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:
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make a dollar.
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show different amounts using coins.
Social Studies: We continue with our unit about transportation.
First Grade: March 5, 2010
Fun Dates to Remember
Monday we will be on the assembly schedule so that we can attend the band concert at 1:45.
Wednesday we will attend an all school Mass. If your schedule allows please join us at 9:00.
Friday we will be attending Stations of the Cross at 2:00. Please join us for this as well.
Religion: We will continue to learn about and discuss the Stations of the Cross.
Reading: Our story this week is “You Can’t Smell A Flower With Your Ear.” This story centers around the five senses and has us conducting several mini experiments. The skills that we will be working on this week are recognizing the long o vowel sound when paired with a, e, and w. This weeks vocabulary words are by, kind,more,high, and find. We will also continue strengthening our comprehension skills by identifying the different jobs of the 5 senses. We will review how to write a list this time focusing on helping us remember things. Another skill that will be worked on is drawing conclusions after reading parts of a short story. Finally, the students will be introduced to the term context clues. They will learn that context clues are words that tell you the meaning of another word.
Grammar: We will continue to work with adjectives this week.
Spelling: Our spelling word for this week are win, sit, stop, fry, dry, crying, sky, more, before, and myself.
Math: The students have had a great time working with money this past month and have shown that they are beginning to understand the concept. Please continue to reinforce this skill with them at home so that they do not lose the kowledge that they have acquired. We now go on to working with probability. The terms that the students will be learning in this unit are impossible, probable, more likely, less likely, equally likely and certain. To enforce these terms the students will be doing many hands-on activities.
Social Studies and Science: This week we begin our unit about the ocean. The first activity we always do as a group is make a list of things we know and want to learn about the ocean. As the unit progresses we learn the names of each of the oceans that surround us on all sides of our country. We talk and read about the life that lives beneath the ocean. We see actual footage that has been filmed by oceanographer so that we can see actual plant and fish life.