1. First Grade Homework & Classroom News:
Nov. 27th – Dec 1st
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 your opinion about food, pets, animals, or best games to play in your planner.
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 a and contractions
oke(joke, broke)
ome(home, gnome)
ode(rode, mode)
ole(hole, swole)
ose(hose, those)
contractions:
is (it’s, he’s, how’s)
not (don’t, can’t, didn’t)
will (he’ll, I’ll)
have (they’ve, I’ve)
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 are scientists and engineers the alike and different?
What kinds of tools to scientists use? How can we use our five senses to observe and answer questions about the world around us?
STEM focus: Our five senses
-How can we use our senses to observe and classify objects into different categories.

2. A note from the teachers…
Homework and Newsletter
Nov. 27th – Dec 1st
A note from the teachers…
Thank you for being so patient for our newsletter this week! We love sharing our classroom news with you and we appreciate that you take the time to read our newsletter to keep you updated on what your child is doing all day! This week we are focusing on reading and writing words with long vowel o and also contractions. In class we performed contraction “surgery” so take two words (like did/not) and combining them with an apostrophe “band aid” to complete the contraction. Students need to be able to read contractions correctly and also identify which two words make up each contraction. The comprehension skill we are practicing this week is making inferences. In Math, we are applying our knowledge of strategies to add and subtract within 20. As we begin the month of December we will be completing some random acts of kindness as a class . As always, thank you for trusting us with your wonderful kids!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Swartz and Mrs. Watson.
Upcoming Events:
Monday, December 4th-PTO fundraiser at Pei Wei (4pm Oracle Road
Tuesday, December 12th-Band and Orchestra Concert-Upper grades(6:30pm)
December 21st-Classroom holiday party (More information to come )
December 22nd –January 8th-Winter Break-No School
Star Students: 
Mrs. Watson’s class: Lydia has shown such kindness and empathy in class. She is very thoughtful of others’ feelings and does random acts of kindness every single day. She is the kind of friend a friend would want to have!
Special Birthdays:
11/24- Jacob

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

4. Choose “long o” words from the word bank to write in sentences:
Paper for writing complete sentences 
spoke
hope
joke
rope
stone
vote
chose
chore
hole
1.________________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________________ 3.________________________________________________________ 4.________________________________________________________ 5.________________________________________________________

11. ______-_______=_______
First grade had 17 popsicle sticks. The class used 10 of them on their Mayflower designs. How many popsicle sticks do they have left?
______-_______=_______
Draw a picture