Week of 10/30

Dear Parents,

Thank you all for coming to watch us at our Saints Celebration! We hope you enjoyed it! The kids and their costumes were fantastic! I could not be more proud of them. Grandparents/Special Friends Day was a great time too! Check out pictures from both below! The kids made my birthday so special! The flowers were so thoughtful and beautiful and I am so thankful for the generous gift. I am SO blessed to have such a wonderful class.

I will not be in Monday or Tuesday this week and won't be checking email. If your child is going home a different way or there are changes with anything please send in a note to the sub or contact Mrs. Condello.

Here are your other reminders for this week:

-The Halloween-o-thon will be Tuesday starting at 1:15 pm. Please see Mr. Tosti's email for more information. Please send in your child's costume in a labeled bag. If you would like to pick your child up after we leave the gym you can come pick them up in our classroom :)

- If you would like to come in and help your child put their costume on you may come in between 12:20 and 1:00. Thanks for your help!

- No school on Wednesday or Friday this week.

- Parent teacher conferences are Thursday afternoon/night and Friday.

- There will be no homework or tests this week :)

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We start Chapter 4 "Jesus Works Among the People".

Reading

Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Magic Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, do, find, funny, no
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, smell, stand, was, read,

Math

This week we will continue our unit on addition. We will continue making flash cards. Please review these at home and make sure they are sent back to school. We will also work on adding 3 addends together.

Week of 10/23

Mr. Longstreth was our special reader this week!

Dear Parents,

This week we have Grandparents/Special Friends Day and our Saints Celebration! Please let me know if you have any questions about either. Here are the rest of the reminders for the week:

- Home and School Raffles are due this week.

- There is a Home and School Meeting Tuesday night at 7:00 pm. Fr. Hagan from Villanova will be the speaker. We hope to see you there.

- Test Folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return all tests.

- Wednesday, October 25th is Grandparents/Special Friends Day from 8:30-9:30am. Grandparents/Special Friends can meet us in the cafeteria at 8:30am.

- There will be a Religion test on Thursday on Chapter 3. A study guide will be sent home.

- Thursday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00.

- The Saint Celebration is on Friday at 9:00am in the church. Students costumes are due on Thursday in a labeled bag. They are to wear their gym uniforms to school on Friday. Please be sure to sit on the sides of the church.

- The Halloween-a-thon is next Tuesday! Students are to wear their gym uniforms to school and they are to bring their costumes in a labeled bag. All make-up should be done at home before coming to school. If you could make sure your child knows how to put on their costume it would be a big help!

- Here is the link to our Verb Video in case you missed it! Verb Video

That's all for now! Hope to see you Friday!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: page 120

practice Magic Words

Math: page 23

Tuesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: page 119

practice Magic Words

Math: page 24

Wednesday
**Saint costume due tomorrow

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Reading: page 121

practice Magic Words

Math: page 25

Thursday
**Saint Celebration tomorrow. Wear gym uniform to school.

Reading: page 122

Math: play First in Math for 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family. We will have a test on Thursday.

Reading
Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Magic Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, do, find, funny, no
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, smell, stand, read, was

Math

We will continue our unit on addition. We will practice adding but using ten frames and number lines.  We will also start adding 3 addends together. We started making our flash cards last week. I asked the kids to keep them in their school bags so they can practice at home but they will also be able to practice in school.

Week of 10/16

Mrs. Mullin surprised us (in full costume) this week to read to us!

Dear Parents,

I hope you enjoyed the weekend! There are a lot of reminders this week and here they are! Check out the pictures of our math centers this week at the bottom of the blog to see how we have been learning about addition :).

- Winter uniforms start this week.

- School pictures will be taken on Thursday. Forms will be sent home today.

- We will have a spelling and reading test on Friday.

- A Sign-Up Genius for conferences will be sent out to you this week. Conferences will be on Thursday, November 2nd and Friday, November 3rd.

- Friday, October 21st is "Walk With the Principal". Students are to wear their gym uniforms to school. Please note that the winter uniform for gym includes sweatpants. Students must wear sweatpants to school every Thursday. They can wear shorts underneath and wear them in gym class if they want, but sweatpants must be worn for the rest of the day. Thanks for your cooperation.

- Wednesday, October 25th is Grandparents/Special Friends Day from 8:30-9:30 am.

- Don't forget to mark your calendars for the First Grade Saints Celebration which will be on Friday, October 27th at 9:00am. We will read our reports this week to learn about everyone's saint. Please start getting a simple costume together for the celebration.

- Please check your child's school supplies! Many of them need pencils and some other art supplies.

Have a great week!
Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 106

practice Magic Words

Math: page 20

Tuesday

Reading: page 113

practice Magic Words

Math: page 21

Wednesday

Reading: page 114

practice Magic Words

Math: page 22

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Math: FIM

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will begin Chapter 3 "Jesus Grew Up in a Family". We will learn about the birth of Jesus and the Holy Family.

Reading

Story: "A Musical Day"

Target Skill: Sequence of evens

Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends 

Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns

Magic Words: her, now, our, she, today, would, look, what, he, too

Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop, slot, plop, look, what 
Tests on Friday!

Math

This week we will continue our unit on addition. We will learn that adding is putting two parts together to make a whole. We will also learn the terms "addend" and "sum".  We will practice writing addition sentences (2 + 3 = 5) and drawing pictures to illustrate addition sentences. We will also start using ten frames.

