Week of September 21, 2020

First Grade had a great week in school last week.  

Watch the video above to see our Short a song!  

Notes for the Week

- We will have our first school mass on Wednesday at 9:00. All are invited to attend virtually. A link will be sent from the office through Option C.

- Journals should be decorated and covered by this Friday, September 25th. - On Friday, we will be having our first reading test for Jack and the Wolf. Please be sure the children are studying their spelling and sight words daily. They will also bring their reader home on Tuesday and Thursday to read and discuss Jack and the Wolf with you.

-On Thursday, we will have our first Religion quiz. A study guide was sent home today for reviewing at home each day. We will complete this first quiz together as practice.

- Please be sure to continue check your child's "Home Folder" every night. Please empty out any papers that were completed in school. If anything needs to be sent to school, please send it in this folder so they will see it to give to me in the morning. Please make sure that the Sight Words, Math flashcards, and Reading Copybook are returned in the folder each day.

- Please email me with any questions or concerns. Thanks!

Our Week

Religion

Chapter 1 - "God is Our Father 

We will continue 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 us to know, love, and serve Him.  We will have a quiz on Chapter 1 this Thursday.  A study guide will be sent home on Monday, but we will take the quiz together this week as a learning experience for test taking.

Reading We will have our Jack in the Wolf test this Friday. The children should continue studying their spelling and sight words daily. They will also bring their reader home to read Jack and the Wolf with you.

Story: "Jack and the Wolf" Target Skill: Characters Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words Grammar: Complete sentences Sight Words: every, come, call, hear, said, away Spelling Words: an, bad, can, had, cat, ran,

Math

This week we will start our unit on addition. We will learn the parts of an addition sentence (addends, plus sign, equal sign), start making our flashcards later throughout the week and learn how to add by counting on. Please start practicing flash cards at home and return them each day in their H folder.

Science

We will continue our Science unit on Light and Sound.  We will learn all about the scientific

method and put it into practice with some fun experiments and investigations. Here are the

topics we will learn about in Unit 1:

• The Scientific Method, Science Safety and Tools Scientists Use

• States and Properties of Matter

• Sound and Vibrations

• Light

• Using Light and Sound to Communicate

Social Studies

We will continue our Social Studies unit on Responsible Citizenship. Here are some of the

important things we will learn about in Unit 1:

• Rules and laws in our home, school, and community

• How we can be responsible citizens:

-Following our rules and laws

-Respect and responsibility

-How we can be a good friend

-Why truthfulness is important

-Cooperation and sportsmanship

-Perseverance

This unit will teach us about how we can make our classroom

community the best that it can be!