Dear Parents, June 5, 2017 Welcome to our last week of first grade! Woohoo! I would like to take this quick moment and thank you all for your support of Sacred Heart and especially of your first grader! All students have progressed this year and I am incredibly proud to be their teacher. Thank […]
Dear Parents, May 29, 2017 I hope all enjoyed the long break! It sure felt like summer! But back to school we go for a tiny bit more! Please read the weekly reminders at the end of my newsletter as we have a few changes this week! Language Arts: We are putting the final […]
Dear Parents, May 22, 2017 We are going to the zoo on Wednesday of this week! Please remind your child to wear jeans/shorts, their SHS polo shirt, and PE shoes! In addition, please remember to pack your child’s lunch in a brown paper bag with their name on the front! We will not be […]
Dear Parents, May 15, 2017 I hope all enjoyed Mother’s Day and your gift from your first grader! Language Arts: We are done with our Themes and Spelling Units! Woohoo! We will be spending the last few weeks of school researching our zoo animal in class. We will be reviewing our informative writing as […]
Dear Parents, May 8, 2017 Take a peak at what first graders are doing in first grade! Language Arts: We are doing an excellent job in our Opinion writing. We will be wrapping up Opinion writing soon so that we can review our Informative writing as we prepare for our upcoming zoo report. We […]
Dear Parents, May 1, 2017 My Goodness! It is May! Congratulations to our poetry winners –Savannah placed first and Abby placed third! Woo-hoo! Language Arts: We are moving into writing about our opinions without the help of collections! We are finding restaurants, toys, books, movies, TV shows that we have opinions on and using […]
Dear Parents, April 24, 2017 I hope everyone enjoyed Easter break! We are back to work in first grade! Congratulations to our poetry finalists – Nicholas, Savannah, Khloe, Abby, and Sophia D. Language Arts: We are planning to have a mini-publishing party on Tuesday so that we can share our work with our neighbors. […]
Dear Parents, April 10, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We will have a little time this week to work on our opinion writing. We are continuing to challenge ourselves to find ways to persuade others. In phonics this week, we are focusing on suffixes and our vowel […]
Dear Parents, April 3, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are continuing to challenge ourselves in our opinion writing unit. We are looking for ways to persuade someone. In phonics this week, we are focusing on prefixes “un” (not) and “re” (again) and our base words with […]
Dear Parents, March 27, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are continuing our work on our opinion writing unit. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the sounds for “y”. When the y ends a short word it typically will have the long /i/ sound. If […]