Week of October 17th

Please Note

• We will have a spelling and reading test on Friday.
• A Sign-Up Genius for conferences will be sent out to you this week. Conferences will be on Thursday, November 3rd and Friday, November 4th.
• Wednesday, October 19th is Grandparents/Special Friends Day. Grandparents or special friends are invited to join us in the cafeteria at 10:30am to enjoy some light refreshments and to make a small craft. After that we will head to the library to shop for books. It would be helpful if you send money in a labeled envelope. If you know which books they would like to buy, you may also write the titles on the envelope. Thanks for your help!
• Don't forget to mark your calendars for the First Grade Saints Celebration which will be on Friday, October 28th at 9:00am. We will read our reports this week to learn about everyone's saint. Please start getting a simple costume together for the celebration.
• We will be going to Highland Orchards for our first field trip on Friday, November 11th! Permission forms and information were sent home last week. 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 will pick chaperones out of a hat this week.
• Thursday, October 20th will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.
• Friday, October 21st is "Walk With the Principal" to raise awareness for JDRF. Students are to wear their gym uniforms to school. If your child has a JDRF t-shirt they may wear that in place of their gym shirt. Please note that the winter uniform for gym includes sweatpants. Students must wear sweatpants to school every gym day. They can wear shorts underneath and wear them in gym class if they want, but sweatpants must be worn for the rest of the day. Thanks for your cooperation.

Homework

Monday

Reading: Worksheet

Spelling:  Worksheet
Practice Sight Words
Math: page 18

Tuesday

Reading: Worksheet

Spelling:  Worksheet
Practice Sight Words
Math: page 19

Wednesday

Reading:  Worksheet

Spelling:  Worksheet
Practice Sight Words
Math: page 20

Thursday

Reading: Reread A Musical Day and study for spelling and reading test
Math: page 21

Our Week

Religion
We will begin Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family.


Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would, look, what, he, too
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop, block, plop, she, look, he, what


Math
This week we will continue 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. We will also start using ten frames.