Dear Parents,                   December 17, 2012 The last week of school for 2012!!  What an exciting week it will be!  We have finished theme 4 in our reading series and will be assessing this week.  We will spend our language arts time this week reading Christmas books, […]

Dear Parents,                    December 10, 2012 It was a pleasure to meet with all of you during conferences! We have a busy week ahead of us! Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”.  Our comprehension skill that can help us with the understanding of a […]

Dear Parents,                     December 3, 2012 Our reading strategy this week is “evaluate”.  Our comprehension skill that can help us evaluate whether we enjoyed a book is “compare/contrast”.  Comparing and contrasting or finding ways in which certain things are the same or different can help us […]

Dear Parents,                         November 26, 2012 I hope that you all enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. A big thank you to all those who attended our Readers Theatre of The First Thanksgiving! The children did a wonderful job and truly enjoyed […]

Dear Parents,                      November 19, 2012 We have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving week and at the top of my list is YOU!  Thank you for all your support and for sharing your children with me.  They make me smile everyday! This is […]

Dear Parents,                        November 13, 2012 We will be finishing up theme 3 in our reading series this week.  Our reading strategy is “questioning”.  Before reading a story, we look at the cover, the title and the pictures and make a prediction about what the […]

This past week in Religion, first grade learned four different types of prayer – Praise, Asking, Thanks, and Sorry. In class we did a group project to illustrate what a Praise prayer, Asking prayer, Thanks prayer and Sorry prayer look like. We took our group illustrations and added them to our Religion board in our […]

Dear Parents,             November 5, 2012 The students did a fantastic job in the Saints Parade! To all those who attended, thank you for your support! This week, our reading strategy is “predict/infer”.  Before reading a story, we look at the cover, the title and the pictures and make educated […]

Dear Parents,                          October 22, 2012 This week, our reading strategy is “evaluate”.  After reading a story, we think back on what we read and learned to decide if we like or dislike the story and why. The comprehension skill that will help us […]