Week of 1/14

Mrs. Pegg came in to read to us last week!

Dear Parents,

At this point in the year is when I start giving the students more independence to complete their work. They will start reading directions, completing workbook pages, worksheets and activities by themselves. For tests, I will only be reading the questions from now on. They will read the answers by themselves. It is important for them to become "self-starters" and gain the confidence to complete tasks by themselves. It would be great if you could reinforce this at home with homework. Of course, if they need help, help them, but make sure they try to read the directions or questions and figure it out by themselves first. The more independent they become the better off they will be!

Here are your reminders for this week:

- For MLK Day (1/21) SKS will be having a day of service from 10:00 am -12:00 pm in the cafeteria. All are welcome to volunteer! First grade has been asked to send in individually wrapped toothbrushes and toothpaste. If you would like to to donate you can send them in any time before Monday, 1/21. Thanks for your help!

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

-Wednesday is a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- On Thursday, pictures for yearbook will be taken. Please do not dress down on this day.

- We will have our Monthly Mass on Friday at 9:00 am. All are welcome to join us!

That is all for now! Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Monday

Reading: page 181

practice Magic Words

Math: page 58

**please check that the groups of tens are circled correctly. We did it in class today. Some kids preferred counting by twos and some by ones.

Tuesday

Reading: page 182

practice Magic Words

Math: page 59

Wednesday

Reading: page 183

practice Magic Words

Math: page 60

Thursday
Reading: page 186
Math: FIM 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will begin Chapter 9 "Jesus Died and Rose to New Life."

Reading
Story: "Seasons"
Target Skill: Cause and effect
Phonics Skill: Long I, digraph -sh, -wh, -ph and contractions 's and n't
Grammar: Subjects and verbs
Magic Words: down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, many, pull, because, want

Spelling Words: ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, want, like, kite, night

Math

We will start our unit on place value this week. We will learn about the tens and ones place and practice identifying tens and ones in numbers.