Week of 9/25

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 but there a lot of reminders and here they are:

- We started our first unit in reading today on "How Plants and Animals Change". We will start making our flash cards for sight words this week. They will go home in your child's Home Folder each night. Please make sure they return to school. These words along with the spelling words for the week can also be found in your child's "R Copybook" and at the bottom of the blog. 

- Please review all spelling words and sight words each night to prepare for the test on Friday. There will also be a short reading quiz that we will prepare for in school.

- If you could check your child's homework for neat handwriting (especially letter and number reversals) and completeness that would be great. We've been working on writing neatly and in lower case letters in school and it would great if it could be reinforced at home.

- A paper explaining the Saints Celebration will be sent home tomorrow! Please read it carefully and mark down the dates! The report will be due on Wednesday, October 11th and the celebration will be on Friday, October 27th! If you have any questions please let me know!

- We have our first field trip planned to Saunders Woods on Thursday, October 26th! You can fill out the permission form for your child HERE. The payment info will be available tomorrow! We need 4 chaperones for our class. If you have your clearances and are interested, please email me back and I will pick from a hat next week!  

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: complete worksheet

study spelling and sight words

Math: workbook page 19

Tuesday

Reading: complete worksheet

study spelling and sight words

Math: wb page 20

Wednesday

Reading: complete worksheet

study spelling and sight words

Math: wb page 21

Thursday

Reading: study for spelling test tomorrow

practice sight words

Math: wb page 22

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: "Five Little Tadpoles"

Target Skill: Asking questions, main idea, sequence

Phonics Skill: Short a

Grammar: nouns

Sight Words: and, go, the, see, she

Spelling Words: pat, bat, hat, had, mad, can, ran, fan

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! 

Week of 9/18

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 Thursday. 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!

- 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.

- We will be trying to login to all of our new apps this week! Be on the lookout for login information going home this week so you can practice at home!

- If you would like to sign up for the second half of the year for reading circle please use this LINK. Thank you to everyone who has already signed up!

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

Miss Tosti

We started practicing math centers last week!

Homework

Monday

Religion: study for test

Phonics: page 72

Math: workbook page 9

Tuesday

Religion: study for test 

Phonics: page 73

Math: wb page 15

Wednesday

Religion: study for test tomorrow

Phonics: page 74

Math: wb page 16

Thursday

Phonics: page 75

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 on Thursday!

Reading

We will continue with the Routine and Foundations unit and start practicing centers!

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!

Week of 9/11

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade and are looking forward to a great year! Thanks to all of you who came to Back to School Night! It was great to meet everyone! We have a lot of fun things planned so keep checking our classroom blog for updates and pictures of what is going on in Room 19!

Here are a few reminders for this week:

- The first few weeks of school are very important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I urge you to also have expectations and routines at home as well. For example, each day after school your child can eat a snack, empty their home folder, complete their homework and practice their sight words and spelling words for the week. Simple chores like packing their school bags, helping pack lunches/snack and making their beds will help your child to become responsible, organized and independent!

- Please be sure to check your child's "Home Folder" with them every night. You can empty out any papers that were completed in school. These will be in the "Home" side of the folder. If anything needs to be signed or turned in, please place it in the "To School" side. I ask that your child's clip chart calendar be initialed each night. Please make sure that the calendar, homework (if a worksheet) stay in the "To School" and be returned each day.

- We will start off slow with homework the first few weeks so the kids can get back into the swing of it! 

- On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. Students are asked to wear their t-shirt that will be sent home today with their gym shorts. We will be talking about "Boxitects" and completing a fun activity with our 8th grade Buddies.

- There will be a dress down day on Monday, 9/18. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- The Mystery Reader sign up genius is up! You can find it under the "Mystery Reader" tab. Please sign up to read for one slot only as of now. If you have any questions please let me know!

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

Thanks!
Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary (can be found on inside cover of homework copybook)

Phonics: page 67

Math: 

Tuesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 68

Math: 

Wednesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 69

Math: 

Thursday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 71

Math: 

*wear Summer Reading t-shirt with gym shorts*

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God in Chapter 1. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!

Reading

We will start our new reading series with the Foundations and Routines unit. 

Math

This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards.