Week of March 2nd

It's Read Across America Week!

A yellow letter was sent home last Thursday with the daily themes.  Pizza Box Book report is due Wednesday and the presentations are on Friday.

Families that made an auction donation during driveline last week, a free dress pass was sent home in your child's folder that can be used on Friday.

We are still collecting items for our class "Beach Bum" basket.  Ideas such as water balloons, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, magic sand, play-doh, etc.. can be sent with your child.

Mrs. Huggins helped both classes create a new hallway bulletin board.

Friday we will go to Adoration

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--We will continue Chapter 17. which focuses on Celebrating The Mass. The children will identify ways to share the light of Christ with others and ways to be a peacemaker. Wednesday will go to Mass. Friday is Adoration. 

 Language Arts--Monday we are going to learn about verb tense and will do our decodable story for this unit. Tuesday and Wednesday we will practice our main story of "Frog and Toad." Friday will be the comprehension test for the story.

Handwriting--Spelling Words will be sent home on Monday. Tuesday we will read the Scholastic News for Read Across America Week. Practice spelling test on Wednesday. Author study activity on Thursday and final spelling test Friday. 

 Math--We are starting Chapter 11 on using tens to add on to a number. 

 Author Study--Monday the students will be making a hat to match our Eric Carle book, Tuesday we will be creating our own cookie with "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie", Wednesday we will make a pigeon craft using our flashlight, Thursday we are doing a "Frog and Toad" activity, and Friday we will be doing a "Horton Hears a Who" activity before going to Adoration. 

 SPELLING WORDS: ask, asked, plan, planned, call, called, help, helped, drop, dropped 

 WORDS TO PRACTICE READING: afraid, few, how, soon, again, house, read

Last week of Feb.

Lent Has Begun!

This weekend, March 1st is the Frist Grade classes turn to host the 1st Sunday Church picnic.  Please see the email to sign up to help!

Auction items are being collected this week.   The 1st grade theme is "Beach Bum."

If you have any questions about the pizza box book report, please reach out to me anytime.

 Last week we celebrated Fat Tuesday to prepare ourselves to begin Lent. 

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--We are starting Chapter 16 this week--Jesus Celebrates the Eucharist.

Reading/Language Arts--This week will be back to doing our regular Reading Street unit.  The phonics and grammar skills will include using plural -es, -r controlled vowels, and verbs that do not add-s.  The main story selection is "The Class Pet."  There will be a practice spelling test on Wednesday.  The children will be using their interactive notebook to practice the phonics skills of the week.

Handwriting--Monday the spelling words will be introduced.  Tuesday and Thursday we are doing activities about President's Day.  Friday is the spelling test.

Math--We will be finishing Chapter 10 on picture and tall graphs by Friday.

Social Studies--This week our focus is on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  The children will read and create a mini-reader, timeline, fact book, and put together a top hat flip book.

SPELLING WORDS:  fix, fixes, wish, wishes, class, classes, bus, buses, kiss, kisses

WORDS TO PRACTICE READING:   away, house, car, friends, our, school, very

Week of Feb. 9th

Happy Valentine's Day

The 1st grade combined party will be on Thursday at 2:00.  We will exchange Valentine's prior to the party so please make sure your child has 27 treats to share with the entire grade.

Pizza Lunch on Wednesday.

Thursday is Red/Pink free dress.

No School Friday for teacher in-service and No School Monday, Feb. 16th for President's Day.

We made our February door decoration, celebrated Groundhog day with shadow drawings, and received a blessing from Father Adrian last week.

We celebrated Sonny's birthday and Isaac's 1/2 birthday with yummy treats!

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--We will continue Chapter 15 which focuses on forgiveness.  Wednesday will go to Mass.   

Reading/Language Arts--This week will continue our regular Reading Street unit learning about digraphs -ng, -nk.   Tuesday we will review compound words and introduce our story.  Wednesday will be the decodable story homework.   

Handwriting--Monday we will introduce the spelling words.  Tuesday we will be using the handwriting book.  Wednesday we will take a practice spelling test and Thursday is the spelling test.  

Math-- We will be finishing up the last couple lessons of Chapter 9 and taking the test on Wednesday.

Social Studies--This week our focus will be Winter Olympics.  Monday we will read a Scholastic News, Tuesday we will learn about the host cities of the Olympics, and Wednesday we will be making a class book of Olympic events.

SPELLING WORDS:  blank, bank, sunk, trunk, pink, rink, sang, rang, wing, bring