This week we are reading the story, “A Musical Day”.  In this story children make instruments out of household items.  Please help your child create an instrument at home and return it to school before next Friday, October 30th.  We will be creating our own band and playing music together!

READING: Our story this week is A Musical Day, which is Lesson 8.

All Students can find the link to the textbook, decodable readers and information on the skills we will be working on by opening the slides found on Google Classroom shared on Monday, October 26th.  The slides will be updated throughout the week.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is music part of your everyday life?

SKILLS: Sequence of Events / Narrator

GRAMMAR: Writing Statements

WRITING: We will be working on creating a list of story ideas, and how to select a story to write about from our lists.

PHONICS: Short o, clusters with l and phonogram -ock.

SPELLING: please make sure that you are working on completing assignments from our October Menu.  Spelling Homework is to be turned in by Friday.

IXL practice – Students can choose to practice skills for this week by following the link below and scrolling down to Lesson 8 Music:

https://www.ixl.com/ela/skill-plans/journeys-textbook-and-readers-notebook-1st-grade#section-2

Math: Lessons # 39-43.  Fact Assessment 2 will be on Tuesday (there will be Fact HW every day)/ Written Assessment 7 will be on Wednesday there will be no Concepts Hw on Wednesday)

Science/Social Studies: We will be learning about Pumpkins.

Religion: We will be Learning about Baby Moses.

We will attending mass this Friday at 8:15 am.

Announcements: Please do not forget a healthy morning snack and a water bottle.

Thursday, October 22nd and Friday, October 23rd are half days for students. 

Parents can sign up for conferences by opening the link to the sign-up genius that was sent out on Friday, October 16th.

READING: Our story this week is How Animals Communicate, which is Lesson 7.

You can find the link to the textbook and information on the skills we will be working on by opening the slides  found on Google Classroom.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do animals communicate?

SKILLS: Main Idea and Details, Text and Graphic Features

GRAMMAR: Commas in a series

WRITING: We will be working on elaboration.

PHONICS: Short i, clusters with r and phonogram -ip.

SPELLING: please make sure that you are working on completing assignments from our October Menu.  Spelling Homework is to be turned in by Friday.

Math: Lessons # 35-39.  On Monday students will complete the Fact Assessment on doubles, on Tuesday students will complete the 6th Written Assessment.

Science/Social Studies: We will be learning about autumn leaves and creating our own Leaf Animals.

Religion: We will be participating in the Living Rosary on Monday.  Students are welcome to bring in their own Rosaries from home. Students will be learning prayers that we say during the mass.

We will attending mass this Friday at 8:15 am.

Announcements: Please do not forget a healthy morning snack and a water bottle.

Dear Parents,

Typically I do not assign homework on Fridays.  I did however assign two activities for your students to complete over the weekend.

Students are being asked to cut out a few pictures from magazines or newspapers showing things that people do or use in the morning, afternoon, evening or night.

The other activity is to collect a variety of leaves that he or she will use to create his or her very own leaf animal.  I sent home a brown paper bag for your child to use to bring the leaves to school on Monday.

Please continue to review the Doubles Facts with your child.  We will be taking the First Fact Assessment on Monday, October 19th.

Have a great weekend!

Dear Parents,

I sent out an email this afternoon via RenWeb about signing up for First Quarter conferences.  Conferences are being held on Thursday, October 22nd and Friday October 23rd.  If you would like to meet with me regarding your child’s academic progress, please use the link found in the email or be clicking on the link found below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050F4AADAB28A4FE3-first

Thank you,

Annelies Madden

 

READING: Our story this week is Jack and the Wolf , which is Lesson 6.

You can find the link to the textbook and information on the skills we will be working on by opening the slides  found on Google Classroom.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What lessons can we learn from story characters?

SKILLS: Understanding characters and the story message in Fables and Fairy Tales.

GRAMMAR: Identifying and Writing Complete Sentences

WRITING: We will be working on elaboration.

PHONICS: Short a, Double Final Consonants  and ck ending.

SPELLING: please make sure that you are working on completing assignments from our October Menu.  Spelling Homework is to be turned in by Friday.

Math: Lessons # 30-34.  On Monday students will complete the 5th Written Assessment.

Science/Social Studies: We will be reading Scholastic News “Smile, It’s Autumn” and using our observation skills.

Religion: We will be learning about How Jesus is our Shepherd.

We will attending mass this Friday at 8:15 am.

Announcements: Please do not forget a healthy morning snack and a water bottle.

Dear Families,

I had an amazing birthday….the cards, the flowers and all of the love from my “firsties” really made me feel so blessed that I get to spend my days with them!

Thank you for allowing me the honor of being their first grade teacher!!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Madden

Picture Day is on Tuesday, October 6th. 

Students need to wear their regular school uniforms.

Big Apple Night (take out only) is on October 24th from  4:00-8:00PM .  Please help support our PTO!!

The Unit 1 Test will be given on Wednesday (10/7), Thursday(10/8), and Friday(10/9).

• Wednesday will be the Writing Assessment.
• Thursday will be Story Comprehension. Students will be given a reading passage, similar to the passage from the Lesson 3 test.  Students will apply the skills learned in unit one to answer questions about the passage.
• Friday will be Phonics and Spelling

Reading: There will not be a new story this week. We will review for the Unit 1 Test.

We will be reviewing all skills covered during the past five weeks, which will include all short vowels and the High Frequency Words. In Grammar we will be reviewing  nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

Students do not need to remember the information from the past stories we have tested on.

IXL: students can practice all short vowel sounds (First Grade Language Arts Skills L. Short vowels)

Spelling: UNIT 1 SPELLING WORDS

man, mat, rip, pin, hot, log, wet, pen, bug, nut

Spelling Homework: please make sure that you are working on completing assignments from our October Menu.  Please use the Unit One Spelling words for the Spelling Homework.  Spelling homework must be turned in by Friday.

Math: Lessons # 27 to 30

Homework is nightly, except for Fridays. Students need to complete Side B.  Please ask your child to sing the Doubles Rap to you.  It is a fun way to remember our doubles math facts!

Science/Social Studies: We will be learning about the life cycle of apples. We will also learn about fire safety.

Religion: We will be making hand puppets of Saint Faustina in honor of her Feast Day which is on Monday, October 5th.  We will also begin learning about Noah’s Ark.

Dear Families,

Student work went home again today in the binder.  Attached to the papers is his or her IXL log in information.  IXL is a great resource that your student can use at home.  Please keep your student’s log in information in a safe place.  I will be sending a list of skills that he or she can work on.