It was great seeing you at the Halloween Carnival on Saturday evening. I have some great news. The first grade won the Halloween Booth Decoration contest. That means the first grade will be getting a pizza party. Way to go parents! Thank you to all of you that helped out in any way.
I also enjoyed meeting all of you at conferences. Continue to talk to your children about effort, doing their best, and reviewing their work. So many of the errors made are due to carelessness. I have also talked to the class about this. I also am encouraging you to have your child read aloud to you every night. 10-15 minutes is good. I usually send home a reader 2 nights a week. On the other nights read a book that your child has at home. Easy books are good. They help with reading fluency. When a book is too difficult, a child has difficulty with the comprehension.
There will be an all-school Mass on Tuesday, November 1, in honor of All Saints.
Dismissal on Friday is 12:30.
Curriculum remains the same. We have started Level 3 in Reading. We are working on contractions, compound words, endings of ing, ed and s, plurals, possession, cause and effect, sequencing, classification, short vowels a, i,o, vocabulary and comprehension. In Science we will start a new unit on different kinds of animals. In Social Studies we are learning about the Native American Indians, the pilgrims, and the United States. In Religion we have been making a saint book, and in P.E. we are finishing up jump ropes and will be working with rhythm sticks. In Math we are starting a new unit on place value. When the introduction page of the math unit goes home, please review the vocabulary words with your child. These terms will be introduced and used throughout the unit.
Some of you have asked if we are performing in the Thanksgiving Program. We are not. We will be performing in the Christmas Program and the Spring Program
Thank you to all of you that donated books or gift certificates to the classroom from the Book Fair. It was greatly appreciated. The response for the D Street Homeless was wonderful. We will be collecting again before we leave for Christmas vacation. I will give you a date next week.
VOCABULARY WORDS
any
animals
trouble
kind
gave
there
thing
nice
thought
answered
asked
belongs
Thank you again for all of your support. Continue signing those planners. You have done a wonderful job with that. And your children have gotten good at copying every morning what is on the board in their planner.
If you have read this blog just have a great day. The weather is gorgeous. GOD LOVES YOU!
