Week of April 22, 2024

Awesome job to our Spring Cultural Arts participants!

Please Note

- We will be going to see Pinocchio at the Arden Theater next Wednesday, May 1st. The permission form is posted below and the payment invoice was sent to you through FACTS last week. Please have it completed by this Friday, April 26th. The kids will need to bring a brown bag lunch this day as we will be eating there after the play.

- Here is the permission form for the field trip:

 https://stkatharineofsiena.factsmgtadmin.com/form/aKYJGZL6X?authToken=__token__

- There will be a math test on graphing on Thursday. A test review will be sent home for homework on Wednesday.

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday this week.

- Friday is a dress-down day to benefit Catholic Social Services. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- Next Friday, May 3rd will be our First Grade Mass and Grandparents Day! If you have grandparents who are planning to attend, please RSVP for them here: https://forms.gle/m7wwQ2N5fxCbFL25A More information will be sent home next week.

Important May dates for First Grade:

May 1st - Field Trip to Arden Theater

May 3rd - First Grade Mass and Grandparents Day; noon dismissal

May 14th - May Procession at 6:30pm

May 24th-27th - Memorial Day Weekend

June 4th - Donuts with Dads

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: workbook page 51

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: 52

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: complete test review

Thursday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words for test

Math: XTRA Math

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish up Chapter 15 and begin discussing the parts of the mass.

Reading

Story: "Past, Present and Future"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details, Using text graphics and captions

Phonics Skill: Long i (igh, ind, -y)

Grammar: noun and verb agreement

Sight Words: again, round, they, country

Spelling Words: right, night, light, find, kind, mind, shy, fly

Math

We finish our graphing unit and check in on addition and subtraction to 20 progress.

Week of April 15, 2024

Somehow I deleted the most important picture,
but THE LORAX was our winner!

Please Note

- The last Home and School meeting of the year will be tonight at 6:30 in the parish center. The speaker is an Executive Functioning and ADHD specialist. All are welcome to join.

- Test folders were sent home today.  Please sign and return.

- We will celebrate our monthly Mass tomorrow at 9:00 am. Please join us!  NO DRESS DOWNS PLEASE

- This week we will have SCAN (Spring Cultural Arts Night) on Thursday night. Guests are welcome to walk around the school to look at student work starting at 5:30 followed by the showcase in the gym at 6:30. All are welcome to come see the amazing work the kids have done throughout the year. 

- We will be going to see Pinocchio at the Arden Theater on Wednesday, May 1st. The permission form and payment will be sent to you through FACTS this week. Please have it completed by Friday, April 26th. The kids will need to bring a brown bagged lunch this day as we will be eating there after the play. I will need 3 chaperones for the trip! If you would like to be one please send me an email and make sure your clearances are up to date. Thank you!

- Here is the permission form for the trip:

 https://stkatharineofsiena.factsmgtadmin.com/form/aKYJGZL6X?authToken=__token__

- We are in need of  tissues and clorox wipes if you would like to donate some to the class, thank you!

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday.

- I will be teaching the Safe Environment lesson on Friday this week. An email was sent home last week with the link to the lessons and an opt out letter.

-Have a wonderful week!

Homework

Monday - Home and School Meeting at 6:30

Reading - complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Tuesday

Reading - complete worksheet

Math - workbook page 49

Practice words and read.

Wednesday

Reading - complete worksheet

Math - workbook page 50

Practice words and read.

Thursday

Reading - study for tests

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish Ch 15, and start Chapter 16 - Jesus Gave us the Sacraments.

Reading

Story: "Past, Present and Future"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details, Using text graphics and captions

Phonics Skill: Long e (ee, ea)

Grammar: noun and verb agreement

Sight Words: all, people, where, draw

Spelling Words: street, greet, fleet, feed, seed, cheat, meat, seat

Math

We will continue our unit on graphing this week and work on using tally, picture, and bar graphs. We will also work with taking surveys and graphing the results.

Week of April 8, 2024

Please Note

- We will have a math test on Wednesday on time to the hour and half hour. A practice test will be sent home for homework tomorrow.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on Friday this week. The words are the same as last week.

- This Friday, April 12th is 8th grade Business Day! Our 8th graders have created their own small businesses and will open up shop to the school community in the parish center and gym from 8:30 - 1:45. Our class will visit Friday morning All products, games, and services range from $1-$7 and all proceeds benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital. You can see the commercials the students created below. If your child would like to participate, please send a few dollars in a labeled envelope on Friday. Thank you!

Business Day Commercials

- We have our final field trip planned to Arden Theatre to see the play, Pinocchio, on Wednesday, May 1st. The permission form and payment link will be sent next week.

- Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Math: p. 117 and complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Math: complete test review

Practice words and read.

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: XtraMath for 10 minutes

Thursday

Reading: practice words for tests tomorrow

Math: workbook page 119

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish Chapter 15 this week and take the test together in class.

