Creekside

First Grade

November 2016

Curriculum Connections
Dates to Remember:

Reading

Writing

Math

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November
7- informative
Report Cards
are sent
working
with home
3D
shapes and
Character traits and explanatory
text.
We
will
be
discuss equal
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answering
supplying
facts,
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November
11: Veterans
Day,
No School
and providing a
questions
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sense
of closure.
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November
23-25:
Thanksgiving
Break
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then
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explore equality

Retelling key
details to help
understand
the central
message or
lesson.

through

How To
writing

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writing

by understanding
the equal sign
and determining
if equations with
addition and
subtraction are
true or false.

Exposing
students to
How to
books.

Notes
from
teacher
* Please
continue to
* Your child
will beyour
bringing home a
Disguise the
Turkey project on
November 4th.
Please return all
turkeys by
November 14th. You
may also send them
in earlier.

read 20 minutes a
day at home. Also,
practice writing
answers to
comprehension
questions that can be
found in your childs
STAR folder and
Baggy Books.

* All students have

taken their placement
test for Lexia and
logins have been sent
home. Please let your
childs teacher know if
you need the Lexia or
Raz-Kids logins sent
home again.

Wish List:
Small prizes for the prize box
Extra classroom snacks
Colored Copy Paper

Paper towels