Learning Addition

Last week we started our unit on addition! Before adding numbers together we learned exactly what addition was. We came up with the definition and hand motions that "part + part = whole" meaning addition is taking two parts and putting them together to make one whole. We then learned the vocabulary for the words part and whole and switched our definition to "addend + addend = sum". I told the kids to ask their siblings or parents if they knew those vocab words!

After we understood the concept of addition we began practicing illustrating pictures and using manipulatives to represent the two addends and the sum. From there, the kids began writing number sentences from word problems and solving them.  

The kids really enjoy center time and they work so well in small groups. I enjoy it because I get to work with each group and plan activities that the hands on. The first center was called "Scarecrow Addition". The kids solved addition problems by circling the bigger addend and using the "counting on" strategy to solve for the answer. The second center was called "Counting Around". Each student rolled the dice twice and added their rolls together for the first addend. The second student did the same to get the second addend and the third student solved for the sum. The last center was called "Sea Creature Math". I took the center group and we made up word problems and illustrated the number sentence by drawing different sea creatures! 

Scarecrow Addition

Counting Around

Counting Around

Sea Creature Math

Week of 10/9

Our "Bucketfillers" (Maeve and Ryan) from last week used their classroom coupons to eat lunch with the teacher and sit at the teacher's desk for the day!

Dear Parents,

The busy October continues! Here are your reminders:

- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign and return all tests on Wednesday.

- We will have our Chapter 2 test on Friday. A study guide will be sent home.

- On Friday at 9:00 am there will be a Prayer Service to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima. All are welcome!

- Information about the first grade Saints Celebration was sent home last week. The kids should be working on their short report this week as it is due Monday, October 16th. They may choose any saint they want! Please make sure the report and the picture is done neatly. Don't forget to have your child practice reading their report because they will be sharing it with the class for a grade.

- Winter uniforms start next Monday!

- School pictures (in winter uniform) will be taken next Thursday. Please send your child in their winter uniform and pack their gym uniform in a bag labeled with their name.

- Grandparents/Special Friends Day will be on Wednesday, October 25th. Grandparents or special friends are invited to join us in the cafeteria at 8:30am to enjoy some light refreshments and to make a small craft.

Homework

Monday

Religion: work on saint project

Reading: page 105

practice Magic Words

Math: page 15

Tuesday

Religion: work on saint project

Reading: page 104

practice Magic Words

Math: page 16

Wednesday

Religion: study for test
work on saint project

Reading: page 107

practice Magic Words

Math: page 17

Thursday

Religion: work on saint project
Study for test tomorrow

Reading: page 108

Math: page 19

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish up Chapter 2 "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity" and have our second test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "A Musical Day"

Target Skill: Sequence of evens

Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends 

Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns

Magic Words: her, now, our, she, today, would, look, what, he, too

Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop, slot, plop, look, what

Math

This week we will begin our unit on addition. We will learn that adding is putting two parts together to make a whole. We will also learn the terms "addend" and "sum".  We will practice writing addition sentences (2 + 3 = 5) and drawing pictures to illustrate addition sentences.

Week of 10/2

We listened to some great stories from Mrs. Mallach last week!

Dear Parents,

Happy October! We had a great field trip to Highland Orchards last week! Be sure to take a look at the video with some pictures of the fun! (Highland Orchards Trip) You can check out some pictures at the bottom of the blog of some activities we did in reading last week as well :).

October will certainly be a busy a month so please be sure to read all of the reminders in the coming weeks. Here are some for this week:

- There will be a math test on ordinal numbers, ordering numbers and comparing numbers on Thursday.

- There will be a reading and spelling test on Friday.

- The Cradle to Crayons pod will be here all week. If you would like to donate any gently used clothing, shoes, books, baby items or school supplies please send them to school in a bag or drop them off yourself! Thanks!

- Friday will be a Dress Down Day for our "adopted" school in Houston and also for Breast Cancer Awareness. We encourage the kids to wear pink if they have it! Thank you for your donations.

- The Book Fair and Grandparents/Special Friends Day will be on Wednesday, October 25th from 8:30-9:30am. Grandparents are welcome to come in, shop and make a small craft with their grandchild. If grandparents can't make it, a "special friend" like an aunt, uncle etc. will do! A flyer will be sent home this week. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

- Friday, October 27th will be the First Grade "Celebration of Saints".  Information regarding this will be sent home this week.

That is all for now! Have a great week :)

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 89

practice Magic Words

Math: complete worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: page 95

practice Magic Words

Math: page 11

Wednesday

Reading: page 96

practice Magic Words

Math: complete test review

Thursday

Reading: read story and review for test tomorrow
study spelling words for test tomorrow

practice Magic Words 

Math: FIM 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion: Chapter 2 - "We Believe in the Blessed Trinity"

We will continue with Chapter 2 this week. In this chapter we will learn all about the Blessed Trinity and prayer.

Reading

Story: "How Animals Communicate"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details

Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends

Grammar: Nouns

Magic Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why, help, for, have, you
Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big, wig, win, trip, brick
* Reading and Spelling test on Friday*

Math
This week we will finish up with first unit learning how to compare numbers using the <, >, = signs. We will also practice with ordinal numbers. A test will be given on Thursday. Students will be asked to order numbers, write numbers that come before, after and between, and also compare numbers using the correct signs.
*Test Thursday*

 We learned about acrostic poems and started writing our own about animals!

Last week we started the short i sound. The kids worked with partners to sound out and sort "real" and "wacky" (not real) words.