Week of 12/12

 

It was a great Christmas Concert!

Dear Parents,

I hope you enjoyed the Christmas Concert last week! The kids looked and sounded wonderful. We hope it put you in the Christmas spirit! There are only 8 full days before Christmas Break and there is a lot going on so please read all the reminders! Here they are:

- Due to our field trip we are moving our class Christmas party to Tuesday, 12/20! If you volunteered to send something in please send it in by Tuesday morning! Thank you!

- Report cards will be sent home tomorrow. Please remember that these grades are a reflection of your child's work in school along with their test scores. You may keep the actual report card at home. Please just sign and return the envelope. If you have any questions please let me know!

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

- On Tuesday morning we will go to Santa's Secret Shop! Please mark the envelope with who your child is shopping for and how much to spend on each person. It is really helpful to me and the volunteers! Envelopes will be sent home today so please send them back in for tomorrow! Thanks!

-We will have math test on Wednesday on place value. A review will be sent home for homework.

- Friday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down. Thank you!

- The 7th grade is  collecting new socks for the homeless. If you would like to donate, please send them in this week! 

- If anyone else would like to chaperone the bowling trip of Wednesday, December 21st please send me an email! I am still looking for 2 volunteers! I will be picking on Wednesday! The permission for and payment info can be found here:  1st and 8th grade Bowling Trip December 2022  Please have this completed by Friday of this week!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti 

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 166

Math: workbook page 66

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 168

Math: complete test review

Wednesday 

Reading: RN page 167

Math: no homework

Thursday

Reading: RN page174

Math: complete worksheet

A Peek At Our Week

Religion
We will continue talking about the season of Advent and Christmas. We will also start Chapter 6.

Reading

Story: "How Leopard Got His Spots"

Target Skill: Sequence of Events
Phonics Skill: Long E, digraph -ch, -tch
Grammar: Statements and Commands
Magic Words: hold, been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, good, full, friend
Spelling Words: chin, chop, much, rich, cheer, three, beach, teach

Math

We will continue have a test on place value on matching place value blocks to the number they represent, identifying digits in the tens and ones place, and finding the value of digits.

Week of 12/5

We practiced place value last week and got to write on our desks!

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a nice weekend! We have another busy week here with the Christmas Concert and no school on Thursday!  Here are your reminders for the week:

- Tuesday night will be the K-4 Christmas Concert! The kids should wear their Sunday/Christmas best. Please no jeans. Please have your child arrive to church by 6:45pm. They can go right to their pew where we have been practicing. After the performance, you can pick them up from their pew! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!       

- No school on Thursday due to the Holy Day! There is a pizza party after the 12:10 pm Mass Thursday. You can sign up HERE if you would like to attend! 

- There will be a spelling and reading test on Friday. The spelling words are more difficult with the long vowel patterns so please be sure to study! 

- We have our Monthly Mass on Friday at 9:00am! All are welcome!

- Our second field is quickly approaching! We will be bowling at Devon Lanes with our 8th grade buddies on Wednesday, December 21st! Please note that a pizza lunch is included in the price so you do not have to order lunch on Wednesday. We need 5 chaperones for this trip. If you are interested, please email me and I will pick out of a hat next week! Sorry, no younger siblings are welcome on this trip! If you could have the permission form and payment completed by Friday, December 16th that would be great!

BOWLING TRIP PERMISSION FORM

- Report cards will be given out next week.

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 152

Math: workbook pages 62 and 63

Tuesday NO HOMEWORK/Christmas Concert

Reading: 

Math: 

Wednesday -

Reading: RN page 162; study for test Friday

Math: wb pages 64 

Thursday

Reading: 

Math: 

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will continue to talk about the Advent season and the meaning of Christmas! 

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Fact and Opinion
Phonics Skill: Long A, (a_e and ay, introduce -ai) digraph th
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, me, my, here, who
Spelling Words: that, then, with, cape, name, make, say, pray

Math

We will continue our unit of Place Value. We will focus on identifying the value of digits, writing expanded form and building numbers with place value blocks.

Week of 11/28

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. This week we will start our second reading unit and start learning long vowels, we will also start a new math unit on place value and begin to practice for the Christmas Concert which will be held next week! Here are the rest of your reminders:

- The first trimester ends this Friday. Report cards will sent home on Tuesday, 12/13.

- Wednesday will be a dress down day to help fund the tree lighting. If your child would like to dress down please send in $5.00 on Wednesday.

- The tree lighting will be on Wednesday night from 6-8 pm! All are welcome!

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

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 5 on Thursday.  A study guide will be sent home today.

-Next Tuesday, 12/6 at 7:00 pm will be the K-4 Christmas Concert! The students are to wear their Christmas best! 

