Mrs.

Harris
News November 3, 2017
Religion: We are reading about Gods love for us in
the Family Life book for first grade. We went to
church on November 1 for All Saints Day Mass. Reminders
*Please return all library books on
Reading: We are learning about parts of speech:
Monday of each week.
compound words, contractions, nouns, verbs and
proper nouns. We are adding endings to words:
*November book report information will
ed and er. We are practicing the 3 sounds for the
be sent home on Monday.
ed endings: rested (ed), jumped (t), spilled (d).
* November book orders are due on
Math: We reviewed math vocabulary words about
Thursday, November 9. Please make
addition. We started the next chapter that will focus
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on different strategies for solving addition
problems.
*Practice double addition facts from
zero to ten.
Social Studies: We are learning about living in a
neighborhood. We talked about some of the jobs
that people have. We read about different types of
houses and using addresses.

Science: We are learning more about classifying

animals. We read about the 6 animal groups in our
science text. We have a set of animal posters too.

Spanish: On Wednesday afternoon, Miss Rosa

explained the special day honoring the dead, Dia
de Muertos. Everyone decorated their own skull
masks. The students from the Rosetta Stone
program were included in this special activity. Star Student
Joseph is our star this week. He
showed us some special Lego
characters and one of his favorite
stuffed animals. Joseph brought
lots of photos to share with us.
His dad was our guest
Star Students reader on Friday.
Everyone has been Star Student in our class.
It was fun to learn more about each other.
Our Guest Reader poster is filled with His poster is on
the pictures of the stars with their family display in our room.
members. The Star posters will be
displayed in our room until June.