Welcome back to school and let's all hope we have electricity for the entire week!

First Grade

This week and next we will be enjoying the story, Me On The Map, and our strategy focus will be summarizing a story. Our comprehension strategy will be making generalizations about what will happen next story.

As part of our social studies curriculum, we are starting our study of holidays around the world looking at the different parts of the world and what holidays and traditions are celebrated. We will be asking you to talk with your child about the different traditions your family has and holidays that your family celebrates. Look for the Traditions Homework Activity that will be coming home soon.

In Phonics, we will be focusing on long /a/ sound, silent /e/ words and words ending in /ng/ and /nd/.

I will continue teaching phonograms, one at a time, to the class. Knowing these will really help your child with his/her reading and writing.

Our new word wall words are.......house, out, were, way, may

In math, we will be review solid shapes and reviewing how to sort figures by different attributes. We will also learn to identify the faces of solid figures. This is all in Chapter 27 in our Houghton Mifflin Book.