That is all for now! Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 151

Math: wb page 58

Tuesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 150

Math: wb page 59

Wednesday

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Reading: RN page 153

Math: wb 60

Thursday

Reading: RN page 159

Math: wb page 61

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish up Chapter 5 and have a test on Thursday. We will also start learning about the season of Advent.

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Fact and Opinion
Phonics Skill: Long A, (a_e and ay, introduce -ai) digraph th
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me
Spelling Words: that, then, with, cape, name, make, say, pray

Math

We will begin our unit on place value. We will learn about tens and ones and practice making numbers from 10-60.

Week of 11/14

Congrats to Charley, our first Peacemaker of the year!

Dear Parents,

We had another great week last week and will keep going strong into the holiday season. This week we will have our last reading and spelling test for our first unit and also will have a math test on fact families. Here are the rest of the reminders for the week:

- We have our first field trip on Wednesday to see the Wizard of Oz at Carroll High School! The kids can wear their gym uniforms to school. We will eat lunch a little later when we return to school. If you have not filled out the permission form or paid please do so ASAP! You can find the link HERE

- IXL and Kids A-Z logins were sent home last week! If you have any trouble logging in please let me know!

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

- There will be a math test on fact families and mixed addition and subtraction on Thursday. We will be reviewing all week.

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

That is all for now! 

Miss Tosti

A big thanks for Charley L's Dad for coming in and teaching us about Veterans Day!

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 136

Math: complete worksheet

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 143

Math: wb page 46

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 145

Math: complete test review

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start Chapter 5 "Jesus Teaches Us About Love"

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Sight Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take, sing, all does, they

Spelling Words: us, sun, bus, but, run, fun, dust, jump

Math
This week we will finish up fact families and have a test on Thursday.

Week of 11/7

Dear Parents,

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to meet with me for conferences. Communication between the teacher and parents is crucial to the success of your child and I appreciate you giving up your time.
The kids have already grown so much since September and it is exciting to see their reading skills develop and grow. We will start learning long vowel patterns after we finish this story and start our second reading unit!  There are lots of pictures this week from the Saints Celebration and Halloween so be sure to check them out! Here are your reminders for the week:

- Thanks for all of the donations for the troops! We collected 5 boxes of supplies to send over and the kids made cards with their buddies to send too! Thanks to Mrs. Chott for the idea and for helping organize this!

- Our Monthly Mass for November will be on Tuesday at 9:00 am. All are welcome! 

- Chapter 4 Religion test will be on Friday. A study guide was sent home today.

- The link to the permission form and payment for our field trip next week can be found HERE

- Your child's login information to IXL and Kids A-Z will be sent home this week! The kids have used them in school and should know how to use them at home! If you have any trouble please let me know!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 135

Math: wb page 40

Tuesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 137

Math: wb page 41

Wednesday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 134

Math: wb page 43

Thursday

Religion: study for test

Reading: RN page 140

Math: wb page 42

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 4 and have a test on Friday.

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Sight Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take, sing, all does, they

Spelling Words: us, sun, bus, but, run, fun, dust, jump

Math
This week we will learn about Fact Families and practice relating addition to subtraction! 

Week of 10/24

We learned about states of matter last week and used bubbles to observe liquids and gases!

Dear Parents,

This week we will have our Saints Celebration! Be sure to read the reminders about the special day below.  Here are your reminders for the rest of the week:

- This is the last week to send in donations for our troops! Please do so by Friday! Thanks so much!

- We will be going on our first field trip to see "The Wizard of Oz" at Carroll High School on Wednesday, November 16th! Be on the look out for the permission form and payment link. We will not need chaperones for this trip, but don't worry, we have a bowling trip in December with our 8th grade buddies where we will need volunteers!

- For the first 3 stories we kept the sight and spelling words to 6 each so that they kids could get used to studying them and to prepare for the test. Since they have been doing such a great job we will now do 10 sight words and 8 spelling words per story. 

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please return them on Wednesday!

- Friday will be a Phillies Dress Down Day. The kids can wear their Phillies gear under their saint costumes.

- Just a reminder to mark your calendar: No school on Tuesday, 11/1 and Friday, 11/4. 

- Conferences will be held Thursday, 11/3 (afternoon/evening) and Friday 11/4. You can sign up HERE

Saint Presentation reminders:

- The presentation will be at 9:00am on Friday and will last about 40 minutes! We ask that all family members sit on the side pews (left and right of the altar).

- The kids are to come to school dressed in their costumes over their gym uniforms or Phillies gear. Sneakers are fine.

- Please make sure robes are not too long as we will be walking to and from the church. Also, bobby pins tend to not keep veils on so if you can attach them to a headband that would be great.

Have a great week and GO PHILS!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 120

Math: wb page 38

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 122

Math: wb page 36

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 119

Math: wb page 37

Thursday

Reading: RN page 128

Math: complete worksheet

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will begin Chapter 4 this week and practice for our Saints Celebration!

Reading

Story: "Dr. Seuss"
Target Skill: Graphic Features and Biographies
Phonics Skill: Short e sound and -s blends
Grammar: Antonyms
Sight Words: after, draw, pictures, read, was, write, do, find, funny no
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, step, sled

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction! This week we will focus on using a number line to count or hop back.

Week of 10/17

Last week we learned about the scientific method and learned learned about why certain things float and sink!

We were shocked when the pumpkin floated!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! The saints reports were done so well and  I loved reading them! We will be getting ready for our Saints Celebration this and next week! If your child was picked to read they will be coming home with a copy of their part to practice at home. It does not need to be sent back to school.

- The 7th grade will be selling popsicles for $1.00 at recess on Tuesday and Thursday to raise money for Cases for Smiles. Raffle tickets will also be sold for a chance to win variety of different prize baskets. More information will be sent home today.

- If you would like to donate to our service project for the troops this month please send in any travel size toiletries or powdered drinks mixes like gatorade or hot chocolate! All donations are due by Friday, October 28th! Thanks so much for your help with this!

- Be on the lookout for conference sign ups tomorrow through Sign Up Genius. They will be held Thursday, 11/3 (afternoon/evening) and Friday 11/4!

- We will have a Religion Test on Chapter 3 on Thursday.

- There is a Virtual Home and School Meeting on Thursday night at 7:00 pm. Minding Your Mind will be presenting about anxiety in children. The zoom link will be sent out!

- Reading and Spelling test on Friday on a Musical Day.

- Friday is the JDRF Walk with the Principal to raise awareness for Juvenile Diabetes

That is it for now! Go Phils!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 110

Math: wb page 31 and 32

Religion: study for test

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 116

Math: wb page 33

Religion: study for test

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 114

Math: wb page 34

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Thursday

Reading: study for test tomorrow

Math: wb page 35

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

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

Reading

Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math

We will begin our unit on subtraction. We will learn about the minus sign, counting backwards and most importantly, that the bigger number always goes first in subtraction!

Week of 10/10

Let's Go Phillies!!

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a great long weekend. We have a busy week and are cruising along through October. Please continue to review sight words, math facts and read at home! There are a lot of reminders this week, so please be sure to read them all!

- Winter uniforms start today!

- Saint reports are due  this Wednesday!

- Test folders will be sent home on Wednesday. Please sign and return them with the tests in the folder on Thursday.

- School pictures will be on Thursday. Please send in your forms this week or complete them online. 

- We will have a math test on Friday finishing up our unit on addition. We will do a review in school on Thursday. 

- Our monthly Mass will be on Friday at 9:00 am. We will be doing a Living Rosary in the school yard before Mass at 8:30! All are welcome to join us!

- If you would like to donate to our service project for the troops this month please send in any travel size toiletries or powered drinks mixes like gatorade or hot chocolate! All donations are due by Friday, October 28th! Thanks so much for your help with this!

That is it for this week!

Miss Tosti

We loved searching for short i words in our books!

Homework

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 105 & 107

Math: workbook page 29

Religion: saint report due tomorrow!

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 113

Math: wb page 27

Thursday

Phonics: page 118

Math: wb page 28, review for test

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. We will start practicing for our Saint Presentation!

Reading
Story: "A Musical Day"
Target Skill: Sequence of events
Phonics Skill: Short o sound and -l blends
Grammar: Complete sentences and nouns
Sight Words: her, now, our, she, today, would
Spelling Words: on, pop, got, not, fox, hop

Math

We will finish up our addition unit this week. We will focus on adding 3 addends and finding doubles and sums of ten to help up. We will also work with simple word problems. There will be a test on Friday on adding on a number line, adding 3 addends and word problems. We will do our Test Review in school on Thursday. You can use this to study at home that night.

Week of 10/3

In science we learned about making observations using our senses!

We used our senses to observe popcorn! Our favorite of course was using our taste!

Dear Parents,

Happy October! The kids are settling in and have been doing a great job. I cannot believe we are finished with September already. October will certainly fly by as well. Here are your reminders for this week:

- Information about the first grade Saints Presentation was sent home last week. Each child may choose any saint they want! The report will be due next Wednesday 10/12, so please work on it this week. Please make sure the report and the picture are 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. The Saints Presentation will be on Friday, October 28th at 9:00 am in the Church. 

- The kids were given "book bags" last week which have books in them that reinforce the short vowel letters we have learned so far. They will be allowed to bring them home to practice reading if they want, I just ask that they take care of the books and remember to bring them back each day so we can use the books for future classes! 

