Week of December 10th

Dear Parents,                                                                                 December 10, 2012

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

Virtue of the Month: *Charity

Saxon Math: Lessons 46-49: Write the numbers 42 through 45; Addition, Subtraction, Word (problem) Challenges; Number sentences; Graphing; Segment measurement and Math centers in the classroom (Dimes, Scales/Weight, Geo-boards, Pattern block diagrams, Shapes)

History/Geography: * History of World Religions- Chanukah/Hanukkah and Christianity- The Beginning of Christianity

                                   

Religion: Session 10 – Celebrating Advent (continued); Wednesday-Class Mass @ 8:00

Science: *Healthy eating and exercise

Social Studies: * Locating the North Pole (and Santa!)

Literature: *Teacher “December-themed” selections;  *December Writing Journal

Sayings: * “Land of Nod”

Reading: Reading Centers: Individual and Group Reading with the teacher, Saxon booklet #17-Just Jump,  #18-Go into a Cave and #19- Fiddle Time; 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

Saxon Phonics: Worksheet 47- Yy- yarn; Worksheet 48- sh- shark, Worksheet 49- oo- hook and oo- tooth, Worksheet 50- Assessment 9; Vowel and consonant review; Sounds and letters Bingo

Spelling:  Spelling List #8, ABC word order, Rainbow words, Around the World (sight word and spelling words) in class and/or Sight word /Spelling word Bingo for Spelling List(s) #1-8 and Kindergarten/First grade sight words from Saxon booklets

Language Arts: Capitals, periods, question marks and exclamation marks

Art: * December Art projects

Special Movie Monday- *Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker- Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow

News to Know:

No Homework Monday night! – Parish Advent Penance Service at 6:30 p.m.

Weekly Reading logs and Book Reports are due Friday.  Book report forms will now be coming home every Monday.  For this week, please have your child read any Christmas themed book.

Our class will be having a class Book Exchange on December 21^st, along with cookies and milk or juice.  (One never knows who MIGHT be around when cookies and milk are present…)  More information will be coming your way from our Room Moms.