Friday, November 4, 2016

1ST GRADE NEWSLETTER ~ NOVEMBER 7-11, 2016

Religion:  This is National Vocational Awareness Week.  We will discuss vocations all week.  We will pray the Luminous Mysteries of the rosary.
Saint of the week:  St. Leo the Great
Our Mass is November 17.  I hope you can make it!

Reading/English:  Unit 5:  Reading Literature:  Craft and Structure
skills:  adventure story, determine the narrator of a story, one-syllable CVC, CCVC, CVCe, and CCVCe words, and read along orally, using emotion and reflecting changes in characters

Spelling:  long e (e, ee) words
-pretest Monday
-final test Friday

Spelling Word Lists:

List 1: 

be, feet, green, he, me, see, she, tree, we, week, some, family

List 2: 

beef, cheese, deep, peeping, sheep, sleeping, teeth, wheel, napkin, pretzel, some, family

Math:  Chapter 1:  Addition Concepts
-skills:  put numbers together to 10, addition to 10, chapter 1 test, chapter 2 pretest

Science:  We will discuss fossils.

Social Studies:  Veteran's Day
Discuss Veterans.  We will have a guest speaker (an army veteran) who will talk to the children.

Other:


Notes from the Teacher:
 
-Thanks to all who helped with our Prayer Day!  It was lots of fun and your help was very much appreciated!  



-I sent home Mass parts for our November 17th Mass.  Please help your child practice his/her reading part. Thank you!


A Feast of Upcoming Events
Nov. 8- No School- Election Day

Nov. 10- 9:00 Mass

Nov. 17- 9:00 OUR MASS!!

Nov. 18-Free Dress Day

Nov. 18- 12:30- Jubilee Jam- CELEBRATION of the end of the Year of Mercy

Nov. 23-25- No School-Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 1- 9:00 Mass

Dec. 8- 9:00 Mass-Feast of the Immaculate

Conception

Dec. 9- NO AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM / Free Dress UP Day-Dress in Christmas colors for our Christmas Program / Christmas Program – 12:30

Dec. 15- 9:00 Mass

Dec. 16- NO AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM on the day before Christmas Break