- We will have a gym assembly on Thursday about Growth Mindset. Mrs. Marchese will be sending home more information about it this week!

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 2 on Thursday.  A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be a Spelling and Reading test on Friday for our story "How Animals Communicate." 

- Looking ahead, we have off on Monday, 10/10 and winter uniforms will start Tuesday, 10/11!

I think that is all for this week! Please let me know if you have questions about anything!

Miss Tosti

Thanks to Mrs. Vento for coming in to read!

Homework

Monday

Religion: work on saint report and study

Reading: RN page 91

Math: workbook page 23

Tuesday

Religion: work on saint report and study

Reading: RN page 95

Math: complete worksheet

Wednesday

Religion: work on saint report and study

Reading: RN page 101

Math: wb page 25

Thursday

Religion: work on saint report 

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Math: wb page 26

We practiced using our reading phones this week!

We learned how to play our newest math game, 100s Chart Puzzles to practice our number sense!

A Peek at Our Week!

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

We will finish up Chapter 2 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "How Animals Communicate"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details

Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends

Grammar: Nouns and commas in a series

Sight Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why

Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big

Math

This week we will continue with addition and learn how to use a number line to solve problems and learn double facts. If you practice at home, please have your child start at the larger number!

Week of 9/26

We love playing "Race to 100" to practice counting!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! I can't believe we are in the last week of September already! We will continue working on our routines but the kids are really settling in and doing a great job! We have a pretty calm week this week! Here are your reminders:

- Test folders will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign each test and return on Wednesday.

- We will start making our math flash cards this week. Please have your child review them along with their sight words and spelling words each night!

- We will have our first math test on Friday. We will be reviewing in school all week and a review will be sent home for homework on Thursday night!

- A paper explaining the Saints Presentation was sent home today! Please read it carefully and mark down the dates! The report will be due on Wednesday, October 12th and the presentation will be on Friday, October 28th! If you have any questions please let me know!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 90

Math: workbook page 19

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 92

Math: wb page 20

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 89

Math: wb page 21

Thursday

Reading: RN page 93

Math: complete test review

A Peek at Our Week!

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

 In this chapter we will learn all about the three persons that make up the Blessed Trinity and we will also learn about what prayer is.

Reading

Story: "How Animals Communicate"

Target Skill: Main Idea and Details

Phonics Skill: Short I sound and R blends

Grammar: Nouns

Sight Words: animal, how, make, of, some, why

Spelling Words: in, will, did, sit, six, big

Math

This week we will continue with addition! We will review the parts of an addition sentence (addend + addend = sum) and work with memorizing the the math facts that equal 10! We will have a test on Friday.

Week of 9/19

Dear Parents,

We survived our first full week of first grade! I hope the kids enjoyed it and are settling into school and our routines. We are a work in progress but we had a great week! I hope that you are continuing to set routines at home and are giving your child more responsibility. The more we work on this the more independent they will become!


Here are your reminders for the week:

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

- We will have our first Religion test on Wednesday. Normally a study guide will be sent home for your child to study, but this week we will take it together in school to get used to it! I did send one home today if you want to start practicing with your child!

- We will have our first reading test on the story "Jack and the Wolf" this Friday. I will read all of the questions and answers for the first few tests. The reader will be sent home this week so you can read and review the story at home.

- Our first Spelling test will also be on Friday. We have been practicing a lot with short A words in school. Please review the words at home each night as well.

- Sight Words will also be tested on Friday so please make sure you are reviewing them each night.

- Mystery Reader sign up dates can be found on the blog! Once every one signs up for one date I will let you know and you can sign up for a second if you want to! 

- The Star Student schedule was sent home last week. I will send a folder home with the directions the week before it is your child's turn.

I think that is it for this week! Please email me if you have any questions!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Reading: Reading Notebook page 86

Math: workbook page 9

Tuesday

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Reading: RN page 84

Math: wb page 15

Wednesday

Reading: RN page 80

Math: wb page 16

Thursday

Reading: study for reading and spelling tests tomorrow

Math: wb page 17

A Peek at Our Week

Religion: Chapter 1- "Jesus Teaches Us About God's Love"

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God. We will also learn about how God made each of us different! We will talk about how we are called to know, love and serve God. We will take our first test together!

Reading

Story: "Jack and the Wolf"

Target Skill: Characters

Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words

Grammar: Complete sentences

Sight Words: every, come, call, hear, said, away

Spelling Words: an, bad, can, had, cat, ran,

Math

This week we will start our unit on addition! We will learn the parts of an addition sentence (addends, plus sign, equal sign), start making our flashcards and learning how to add by counting on. Please start practicing flash cards at home!