Week of September 24th

Sacred Heart Academy

First Grade Curriculum Update

Dear Parents,                                                                                   September 23, 2012

Please make sure that your fabulous first grader goes over these areas of study with you this week.

Virtue of the Month: *Respect and Responsibility

Saxon Math: Lessons 13-16: Write the numbers 12 through 16; Shapes and Colors; How many? Graphing; Left, Right and Middle; Ordinal numbers (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd); Towers and Trains; Angles of a triangle; Addition and Subtraction; Pennies and Math centers in the classroom

History/Geography: * Desert habitats on a map; *North, South, East and West on a map; *Map legends

                                   

Religion: God is Our Father; Wednesday-Class Mass @ 8:00; Thursday- All School Mass @ 8:00 (P.E. uniforms ok for Thursday mass)

Science: *Finish Rainforest booklet; Introduce *Desert habitats; Desert booklet

Literature: * Jack in the Beanstalk, Teacher selections;  *Poetry- I Know All the Sounds the Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky

Reading: Introduction to Reading Centers: Individual and Group Reading with the teacher, SSR – Student Silent Reading, Buddy Reading (with other 1^st graders and with our 4^th grade Reading Buddies) and Listening Center as a class until individual headphones are available to each student

Saxon Phonics/Spelling: Worksheets 12-15: suffix “-s” and sight words the, end, Blends and Activity sheet review, Write letter Dd (dog), Assessment #2. Identify and/or match pictures with corresponding sound of each letter and/or matching letter.

Language Arts: Capitals, periods and question marks

Art: * Paul Cezanne – Still Life apples/fruit, continued

News to Know:

First Field Trip (1^st/3^rd grade classes) –

San Diego Natural History Museum - Habitats

Wednesday, October 10^th

1st grade needs 3 live scanned driver/chaperones for this Core Field Trip

(Designated drivers will drive their own child.  I will plan the riding groups throughout the year and will not be able to accommodate special requests, as I rotate children according to many different factors.) 

Permission slips are coming home Monday, September 24^th and drivers will be selected in order received.  Thank you, in advance, for your interest.

Drivers will rotate throughout the various field trips for the year, when locations do not allow for all available parents to attend.

Mrs. Tollefson joined in with the 1st grade Apple Feast, celebrating Johnny Appleseed last Friday J

First grade has a new CD player thanks to Leah McGonigle and family!  We love listening, signing and dancing to our music selections!

Thank you, Frankie FitzMaurice and family for your Prize Box goodies!

Many thanks to all of you for offering items to keep our class and hands clean, our noses wiped and our insects in their own habitats!