Holy Cross - First Grade

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Catholic Schools Week 2025

Spelling - Vowel Teams - ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi,oy

main

paid

say

seat

tree

green

key

join

foil

toy

Phonics - We continue to work on vowel teams, closed syllable words. and closed syllable words with a suffix s.

Math - We have been working on -2 facts, tally marks, counting coins, and using a ruler to draw line segments.

Religion - We continue to focus on the virtues of kindness and courtesy. We learned a bit about Holy Days and Feast Days. Our Promise Paper theme was Jesus Shows God's Love. We learned about the wedding in Cana and Jesus' first miracle.

First grade is getting ready to lead their first mass! We have mass on Friday, February 14th. The students will be getting their parts this week so we'll have a few weeks to practice. :)

Science - In our PLTW unit Sun, Moon, and Stars we learned about stars. We spent some time learning about constellations.

Writing - We continue to work on our non-realistic fiction stories. Some students are finishing drafts, some students are editing, and this week some students will be peer-editing and revising.

Reading - We finished running records. We are working on sight word checks. Then we will get back to guided reading groups. In word work, we are focusing on contraction words.

Buddies - We created a project titled "Holy Cross Fills My Heart" with our 4th grade buddies. We brainstormed things we love about Holy Cross and we wrote them in our hearts. They turned out beautiful!

One of the buddy projects we'll be working on during CSW is making a stepping stone for our school. Last week we made plans with our buddies of what we might put on our stepping stone.