Notes from Ms. Rau:
- Holiday Celebration: Our Holiday Celebration will be on Friday, December 21st from 10-11am. This is a half day for students. Dismissal will be at 11:30.
- Oakland County Animal Shelter Service Project: OUR DONATIONS ARE GROWING!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. We will drop them off Friday after school. This is the last week to donate the following items:
- Cat and dog toys
- Cat and dog treats
- Cat litter
- Kitten formula (dry milk that we use to bottle feed kittens)
- Bottles to feed the kittens
- Snow Gear - Please send in snow gear in a separate bag. Large reusable bags work best. Students will be asked to take their boots off in the hallway so please make sure they are labeled and that you send in an extra pair of shoes for them to wear during the day. Please send me a note if you want your student to leave their snow gear in their locker instead of taking it home each day. If there is snow on the ground and your student does not have snow pants they will be asked to play on the black top during recess. If you are in need of snow gear, please let me know! Thank you!
- Classroom Donations - THANK YOU FOR DONATING!
- We are sin need of the following items for our classroom:
- page protectors
- Holiday Traditions: First graders study holiday family traditions from around the world. We also explore how family traditions, like families, change over time. On Thursday, December 20, we will view the holiday classic The Polar Express, based on the book by Michigan author Chris Van Allsburg. Students are invited to bring a blanket and/or slippers to get cozy as we watch and discuss this film together.
- RAZ-KIDS REMINDER! Please read over break. It is so important students are reading 15-20 minutes every day to maintain their stamina. Please take advantage of our raz kids subscription. You can visit the website https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login or use the raz-kids app. My username is drau0. Students find their name and their password is a banana. All reading levels are updated.
Important Dates:
- 12/20 - Polar Express in the afternoon, please send in a small blanket/towel and slippers to get cozy
- 12/21 - Holiday Celebration 10:00-11:00 am
- 12/21 - Half Day for Students, Dismissal at 11:30
- 12/24 -1/4 - Winter Break, No School for Students
- 1/21 - MLK Day, No School for Students
Learning This week:
- Writers will...
- add comparisons into writing using the word like
- give an example in their nonfiction writing
- add different kinds of writing inside their chapters such as a small moment story or a how to
- Readers will...
- read more than one book about a topic
- compare nonfiction books, noticing whats the same and whats different in both the pictures and words
- nonfiction readers notice text features as they are reading
- think about what the author wanted them to learn from the topic
- Mathematicians will...
- learn teen addition strategies
- investigate doubles
- learn doubles plus 1 and doubles plus 2
- complete a holiday math exemplar (higher level thinking, multi-step story problem)
- In social studies we will...
- learn about Diwali
- learn about Dia de los Muertos
- compare the holidays we learned about to a holiday we celebrate
- share our own holiday traditions
- In phonics we will...
- use strong endings in our writing
- learn common phonographs (word parts) that end in blends
- learn more snap words
- read words part by part
- Photos from the week:
Finding groups of 10 in numbers
Finding expert words in our nonfiction books to teach others
Showing evidence of teaching points in our nonfiction writing
