Dear Parents, March 30, 2015
This week in first grade, we are learning…
Language Arts 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 details will help us in evaluating whether we enjoyed the selection. Our phonics focus this week is the /ou/ sound spelled with ou as in round or ow as in owl. Our grammar focus this week is action words (verbs) in the present tense.
Spelling: Our spelling words this week, are from unit 25. These words review long vowels sounds with the CVCe pattern.
Math: We are still working on our unit -Mental Arithmetic, Money, and Fractions! We will focus on equal shares and fractions this week.
Religion: We will be continuing our reading from our religion books this week: Jesus Gives the Gift of Himself. We will also continue with Benjamin’s Box. Once again, I do encourage you to ask your child daily about Benjamin’s Box, as it is a story relating to the passion of Jesus.
Science: In science we are going to do a special project related to our seasons and check on our science lab from last week!
Social Studies: We will be unable to do any Social Studies this week as it is a short week!
Homework for the Week:
- Monday: Rainbow Write 2X and Math Worksheet
- Tuesday: Spelling p. 179-180 and Math Worksheet
- Wednesday: 7 Sentences
- Thursday: Read a lot over break!!!
Reminders for the Week:
- PE Uniforms on Tuesday!
- Report Cards go home on Tuesday!
- Please remind your child to bring their library book on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
- Living Stations of the Cross on Wednesday at 2pm in the Church.
- Thursday is a noon dismissal.
- Easter Break is from 4/3-4/12 with school resuming on April 13th.
Have a blessed week!
Ms. Manning
