Week of October 16th, 2017

Please Note

- Winter uniforms start this week.

- School pictures will be taken on Thursday. Forms were sent home on Friday.

- 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 2nd and Friday, November 3rd.

- Friday, October 21st is "Walk With the Principal". Students are to wear their gym uniforms to school. Please note that the winter uniform for gym includes sweatpants. Students must wear sweatpants to school every Wednesday. 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.

- Wednesday, October 25th is Grandparents/Special Friends Day from 9:30-10:30 am.

- Don't forget to mark your calendars for the First Grade Saints Celebration which will be on Friday, October 27th 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.

Homework

Monday

Reading: worksheet

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: worksheet

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: worksheet

Wednesday

Reading: worksheet

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: worksheet

Thursday

Reading: Read and discuss A Musical Day (74-96)

Study Sight and Spelling Words

Math: page 18

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

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

Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop, block, clock

Test on Friday!

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.