Happy New Year!!  What an eventful year 2011 was, and 2012 promises to be just as busy and productive.

January will be packed with activities.  We will have a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and begin the Catholic Schools Week with many fun projects and events.

Here is a brief monthly overview for the month of January.

Math – We will study the chapter on place value to 100.

Science – We will complete the unit on water with a unit test and begin the unit on magnets and electricity.  We will also participate in the Science Fair for Catholic Schools Week.  Each student will create a unique science fair project and present it to the entire 1st Grade!

Social Studies – We will study Unit 3 (Work, Work, Work).  We will also study about the life & significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  and many of our presidents for President’s Day.

Health – Our topics this month will all be about healthy living and good habits.  This will include healthy food and exercise.

Religion – We will discuss Jesus as a child, how He began His work to spread the Good News, miracles He performed, and how we believe He is the savior of the world.

Language Arts – We will continue with our decodable readers and oral reading tests each Friday.  We will also start weekly Thursday practice Spelling tests and continue Friday regular spelling tests. During Catholic School Week, we will have a Primary Spelling Bee.  Don’t forget about completing the reading logs for each two week period.  We will also continue guided reading groups and will send home a new reader most Fridays.  In phonics, we will finish introducing and then review the long vowels.  In grammar, we will begin the study of contractions, adjectives, and homophones.  As always, we will work on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.  Journal writing and traveling books will also be continued.

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The Holiday Season in upon us in full force!  We hope that everyone had a  great Thanksgiving and you all enjoyed a peaceful and restful holiday.

We can hardly wait to perform the Nativity program at the 7:00 pm Christmas Eve Children’s Mass.  We will need to have the children in the cafeteria no later than 6:30 so that we may get them dressed and ready.

December will be a very busy month with both academics and activities.  We will have our field trip to the Dallas Arboretum on the 7th, the school book fair, our All School Christmas  Program on the 15th at 7:00, and the Christmas Eve Mass performance on the 24th.  The last day of classes before Christmas vacation will be the 16th with a dress rehearsal of the Nativity program at the morning Mass, followed by a class Christmas party and a noon dismissal.

Math – We will complete our coverage of subtraction with a Chapter 3 Test and will begin Chapter 4 which includes Data and Graphs.

Science – In the new unit we will begin, the students will be environmental scientists.  They will study about sunlight, water, and soil.

Social Studies – We will begin Unit 3 (Work! Work! Work!) which will cover jobs, needs and wants, and spending and saving. We will meet Clara Barton and George Washington Carver.  We will also be checking to see if your child knows their address and phone number.

Religion – During the month of December we will be involved with studying Advent and the birth of Jesus and practicing the Nativity Program for Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve.  After the first of the year we will discuss the Epiphany and begin to discuss how Jesus grew up.

Health – We will begin to talk about how to keep our bodies healthy.  The first topic we will cover will be good nutrition.

Language Arts – We will study the following sounds: /ch/ spelled ch, _tch, /ar/ spelled ar, /hw/spelled wh, /w/spelled w_, /er/ spelled er,ir, ur, /k/ spelled k, /ng/ spelled _ng, /kw/ spelled qu, /y/ spelled y, long /a/, and /s/ spelled ce and ci_.    We will have new decodable readers and finish the big book “Worksong” and begin “Machines in Our Garden”.  In Grammar we will finish up with nouns and introduce compound words.   As always, we will work throughout the month on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.  Journal writing will  be incorporated into the day.  We will also continue writing the “Traveling Books” that you have been seeing coming home with your child.  We will also be initiating class short stories.  These class stories will help our emergent writers begin to understand the writing process.  (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing and reflecting)

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a blessed Christmas season and a Happy New Year!  We hope that we can all find time in our busy schedules to remember the reason for the season!

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Thank goodness the weather has finally cooled off, but our activities in First Grade are heating up!  In what is left of October, we will have the Halloween Carnival  (22nd), the Red Ribbon Week (24th-27th), we will finish the month of the rosary with a Living Rosary on the 26th at 2:00, and  the Halloween parade at 8:15 on the 31st with a Halloween snack in our classroom at 2:30.

In November we will have our All Saints Mass on the 1st with everyone dressing as their patron saint, parent-teacher conferences on the 4th, the Saints Game on the 18th, and a prayer service followed by a primary grades Thanksgiving Feast and early release at 12:00 on the 22nd.  Our Thanksgiving break will be the 23rd – 27th.  Advent will begin on the 27th.

