Dear Parents, April 29, 2013
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 understanding a story is compare and contrast. Understanding how events, characters, etc. are the same and how they are different leads us to a better understanding of the story. Our phonics focus this week is on the vowel pairs, oi, oy as in boy or oil and aw, au as in saw or sauce. We are also learning the suffixes –ful, -ly, and –y and our grammar focus is on using describing words. This week, our spelling words will be common sight words that are used in our writing and are often misspelled. Monday night will be the usual Rainbow Write but Tuesday and Wednesday will be writing 6 complete sentences each day with these words. The words will be posted to spellingcity.com. Don’t forget to practice!
We will continue our chapter on geometry in math and will be wrapping it up by the end of the week!
In religion we will be spending our time learning about the Mother of our Church- Mary. In addition first grade is responsible for the May Crowning, which will take place on Thursday around 9:30 (after our school mass) in the church. Some of your children have speaking parts and although they were assigned last week, will be coming home this week for practice. We will have a beautiful procession in with flowers and finish with the crowning of Mary. I hope to see you all there!
We will turn our attention to the seasons in science.
In social studies we continue our study of our country and will wrap up the chapter by the end of the week.
Announcements for the week:
- “All About Me” this week is… Natalie! Congratulations!
- Please remind your student to bring their library book on Tuesday so that they may check out another one.
- On Thursday, we will have our school mass at 8:30am. Please join us if your schedule allows.
- On Thursday, we will also have our May Crowning in the church following mass.
- Friday is our field trip to the Ojai Storytelling Festival! All students are to wear their school uniforms.
Have a fantastic week!
Miss. Manning
