Week of January 28th

Dear Parents,                                                                                January 27, 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 64-66: Write the numbers 58-60; Addition, Subtraction; Number sentence; 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- Importance of The Nile River; King Tut

                                   

Religion: Explore Art Print 4- Bring Peace, Art Print 7- Serving the Kingdom and Art Print 13- Our Neighbors; Wednesday - Class Mass @ 8:00

Science: * Introduction to Space, The planet song; The Sun: source of energy, light and heat and the moon: phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, new)

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

Sayings: * “The man in the moon.”

Reading: Reading Centers: Individual and Group Reading with the teacher, Saxon booklets (1-21); 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 61- vowel y- cry, sight words love and move; Worksheet 62- vowel y- candy, sight words any and many.

Spelling:  No Spelling List/Test this week.  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 – Pyramids, King Tut line drawings

News to Know:

Weekly Reading logs and Book Reports are due Friday.

Catholic School’s Week Monday kick off- Student Appreciation Day!

Dress Up Day: twin, triplet, etc. day - Coordinate with a friend or friend(s) dress up day!  Please refer to your weekly flyer for the rest of the fun activities planned for the week!

Special “No Homework Week” this week for First grade!!! Yay!!!  (We will complete both sides of Saxon Phonics and Math IN class!)  This is in honor of how hard both you and your child have been working!  Plus, you will need a week off before our next BIG project J Hint:  First grade Solar Systems will be due February 22^nd.  These may be home made or a “personalized” store bought model.  Each child’s model will be suspended in the classroom, so a maximum height/length of 18 inches is necessary in order to make our way throughout the classroom “galaxy” each day!  Styrofoam, lightweight clay, construction paper, etc. have been materials that have been easy for the kids (and parent helpers) to use.  One or two metal dry cleaning hangars prove to be great mobiles for these systems.  Please see me if you have any questions regarding this fun project!