Week of 10/26

Dear Parents,

It was great to see you in person at the Saints Presentation on Friday! The kids did such a great job and I am so proud of them. We hope you enjoyed it! Check out the pictures of their fabulous costumes below! We will close out October this week with some Halloween fun on Friday!  Here are your reminders for the week:

- Thank you so much for the helping your kids make the sweet birthday cards and for the flowers and gift! It was so sweet and thoughtful and a great way to start off my birthday weekend!

- If your child has to be virtual, please use the "Virtual Information" tab to help them log them on! 8:40am is the start time each day! Please note you will not be able to get on the meeting until I start it!  The PDF of worksheets for the week will be posted under the virtual tab each week. The pages are marked by day so you know what to print for each day! If you would like to pick up their books please just let me know. I can also print out the PDF for you if you'd like to pick it up! I know it is a lot of ink!

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

- We will have a Religion test on Chapter 3 on Thursday. A study guide was sent home today.

- On Friday, we will celebrate Halloween! The kids can come dressed in their costumes. We will do a small craft and watch the Halloween Parade at the end of the day. You can watch the parade on the SKS School YouTube channel!

- Just a reminder to mark your calendar for Virtual Conferences next Thursday night (11/5) and Friday (11/6). A sign up on Option C in now available. Please note that conferences are not mandatory this year. If next Thursday or Friday do not work for you, I am happy to schedule a conference with you any night this week or next, please email me and let me know!

That is all for now!

Miss Tosti

Saint Mary

Saint Nicholas

Saint Francis

Saint Margaret

Saint Francis

Saint Clare

Saint Francis

Saint Francis

Saint Theresa

Saint Olivia

Saint Michael the Archangel

Saint Nicholas

Saint Bede

Saint Rose

Saint Cecilia

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 3 and have a test on Thursday.

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, 
Spelling Words: yes, let, red, ten, bed, get

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 10/19

We learned some yoga this week!

This is our Warrior 3!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great weekend! We had some great practices last week for our Saints Presentation. We will have 2 more this week before our big event on Friday! Please continue to practice at home too! Some more information regarding Friday can be found below with your other reminders!

- The Virtual Scholastic Book Fair is this Week. You can shop for books from October 19 - November 2. You can shop HERE.

- Math test on Tuesday on addition on a number line, sums of 10 and adding 3 addends.

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

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

- Reminder there will be no school on Monday, October 26th!

- Saint Presentation reminders:

          - Our class' presentation will be at 10:20am on Friday! Mrs. Thornton's class is before us. Please allow them to clear out before you enter the church. Please make sure you are wearing your mask and socially distanced in the pews.  

          - The kids are to come to school dressed in their costumes over their gym uniforms (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. 

          - All 3 presentations will be live streamed on the Parish Youtube page.

- If you could do a supply check in with your child this week that would be great! Lots of them are running low on pencils with erasers, glue sticks etc. Thank you so much!

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

Miss Tosti

Our "reading fingers" turned into witches fingers last week!

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. We will have our Saint Presentation on Friday!

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 and have our test on Tuesday! Then 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!

We had so much fun doing science with our pumpkins!

They did a great job!

Week of 10/12

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a great weekend. We have a busy week this 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!

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

- On Wednesday, we will be "picking" pumpkins from the convent lawn! On Thursday, we will use our pumpkins for science class! Pumpkins will be sent home Thursday or Friday!

- School pictures will be on Thursday. Please send in your forms by then. There will be no class picture this year.

- To accommodate all families the Saint Presentation will be done by each class on Friday, October 23rd. Each student will get to read a short sentence or two about their saint from their report. I will send it home this week so they can practice at home! Information regarding timing will be sent out as soon as Mrs. Thornton, Miss Rooney and I figure out the logistics with this new format. Look for an email tomorrow or Wednesday. 

- Our monthly virtual Mass will be on Friday at 9:00am. Please join us on the SKS Parish Youtube page!

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 10/5

 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 Celebration was sent home last Friday. Each child may choose any saint they want! The report will be due this Friday, 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 Celebration will be on Friday, October 23rd at 9:00 am in the Church. Each child is allowed to bring 2 people to the Church that morning. The rest of the school will watch virtually.

-Kindergarten has invited us to their pumpkin patch!  Farmer Bob from Sugartown Strawberries will be delivering pumpkins and setting them up on the convent lawn.  Each child will get to pick a pumpkin to bring home, followed by a pumpkin craft in the classroom.  The cost will be $5.00 per child.  Please send $5.00, cash only, by Friday, October 9th.  Thank you!

- The schedule for Star Student will be sent home this today! A folder with directions will be sent home with your child the week prior with all the information you need!

- 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." 

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

Miss Tosti

We practiced reading our story with our reading phones last week!

The kids did a great job pointing to the words as they read!

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. If you practice at home, please have your child start at the larger number!

Week of 9/28

Mrs. Parella was our first Mystery Reader this year!

 

Dear Parents,

Can you believe this is our last week in September?! The kids did a great job taking their first tests last Friday. Before we took the tests I told them that the important thing is not that you get a 100 on every test. I explained to them that as along as they studied and tried their best that I will be proud of them no matter what they score!


Here are your reminders for the week:

- Please send in 3 leaves tomorrow for Art class with Mr. C

- Your child's login information for all of our apps was sent home today in their Home folder. Please keep this in a safe place! They may access the apps at home to practice reading and math! You can also check out everything we have been doing on Seesaw!

- If your child ever needs to be virtual, they will log on with their Google email and password. I will post directions under the Virtual Tab.

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

- We started making our math flash cards last 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!


Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

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 9/21

Listening to Dion and Gobi!

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:

- Please have journals decorated and covered by this Friday.

- We will have our first virtual school Mass on Wednesday at 9:00am. A link will be sent out through Option C if you would like 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! There are enough dates for each family to sign up 2 times. Please do not sign up for more!

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

Miss Tosti

We loved drawing our wolves!

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

Magic Words: every, come, call, hear, said, away
SpellingWords: 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!

Week of 9/14

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade and I look forward to seeing you tonight at Back to School Night! 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:

- Back to School Night is tonight at 7:00pm. Please review the presentation and have your questions ready! Please use the Zoom link to access the meeting. A packet with some more info will be sent home today in your child's Home Folder.

- 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 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) and Sight Words envelope stay in the "To School" and be returned each day.

- Journals need to be decorated and covered by Friday, September 25th.

- On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. We will be talking about "Finding Gobi" and having a live meeting with Dion, the author!

- Friday will be a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 with your child. Please also review the dress down day policy in the school handbook.

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)
Thanks!
Miss Tosti

A Peek at Our Week

Religion: Chapter 1 - "God is Our Father

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 ofus unique!

Reading

Story: "Jack and the Wolf"

Target Skill: Characters

Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words

Grammar: Complete sentences

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

SpellingWords:  an, bad, can, had, cat, ran,

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.

Science

This week, we will begin a Science unit on Light and Sound. Our first few lessons will focus on making observations and learning how science experiments are done.


Social Studies
This week we will begin a Social Studies unit on Responsible Citizenship. This week we will learn about
rules and laws in our home, school, and community.