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Dear First
Grade Families,
This has been a very busy week spent preparing for Christmas. Due to the
recent snow days we were unable to complete the entire Christmas around
the world unit. I wanted to be sure the students made a couple nice
gifts this week to give to you for Christmas. Today we enjoyed listening
to and acting out my favorite Christmas story, The Polar Express,
by Chris VanAllsburg.
The high school students from
Mrs. Torrey's English class brought their books to give to the kids on
Monday. They all turned out so nice!! This is such a special book for
your child and family to cherish. Yesterday we took some time out of our
day to make them thank-you cards.
Tomorrow morning we will be
doing an activity in the distance learning room. We will be getting
online with a woman from the Milwaukee Public museum. She will be
reading us a story called The Christmas Tree Ship and we will
make an ornament to help us retell the story. |
Tomorrow we will go to the
Rockin R Stables. Please be sure your child has a sack lunch. If they
qualify for free and reduced lunch there will be sack lunches here at
school available to them. Also, be sure they are dressed warmly. Provide
them with extra layers and an extra set of gloves/mittens. Anyone is
welcome to join us. We are leaving school at 10:00 and will be there by
10:30. We will be leaving for the day at 1:30 and back at school by
2:00.
When we get back from vacation we will begin our spelling unit. Each
student will be tested on 90 words that first graders need to know how
to spell. Once the test is complete, the words students get incorrect
will be their spelling words. They will get 6 spelling words to study
each week and every Friday they will take a test on those 6 words.
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and happy new year!
I would also like to thank all my volunteers that come in each week. I
really appreciate your help! Take care, everyone!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lyman |
