Week of Mar. 23rd

Spring Has Sprung!

Thank you for all of the donations to our 1st grade auction basket! 

Friday is Spirit Dress.

The 1st grade book report projects are on display this week now that the book fair is over.  Parents are welcome to come in before or after school to see the amazing pizza boxes.

Before Spring Break we learned about the States of Matter.  Our final activity was to change a liquid to a solid.  We enjoyed our popsicle experiment and had a first classmate reach 90 Books on the Reading Log!

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion: We are going to read about and act out the events of Palm Sunday, learn about Jesus teaching in the temple, create an Alleluia garden, and attend Mass on Wednesday.  The children will go to Stations of the Cross on Friday afternoon.

Language Arts--This is our last unit in the 3rd book of our Reading Street Series.  The key concepts for the week are comparative endings and the use of contractions.  The children will have a decodable book for homework on Wednesday night.  The story this week is a play which we will be acting out the following week.

Handwriting--Spelling words will be sent home on Monday. A practice spelling test will be given on Wednesday.   The spelling test is on Friday.

Math--We are beginning Chapter 12 which focuses on subtraction.  This week the children will be finding 10 less, subtracting 10 less, finding the relationships between addition and subtraction, and subtracting multiples of 10.

Science--This week we will be learning about weather and the water cycle.  Children will be having an outside lesson to create a weather report, learn the water cycle, do an experiment, and make a collaborative poster with Mrs. Hern's class.

SPELLING WORDS:  sadder, saddest, shorter, shortest, taller, tallest, faster, fastest, bigger, biggest

WORDS TO PRACTICE READING:  before, does, oh, right, won't, good-bye