We will cover the following areas of our curriculum.

Math – We have just finished the chapter on addition and will cover the chapter on subtraction.  We will begin an addition Math Minute each Friday.  This  is an ungraded one minute math drill to help the students practice their addition facts.  Later we will add subtraction Math Minutes.

Religion – We will spend the month of November studying Saints that are chosen for the whole school.  After Thanksgiving, we will start studying about Advent and the Christmas season.

Science – We will continue and finish the study of trees and the  seasons of the year.

Social Studies - We will study about the Native Americans, early travelers to America, and symbols of our country.

Language Arts – In phonics we will continue to introduce the letter sounds of the alphabet, work on phonemic awareness, blending, segmentation, and rhyming.  We will begin oral reading tests each Friday using one of the decodable readers we have introduced during the week.  Please continue to read each night and fill out the reading logs.  In grammar we will introduce -ed endings, capitalization, and special nouns.  We will keep reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives.  We hope you are enjoying the poetry folders going home on Mondays.  The students will also continue to bring home guided readers on Fridays.

Health – We will talk about drug prevention during Red Ribbon Week, poison prevention, and begin to discuss how to stay healthy.

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First, thank goodness the heat has finally broken!!  Second, welcome to first grade.  We are so excited to have your children in our classes.  We have an action packed year planned.  And we have gotten off to a wonderful start.  We have been very busy settling into a daily routine and getting acquainted.  And as you can tell from our weekly overviews, we have covered lots of material so far.

We will also have a jam packed month coming up with our curriculum.  Here is a brief overview for the coming month.

Math – We will finish up Chapter 1 with a test on the 14th.  We will begin to  cover  Chapter 2 on addition.

Science – We will finish the unit on human development.

Social Studies – We will finish Unit 1 and will begin Unit 2 (In My Community)

Health – We will finish up the five senses.

Religion – We will make Rosaries in class in time for October (the month of the Rosary), take a tour of the Church, and learn about how to get to Heaven, our Guardian angels, and begin to study about Adam and Eve.

Language Arts – We will continue to read decodable books, read Big Books together, introduce letter sounds, work on phonemic awareness, oral blending, and phoneme segmentation.  In grammar we will talk about what a sentence is, antonyms and synonyms, subject nouns, and begin to discuss verbs.  Our spelling words will begin to get a little tougher. We will concentrate on handwriting and continue journal writing.

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Hi there fantastic 4th grade parents!  We are off and running so far this year.  Here is what we have been working on and what is coming soon!

We will continue working in the Shurley Method on punctuation and capitalization skills and learning the rules for the above.  We will also continue working with sentences and how they would be labeled.  We will be adding these parts of speech: Prepositions and objects of the prepositions.  Along with these, the students will continue to locate the simple and complete subject and predicate of a written sentence.  YIIIPPPPPEEEE!  I love Shurley!  Don’t forget Shurley tutoring on Tuesday mornings at 7:30am!

We will continue to read How to Eat Fried Worms  during our reading block.  Students should make sure that they keep ALL comprehension questions and vocabulary sheets for these chapters in their binders.  We will use these to study for our test at the end of the novel, which is quickly approaching.  Please note, I will give a study guide as well as a week’s notice for the test.  Watch emails and class website for this information to be released.  Every student should be reading 30 minutes Monday-Thursday.  This is standard homework for the 4th grade that does not change.  The first book report grade has been released, posted on the website as well as in several emails.  This date is October 14, 2011.

In Science we have just completed Vascular Plants and their parts.  We are just working our way into our last booklet of Nancy Larson.  We will be reading and learning about amphibians and reptiles.  Along with this, the students will have a research project on one of the above animals they chose in class.  Again, this due date has been published in emails as well as on the website.  This material is to be completed by the student at home and returned by September 15th, 2011.

In Social Studies, we continue to discuss the climate, landforms and regions of the United States as well as in Texas.  This is to prepare us for the upcoming lessons of the first people in America as well as in Texas.  THE FUN IS JUST STARTING!!

In Religion we have discussed a variety of material including faith, sin, and what the Gospel teaches about how one corrects.  God creates only good; however, it is a bad choice or decision that leads someone down a path of destruction, and much more.    We will continue to discuss these topics; i.e.  What happens to my relationship when I sin?  How should I handle being angry with another person.  How would God expect me to act and is it always easy to do what Jesus would want me to do.  Who is speaking to me when I make certain decisions?

