Week of October 8, 2024

 

First Grade loved seeing the animals from the Elmwood Zoo
 and learning about their habitats.

Please Note

- Saint reports will be due on Wednesday, October 9th.

- School pictures will be next Tuesday, October 15th. They should wear their winter uniforms. Please send in your forms or complete them online. 

- Test folders will be sent home on Thursday.  Please review, sign and RETURN all tests.  If you have any questions, do not write on the test, instead, please send an email.Thank you!

- We will have our Unit 2, Week 1 reading assessment on Friday.

Thank you to all who volunteered to chaperone our field trip. Mrs. Monastra, Horn, Faralli, and Ries will be our chaperones. I will be in touch soon.

- By now you should have received an invoice through FACTS for our trip to Riverbend, and a permission slip link via Option C.  Please contact Anne Condello if you have any issues.

-Saturday, October 12th is SKS Homecoming at Bo Connor Park.  Look for more information from the office.

- Monday, October 14 will be a dress-down day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

Homework

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read books in pet bag

Math: workbook page 29

Religion: saint report due tomorrow

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read books in pet bag

Math: workbook page 27

Thursday

Reading: Practice words for tests tomorrow, and read books in pet bag

Math: worksheet

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will begin Chapter 3, "Jesus Grew Up in a Family." We will learn about Jesus's birth and the Holy Family. We will also start practicing for our Saint Presentation!

Reading

Unit: Many Kinds of Characters 

Target Skill: Sequence of events, story elements, making inferences

Phonics Skill: short e

Grammar: Complete sentences, subject-verb agreement

Sight Words: look, are, said, to, my

Spelling Words: ten, men, pen, fed, bed, let, met, wet

Math

We will finish up our addition unit this week. We will focus on adding 3 addends and finding doubles and sums of ten to help up. We will also work with simple word problems. Next Tuesday, there will be a test on adding on a number line, adding 3 addends, and word problems.