Week of September 18th, 2017

Please Note

- Journals will be sent home this week to be decorated.  It would be great if they could be decorated, covered and returned to school by Friday, September 29th.

- We will have our first school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. All are welcome!

- We will have our first reading test on the story "Jack and the Wolf" this Friday. I will read all of the questions with them for the first few tests. The reader will be sent home this week so you can read and review the story at home.  Both the sight words and spelling words are included in the test.

- T-Shirt project is due on Friday.

- Our first field trip to Highland Orchards is next Thursday, September 28th! Permission forms will be sent home. Please return them by Monday, September 25th. I need 4 chaperones who have all clearances turned in. If you would like to come please email me and I will draw names out of a hat later this week. We will be leaving school around 9 am and returning around 1 pm.

- First in Math usernames and passwords can now be found on the inside cover of the Homework copybook. This is a website that can be used at home to review math skills throughout the year and will also be given as math homework some nights. If you have any questions please let me know!

- Please email me if you have any questions!

Homework

Monday

Phonics:  72

Practice spelling words & sight words

Math: page 5

Tuesday

Read and discuss Jack and the Wolf

Reading: page 83

practice spelling words & sight words

Math: page 6

Wednesday

Religion: practice praying the Hail Mary

Reading: page 84

Practice spelling words & sight words

Math: page 7

Thursday

T-shirt project due tomorrow!

Religion: practice praying the Hail Mary

Reading: read Jack and the Wolf and study spelling words & sight words for test tomorrow

Math: 8

Our Week

Religion

Unit 1 - "Jesus Teaches Us About God's Love"

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God. We will also learn about how God made each of us different!

Reading

Story: "Jack and the Wolf"

Target Skill: Characters

Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words

Grammar: Complete sentences

Sight Words:  play, every, be, come, and, call, hear, with, said, away

SpellingWords:  an, bad, can, had, cat, ran, man, dad

* Reading test on Friday.

Math

This week we will still focus on writing numbers and number words and filling in missing numbers. We will also being ordering numbers and talking about "one more" and "one less".