Week of September 20, 2021

We had a great time meeting our 8th Grade Buddies and doing a Wish Tree project with them!

Please Note

- We survived our first full week of first grade! I hope the kids enjoyed it and are settling into school and our routines. We are a work in progress but we had a great week! I hope that you are continuing to set routines at home and are giving your child more responsibility. The more we work on this the more independent they will become.

- If anyone would like a secondary email added to my list, please let me know.

- If you could please continue to send your child in with a few extra masks each week it would be really helpful.  We have been going through a lot already.  Thanks for your help with this!

- We will have our first virtual school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. Feel free to join us at Mass or virtually on the parish youtube site.

- We will have our first Religion test on Wednesday. A study guide will be sent home for your child to study at home with you, but this week we will take the test together like a worksheet for them to get used to it.

- We will have our first reading test on the story "Jack and the Wolf" this Friday. I will read all of the questions and answers for the first few tests. The reader will be sent home this week so you can read and review the story at home.  Sight Words will be part of this test, so please make sure you are reviewing them each night.

- Our first Spelling test will also be on Friday. We have been practicing a lot with short A words in school. Please review the words at home each night as well.

- I will be setting up the Sign Up Genius for Guest Reader shortly.  Look for an email sometime this week with the link.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Homework

Monday

Religion: study guide for test

Reading: Reading Notebook page 86

Math: workbook page 9

Tuesday

Religion: study guide for test tomorrow

Reading: RN page 76

Math: wb page 15

Wednesday

Read and discuss Jack and the Wolf.

Reading: RN page 80

Math: wb page 16

Thursday

Reread Jack and the Wolf for test tomorrow.

Reading: study for reading and spelling tests tomorrow

Math: wb page 17

A Peek at Our Week

Religion: Chapter 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! We will talk about how we are called to know, love and serve God. We will take our first test together!

Reading

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 and learning how to add by counting on. Please start practicing flash cards at home!

Science

This week, we will begin a Science unit on Light and Sound. Our first few lessons will focus on making observations and learning how science experiments are done.

Social Studies

This week we will begin a Social Studies unit on Responsible Citizenship. This week we will learn about

rules and laws in our home, school, and community.