*First grade has math homework tonight.

***Reminders about Thursday***

*Thursday is our mass and May crowning.  Second graders need to come to school in their First Communion clothes.  They will change into uniforms after mass.  There will be a little time for pictures, but then we need to get going.  Our bus leaves school at 9:20 for our field trip.

The day of the field trip everyone must bring a lunch.  Some students indicated that they would be having the ham and cheese sandwich from school.  If you did not check that option, your child must have a lunch.  The lunch needs to be a brown bag lunch - no lunch boxes.  Everything needs to be consumable - plastic silverware, baggies, etc.  We will not be bringing the lunches back with us.

*Monday, May 9th, just the second graders will have a dress down day. It's their day to have a dress down from May Crowning/First Communion.

*Second grade has math homework tonight.

*There will not be a spelling list this week.

*Mass / May Crowning is on Thursday.

*The Building for Kids Field Trip is on Thursday.

*The talent show is on Friday.

*Friday is a half day.

What a busy week!!!

First grade and second grade have math homework tonight.

Your child may have come home with some "treasures" today.  :)  The closet at the end of the hallway got cleaned out.  We were going to recycle / throw things away.  We had a "rummage sale" in our class instead.  They loved it!  There were a ton of math manipulatives for and overhead projector.  They didn't know what an overhead was.  I brought one in our classroom.  They were amazed.  It was awesome.  Mrs. Franz even found something I never used as a teacher.  A slide projector.  Who knew that pretend money could be so fun?  (That was the hottest seller at our rummage sale.)

***First and second grade have math homework tonight.

***The spring concert is on Thursday, May 19th.

***The talent show is on Friday, May 6th.

***Second grade families - The students are to wear their First Communion clothes to school on Thursday, May 5th, for May Crowning.  They will change into their uniforms after mass.  Usually the second graders get a dress down day after May Crowning,  This year we are going to The Building for Kids so that won't work.  Mrs. Franz has given the ok for second grade to have a dress down day on a different day.  They will be having their dress down day on Monday, May 9th.


Here are a few pictures from our reading group that is doing a play of Stone Soup.

Weekly Spelling Lists-

First Grade - Phonetic List - ll and lk words
chalk
fall
talk
small
call
walk
wall
tall
ball
crosswalk

First Grade - High Frequency Words - Words 181-190
few
those
always
show
large
often
together
asked
house
don't

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Unit 32 sh words
shine
rush
shoe
cash
short
shore
wash
shout
shaggy
bushel

Second Grade - High Frequency List - Words 401-410
round
dark
past
ball
girl
road
blue
instead
either
held

Yesterday we learned our new name!  Father Allouez Catholic School!  Each grade had to make up cheers for our school.  Here are the first and second grade cheers.

A few updates -

First grade math - We are working on story problems, story problems, story problems!  We are also continuing to learn how to play cribbage.

First grade phonics - We are now learning two syllable words. We learned about each syllable being closed, and one syllable being closed and one syllable being vowel-consonant-e.  We are also learning how to break words into syllables.

Reading - We are working on homophones.  The kids are doing awesome in centers!

Writing - These kids are rocking poetry!  This week we learned about diamante poems. When they are finished I'll snap a picture to share with you.  I am blown away!

Science - This week we took our plants home.  The kids loved watching them grow.  Today we will be adding guppies and snails to our aquariums.

Religion - Today we had a special guest speaker.  He's a parishioner named Tom Wall.  He has written children's book about our Catholic faith.  Here are a few pictures of his visit.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Second grade has phonics homework tonight.