Week of January 7th

Dear Parents,                                                                                      January 6, 2013

Happy New Year!  I hope that you and your family had a great Christmas vacation! 

Thank you so much for your generosity in adding me to your Christmas list.  You are most kind and it is truly appreciated!  As I tell the kids, they ARE the present, as are you all!  I am so looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

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: Review Addition and Subtraction with Zero, Lessons 53-55: Write the numbers 48-50; Addition, Subtraction; Number sentences; Written Assessment #9; Addition and subtraction; Counting by tens; Time to the hour; Math centers in the classroom (Pennies, Dimes, Working with Zero, Telling time to the hour; Scales/Weight, Geo-boards, Pattern block diagrams, Shapes)

History/Geography: * History of World Religions- Review of Judaism and Christianity; Introduce Islam and How Muslims Worship

                                   

Religion: Unit 3 - Session 11- Following +Jesus’ The Church, My Guardian Angel, +Jesus Asks Friends to Follow and People in Your Church; Wednesday - Class Mass @ 8:00

Science: * Introduction to Space

Social Studies: * Introduction to Egypt

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

Sayings: * “Wolf in sheep’s clothing”

Reading: Reading Centers: Individual and Group Reading with the teacher, Saxon booklet Review 17-21; 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 50- Assessment 9 (Tuesday); Worksheet 51-

Jj- jar and sight word- says; Worksheet 52- Floss Rule; Worksheet 53- Vv- vest, sight words give, have, live and final v- spelled “ve”; Worksheet 54- Spelling with final e.

Spelling:  Spelling List #10, 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) #1-10 and Kindergarten/First grade sight words from Saxon booklets

Language Arts: Handwriting Lesson 5, New Year’s Resolutions, Journal writing, capitals, periods, question marks and exclamation marks

Art: * January Art projects – Snowflakes and snow people

News to Know:

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 winter or snow-related themed book.

January Field Trip- U.S.D School of Nursing- Tuesday, January 15^th (with 3^rd grade) – 8:30 to 11:45 (we will be back for school/hot lunch.  Please look for permission slips in school white envelopes.  This is a great hands-on field trip with many opportunities for the students to test their knowledge on the Human Body- Skeletal, Muscular and Circulatory Systems in an educational test lab setting.

Christmas ornaments- if your child has their special ornament still in class, please feel free to either collect it in the morning or I will send them home with them.