First Grade News

Nov. 22-24
& Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2010

What we’re learning

Our Bible stories for these weeks are “Jesus Teaches About Love,” “Jesus Teaches
about God’s Care,” “The Faith of a Captain,” and “The Gentile Woman’s Faith”. Jesus
cares for his people and is the ultimate example of love for us. We will be reading
“Sweet Potato Pie,” “The Big Mess,” and “The Little Red Hen” in our basal reading
books. Our work with short “o” words will be combined with short “e” words and double
ending consonants (fell, mess etc.) Math will include telling time to the hour, counting
dimes, subtracting 0, estimating capacity, counting by 2’s, and drawing pictures to
solve problems. For language we are identifying and writing telling and question
sentences. Our classroom goals for this quarter are writing numbers correctly, writing
neatly, and learning the Christmas program.

Assignments
Here are some options for challenging your child:
• Math-Estimating how many cups of water are in the pitcher, how many raisins are in
the container, how many paperclips are in the jar etc.
• Writing– Have a conversation using telling and question sentences by writing and
passing a whiteboard/paper back and forth. One person writes a question and
passes the whiteboard. The other person uses a complete telling sentence to
answer and passes the whiteboard back.
• Reading– Read cereal boxes, signs, and labels around the house and figure out tough
words by chunking (finding little words or familiar sounds within a big word).

Monday Nov.22: Read Christ Light story “Jesus Teaches about Love”
Spelling Test (hot, got, mop, hop, top, stop, eat, sing) *Jesus, house
Tuesday Nov 23: Read “Sweet Potato Pie”
Math Facts
Assignments continued…
Monday Nov 29: Read Christ Light story “The Faith of the Captain”
Math Facts
Tuesday Nov. 30: Memory Treasure (Proverbs 3:5)
Read “The Big Mess”
Wednesday Dec 1: Read Christ Light story “The Gentile Woman’s Faith”
Read “The Little Red Hen”
Thursday Dec 2: Memory Treasure (10th Commandment)
Spelling Test (bed, fed, well, tell, fell, mess, said, who) *cross, brother

Important Notes
• I really appreciated our Parent-Teacher consultations last week. Thank you for
your thoughts. Again, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
• Reading week was definitely a success! Hope you enjoyed it as much as the
students did.
• Finish up those Book-It November reading logs; a free pizza awaits!
• On Wednesday Nov. 24th we have a 12:00 dismissal for Thanksgiving. Jesus bless
your time with family and friends as you celebrate the many blessings from our
Savior. Our Thanksgiving services at Apostles are Wednesday Nov. 24th at 7:00
p.m. and Thursday at 9:00 a.m.
• The season of Advent (preparing for Jesus birth) is coming! Come join us for
Thursday night services at 7:15 p.m. on December 2,9, & 16th.

Upcoming Events
• Nov 24– 12:00 Dismissal
• Nov 25-29– Thanksgiving Break
• Dec 3-12:00 Dismissal (Collaboration Day) & Midterm

May Jesus give you joy and rest as you reflect on his love for you.
Miss Luehring

“Be at rest once more , oh my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.”
Psalm 116:7