*First grade has math homework tonight,

*Stations of the Cross are tomorrow at 2:00.  Mario, Kate, Clara, and Monika are reading.  Please have them practice one last time at home tonight.

*Due to the short week we will not have a spelling list.

*Field Trip FYI - We will be going to The Building for Kids on May 5th.  (The same day as May Crowning.)  We will need chaperones. Think about if you would be able to help us out that day.  :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A few FYIs -

First Grade Math - This week we finished up the first grade book!  :)  We have been working on two digit addition.  We learned 4 different methods.  We learned about symmetry yesterday.  Today we're working on adding coins and bills.  Tomorrow we're going to work on two digit subtraction.  Next week we will start the second grade book.

First Grade Phonics - This week we learned a new type of syllable - the vowel-consonant-e syllable.  We also learned all the keywords for the long vowels.  First graders will have phonics homework tonight.

Social Studies - We are continuing to learn about the states.  We are up to 39 states.  You should hear them sing Fifty Nifty!  Amazing!

Religion - We have been working on a book called the ABC's of Lent.  Each day we also color in a day of our Lenten path.  Stations of the Cross have been changed.  They are now going to be on Wednesday, March 23, at 2:00.

Reading - Our word work focus this week is tongue twisters.

Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade - Phonetic List - oo, yoo
do
you
zoo
use
room
soon
moon
broom
spoon
stool

First Grade High-Frequency List - Words 141-150
again
off
went
old
number
great
tell
men
say
small

Second Grade - Phonetic List - ew,ow
now
frown
clown
blew
threw
flew
down
grew
drew
towns

Second Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 361-370
special
ran
full
town
complete
oh
person
hot
anything
hold

***Stations of the Cross***
We will be having Stations of the Cross on Thursday, March 24th.  We have two stations.  Our readers are going to be Clara, Mario, Monika, and Kate.  The stations are going home with them today to practice.

Tomorrow is a ND spirit day to support the Notre Dame girls.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Second grade has phonics homework tonight.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Second grade has phonics homework tonight.

***If you did not return your child's report card envelope from last trimester please do so.  Thank you!



***A few FYIs***

First Grade Math - We are in the last unit of the first grade book.  We are working on two digit addition.  We are learning four different ways to add the numbers together.  The four methods are called new groups above, new groups below, show all totals, and stick and circle.  (We call that one ball and stick.  Here's a picture of how to do each of the methods -

First Grade Phonics - We've added the vowel teams ue and ew.  Today we added two more suffixes.  We added -ed and -ing.  We learned when -ing is a glued sound and when it is a suffix.

Religion - Each day we add to our Lenten Path.  The Promise Paper that we will work on tomorrow is about this weekend's Gospel story of The Prodigal Son.  We are going to start working on a book called The ABCs of Lent.

Reading - Our word work focus is still contraction words this week.  We have a lot of different centers to work on contraction words.

Spelling - We will not have a spelling list again this week.

Handwriting - Today the second graders worked on cursive lower case j.  The first graders worked on reviewing the letters Mm, Nn, Rr, and Hh.

Social Studies - We are continuing along in our book.  We have gotten to the part in our book that talks about the United States.  We are taking it a little further and learning each state, their capital, and a few facts about that state.  Each time we have social studies we learn about three states.  We are currently at 24 states.

Computer - We are continuing to work on typing.  Last week Dr. Seuss day fell on our computer day - Wednesday.  Last week the students got to go to the website Seussville instead of typing.  This week we'll be back at typing practice.

Writing - We had a few choices in writer's workshop last week.  The students could write Dr. Seuss stories, (How would you get the Cat in the Hat to leave, I would not eat green eggs and ham, but I would eat ______ on a ______)  they could finish up their piggy stories, or they could work out of their writer's workshop notebooks and/or illustrate their stories.

Here are a few pictures from last week - 

The Abe and George Mobiles.  They'll be coming down this week.

Creating Dr. Seuss hats.  Maxim is posing for the camera.  :)

In first grade math we did a graphing activity with the book 

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

and goldfish crackers.

First grade has math homework tonight.

We also got to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day today.

Congratulations on earning 500 Faith Shields!  Happy Pajama Day!

First Grade has math homework tonight.

Reminder - Tomorrow is Pajama Day!  :)  The children may bring in an electronic device or a board game if they wish.