Dear Parents,                     March 16, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “questioning”.  Good readers question before they start reading, as well as, during reading.  The comprehension skill that will help is “fantasy/realism”.  Using our everyday experiences to determine if events in a story can really […]

Dear Parents,                     March 9, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”.  Stopping to reread especially if there are words we have difficulty reading and making sure the sentence and the story make sense to us are strategies that good readers use.  The […]

Dear Parents,                     March 2, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts We are starting theme 7 in language arts – We Can Work It Out!  Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill that helps us with this is problem solving.  In order to summarize a story, it is helpful […]

Dear Parents,                     February 23, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Our reading strategy this week is predict/infer and the comprehension skill that will help with that strategy is predicting.  Taking time to look through what we are going to read, to look at titles or pictures and predict what the […]

Dear Parents,                     February 16, 2015 I hope everyone enjoyed the long three day weekend! This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Review Week! We will spend our time this week reviewing contractions, long vowels, and reading biographies! Spelling: No new spelling words this week! Math: We will be wrapping up our unit […]

Dear Parents,                     February 9, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: We are continuing with theme 6 in our reading series this week – Animal Adventures.  Our reading strategy this week is questioning.  A good reader stops while reading and asks themselves questions about the story.  The comprehension skill that helps […]

Dear Parents,                     February 2, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: We are starting theme 6 in our reading series this week – Animal Adventures.  Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill is story structure.  Knowing the setting, characters, problem, events in trying to solve the problem, and the […]

Dear Parents,                     January 26, 2014 It’s Catholic Schools Week!! Language Arts: We are finishing theme 5 in our reading series this week and will continue with the CVCe pattern.  Our reading strategy is “monitor and clarify” and our comprehension skill is cause and effect.  Cause and effect relationships can be difficult for the children and […]

Dear Parents,                     January 20, 2015 I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! This week in first grade, we are doing a lot! And we have the 100th day of school on Wednesday! Woohoo!! Language Arts: As we have a short week ahead of us, we will be taking our time to review. We will be […]

Dear Parents,                     January 12, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Our reading strategy this week is summarizing and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is making generalizations.  Paying attention to the beginning, middle, and end of the story will help us with summarizing and paying attention […]