Week of September 16, 2024

Please Note

- We will have our first school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. Dress-downs are not permitted on mass days.  All are welcome to join us!

- We will have our first Religion quiz on Thursday. We will complete the quiz together, no preparation is needed from home.

- We started our first unit in reading today on "How Plants and Animals Change". We have begun making our flashcards for the high-frequency words this week. They will go home in your child's 'pet bag' and will come home each night. Please make sure everything is returned to school each day. The high-frequency words and spelling words for the week can also be found in your child's "R Copybook" and at the bottom of this communication.  (They must know how to spell the spelling words, but only to read the high-frequency words.)

- Please review all spelling words and high-frequency words each night to prepare for the test on Friday. There will also be a comprehension portion of the reading test which we will prepare for in school.

- The children will bring home their 'Pet Bags' each night.  In this bag will be a 'pet' they can read to along with their word cards and books for nightly practice.  Please be sure to send these back to school each day.  They are meant to be read multiple times to practice the reading skills we are working on.

- We will try to log in to all our new apps this week at school.  Be on the lookout for login information coming home soon so you can practice at home, too.  The logins will be listed in the front of their Homework Copybook.

-I think that is it for this week.  Please email me if you have any questions!

Homework

Monday

Reading -  worksheet

Math:  worksheet

Practice words (High Frequency Words and Spelling Words) and read for 15 minutes.

Tuesday

Reading -  worksheet

Math:  worksheet

Practice words and read for 15 min.

Wednesday

Reading -  worksheet

Math:  worksheet

Practice words and read for 15 min.

Thursday

Reading -  worksheet

Math:  worksheet

Practice words and read for 15 min.

A Peek at Our Week

Religion: Chapter 1- "Jesus Teaches Us About God's Love"

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God. We will also learn about how God made each of us different. We will talk about how we are called to know, love, and serve God. We will take our first quiz together.

Reading

Story: "Five Little Tadpoles"

Target Skill: Asking questions, main idea, sequence

Phonics Skill: Short a

Grammar: nouns

Sight Words: and, go, the, see, she

Spelling Words: pat, bat, hat, had, mad, can, ran, fan

Math

This week we will start our unit on addition! We will learn the parts of an addition sentence (addends, plus sign, equal sign), start making our flashcards and learn how to add by counting on from the higher number. Please start practicing flashcards at home once completed in school.  (They will be stored in their 'Pet Bags.')