Week of October 10th

Please Note

• Tests will be sent home on Tuesday. Please be sure to review, sign and return on Wednesday.
• We will begin writing our daily homework in our "H" Copybook.  The H copybook will also have our spelling words.  Our first spelling test will towards the end of NEXT week.
• There will be a religion test this Thursday.
• School pictures will be on Thursday, October 13th.  Children should wear their winter uniform.
• Friday is a Pink Dress Down Day.  Please bring $1.00 to support Breast Cancer Awareness.
• Information about the First Grade Saints Celebration was sent home last week. The kids should be working on their short report this week as it is due Monday, October 17th. They may choose any saint they want! Please make sure the report and the picture is done neatly. Don't forget to have your child practice reading their report because they will be sharing it with the class for a grade.  See example above :-)
• We will be going to Highland Orchards for our first field trip on Friday, November 11th! Permission forms and information was sent home. Please return the form and the money (cash/check) by Friday, October 21st. If you have ALL of your clearances and would like to chaperone please email me or send me a note. I need 4 and will draw names out of hat at the beginning of next week.
• The Cradle to Crayons pod will be here all week. If you would like to donate any gently used clothing, shoes, books, baby items or school supplies please send them to school in a bag or drop them off outside of the cafeteria.
• The Respect Life Club is collecting baby pictures of students to put on a bulletin board to celebrate Respect Life Month. If you would like to send in a picture of your child please put it in an envelope marked with their name. The picture will be returned.
• The Book Fair and Grandparents/Special Friends Day will be on Wednesday, October 19th.  Our class is scheduled to attend from 10:30-11:30 am. Grandparents are welcome to come in and shop and to make a small craft with their grandchild. If grandparents can't make it, a "special friend" like an aunt, uncle etc. will do! A flyer will be sent home this week.

Homework

Monday

Reading: Page 105
Copy Spelling Words (in H copybook) ONE time
Practice Sight Words
Math: Numbers About Me worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: Page 106
Religion: Page 42
Practice Sight Words
Math: page 15
Sign and review tests

Wednesday

Reading: Page 107
Practice Sight Words, Read A Musical Day
Religion - Chapter 2 test tomorrow.
Math: page 16

Thursday

Library book due tomorrow
Reading: Page 114
Copy Spelling Words (in H copybook) ONE time
Practice Sight Words and review R copybook
Math: page 17

Our Week

Religion

Chapter 2 - "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity"

We will finish up Chapter 2 "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity" and have our test on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home.

Reading

Story: "A Musical Day"

Target Skill: Sequence of evens

Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends

Grammar: Complete sentences and proper nouns

Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would, look, what, he, too

Spelling Words: on, fox, got, pop, not, hop, plop, block, she, he, look, what

Math

This week we will begin our unit on addition. We will learn that adding is putting two parts together to make a whole. We will also learn the terms "addend" and "sum".  We will practice writing addition sentences (2 + 3 = 5) and drawing pictures to illustrate addition sentences.