November
Sight Words
November Sight/Spelling Words
go man
see little
then has
us them
no how
him like
by our
was what
come know
get make
or which
two much
his
NEWSLETTER Mrs. Mac's Contact Information: Grovecrest Elementary 801-785-8714Email: bmclelland@alpinedistrict.org Webpage: http://my.uen.org/myuen/46643OCTOBER REPORT: Wow! Where did October go? We've been busy in Mrs. Mac's class. Besides looking forward to Halloween, we had our class school pictures taken, had Parent/Teacher Conferences, enjoyed a Fall Break, and had a week-long Red Ribbon Week reminding us to stay drug-free and live a healthy life style. We had Pumpkin Day and spent the day learning about pumpkins and making pumpkin stew and we have been learning all the bones in our skeletons using the Bone Song. (Look on the web page for more about our October curriculum. A SPECIAL THANK YOU to the great moms who came to help us with our Halloween party. We had a great time making Halloween bracelets, making a witch's brew, hearing a Halloween story and playing Halloween games. Thanks for preparing such fun activities for us!THANK YOU to Mrs. Snow for volunteering to help us learn more about art using the PTA lessons! We appreciate her and the effort she makes to prepare a lesson and teach us each month. Thank you so much! We had a lot of fun with her and look forward to her visit in November.LOOKING AHEAD IN NOVEMBER (Please refer to the calendars on Mrs. Mac's homepage and the calendar in the homework folders for events and Show & Tell information)BOOK ORDERS will be due November 11th.NOVEMBER 18TH END OF FIRST TRIMESTER Look for Report Cards to follow soon after NOVEMBER 21ST First Grade Grover Buck Activity. We have been earning Grover Bucks for our good behavior. If we have collected at least 10 Grover Bucks, we can pay for a ticket to attend our first Grover Buck activity. Yay! (I hope we will ALL be able to go)NOVEMBER 22ND Thanksgiving Feast We wil be learning about the first Thanksgiving and on this day will dress up in our pilgrim and native american accessories we have made in class and celebrate with our own Thanksgiving Feast. A note will come home with further details.NOVEMBER 23-25 THANKSGIVING BREAK Have a happy and safe holiday!
Curriculum Topics we will be studying in class Language and Reading Word WorkShort vowel /u/ and /e/ words and their rhymes (spelling patterns that are the same)Like and unlike word partsCompound wordsSegment words into phonemes (individual sounds)LanguageVerbsPresent tense/past tense adding -s and –edListening for story order/sequencingOpposites (Antonyms)Prepositions (Words that tell where)Writing Writing a story in order, beginning, middle, endAdding detailsDifferent forms of writing-writing sentences for a picture story-recipes-how to books (instructions)Reading StrategiesLook for parts of the word you knowRhythm and rhymeIntroduce inferenceIntroduce synthesizingUsing more than one strategy to figure out tricky words Spellingweek 8: get, let, met, are, upweek 9: then, ten, men, our, howweek 10: fun, run, sun, put, offNO SPELLING THANKSGIVING BREAKweek 11: shut, but, cut, came, from MathUnit 8- Twos, Fives, and Tens: addition, subraction and the number systemCombinations of ten100 chartEquivalent expressionsNickels and dimesI more, 1 lessCount/write by 2’sDoubles +1Time to the ½ hourCharacter Development/Social SkillsResponsibilityHelping OthersAccepting “No”Resolving a DisagreementP.E./ArtBasketball skills: dribbling, bounce pass, chest pass, shooting basketsSeasonal and holiday art projectsHorizon line –prospectiveWater color washes-sunset and ocean Other Topics of InterestThanksgiving-pilgrims and native Americans-Civics, voting