Friday, October 23, 2015

1ST GRADE NEWSLETTER ~ OCTOBER 26-30, 2015

Religion:  Unit 1 Review
Saint of the week:  St. Luke
We will pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary this week.
***Our Prayer Day is Friday!***

Reading / English:  
skills:  text types and purposes:  write informative texts, commas in a series, in dates, and in longer sentences, and past, present, and future tense verbs, contractions n't, 'll   

Spelling:  long o words
-pretest- Monday
-final test- Friday

Spelling Word Lists:

List 1:  bone, home, hope, hose, joke, rode, rose, stone, those, woke, there, together

List 2:  choke, froze, globe, stole, drove, can't, isn't, she'll, haven't, wasn't, there, together

Math:  Addition Strategies
skills:  doubles and doubles plus 1 (addition fluency)

Science: Investigating and measuring pumpkins activities

Social Studies:  We will discuss the basic concept of citizenship/democracy.

Other:

Notes from the Teacher:
  • Thank you for coming to the Parent / teacher conferences.  I enjoyed talking with all of you!
  • Our Prayer day is this Friday.  Thanks to all who volunteered to help.  Volunteers should be here by 8:00.   Thank you!
  • Guidance Program Blog:  http://kimscounselingcorner.blogspot.com/

Upcoming Events:

-Oct. 29- 9:00 Rosary Service in the Gym
-Oct. 30- Free Dress Day/CRAZY Hat Day for students
-Oct. 30- 1st Grade Prayer Day- THANK YOU for volunteering to help!
-Nov. 3- Election Day-NO SCHOOL
-Nov. 5- 9:00- Mass
-Nov. 12- 9:00- Mass
-Nov. 19- 9:00- Mass
-Nov. 20- OHRH Health Assessments
-Nov. 21-Parents can pick up Cookie/Chocolate Orders
-Nov. 25-27- Thanksgiving Break- No School
-Dec. 3- 9:00- Mass
-Dec. 8- 9:00- Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass     ***THIS IS OUR MASS!!!***

-Dec. 11- 1:00- Christmas Program