First Grade Weekly Update

• Happy New Year!
• Remember Oratorical Selections are due to me by Friday, January 10.
• If your child is interested in participating in the Diocesan Young Authors Faire in the spring, please ask for the guidelines.

Here’s a look at what we’ll be working on:

Language Arts

• reading: Dominic’s Apple , Yuck! Yuck! and SUPER DUPER: On The Hunt for Lost Stuff
• handwriting
• sight words: there from be we or to
• review nouns and verbs
• phonics:
  • r controlled vowel: er as in “hammer”
  • suffix ed as /ed/ as in melted
  • suffix ed as /d/ as in spilled
  • suffix ed as /t/ as in cracked
• Writing
  • descriptive writing

Math

• Comparing numbers: >, <, =
• solving story problems

Religion

• Epiphany
• Community Circle
• Jesus shares God’s love with everyone

Science

• What is the moon made of?

Dates to Remember:

• January 6: Return to School
• January 10: Oratorical Poem selections due
• January 12: Family Mass, 9 a.m.
• January 13: free dress for January birthdays
• January 17: No School for students (Teacher Inservice Day)
• January 20: Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
• January 23: Art Docent
• January 26: Catholic School’s Mass, 9 a.m.
• January 26-31: Catholic School’s Week
• January 30: Oratorical Fest, 1 p.m.
• January 31: Minimum day