Week of September 9, 2024

Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade, and are looking forward to a great year. Thanks for attending Back to School Night. It was great to meet everyone. You can find the BTSN information for our class here.  We have a lot of fun things planned so keep checking our classroom blog for updates and pictures of what is going on in Room 3.

Please Note

- The first few weeks of school are very important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I encourage you to also have expectations and routines at home as well. For example, each day after school your child can eat a snack, empty their home folder, complete their homework, and practice their word cards and spelling words for the week. Simple chores like packing their school bags, helping pack lunches/snacks, and making their beds will help your child to become responsible, organized, and independent.

- Please check your child's "Home Folder" with them every night. They can empty out any papers that were completed in school.  If anything needs to be sent to school, please place it in the folder. Our 'H' and 'R' copybooks "live" in their Home folder. This folder should be returned to school along with their copybooks each day.

- We will start off slow with homework the first few weeks so the kids can get back into the swing of it! 

- On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. Students are asked to wear their blue t-shirt which you received at BTSN. We will be talking about what they will do to take care of God's creation, and completing a fun activity with our 8th grade Buddies.

- There will be a dress-down day on Monday, 9/16. Please send in $1.00 to dress down to benefit the World Eye Cancer Organization.

- The Mystery Reader sign-up genius is up! You can find it here.  If you have any questions please let me know!

- Here is a link to our schedule and class list.

- Here is a link for September Craft Club if you are interested. Craft Club is on Tuesday afternoons. We complete a craft, have snack, and enjoy some outdoor play.

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

-Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary (Found on first page of homework copybook.  Please be sure they are practicing/learning the correct words.)

Phonics: page 67

Tuesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 68

Wednesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 69

Thursday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 71

*Wear Summer Reading t-shirt with gym shorts on Friday*

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God in Chapter 1. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!

Reading

We will start our new reading series with the Foundations and Routines unit. 

Math

This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards.