1st Grade News

Reminders
- Library books are due on Wednesday.
- Pease have your child dress for the weather. In order for
students to play in the snow they must have all 5 pieces of
winter gear (coat, snow pants, boots, hat, mittens/gloves).
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Please have your child practice putting on their snow gear.
At Home Practice Sunday Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday
• Writing numbers to 120 • Ski p Counting by
• Tying Shoe Laces 2s, 5s, and 10s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
• Reading and Writing Dolch Words • Neat Handwriting Hawthorn Spirit 

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what we are learning Skating Unit
Begins
• Review building and reading words with long vowel patterns
Reading and Writing

and digraphs.
• Learn how stories and characters can be si milar and di fferent 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
(compare and contrast). December
• Review the following comprehension skills: Birthday Bash
- Main Idea
- Cause and Effect PE Roller PE Roller PE Roller PE Roller PE Roller
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- Sequencing
• Continue writing opinion pieces giving reasons/examples to 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
support your thoughts. No School
• Continue unit on data collection (organi ze, represent and Winter
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interpret data with up to three categories). Skating Skating Skating Skating Break
Math

• Ask and answer questions about the total number of data

points, how many in each category and how many more/less
there are in one category than in another.
• Vocabulary: survey, data, picture graph, bar graph, tally chart
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• :Learn about the di fferent holiday’s around the world and how Winter Winter Winter Winter Winter
Studies

they are celebrated.

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• Continue unit study on Economics. Understanding needs and
wants, what it means to be a producer/consumer, the process
of supply and demand, and spending/saving money.
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• Identi fying feelings and the clues that our bodies and faces
Social Emotional

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(Second Step)

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Learning

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• Some feelings are comfortable, and some are uncomfortable.
• Physical clues can help identi fy others feelings. Break Break
• People can have di fferent feelings about the same thing.s.
• Understanding how others feel i mproves relationshi ps.
 Second Step: Skills For Social and Academic Success
Unit 1: Skills for Learning
Learning to Listen and Focusing Attention:

Following Listening Rules helps everyone learn. When you listen attentively you focus your attention.. Your eyes, ears, voice,
and body each have a special thing to do. The more you practice listening and focusing your attention, the better you get at
it. Using sel f-talk helps focus attention.

Help your child practice these listening skills. Help your child practice these focus attention skills.

Say: Do: Say: Do:

• Listen • Use the Listening Rules: • Attent-o-scope • Turn-on attend-o-scopes:
• Listening Rules: º Point to the corners of your eyes • Focus attention º Circle your hands around your eyes
º Eyes watching º Cup their ears with your hands • I need to focus attention º Use your eyes to look carefully
º Ears listening º Put their finger to your lips º Take away your hands but
º Voice quiet º Hug your body with both arms pretend they are still there, and
º Body calm keep looking
º Watch and listen
º Ignore distractions

Following Directions:

Listening and following directions are i mportant skills for learning. Repeating directions helps you remember them.
Following directions help you learn. Following directions involves using your eyes, ears, and brain.

Self-Talk:

Sel f-talk means talking to yoursel f out loud in a quiet voice or inside your head. Using sel f-talk helps you focus on what you
need to do. Sel f-talk helps you focus, remember directions, and pay attention.

Being Assertive:

Being assertive involves using an assertive posture (face the person, head up and shoulders back) and tone of voice (cal m,
firm voice, respect ful words). Assertive communication is the best way to ask for help.