Tomorrow is a dress down day.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Our classroom is full of elves!

A little preview of tomorrow's concert.  :)

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Info from Mrs. Fritz -

Dear parents,

I wanted to send you a few last minute details about tomorrow night's Christmas Concert.  

The concert begins at 6:30 pm in the church.

All students are asked to report to their homeroom no later than 6:15 pm.  Attendance will be taken, students will line up in concert order and be escorted to church by their homeroom teacher at 6:25 pm.

Following their performances, Early Childhood and Kindergarten parents will be invited to come up to the altar and bring their students back to their family seats for the remainder of the concert.  All other students will sit with their class until the end of the concert. 

 Concert Dress for all students:

- NO JEANS

- Guys:acceptable clothing includes dress pants, khakis, dress shirt, tie, vest, button down shirts, blazer, sweater, dress shoes, school shoes

- Girls: acceptable clothing includes dresses (no spaghetti straps) to the knee, skirts to the knee, tights, pants, leggings, sweaters, button down shirts, dress pants, open or closed toed shoes/boots

*** Band students may have been told what concert dress should be from Ms. Mongin.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. 

The students and I are looking forward to a great concert tomorrow night!  See you there.

Sincerely,

Abby Fritz

Weekly Spelling Lists-

First Grade Phonetic List- Suffix -ing

doing

going

seeing

feeding

feeling

keeping

mowing

packing

bending

picking

***All first graders are on the phonetic list this week.

Second Grade Phonetic List- Long i(y, i-consonant-e)

try

mile

cry

fry

nice

by

sky

fine

dry

prize

Second Grade High-Frequency List - Words 301-310

living

black

eat

short

United States

run

book

gave

order

open

Today we made cards for a little girl named Safyre Terry.  Maybe you've heard this story...it's been on the news and in social media recently.  (Google her name and you'll see many stories.)

Safyre is a little girl who lives in New York.  In 2013 her whole family died in a fire - she's the only survivor.  She was badly injured, but she survived.  She now lives with her aunt and uncle.  Safyre is now 8 years old.  Her wish for Christmas was to receive Christmas cards.  So, we made our cards and sent them off to her today.  :)

This week one of our science lessons was testing to see which of our 20 solids would roll.  We tested them out by trying to roll them across our tables.  Then we built ramps and used straws to help us as well.  Here are a few pictures -

Today is a Packer Dress Down Day.

A few FYIs-

First Grade Math- We have started unit 5.  We are working on teen problems.  We have been working on word problems, as well as matching equations and equation pictures.

First Grade Phonics- We are working on the glued sounds ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, and unk.

Science- We have a new Einstein kit called Solids and Liquids.  So far we have done experiments with solids on these properties- color, shape, rolling, and stacking.

Religion- We have been preparing for our Mass on December 17.  Speaking of our Mass, on that day I ask that you do not sit with us.  Our students are in a specific order.  Any other day, please feel free to sit with us.

Writing- The students are creating great stories in writers workshop.  Our second graders have been a great help in teaching the first graders the writing process.  Yesterday they wrote letters to Santa.  

First grade has math homework tonight.

An update for second grade families from Mrs. Van Zeeland -

Second Grade Math and Phonics:

We just finished Unit 6 in Math where we worked on time,  picture graphs and line graphs.  We made graphs on our favorite puppies and kittens.  We had an apple tasting contest and then made a graph to show which ones we liked the best.  Our two favorites were Red Delicious and Granny Smith.  Our least favorites were MacIntosh and Golden Delicious.  Golden Delicious was too "squishy"!  

We are inching closer to finishing our second grade books.  We are starting Unit 7 today where we will be learning to add 3 digit numbers to over 1,000!  There is only one unit after unit 7!  Thank you for helping and reminding your child to practice math facts.  We always test on Thursdays!  

In phonics, we have been working with different ways to spell long vowel sounds and y at the end of words.  We have learned 17 different suffixes so far.  

This year seems to be flying by.  This is such a great class - so much fun to work with!!

Mass Parts
Greeters - Maxim, Rowen, Max, Kyan
Cross - Katey
Book - Ella
Introduction - Madison
First Reading - Cullan, Monika
Responsorial Psalm - Jonas, Claire
Petitions - Gabriel, Clara, Kate, Landon, Jonah, Anna Meyer, Mario
Bread - Ryan
Wine - Anna Miller

Mass parts went home today.  If your child has a reading part please practice with them at home.

***We will be having Mass tomorrow instead of Thursday this week.

***This Thursday grades 1-4 will be going to NDA's Christmas play.  Permission slips are going home today.  Please return ASAP.  Thank you.

***Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade - Phonetic List - Suffix s

bugs

cats

pigs

sits

runs

gets

cards

chips

twins

pumps

First Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 91-100

long

little

very

after

words

called

just

where

most

know

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Long e Words (ee, ea)

sea

week

eat

beef

neat

need

seat

seem

read

seen

Second Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 291-300

face

door

cut

done

group

true

half

red

fish

plants

***We have Mass on December 17th.  We are picking parts this afternoon.  After the parts are assigned I will let you know who has which parts.

I just found out...Tomorrow is a Packer Dress Down Day!

She's back!  For our first grade families - she is our classroom elf!  Her name is Samantha Snowbell!  She returned today from the North Pole!  The second graders  were very excited to see her again and the first graders were very excited to meet her!

Last week Wednesday St. Matts spent the day with us.  Here's one of the projects that we did - the students had to write something on a leaf that they were thankful for.