Week of January 2nd

Please Note

- I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and that your new year is off to a great start. I also want to thank each and every one of you for your kindness and generosity to me all of the teachers here at SKS. We are truly a lucky faculty.

- The kids checked their school supplies today to see if they need any new ones. Please check with them and see what they need. Thanks!

- There will be a Dress Down Day on Friday. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- We are also collecting donations for a service project on Martin Luther King Day. First Grade is collecting deodorant.

Homework

Tuesday

Reading: page 166
Religion - Page 78
Math: page 40

Wednesday

Religion - Study Guide for test Friday

Reading: page 168
Spelling:  Copy words one time
Math: page 41

Thursday

Religion - Study Guide for test tomorrow

Reading: page 169

Spelling:  Copy words one timeMath: page 42


Our Week

Religion

We will have our Chapter 5 test on Friday. We will also begin Chapter 8, "Jesus Had Many Followers".

Reading

Story: "How Leopard Got His Spots"
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Phonics Skill: Intro Long a, digraph -ch, -tch
Grammar: Statements and Commands
Sight Words: hold, been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, good, full, friend
Spelling Words: chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick, some, into, stop, black

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will begin to see how addition and subtraction are related by using related subtraction facts, related addition and subtraction facts, and adding to check subtraction in preparation for working with fact families.