Week of 3/27

Last week we practiced reading for fluency with partners.

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! This is our last full week before Spring Break and we'll continue working hard becoming responsible and independent "almost second graders."  Here are the reminders for this week:

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

- On Thursday we will celebrate the Phillies Opening Day! The kids can dress down and lunch will be provided for the kids! 

- There will be reading and spelling tests this Friday.

- If you have any gently worn shoes, you can send them in this week! They will be donated to Soles for Souls. 

- Just a reminder that there is only school on Monday and Tuesday next week! School will resume on Wednesday, April 12 and spring uniforms start that day!

That is all for now! Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

We also highlighted all the long a words that we could find!

Homework

Monday

Reading: RN page 40

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 119

Religion:  study for test

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 43

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 48

Religion:  study for test

Wednesday
Reading: page 41
Practice Sight Words
Math: workbook page 49

Religion:  study for test tomorrow

Thursday
Reading: study for tests tomorrow 
Practice Sight Words
Math: workbook page 50

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 15 "We Belong to a Parish" and have test on Thursday.

Reading
Story: "Where Does Food Come From?"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Phonics Skill: ay and ai words and ou/ow sound & oy/oi sound
Grammar: Contractions 'll and 'd (review of proper nouns)
Magic Words: first, right, under, food, sometimes, your, ground, these, fields, corn, flowers, favorite

Spelling Words: play, may, stay, way, day, pain, rain, grain, mail, sail

Math

We will continue start our unit on graphing this week! We will learn and practice graphing on tally, picture and bar graphs.

Week of 3/20

We finished up our Science unit learning about constellations!

Dear Parents,

We had so much fun building showing off our leprechaun traps last week. Their creativity and engineering skills blew me away. We had so much fun looking at each others traps and Lucky the Leprechaun even stopped by while we were at lunch! Check out the pictures of the traps below. 

Spring is here and Easter is around the corner. Here are the reminders for this week:

- Tomorrow we will celebrate World Down Syndrome Day! The kids may "rock their socks" to school with their regular school uniform tomorrow!

- Report cards will be sent home tomorrow. You may keep the report card at home. Please sign and return only the envelope!

- Test folder will be sent home Wednesday. Please and sign and return on Thursday!

- There will be a math test on time on Friday. A review will be sent home for homework on Thursday.

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 32

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 115

Tuesday

Reading: page 31

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 116

Wednesday
Reading: page 33
Practice Sight Words
Math: workbook page 117

Thursday
Reading: page 34
Practice Sight Words
Math: complete test review

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will start Chapter 15 "We Belong to a Parish".

Reading
Story: "Where Does Food Come From?"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose
Phonics Skill: ay and ai words and ou/ow sound & oy/oi sound
Grammar: Contractions 'll and 'd (review of proper nouns)
Magic Words: first, right, under, food, sometimes, your, ground, these, fields, corn, flowers, favorite

Spelling Words: play, may, stay, way, day, pain, rain, grain, mail, sail

Math

We will continue to work with time and review hour and half hour. We will also work with time patterns and elapsed time. There will be a test on Friday.

Week of 3/13

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a great weekend! We have 3 full weeks of school left until Easter break! There are a lot of reminders this week so please be sure to read them all! 

- The 3rd Trimester starts today! Report cards will be sent home next Tuesday.

- We will celebrate Mass on Tuesday at 9:00 am. All are welcome! Please do not dress tomorrow :)

- There is a general Home and School Meeting on Thursday night at 6:00 pm. The class with the highest attendance rate will win a free dress down! Hope to see you there!

- There will be a Religion test on Thursday on Chapter 12. A study guide will be send home today.

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

-Friday is a Dress Down Day! Please send in $1.00 to dress down. All proceeds will be donated to The Rising Together Alliance.

- Leprechaun traps can be brought in on Friday! The kids will share their traps with the class and tell them how it will "hopefully" catch a leprechaun! If you could refrain some sending them in earlier that would be great! We don't have too much room to store them! Thanks!

- The school will be participating in Penny Wars this week! Please see the flyer attached to the "this week" email. Thank you!

Have a great week!

Katie

Monday

Reading: page 16 and 22

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 112

Religion: study for test

Tuesday

Reading: page 25

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 113

Religion: study for test

Wednesday
Reading: page 28
Practice Sight Words
Math: complete worksheet

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Thursday

Reading: study for tests tomorrow

Practice Sight Words

Math: workbook page 114

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 12 "The Church Serves" and have a test on Thursday. We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "The Big Trip"

Target Skill: Compare and Contrast

Phonics Skill: Long E (ea, ee) and -ng, -nk words

Grammar: compound sentences
Sight Words: about, could, sure, don't, car, maybe, very, travel, really, through, by, there

Spelling Words: keep, seed, green, street, cheek, clean, read, mean, sea, heat

Math

We will start our Time unit this week. We will focus on learning the two hands of the clock and learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour.

Week of 3/6

We loved working with real money last week!

Dear Parents, 

The second trimester closes this Friday and I can assure you that this last trimester will FLY by. In this final trimester, we really focus on responsibility, independence and self control. We talk a lot about being "almost second graders" and what being in second grade entails. One of the best parts of teaching first grade is seeing the growth that each child makes in 9 short months. Thinking back from September until now they are completely different kiddos! I am sure you see it too :)

- Grades 2 and up will be taking the Terra Nova tests this week, but we will be having a normal week and start a new story!

- We will have a math test on money on Thursday. The kids have been doing really well with this and we will continue to practice this week to prepare for the test! A review will be sent home for homework on Wednesday.

- No school for students on Friday! Enjoy the long weekend!

- Don't forget leprechaun traps should be sent to school next Friday, March 17th!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Monday

Reading: RN page 17

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 109

Tuesday

Reading: RN page 18

practice sight and spelling words

Math: workbook page 110 and 111

Wednesday
Reading: page 19
Practice Sight Words
Math: complete test review

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will begin Chapter 12 "The Church Serves". We will continue to learn about Lent and The Stations of the Cross.

Reading

Story: "The Big Trip"

Target Skill: Compare and Contrast

Phonics Skill: Long E (ea, ee) and -ng, -nk words

Grammar: compound sentences
Sight Words: about, could, sure, don't, car, maybe, very, travel, really, through, by, there

Spelling Words: keep, seed, green, street, cheek, clean, read, mean, sea, heat

Math

We will continue working with money by counting mixed coins up to $1.00 and have a test on Thursday!