Miss Snapp's First Grade 2016-2017: December 2016

Saturday, December 17, 2016

December 19th

Dear First Graders and Parents,

As you already know, we only have two school days this week and then we have time off for Christmas Vacation. We return to school on January 2^nd, 2017! I hope that you find time for enjoying your families and to relax together.

We are running low on tissues in the classroom and on disinfecting wipes. This is the season of illness and the passing of germs, so we use both of these items daily! If anyone can donate any of these, it would be greatly appreciated.

We will NOT have a spelling list or any homework this week. Please enjoy your holiday. It would be helpful, as always, if you can have your children read during the break. The more time your child spends in reading, the better reader he/she will become!

We are starting to work on long vowel words. This is more challenging for many of the students. They have to watch for “sneaky silent e” making the vowel change its’ sound!

We have covered addition and subtraction up to 20 thoroughly and practicing that skill would be extremely helpful as well. We finished our 6^th topic in math, which was working with data sets. We will be working with counting and writing to 120 after Christmas. I can’t believe that we are close to 2^nd term ending and that means that we are half way through 1^st grade!

Several of the students have brought me gifts, so I would like to send out a quick thank you. It is so thoughtful of you to think of me at this holiday time.

Again, may you find joy and happiness and be able to spend some good time together as we end 2016 and head into the new year of 2017!

Carol Snapp

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Letters from Santa

My first graders received letters from Santa Claus at school today. They were delighted by the things Santa told each of them. It was priceless to watch their faces light up. Special thanks to Santa's elves for making this happen!