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Can you believe that we are into the last few weeks of the year?  We have had a wonderful year, and it seems like it just flew by!!!   We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for letting us have your little angels this year.  It has been a joy to teach them.  We don’t want to let them go!  It has been a jam packed month of May.  We had Math Awareness Day, Young Authors Day, the Art Festival, May Crowning of Mary, 1b will host Mass on the 27th, and Field Day.

Here is what we will cover the rest of the year.

Math – We will finish geometry, and cover fractions, addition with sums of 16, subtraction from up to 18, three addends, more on fact families, and double digit addition and subtraction without regrouping.

Science – We will finish the study of insects and cover the human body.  (body functions, skeletal system, joints, muscles, skin, respiratory system, circulatory system, and digestive system)

Social Studies – We will study about “Our Country, Our World”.  It will include the market place, how things have changed, inventors and inventions, how travel has changed, and life of others around the world. We will also discuss our great state of  Texas.

Religion – We will talk about our church and how we belong to it.  And how Jesus chose Peter to lead His Church.  We will talk about how Mary is the Mother of our church and how we honor her.  We celebrated the May crowning of Mary on May13th.  We will finish our discussion of the Holy Spirit.

Language Arts – We will continue with the weekly spelling tests.  We will also continue reading stories at school and testing on comprehension.  In phonics we will finish reviewing sounds that we have covered all year.  In grammar we will introduce adverbs and  commas.  We will have more on quotation marks, and review nouns, verbs, pronouns, sentence types, and adjectives.

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Well, Spring is finally here and before we know it, school will be out for the Summer.  But before that happens, we will be very busy.  April will be packed with activities. (Like the other months weren’t)  We will be finishing the season of Lent, beginning the season of Easter, celebrate Earth Day, have our class Easter Egg hunts, and conclude the month with the Silent Auction.

The following is a brief overview of the curriculum for the month.

Math – We will cover the chapter in measurement.  (inches, feet, capacity, cups, pints, quarts, pounds, centimeters, liters, kilograms, temperature and seasons)  We will also begin the chapter in geometry.

Science – We will study the life cycles of insects by raising caterpillars into Painted Lady Butterflies.  We will then study the human body. (skeletal system, muscles, skin, and body functions)

Social Studies – We will continue with our earth and its resources and begin the unit on “Our Country, Our World”.

Health – We will continue studying about basic safety.

Religion – This is a very important time in our religious lives.  We will finish the Lenten season with viewing the Passion Play on the 15th, the Living Stations of the Cross on Holy Thursday and then begin the Easter Season when we resume classes on the 26th. During the month we will learn about the Holy Week.  (Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday)

Language Arts – We will finish up with decodables this month.  This will be the end of oral reading tests.  In May we will then begin working on comprehension with our classroom readers.  In Phonics we will introduce /r/ spelled wr, /f/ spelled ph, and then we will begin to review all of the sounds we have covered this year.  In Grammar, we will also begin reviewing the concepts we have covered to this date.  The spelling test will continue and will begin to review the phonics from the year.  We will continue journal writing.

We would like to wish you and your families a wonderful Easter Holiday!

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Wow, what a crazy February.  Between the weather and Catholic Schools Week, we got a little behind in our plans for the month.  As you may have noticed, the curriculum has begun to increase in difficulty to get the students ready for 2nd grade.  But we have confidence that the children are up for the challenge.

The following is a brief monthly overview for March.

Math – We will begin the study money and time.  This is a very hard concept for the students.  They will need your help at home to grasp it.

Science – We have finished magnets and will now move on to a short study on electricity and then begin animals.

Social Studies –  We will continue our study of economics including spending and saving money, different types of jobs, transportation, and we will meet George Washington Carver.  We will end with a test over the unit.

Health – We will finish our healthy living unit with a quiz and begin discussing first aid and safety.

Religion – We will study about Ash Wednesday and the Lent season.  We will also continue the study of Jesus’ teachings.

Language Arts – We will write and illustrate our Treasure Book.  We will continue to have decodable readers and oral reading test each Friday.   We will also continue with our weekly Thursday practice tests and Friday regular spelling tests.  Don’t forget about completing the reading logs for each two week period.  In phonics we will introduce long /o/ spelled oa and ow, long /u/ spelled ew, ue, oo, ow, ou, aw, and au sounds.  In grammar we will begin the study of contractions, adjectives, and homophones.  As always we will work on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.  Journal writing will also be continued.

Don’t forget March will include Spring Break!

