Week of 9/26

On Friday, we celebrated our first birthday of the year! 

Happy Birthday, Charlotte:)

On Thursday, we reviewed for our tests with a little

spelling and sight word tic-tac-toe review. The kids did great!

Last Monday, we had our first mystery reader! Thank you Liz!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! I can't believe we are in the last week of September already! We will continue working on our routines but the kids are really settling in and doing a great job! We have a pretty calm week this week! Here are your reminders:

- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign each test and return on Wednesday.

- We will start making our math flash cards this week. Please have your child review them along with their sight words and spelling words each night!

- We will have our first math test on Friday. We will be reviewing in school all week and a review will be sent home for homework on Thursday night!

- A paper explaining the Saints Presentation was sent home today! Please read it carefully and mark down the dates! The report will be due on Wednesday, October 12th and the presentation will be on Friday, October 28th! If you have any questions please let me know!

Have a great week!
Mrs. Hallinan

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 90

Math: workbook page 19

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 92

Math: wb page 20

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 89

Math: wb page 21

Thursday

Reading: RN page 93

Math: complete test review

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion: Chapter 2 - "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity"
In this chapter we will learn all about the three persons that make up the Blessed Trinity and we will also learn about what prayer is.

Reading
Story: "How Animals Communicate"
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends
Grammar: Nouns
Sight Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why
Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big

Math
This week we will continue with addition! We will review the parts of an addition sentence (addend + addend = sum) and work with memorizing the the math facts that equal 10! We will have a test on Friday.

Week of 9/19

Last week we practiced partner reading our story!

The partners took turns reading Jack and the Wolf.

Good job, Patrick and Lucy!

We took our whiteboards outside and went on

a "noun hunt" they did great!

The class partnered up and played a game "Race to 100".

"Race to 100" helped practice counting on

and building a strong number sense.

Good work Declan and Max!

We practiced reading to ourselves with our reading phones.

The class loved using the reading phones.

Go Lucy:)

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:

- We will have our first school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. All are welcome to join us!

- We will have our first Religion test on Wednesday. Normally a study guide will be sent home for your child to study, but this week we will take it together in school to get used to it! I did send one home today if you want to start practicing with your child!

- 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 Thursday 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.

- Sight Words will also be tested on Friday so please make sure you are reviewing them each night. A little zipper bag got sent home today in their H folder on top of their R copybook. This bag is to go to and from school.

- Mystery Reader sign up dates can be found on the blog! Once every one signs up for one date I will let you know and you can sign up for a second if you want to!

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

Mrs. Hallinan 

                                    On Friday, we got assigned our 8th grade buddies for the year! The kids

                                    were so excited. We got to work with our new 8th grade buddies on our

                                    summer reading adventure activity. It was a great morning. 

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: Reading Notebook page 86

Math: workbook page 9

Tuesday

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Reading: RN page 84

Math: wb page 15

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 80

Math: wb page 16

Thursday

Reading: study for reading and spelling tests tomorrow. 

Read Jack and the Wolf

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!

Week of 9/12

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade and are looking forward to a great year! Thanks to all of you who came to Back to School Night! It was great to meet everyone! We have a lot of fun things planned so keep checking our classroom blog for updates and pictures of what is going on in Room 4!

Here are a few reminders for this week:

- The first few weeks of school are very important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I urge you to also have expectations and routines at home as well. For example, each day after school your child can eat a snack, empty their home folder, complete their homework and practice their sight words and spelling words for the week. Simple chores like packing their school bags, helping pack lunches/snack and making their beds will help your child to become responsible, organized and independent!

- Please be sure to check your child's "H Folder" with them every night. You can empty out any papers that were completed in school.

- On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. Students are asked to wear their Camp Wannabe Shirt (from last spring) with their gym shorts. We will be talking about "Encanto" and completing a fun activity with our 8th grade Buddies.

- There will be a dress down day on Monday, 9/19. Please send in $1.00 to dress down. All proceeds will be donated to CHOP.

- I will be sending out a link this week for the Mystery Reader sign up genius! Please sign up to read for one slot only as of now. If you would like to do it virtually please leave a comment so I know! Thanks!

- If your child is going to be absent/late or there is a change in dismissal please email me and Susan Hodgens and shodgens@sksschool.org. Thanks!

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

Thanks!
Mrs. Hallinan 

Homework

Monday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Reading: Reading Notebook page 75

Math: workbook page 1 and 2

Tuesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Reading: RN page 74

Math: wb page 3 and 4

Wednesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Reading: RN page 78

Math: wb page 5 and 6

Thursday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Reading: RN page 83

Math: wb page 7 and 8

A Peek at Our Week

Religion
We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God in Chapter 1. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!

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

Math
This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards.