***PBIS/DWP - This year we are continuing the tradition of handing out faith shields/magic stars.  The stars/shields are handed out to the students when they are caught doing something good!  :)  The students have 2 choices with their stars/shields.  They may put them in the whole school bucket at mass.  In this bucket they have a chance for their name to be picked.  Their name gets called and they can pick from prizes like sitting in the principal's chair, NUT card, eating lunch with a teacher, etc.  The other choice they have is to put their stars/shields in the class bucket.  The class decides on a reward to earn.  Our class decided on a device day.  Their goal was 400 shields/stars.  Well, they have earned 400!  That is 400 kind deeds, 400 kind words, 400 acts of kindness!  So...the students are allowed to bring an electronic device to school tomorrow.  If they do not have a device or if you do not want them to bring one, that is ok.  We have 10 ipads and 2 computers in our classroom they may use.  Their devices will stay in their backpacks until the end of the day when we have our device day time.


***Canned Goods - We are having a food drive.  The students may bring canned foods to school.  Each classroom has a box outside of their classroom.  All of the cans will be brought up at mass on Wednesday.  The food will then be donated.


***Wednesday, November 23rd - All students are to be dropped off and picked up at the Res campus.  We will celebrate the all school mass at Res.  The rest of the day we will be doing buddy activities.  The students should be dropped off at Res by 7:45.  We are bringing them into the building at 7:50.  Mass begins at 8:05.  All students will then be picked up at the Res campus at 11:15.


***Monday, November 28th - Monday, November 28th is a Packer Dress Down Day.


***A few FYI's -

First Grade Math - We have been working on doubles up to 20, doubles plus one, and doubles plus two.  We have also been learning about adding ones and tens, how to write the number words, and how to use the number trail on our math boards.

Phonics - We finished up our unit on suffix s.  This week we will start learning about some new glued sounds - ang, ing, ung, and ong.

Writing - We are continuing to write in our journals.  This week and last week we have also been making thankful turkeys - writing down things that we are thankful for.  Today I am sending home an interest inventory.  It's a sheet that the students need to fill out with your help.  It has things like their favorite movie, sport, book, etc. We weligionill glue the interest inventory to the back of the writer's workshop notebook.  It will give them ideas of things to write about in writer's workshop if they should get writer's block.  :)

Religion - In Religion we have been talking abut God the Father, God caring for us, very important people in our lives, and ways to pray.

Science - We started a new unit called light and sound.  So far we have been discussing light.  We made pinhole boxes.  We observed what we saw in the box using a flashlight.