Week of 9/21

Listening to Dion and Gobi in the school wide Virtual Assembly!

Dear Parents,

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!


Here are your reminders for the week:

- Please have journals decorated and covered by this Friday.

- We will have our first virtual school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. A link will be sent out through Option C if you would like to join us!

- We will have our first Religion test on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home for your child to study, and review, but this week we will take it together in school to get used to it! I ask that you still look over the study guide even though we will be taking it as a class, just so they get use to the study guides.

- 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.

- 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, and remember to practice writing them out. 

- Sight Words will also be tested on Friday so please make sure you are reviewing them each night. They will not have to write their sight words just be able to read them orally to me.

- Please remember to sign up for Mystery Reader! There are enough dates for each family to sign up 2 times. Please do not sign up for more!

I think that is it for this week! Please email me if you have any questions!

Miss Rooney

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
SpellingWords: 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!