FIRST GRADE NEWSLETTER

NOTE FROM MRS. VAZQUEZ:

I can’t believe we are ending our week in November.

We will attend Mass at 8:30 a.m. on Friday followed by the saint presentations and parade as it is our celebration of All Saints day! I hope to see many of you on Friday.

Remember to have a dress rehearsal at home with your child’s saint costume before Friday. They must be able to walk, sit, and kneel with their costumes. They must wear their P.E. uniform underneath their saint costume.

A reminder,  our class will be using the first 7 pews on each side in church on Friday. Any questions, please send me an email.

HOMEWORK

  • No fluency this week (practice saint report and dress rehearsal)
  • Reading Log
  • Math IXL  C.1, C.10, G.1, G.10 (review adding and subtracting with 0 & 1)
  • Spelling:  Study spelling!  Test will be on Thursday.  Please check out spellingcity.com to study words.  Your child has their spelling city username and password on the 1st page of their planner.  
  • Saint Report Memorized
  • Study for math test next week on Thursday (worksheet)  DO NOT RETURN WITH HOMEWORK, it’s a study guide.

 

A SNEAK PEEK AT OUR ACADEMICS

Language Arts:

We began our new unit on WORD DETECTIVES for reading.  What do you do with tricky words?  Ask your child about our mission #1 and #2 and what Rasheed has done this week.  It’s all about reading in 1st grade!

We are working on reading our environment. Please make sure to read signs as you are driving to school.  Ask your child, how did they figure the word out?

In writing, we are making sure our word wall words are spelled correctly such as have, was, like, they and when.  I continue to add new words to our word wall.  We are practicing writing sentences using a capital letter to begin and adding a punctuation mark at the end.

Math: Counting nickels and pennies, skip counting, identifying nickels, dimes, and quarters. I will be sending a review for our unit test (DO NOT TURN IN with Homework next week).  It should be used as a study sheet.  The test will be next week on Thursday.

Religion: Practice memorizing Saint Report/Practice in Church for Saint presentations/entrance

Science:  We will be curious about pumpkins this week. 🙂

REMINDERS

  • Free, Free Dress on Wednesday. Students may wear festive Halloween attire.  Remember, no costumes.
  • November 1st Holy Day of Obligation, School will attend Mass at 8:30 on Thursday.
  • Remember PE uniforms on Tuesday and Thursday! Please make sure that long hair is pulled back and all students are wearing tennis shoes that they can tie themselves..
  • Halloween tattoo pre-sale begins! $1 tattoos that will be passed out on Halloween.  You may purchase as many tattoos but only one can be worn and the rest will be sent home.
  • Friday:  Mass and Saint Parade & Noon Dismissal

SHARE DAY:  It was a success!  We got to know each other a lot more this last week with our sharing. Share day will return soon. 

Please send me an email with any questions.

Blessings,

Mrs. Perez-Vazquez

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