Week of Jan. 19th

 Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday our class ONLY has earned another free dress for our outstanding hallway behavior.

Friday is Spirit Dress.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL PROJECT WILL BE COMING HOME ON TUESDAY.  YOUR CHILD WILL BRING HOME THE DIRECTIONS AND A POSTER TO COMPLETE BY JANUARY 29th.

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--We will continue Chapter 14 which focuses on becoming better followers of Jesus.  The children will identify ways to share the light of Christ with others and ways to be a peacemaker.  Wednesday will go to Mass.

Phonics/Language Arts--This will be our last week in Unit 2 of Reading Street.  The final phonics skills for the unit are using long /e/.  We are also going to be reading words with syllables using the VCCV pattern.  The story of the week is "Honey Bees."  The decodable story homework is sliding to Thursday this week.

Handwriting--Spelling words will be sent home on Tuesday.  Wednesday we will use the handwriting book to write key terms related to Baptism.  Thursday we will take a practice test this week.  Spelling test on Friday. 

Math--We are starting Volume Two of the math series with the skills of subtraction.  Tuesday we will practice how to make a ten to subtract.

Science--Our focus this week will primarily be "Penguins."  Students will make a fact book, learn about the life cycle, penguin adaptations, and finally participate in an experiment to learn the importance of blubber to penguins.

SPELLING WORDS:  be, feet, he, see, we, green, me, she, tree, week

Week of Jan. 12th

Religion Show 'n Tell Presentation Week!

The instructions went home in your child's folder on Thursday.  It has the 2 sentences they need to be able to say orally and the grading rubric.  If you have any questions, please let me know. 

Thursday just our class will have a free dress.  They earned the reward for being the quietest class in the hallway in December.

We made cute handprint mittens for our January door last week.

The children learned about Polar animals.  Each group make a polar animal that is going to be put in the hallway.  Pictures below give a sneak peek of some of the animals created.

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--Monday and Tuesday we will learn about the gifts of Baptism.  Mass on Wednesday.  Baptism presentations are Thursday.  Friday we will start Chapter 14 in the book. 

Language Arts/Phonics--The vowel sound for the week is long /u/ using our friend sneaky "E".  We will also be applying inflected endings to words.  The main story selection is "Life in the Forest."  The grammar lessons will focus on using singular and plural nouns.  The decodable reading book homework will continue on Wednesday nights.

Handwriting--New spelling words will be introduced on Monday.  Tuesday the children will complete a Build-a-Sentence activity about Martin Luther King.  Practice spelling test on Wednesday, build-a-sentence on Thursday with the focus being the word "fair", and the spelling test on Friday.

Math--We will continue Chapter 8 using addition strategies to solve equations with sums to 20.  The end of Chapter test will be on Friday.

Social Studies--This week we will be learning how to treat each other fairly and not be judge others by their outward appearance throughout unit on Martin Luther King.  Monday we will read about him in the Scholastic Newspaper, Tuesday we will create a timeline, Wednesday and Thursday we are going to be making posters,  and on Friday have a STEM project.

SPELLING WORDS:  huge, June, rule, tube, use, cube, cute, flute, rude, mule

Arctic Animal group projects for the hallway bulletin board.

Week of Jan. 5th

 Happy New Year!

Tomorrow is 1st Sunday picnic free dress.  If your child got a pass from Fr. Grant this weekend, they need to bring it Monday.

Report cards will be emailed on Friday.

Friday at 6pm is the Ordination of Deacon Adrian.  Parents and children are encouraged to attend.  I will be there and would love to see 1st graders.

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--We will begin Chapter 13--"The Church Welcomes New Members."  We will focus on the Sacrament of Baptism.

Language Arts/Phonics--The phonics sound skill this week is using sneaky "e" with the vowel /o/.  The grammar skill for the week is learning to read and write contractions.  Our main story selection is "The Big Circle" which is usually a favorite story of the kids as it is about dinosaurs.

Handwriting--We will have spelling words this week.  Tuesday and Thursday we will use the handwriting book to practice the pencil strokes for Upper and Lowercase /Dd/.

Math--We are going to begin Chapter 8 which focuses on addition skills up to sums of 16.  Please refer to the additional pages sent home to have your child show their work on the homework pages and for homework hints.   

Science--This week our theme is "Polar Animals."  We will begin the week learning about the various types of animals that live in the polar region.  Thursday and Friday students will work with a partner from the other 1st grade class to create a polar animal for our hallway interactive bulletin board.

SPELLING WORDS:  home, hope, bone, hose, rose, joke, woke, rode, those, stone

WORDS TO PRACTICE READING:  down, inside, now, there, together