or pop up straw top. These types of tops help minimize spills.

SPELLING WORDS: were, are, jobs, bugs, shops, socks, pens, kids, fans, jams
FUNDATIONS: Unit 6 Week 1 - We will learn about the suffix "s" this week. We will practice identifying the baseword and suffix in words and learn that the suffix "s" can one of two sounds - "s" or "z". We will learn how to mark up words by underlining the baseword and circling the suffix "s". We will continue to review digraphs and glued sounds (-all, -an, -am) as they will be present in many of the basewords.
READING: 
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GRAMMAR: Action Verbs

MATH: We have completed Chapter 3: Addition Strategies. We have learned so many strategies to help us improve our addition facts. We have learned about the commutative property, counting on (to add 1, 2, or 3), doubles facts, doubles plus or minus 1 (when our addends are neighbors on the number line), friends of ten (0+10, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5), adding single digits to the number 10, how to "make a ten" to help us add and we have applied these strategies to help us add 3 addends. We will review on Monday and take a test on Chapter 3:Addition Strategies on Tuesday, November 19th.

***Even though we will move on from addition strategies after the test on Tuesday, it is vital that doubles facts and friends of ten be memorized if they haven't been yet. Please continue to practice them for a few minutes every night if they aren't memorized yet and if they are, please continue to review them often! We will continue to take "fast fact" quizzes to keep practicing them.

After our test on Tuesday we will be skipping ahead to Chapters 11 and 12: Geometry. These chapters tend to be a little easier for the children and it will allow us some extra time that is very much needed to practice for our Christmas pageant. We will begin looking at 3-dimensional shapes on Wednesday.

RELIGION: We will continue practicing our songs for the Christmas Pageant this week. Information regarding the pageant, parts, and costumes will come home by the end of this week.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

MONDAY: Computer
TUESDAY: Spanish
WEDNESDAY: Gym (Gym uniform needed)
THURSDAY: Library and Art
FRIDAY: Music