Dear Parents,                   May 27, 2014 We have completed all of our Language Art Themes for first grade! Woo-Hoo! We will review all reading strategies, comprehension skills, grammar, and phonics we have learned thus far, within the last days of the school year! In math, we will […]

Dear Parents,            May 19, 2014 A big “Thank you!” to Mr. M. Perez for coming into our classroom on Friday to discuss safety and to show us his police motorcycle! Every student present took a picture on the motorcycle. I will be emailing those to parents by the end of […]

May is the month of Mary. We honor Mary, our Blessed Mother, in a number of ways. In first grade we were able to partake in the crowning of Mary for our school. In addition we wrote beautiful prayers to Mary. Here are some of our beautiful words honoring Mary.

Dear Parents,              May 11, 2014 Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you all enjoyed your Mother’s Day gift! We are continuing on with Theme 10.  Our reading strategy this week is summarizing. The comprehension skill that will help us with this is sequence of events. The ability to organize our […]

Dear Parents,                     May 5, 2014 The students did a fantastic job during the May Crowning. It was beautiful and many teachers told me that it brought tears to their eyes! We have concluded theme 9 and are moving right into our last theme- Theme 10! […]

Dear Parents,               April 28, 2014 I hope all had a blessed Easter and enjoyable break! Our reading strategy this week is questioning.  Reading the title, looking at the pictures and stopping to ask oneself questions, are strategies good readers use.  The comprehension skill that will help us with […]

Dear Parents,                 April 14, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is evaluating.  The comprehension skill that will help us with evaluating is story structure.  Knowing the setting, the characters, the problem, and solution in the story and being able to sequence the events will help us evaluate […]

Dear Parents,                       April 7, 2014 We are starting theme 9 in our reading series – Special Friends.  Our reading strategy this week is “monitor/clarify”.  The comprehension skill that will help us with this strategy is noting details.  Using the text, pictures, and paying attention […]

Dear Parents,                   March 24, 2014 Our reading strategy this week is “evaluating”.  The comprehension skill that will help us in evaluating is topic, main idea, details, and summarizing.  After reading a selection, being able to identify the topic of the selection, the main ideas and the […]

Dear Parents,               March 18, 2014 We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth.  Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”.  The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying.  Paying attention to what is the same or different in the stories […]