Wednesday, March3rd: Hot Lunch Subway. Please remember to send in a healthy snack for the morning.
Friday, March 5th: Stations of the Cross at 2:00. Please join us if your schedule allows you to.
Religion: This week we begin examining the stations of the cross. As a whole group we will read and discuss one station each day. This week we will cover stations one through five. Then each student will illustrate the station. This activity will continue through the season of Lent so at the end each student will have their own personal Stations of the Cross book.
Reading: Our story this week is the “Shrinking Mouse.” The skills that we will learn are the sound of e when paired with i and a. The students have been learning about adjacent vowels. The rule for these vowels is that when two vowels sit together in a word the first one does the talking (letter says it’s name) and the second one does the walking (silent). Vocabulary words are before, off, our, right, and come. We are strengthening our story comprehension skills by identifying the characters in the story. We are learning to read a newsletter. The students are learning to make predictions about what will happen in storieso which they are listening. Our final skill this week had us learning when to add the ending -ing to words. Here is the rule we learned to help us remember; “When you add -ing to a word that ends with a vowel and a consonant double the final consonant and add -ing.”
Spelling: Our spelling words this week are lip, his, went, night, high, might, light, any, many, andfrightening.
Grammar: This week we are working with adjectives.
Writing: The students have been introduced to a new process in writing. Each student is given a squiggle (this is a wavey line in different shapes) to draw a picture around. After the squiggle has been used in a picture, they then go back and write a story about their picture. These are lots of fun and the students’ imaginations have really taken off.
Math: We continue with our unit about money. We are learning different ways to:
make a dollar.
show different amounts using coins.
Social Studies: We continue with our unit about transportation.
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First Grade: February 26, 2010
Fun Things to Remember
Wednesday, March 3rd: Hot Lunch Subway. Please remember to send in a healthy snack for the morning.
Friday, March 5th: Stations of the Cross at 2:00. Please join us if your schedule allows you to.
Religion: This week we begin examining the stations of the cross. As a whole group we will read and discuss one station each day. This week we will cover stations one through five. Then each student will illustrate the station. This activity will continue through the season of Lent so at the end each student will have their own personal Stations of the Cross book.
Reading: Our story this week is the “Shrinking Mouse.” The skills that we will learn are the sound of e when paired with i and a. The students have been learning about adjacent vowels. The rule for these vowels is that when two vowels sit together in a word the first one does the talking (letter says it’s name) and the second one does the walking (silent). Vocabulary words are before, off, our, right, and come. We are strengthening our story comprehension skills by identifying the characters in the story. We are learning to read a newsletter. The students are learning to make predictions about what will happen in storieso which they are listening. Our final skill this week had us learning when to add the ending -ing to words. Here is the rule we learned to help us remember; “When you add -ing to a word that ends with a vowel and a consonant double the final consonant and add -ing.”
Spelling: Our spelling words this week are lip, his, went, night, high, might, light, any, many, and frightening.
Grammar: This week we are working with adjectives.
Writing: The students have been introduced to a new process in writing. Each student is given a squiggle (this is a wavey line in different shapes) to draw a picture around. After the squiggle has been used in a picture, they then go back and write a story about their picture. These are lots of fun and the students’ imaginations have really taken off.
Math: We continue with our unit about money. We are learning different ways to:
Social Studies: We continue with our unit about transportation.