Reading

Story: "Past, Present and Future"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details,

Phonics Skill: Long o (oa, ow, old)

Grammar: compound sentences and conjunctions

Sight Words: found, your, know, always

Spelling Words: bow, low, glow, goat, moat, float, cold, hold

Math

We will finish up our unit on time this week and have the test on Wednesday. Then we will begin our unit on graphing.

Week of March 18, 2024

 

Please Note

-We had so much fun talking about our leprechaun traps last week. Their creativity and engineering skills blew me away. We had so much fun looking at each other's traps and Lucky the Leprechaun even stopped by in the afternoon! Check out the pictures of the traps.

- Report cards will be sent home tomorrow. You may keep the report card at home. Please sign and return only the envelope.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on Friday on Unit 6 Week 3

- A quick reminder that Spring Break Starts next Wednesday, 3/27 and we return to school on Wednesday, 4/3. Spring uniforms will start when we return if you want to get them out or make a trip to the uniform exchange.

-Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: wb page 112

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: wb page 113

Wednesday

Reading: complete workseet

Practice words and read

Math: wb page 114

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Practice words and read

Math: complete worksheet

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will start Chapter 15 "We Belong to a Parish".

Reading

Story: "Stories Teach Many Lessons"

Target Skill: Describe characters, settings and major events using key details

Phonics Skill: Long a (ai and ay)

Grammar: compound sentences and conjunctions

Sight Words: brown, work, live, year

Spelling Words: stay, gray, spray, pail, wail, mail, grain, rain

Math

We will start our unit on time this week and learn how to tell time to the hour and half hour on digital and analog clocks.

Week of March 11, 2023

Please Note

- I hope you had a great weekend! We have 2 full weeks of school left until Easter break! 

- The 3rd Trimester starts today! Report cards will be sent home next Tuesday.

- We will celebrate Mass on Tuesday at 9:00 am. All are welcome! Please do not dress down tomorrow :)

- There will be a math test on money and counting change on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home for homework on Wednesday.

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday this week.

-Friday is a Dress Down Day! Please send in $1.00 to dress down. All proceeds will be donated to The Rising Together Alliance.

- Leprechaun traps should be brought in on Friday. The kids will share their traps with the class and tell them how it will "hopefully" catch a leprechaun. If you could refrain from sending them in earlier that would be great! We don't have too much room to store them. Thanks!

Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: workbook page 108

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: workbook page 110

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: complete test review

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Practice words and read

Math: XtraMath for 10 minutes

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish Chapter 12 "The Church Serves" and take the test together on Thursday. We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "Stories Teach Many Lessons"

Target Skill: Describe characters, settings and major events using key details

Phonics Skill: Long e and u (e_e, u_e)

Grammar: compound sentences and conjunctions

Sight Words: house, small, long, off

Spelling Words: these, theme, mute, flute, cube, cute, tube, rude

Math

We will finish up our unit of money this week and have a test on Thursday.

Week of March 4, 2024

Please Note

-The second trimester closes this Friday and I can assure you that this last trimester will FLY by. In this final trimester, we really focus on responsibility, independence, and self-control. We talk a lot about being "almost second graders" and what being in second grade entails. One of the best parts of teaching first grade is seeing the growth that each child makes in 9 short months. Thinking back from September until now they are completely different kids! I am sure you see it too :)

- Due to the short week, we will not test in reading or spelling. 

- No school for students on Friday! Enjoy the long weekend!

- Don't forget that leprechaun traps should be sent to school next Friday, March 15th!

- Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Math: worksheet

Practice words and read.

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: worksheet

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: workbook pages 107

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will begin Chapter 12 "The Church Serves". We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "Stories Teach Many Lessons"

Target Skill: Describe characters, settings and major events using key details

Phonics Skill: Long I (i_e)

Grammar: compound sentences and conjunctions

Sight Words: after, large, call, her

Spelling Words: vine, line, mine, life, strife, slice, rice, nice

Math

We will continue working with money by counting mixed coins up to $1.00!

Week of February 26, 2024

Please Note

- If you did not send in coins with your child, please do so by Wednesday. 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels and 25 pennies in a ziplock bag labeled with their name.

- There will be a math test on Tuesday this week on addition and subtraction to 20. We will review in school and a review will be sent home for homework tonight.

- Test folders will be sent home on Thursday. Please sign and return on Friday!

- There will be a Reading and Spelling test on Friday.

-Leprechaun trap information will be sent home today. Google has some great examples of traps. Students are asked to bring the traps in on Friday, 3/15. Please do not send them in beforehand because we have limited space in the classroom. If you have any questions please let me know. Happy building!

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: complete test review

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: Xtra Math until Goodbye message

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read.

Math: complete worksheet

Thursday

Reading: Practice Sight and Spelling Words for test tomorrow

Math: complete worksheet

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We talk continue to learn about Lent and start learning about each Station of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "Technology at Work"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details

Phonics Skill: long a with soft c and g

Grammar: questions

Sight Words: try, give, far, too

Spelling Words: race, lace, face, brace, page, cage, wage, age

Math

We will begin our unit on money this week. We will learn to identify the coins and how much they are worth and practice counting. If you practice at home remember to start counting with the coins that are worth the most!