Sacred Heart Academy
First Grade Curriculum Update
Dear Parents, November 12, 2012
Please make sure that your fabulous first
grader goes over these areas of study with you this week.
Virtue of the Month: *Appreciation and Wonder for Beauty of our
World
Saxon Math: Lessons 36 and 37: Write the numbers 33
and 34; Adding sums to 10; Adding one; Number trains 0n paper and in tactile
centers; Word (problem) Challenges; Number sentences; Find what is different;
Math Written Assessment #6; Addition; Graphing and Math centers in the
classroom (Geo-boards, Pattern block diagrams, Shapes)
History/Geography: * The Thirteen Colonies, The First
Thanksgiving
Religion: Thanksgiving and Gratitude; Explore Art Print #1 and #2- Helping
Others and God’s Love; Wednesday-Class Mass @ 8:00; Thursday- All School Mass @
8:00
Science: *Skeletal system
Social Studies: * The White House, The Flag and Eagle
Literature: *Teacher “November-themed”
selections; *November Writing
Journal
Sayings: * “There’s no place like home” and “The more
the merrier.”
Reading: Reading Centers: Individual and Group
Reading with the teacher, Saxon booklet #10- Pigs Can Sleep; SSR – Student
Silent Reading, Buddy Reading (with other 1st graders and with our 4th
grade Reading Buddies) and Listening Center as a class
Saxon Phonics: Worksheet 35-Assessment #6; Worksheet 36- coding
two syllable words with a dividing line, small v, small c and an accent mark;
Worksheet 37- Uu – umbrella/unicorn and Worksheet 38- Ww- wagon; dictionary
work with letters Uu and Ww
Spelling:
No Spelling List (#6) this week due to short week, Around the World
(sight word and spelling words) in class and/or Sight word /Spelling word Bingo
for Spelling List(s) #1-5.
Language Arts: Capitals, periods, question marks and
exclamation marks, Thanksgiving sentence “corrections.”
Art: * November
themes art and crafts
News to Know:
A BIG THANK YOU to our Veterans and all
of our military HEROES!
No Spelling List #6 this week. Please practice List 1-5 with our child on their flash
cards. Challenge work - See if
your child can put flash cards in a sentence sequence!
First Grade Feast- Wednesday,
November 14th @ 11:45 in
classroom
General PA Meeting – November
14th @ 7:00 p.m. @ Parish Hall
Principal Appreciation Day –
Thursday, November 15th
Friday, November 16th
– Jog-a-thon! – Drop off
(and sign in with me!) at Robb Field - Minimum
Day dismissal @ Robb Field
Parent-Teacher Conferences- Thank you for sharing your input!
Weekly Reading logs (due every Friday)
At
home Book Reports will be assigned
after Thanksgiving break
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