1. First Grade Homework & Classroom News:
Dec. 11th – Dec 15th
Homework Menu:
Choose one appetizer and one main course to do for homework every night. If you are still hungry for practice, help yourself to some dessert!
Appetizer (5 minutes)
Practice any of the listed Daily Math skills
Addition or subtraction flash card games
Choose a word family word to write in a complete sentence
Main Course(15 minutes)
Read a “just-right book” to a stuffed animal or a family member for 13 minutes. Spend 2 minutes retelling the story with as many details as possible.
Dessert (10 minutes)
Write a story about something interesting that happened at school today!
Xtra Math/Prodigy Math
Raz-kids (message us on Dojo if you need us to resend log-in information )
Word families
Words with long vowel e
-eel (wheel)
-eer (deer)
-eep (sheep)
-eed (need)
-eek (peek)
-eef (reef)
Inflected ending ed
Examples:
Jumped
Waited
called
Daily Math skills:
Using the counting back and number line strategy to solve subtraction sentences. (12-3=___ think 12-count back three times,11,10,9 is the difference)
write and solve subtraction sentences within 20 in the horizontal and also the vertical format
Create your own story problems using subtraction within 20 and have someone in your family solve them!
STEM focus and Words of the week
Questions:
How can we engineer a solution for the gingerbread man to cross the river without getting wet or eaten.
STEM focus: Gingerbread STEM 

2. A note from the teachers…
Homework and Newsletter
Dec. 11th – Dec 15th
A note from the teachers…
This week we are focusing on reading and writing words with long vowel e and also words that end in the inflected ending “ed”. We are continuing our study Gingerbread stories to strengthen our comprehension skills. We are tying our comprehension lessons into writing with a focus on our three main writing types-opinion, narrative, and informative. In Math, we have started a unit on place value and are beginning to look at numbers have having groups of tens and ones. Our kiddos have been doing a wonderful job at spreading kindness to different people and groups around our school. It is such a cool experience to be the reason someone has a full bucket! Please see the attached link for holiday party sign-ups and volunteering. We have a really fun STEAM day planned around the Polar Express. As always, thank you for trusting us with your wonderful kids!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Swartz and Mrs. Watson.
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, December 12th-Band and Orchestra Concert-Upper grades(6:30pm)
December 21st-Polar Express Party (More information to come 
December 22nd –January 8th-Winter Break-No School
Star Students: 
Mrs. Watson’s Class: Wakely has been working so super hard in class and is always considerate of her classmates feelings. Way to be a kind friend Wakely!
Special Birthdays:
12/12 Happy Birthday Giovanni!!!

3. The following pages are NOT REQUIRED but are here if you would like to use them with your child 

4. Choose “long e” words from the word bank to write in sentences:
Paper for writing complete sentences 
sweet me
peel
keep we
wheel
cheer
she
teen
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