Week of January 21st

Dear Parents,                                                                                         January 21, 2013

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

Virtue of the Month: *Courage

Saxon Math: Lessons 61-63: Write the numbers 55-57; Addition, Subtraction; Number sentences; Written Assessment #11; Addition and subtraction; Counting by tens; Time to the hour; Even and Odd numbers- writing and counting up/aloud from random numbers, Math centers in the classroom (Pennies, Dimes, Working with Zero, Measurement with linking cubes and pennies, Telling time to the hour; Scales/Weight, Geo-boards, Pattern block diagrams, Shapes)

History/Geography: * Egypt on the map- locate Egypt and The Nile; Importance of The Nile River, floods and farming

                                   

Religion: Session 13-Jesus Teaches Us to Share; Wednesday - Class Mass @ 8:00; Thursday- All School Mass in school uniforms (despite P.E.) @ 8:00

Science: * Introduction to Space, The planet song

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

Sayings: * “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

Reading: Reading Centers: Individual and Group Reading with the teacher, Saxon booklet #20 – Review final, stable syllables in Fun with Uncle Steve; Open Court Reading Anthologies- Book 1; 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 58- final syllables ‘{tle – bottle and ‘{gle – bugle; sight word eye; Worksheet 59- final, stable syllables –cle, kle, sle and zle

Spelling:  Spelling List #12, 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) #1-12 and Kindergarten/First grade sight words from Saxon booklets

Language Arts: Journal writing, capitals, periods, question marks and exclamation marks

Art: * January Art projects – Egyptian crocs, Pyramids, King Tut line drawings

News to Know:

Weekly Reading logs (and Book Reports) are due Friday.  For this week, we will be doing our book reports at school.  The topic is Egypt and all children will have access to a book of their choice, either from the school or class library.  These will be displayed in class, given our current theme of Egypt for this week.

Please feel free to visit this Sunday at our school’s Open House!  This is a great way to visit other classes, as well as your child’s! 

This week’s Mass opportunities are abundant!

Wednesday class Mass @ 8:00

Thursday ALL SCHOOL MASS @ 8:00 (School uniforms – No P.E. clothing)

Sunday Mass @ 9:00 to kick off our SHA Open House!