Week of January 27, 2025

Happy Catholic Schools Week!  

-Thank you for laying into the themes and helping make this a fun week of celebration for the kids.  They had a great beach day today and completed some fun writing, reading, and math activities related to our beach theme, in addition to our prayer service.   

-Good luck to Cece Zimolong who will represent our class at the spelling bee later this week.  

-Be on the lookout for Lil'Bud who is coming home today.  We look forward to hearing about his adventures and all of the smiles being spread around.  

-We will not have written homework this week, but please continue to read and review their words.  I told them this week would be a great opportunity to review each list from their reading copybook.  

-We have decided to skip the spelling/reading test this week and will pick back up with new words next week.  

-Thanks again for all you do to support our parish, school, teachers, classroom, and one another!  This is a great team to be on!

Week of January 20, 2025

Please Note

- I hope you had a nice extra long weekend.  Thank you for all of your donations for the MLK Service Day! 

- We will start a new reading unit with new words today, but our test will be next Thursday.

- We will continue our math unit on 10 more, 10 less and 1 more and one less. We will have a math quiz on Friday, 10 more/less and 1 more/less. A review will be sent home for homework on Thursday.

-Sunday, January 26th - Catholic Schools Week Opening Mass.  Here is a message from H&S:

“Join us for a special mass by Father Bill Gabriel as we celebrate the opening of Catholic Schools Week.  Home and School is hosting parish coffee afterwards, with an activity hosted by Faithful Families.  All students are encouraged to attend mass in uniform, and those who do will be given a coveted dress down pass!”

- Some additional CSW notes:

-Have a great short week! Go Birds!

Homework

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: worksheet

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: complete worksheet

Thursday

Reading: complete worksheet

Math: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish Ch 8, and start Chapter 9 "Jesus Died and Rose to New Life."

Reading

Story: Technology at Work

Target Skill: Drawing Inferences, Main Idea and Details, Making Connections 

Phonics Skill: words with long a (v_e words)

Grammar: 4 types of sentences

Sight Words: why, many, right, start

Spelling Words: game, name, shame, frame, take, fake, shake, brake

Math

We will focus on 10 more/less and 1 more/less of a specific number. We will start trying to do this mentally without the help of a hundred chart!

Week of January 13, 2025

 Please Note

- The first grade is collecting small travel shampoo bottles for the MLK Day of Service on Monday, January 20th. If you would like to donate, please send them in by Friday, January 17th.

- Tuesday is a dress-down day to benefit Rosemont Care Nursing Home. Please send in $1.00 to dress down. Thank you!

-There will be two options to attend the State of the School Meeting: Tuesday, January 14, at 6:30PM, or Friday, January 17, at 9am.

- We will have our school mass on Wednesday at 9:00.  All are welcome.  No dress-downs, please.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on Friday this week.

- There is no school on Monday, January 20, for MLK Day.

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: page 69

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: page 70

Wednesday

Reading:  complete worksheet

Practice words and read

Math: page 68

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Practice words and read

Math: page 71

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will finish Chapter 8 "Jesus Had Followers".

Reading

Story: Stories Have a Narrator

Target Skill: Identifying who is telling a story, Ask and Answer Questions, Use Context Clues

Phonics Skill: three-letter blends

Grammar: Adjectives and using commas

HFW Words: when, because, from, their

Spelling Words: splash, split, strap, stretch, squid, squint, sprint, spring

Math

We will continue comparing numbers this week using <, > and =. We will review one more and one less and start practicing finding 10 more and 10 less.

Week of January 6, 2025

Please Note

- Happy 2025! I hope you all had a great break! Thank you so much for your generous

Christmas gifts. The entire faculty and staff truly appreciate your kindness and generosity.

This week we will be working on returning to our normal routine in reading, math, and homework!

- With the cold weather, please be sure to mark all outerwear with your child's name.

- Picture retakes will be this Thursday, January 9th.

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday.

-Here is the link for Mystery Reader in case anyone still needs to sign up. Also, a friendly reminder

to not bring treats or trinkets when reading. Thank you!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084DAEAC2CA2F8C61-51256328-mrs#/

-Have a great week!

Homework

Thursday

Reading:  worksheet

Math: worksheet

Wednesday

Reading:  worksheet

Math: worksheet

Thursday

Reading:  worksheet

Math: worksheet

A Peek At Our Week

Religion

We will start Chapter 8 "Jesus Had Followers".

Reading

Story: Stories Have a Narrator

Target Skill: Identifying who is telling a story, Ask and Answer Questions, Use Context Clues

Phonics Skill: digraphs th, sh and ng

Grammar: Using commas, review adjectives

HFW Words: once, upon, hurt, that

Spelling Words: chop, check, chill, whim, which, match, clutch, pitch

Math

We will start our unit on number sense and review ordering numbers, find the number that comes before, after, or between and start learning how to compare numbers using the <, > and = symbols.