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=Welcome to Mrs. Shepard's 1st Grade Classroom Wiki Room 123!= =First Grade!=

Contact Information: E-mail: sshepard@d142.org 708-687-4763 Ext. 323 Highlights: November 21-December 5

Curriculum of the Home
 * Highlights: **
 * Please continue to have your child read or be read to 20 min. a night/5 nights a week and initial the November calendar in your child’s folder. Please remember to send your child with a hat, scarf, and gloves. The students do go outside unless the wind child is below a certain temperature. Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) sample standards will be coming home soon to help your child Master (M) the standard. **

Here are some things that can help create a more productive and stimulating home environment for your students:


 * Have informed conversations about school and daily events
 * Encouragement and discussion of leisure reading
 * Guiding, monitoring and discussing peer activities and screen time
 * Focus on intermediate and long term goals
 * Get involved with activities as a family
 * Have fun together
 * November 24th-28th **
 * Monday: ** Computers
 * Tuesday ** : Art is this afternoon
 * Wednesday: ** School Improvement Day-Noon Dismissal; Math homework packets will be collected and new packets will be sent home.
 * Thursday: ** NO SCHOOL-Happy Thanksgiving!
 * Friday: ** NO SCHOOL-Thanksgiving Holiday


 * December 1st-5th **
 * Monday: ** Computers
 * Tuesday ** : Art is this afternoon
 * Wednesday ** : Gym is this afternoon; don't forget to wear gym shoes.
 * Thursday ** : High-Frequency/Key ring words test is today (pink flashcards-listen for and read the key ring words only). Art & Gym is this afternoon; don't forget to wear gym shoes.
 * Friday ** : Santa Shop: Bring money to buy presents; Math homework packets will be collected and new packets will be sent home. Gym is this afternoon; don't forget to wear gym shoes. Library is today; don’t forget to return library books.

November’s Common Core Reading Goals- __ Reading for Standards for Literature (RL)- __ RL 4- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. RL 5-Explain differences between stories and informational text. RL 6-Identify who is telling the story at various points. __ Reading for Standards for Informational Text ____ (RI)- __ RI4-Ask and answer questions to help determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases. RI5-Know and use text features to locate information. RI6-Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by words in a text.
 * Spelling ** -The next Spelling is December 5th. They must be able to read and spell these words for the reading book story // Life in the Forest? // (pink words). Our new pink key words/Spelling words for the week of December 1st-5th are coming home today-12 words: ** cube, flute, huge, use, blocked, grilled, planted, around, food grow, under, ** and **water** ** . ** Our ** weekly skills are words ** with long u/silent e and ed endings Our bonus (extra credit) “Amazing Words” will be ** Hanukkah ** and **St. Nicholas Day** ** . ** Their spelling key ring words will be sent home on Fridays and the spelling test will be the following Friday. Please go to __www.spellingcity.com/FosterLions__ for a fun way for your child to practice their spelling words. They can also go to [|www.rhymer.com] with your supervision for rhyming words.
 * Phonics- ** Words that will be on our December 5th Phonics Quiz are **__ cube, flute, huge, use, blocked, grilled, and planted __****__ . __** Your child must be able to spell and rhyme these underlined words. Please do review rhyming words often, as students are writing these for the Phonics Quiz on their own!
 * Reading ** -The reading comprehension test which includes high frequency words (yellow words in reading book) and comprehension questions will also be given on Fridays. Read the story // Life in the Forest //a few times and the reading comprehension test for this story will be Friday, December 5th. If your child brings home a textbook please make sure they bring it back to school the following day. Reading-Your child has received take-home stories. Please have them read it to you 2-3 times along with highlighting or underlining the words from the list of words on the front. We’ll also continue working on our November ELA prompts for our Common Core State Standards.
 * Language/Writing/Handwriting ** - In Language, we’ll be doing our Weekend News, journaling, reviewing common nouns and proper nouns. The Language Quiz will be singular and plural nouns. (Ex. Singular-tree, Plural-trees) The best way to help your child prepare is to talk about the weekly skill and have them share examples. The best way to help your child prepare is to talk about the weekly skill and have them share examples. We will be working on Informative/Explanatory Writing which is to inform readers about a topic. In Handwriting, we’ll be working on D, d.
 * Math- ** Students are working towards building fluency for addition and subtraction facts to 10. Flashcards will be coming home soon to practice. Students need to be able to answer facts adding to 10 and subtracting from 10 in about 4 seconds per fact to master the standard. Module 2 is the **i**** ntroduction to place value through addition and subtraction within 20. ** Please make sure your child is following all the directions for the math homework. There are many steps and remember if there is extra space on the page it’s usually because they need to make a math drawing.
 * Social Studies/Science ** - For Science we have started learning about the amount of daylight in different seasons. In Social Studies we will learn more about the Thanksgiving holiday.
 * Don’t Forget: ** November reading calendars were sent home. Read 20 minutes per night/5 times a week then have an adult sign please! Students staying on white all week and those flipping only once to green will also have the opportunity on occasional Fridays to attend “Friday Fun.” This may consist of extra outdoor recess, a short G-rated video, game playing, and other fun activities for a 15-20 minute slot with the other first grade classes. Those students flipping two or more times and/or flipping to yellow/red will stay in the “work” room that particular week and practice handwriting skills, math facts, and other class-related reviewing. To attend “Friday Fun,” you must have ** all ** work completed!

November 21-Mid-terms go home November 26-School Improvement Day-Noon Dismissal November 27-28 Thanksgiving Holiday December 5-Santa Shop-Bring money to shop for Christmas presents (Optional) December 22-January 2 NO SCHOOL-Winter Break Contact Information: E-mail: sshepard@d142.org 708-687-4763 Ext. 323
 * Special Events: **
 * Hats Off To… ** Everyone who attended Family Reading Night and to everyone who has donated food for the food drive.
 * Help Wanted: ** Please continue to send in Box Tops! Please complete the form if you are able to help during the Santa Shop.

Great Websites for students! Reading [|PBS Kids]

[|Knowledge Adventure]

[|JumpStart]

[|Scholastic]

[|Starfall]

www.abcya.com

Spelling City

National Geographic

Math

@http://www.xtramath.org

[|Math.com]

[|Jump Start]

[|Cool Math 4 Kids]

[|Math Drills and worksheets]

[|Math Blaster]

[|Kids Numbers]

All Subjects

[|I Know That.com]

[|Funbrain]

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