Week of 3/28

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! We continue working hard these last two weeks before Spring Break! The kids had fun celebrating our March birthday's last week! Here are the reminders for this week:

- There will be a Religion test on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be reading and spelling tests this Friday.

That is all for now! Have a great week! Go Nova \\V//

Mrs. Hallinan 

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Monday

Phonics: page 237

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 119

Religion: study for test

Tuesday

Reading: page 44

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 48

Religion: study for test

Wednesday

Reading: page 43

Practice Sight Words

Math: workbook page 49

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Practice Sight Words

Math: workbook page 50

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion
We will finish Chapter 15 "We Belong to a Parish" and have test on Thursday.

Reading
Story: "Where Does Food Come From?"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Phonics Skill: ay and ai words and ou/ow sound & oy/oi sound
Grammar: Contractions 'll and 'd (review of proper nouns)
Sight Words: first, right, under, food, sometimes, your, ground, these, fields, corn, flowers, favorite
Spelling Words: play, may, stay, way, day, pain, rain, grain, mail, sail

Math
We will continue start our unit on graphing this week! We will learn and practice graphing on tally, picture and bar graphs.

Week of 3/21

Dear Parents,

We had so much fun building our traps last week. Their creativity and engineering skills blew me away. We had so much fun putting them together and sharing them with the class! We had a lot of fun at our class Saint Patrick's Day party! Thank you to Mrs. Long, Mrs. Duncan, and anyone else who helped contribute to make the party possible. Lucky the Leprechaun even stopped by while we were at lunch! Check out the pictures of the traps below.

Spring is here and Easter is around the corner. Here are the reminders for this week:

- Report cards will be sent home today. You may keep the report card at home. Please sign and return only the envelope!

- Apologies, I did not end up sending test folders home last week. Instead, I will be sending them home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday. 

- Mrs. Marchese after school sports club will start back up again for the Spring. The club is after school on Wednesday's!

- There will be a math test on time on Friday. A review will be sent home for homework on Thursday.

- Friday we will celebrate our three March birthdays!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Hallinan 

We got a visit from Leprechaun Gavin!

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 32

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 115

Tuesday

Reading: page 40

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 116

Wednesday

Reading: page 33

Practice Sight Words

Math: workbook page 117

Thursday

Phonics: page 159

Practice Sight Words

Math: complete test review

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion
We will start Chapter 15 "We Belong to a Parish".

Reading
Story: "Where Does Food Come From?"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Phonics Skill: ay and ai words and ou/ow sound & oy/oi sound
Grammar: Contractions 'll and 'd (review of proper nouns)
Sight Words: first, right, under, food, sometimes, your, ground, these, fields, corn, flowers, favorite
Spelling Words: play, may, stay, way, day, pain, rain, grain, mail, sail

Math
We will continue to work with time and review hour and half hour. We will also work with time patterns and elapsed time. There will be a test on Friday.

Week of 3/14

On Thursday, we enjoyed a pizza party from my friend!

The kids made her a banner which she was overjoyed about!

We took a walk around the block post Terra Novas

to unwind. 

Dear Parents,

The kids did a great job taking their Terra Nova tests last week! We are happy to get back to the a normal schedule this week and will have a lot of fun building our leprechaun traps! Here are the rest of the reminders for the week:

- Test folders will get sent home Tuesday 3/15. Please sign and return them Wednesday 3/16.

- We will continue with the story "The Big Trip" this week but will not have a test on it.

- There will be a Religion test on Thursday on Chapter 12. A study guide will be send home today.

- Please be sure to send in a box and materials for leprechaun traps by Thursday! We will be building the traps first thing Thursday morning!

- Thursday is a Dress Down Day! Please send in $1.00 to dress down. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross for Ukraine relief. Thank you!

Have a great week!

Quinn

Monday

Reading: page 25

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 112

Religion: study for test

Tuesday

Reading: page 22

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 113

Religion: study for test

Wednesday
Reading: page 26
Practice Sight Words
Math: complete worksheet

Religion: study for test

Thursday

Reading: page 28

Practice Sight Words

Math: workbook page 114

Religion: study for test tomorrow

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 12 "The Church Serves" and have a test on Friday. We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "The Big Trip"

Target Skill: Compare and Contrast

Phonics Skill: Long E (ea, ee) and -ng, -nk words

Grammar: compound sentences

Sight Words: about, could, sure, don't, car, maybe, very, travel, really, through, by, there

Spelling Words: keep, seed, green, street, cheek, clean, read, mean, sea, heat

Math
We will start our Time unit this week. We will focus on learning the two hands of the clock and learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour.

Week of 3/7

Congrats to our 2nd trimester Peacemaker, Nolan Sweeney!

It was a beautiful Ash Wednesday mass with the whole school

in attendance! Thank you the parents who attended as well!

Dear Parents,

The second trimester closes this Friday and I can assure you that this last trimester will FLY by. In this final trimester, we really focus on responsibility, independence and self control. We talk a lot about being "almost second graders" and what being in second grade entails. One of the best parts of teaching first grade is seeing the growth that each child makes in 9 short months. Thinking back from September until now they are completely different kiddos! I am sure you see it too :)

This week is also Terra Nova week! We will be taking different parts of the test each day. Please follow the schedule that was sent home last week. I told the kids that for homework this week they should be in bed by 8:30pm at the absolute latest, and that they should be eating a healthy breakfast and packing a healthy snack for recess. These little things really do make a difference. Here are a few reminders:


- Please make sure the kids have a few sharpened #2 pencils and a good eraser each day for the test.

- There will be no homework this week! Getting to bed early should be easier this way! :)

- We will be building our leprechaun traps next week so don't forget to be collecting supplies!


Have a great week!
Mrs. Hallinan 

NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion
We will begin Chapter 12 "The Church Serves". We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading
Story: "The Big Trip"
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Phonics Skill: Long E (ea, ee) and -ng, -nk words
Grammar: compound sentences
Sight Words: about, could, sure, don't, car, maybe, very, travel, really, through, by, there
Spelling Words: keep, seed, green, street, cheek, clean, read, mean, sea, heat

Math
We will continue working with money by counting mixed coins up to $1.00 and finish up the unit.