Saturday, October 12, 2013

1ST GRADE NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 14-18, 2013

Religion:  Chapter 8:  We Give Thanks to God
We will be saying the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary this week.
Our Prayer Day is Friday- 8:30-11:00.  VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED, PLEASE!

Reading: The Farmer in the Hat
 

Skills:  long a, cause/effect, introduce c/s/, g/j/, proper nouns
-story test Thursday

Spelling: long a words
-pretest Monday
-practice test and dictation Wednesday
-final test Friday

Spelling Word Lists:

List 1: age, cage, cake, face, late, made, make, name, safe, take, could, old
  List 2: brace, shade, place, skate, trade, waves, grapes, classmates, page, stage, could, old

Math:  chapter 3:  Addition Strategies
-add doubles, use doubles to add, doubles plus 1, doubles minus 1

Science: Ch. 4:  Life Cycles

-butterflies

Social Studies:   Christopher Columbus

Other:

-Welcome back from Fall Break!  I hope you had a relaxing week!

-PRAYER DAY IS FRIDAY-8:30-11:00.  WE NEED VOLUNTEERS, PLEASE!  THANKS!

-Book It has started.  Don’t forget you can count your AR books for Book It!



-AR NEWS:  Veronica Higdon has reached the 50 point milestone! Congratulations, Veronica!

Important Events

Oct. 15- Officer DARE visits our classroom/ last day to order Market Day

Oct. 18- Prayer Day- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED, PLEASE!!- 8:30-11:00

Oct. 18- Report Cards go home

Oct. 19- 10:00-11:00-Market Day pick-up at K-3 Campus

Oct. 23- School picture money due

Oct. 24- Luminous Mysteries in Church

Oct. 25- FREE Dress Day

Oct. 31- OMHS Health Assessments

Nov. 1- 9:00- Mass- All Saints Day

Nov. 12- Last day to order Market Day

Nov. 16- 10:00-11:00- Market Day Pick Up-K-3 cafe