2015-2016 School Year LEGROS LOW-DOWN For the week of November 16th Please mark Thursday December 10th at 7:00 pm for our First Grade show. We will be going on our field trip to The Nutcracker on December 11th. If you have not sent in your permission slip and $11.00 please do so as soon as possible. PICTURE OF THE WEEK Jack and Sadie volunteered to help our visiting author Kate Messner with the reading of How to Read A Story. Jack was the mouse Related Arts Schedule: Monday: P.E. Tuesday: Art Wednesday: Library Thursday: Music Friday: P.E. and Sadie the brave Knight! Please return library books on Wednesday this week. Academic Information Literacy Information After reading last week’s Global Read Aloud book The OK Book, we talked about word choice. We brainstormed words that mean better than OK and then we chose one of these words to talk about some that we are better than OK at. We are enjoying reading Folktales and talking about the message in the story. Math Information Social Studies Last week we started This past week we talking about time. We are looking at the hour and minute hand and beginning to tell time on the analog clock. We have also been working with story problems. We also completed and end of the trimester assessment. discussed Veteran’s Day. We shared the names and pictures of family members and family friends who served in the armed forces. We discussed what Veteran’s Day is and why we celebrate it.