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Happy New Year!!  What an eventful year 2010 was, and 2011 promises to be just as busy and productive.

January will be packed with activities.  We will participate in the FVO Boosterthon Kick-Off and Fun Run and at the end of the month we will begin the Catholic Schools Week with many fun projects and events.  We will also have a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Here is a brief monthly overview for the month of January.

Math – We will complete the unit on graphs and charts with a chapter test and begin the unit on place value to 100.

Science – We will complete the unit on water with a unit test and begin the unit on magnets and electricity.  We will also participate in the science fair for Catholic Schools week by completing a science project and presenting them to the entire 1st grade.  More details will follow closer to the event.

Social Studies – We will complete Unit 5 (This is our Country) and have a unit test and begin Unit 3 (Work, Work, Work).

Health – Our topics this month will all be about healthy living and good habits.  This will include healthy food and exercise.

Religion – We will discuss the Epiphany, how God made people in his image, and how God talks to us and how we talk to God in prayer.

Language Arts – We will continue with our decodable readers and oral reading tests each Friday.  We will also continue with our weekly Thursday practice tests and Friday regular spelling tests.  Don’t forget about completing the reading logs for each two week period.  In phonics we will finish introducing and then review the long vowels.  In grammar we will begin the study of contractions, adjectives, and homophones.  As always we will work on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.  Journal writing will also be continued.

Hope the New Year brings you each many blessings!

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The Holiday Season in upon us in full force!  We hope the Pow Wow put everyone in the Thanksgiving mood and you all enjoyed a peaceful and restful holiday. We were really proud of our little actors and actresses.  We would like to thank the parents for helping with the costumes, the food, and the decorations for the wonderful reception afterward, as well as the set up and clean up, and most of all to Mrs. Stansberry for helping to direct the program.  As they say, “It takes a village to raise a child”.

We can hardly wait to perform the nativity program at the 7:00 pm Christmas Eve Children’s Mass.  We will need to have the children in the cafeteria no later than 6:30 so that we may get them dressed and ready.

December will be a very busy month with both academics and activities.  We will have our field trip to the Dallas Arboretum on the 1st, the school book fair, our All School Christmas  Program on the 16th at 7:00, and the Christmas Eve Mass performance on the 24th.  The last day of classes before Christmas vacation will be the 17th with a class Christmas party and a noon dismissal.

Math – We will complete our coverage of subtraction with a Chapter 3 Test and will begin Chapter 4 which includes Data and Graphs.

Science – In the new unit we will begin, the students will be environmental scientists.  They will study about sunlight, water, and soil.

Social Studies – We will continue with Unit 5 (This Is Our Country).  Looking ahead we will discuss our 13 original colonies,  the symbols of our country, our holidays, how we choose our country’s leaders, and meet Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Religion – The month of December will be involved with studying Advent and the birth of Jesus and practicing the Nativity Program for Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve.

Health – We will begin to talk about how to keep our bodies healthy.  The first topic we will cover will be good nutrition.

Language Arts – We will begin long vowel sounds starting with a, i, and o.  We will also study the /s/ sound spelled ce and ci.  We will have new decodable readers and finish the big book “Machines In Our Garden”.  In Grammar we will finish up with nouns and introduce pronouns.  We will also incorporate a writing assignment with an art project for Christmas.  As always we will work throughout the month on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation. Journal writing will also be continued.

We would like to take the time to  wish everyone a blessed Christmas season and hope that there is time in our busy schedules to remember the reason for the season!

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First grade has had a spook-tacular month in October.  As the excitement of Halloween subsides be prepared for a multitude of Thanksgiving activities in the month of November.  We will do a Thanksgiving Pow Wow program on November 23rd.  Information regarding the Pow Wow will be forthcoming.  Mrs. Nelson and I are also working on putting together a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum at the end of November or first part of December.  We will notify you when we solidify the date.  In addition, please make note of the following dates in November from the school calendar:  1st – All Saints Day, 8am Mass; 5th – Parent/Teacher Conferences NO SCHOOL for students; 9th – Booster Club Breakfast Fundraiser @ 7:15 am; 12th – World’s Finest Chocolate Sale begins; 18th – Buck-a-jean Day and 8th grade Snack Sale; 19th – Celebration of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Feast Day; 23rd -Thanksgiving Prayer Service 9:00, Pow Wow 11:00, and  NOON DISMISSAL; 24th-28th Thanksgiving Vacation; 28th – First Sunday of Advent.

Here is a brief overview of the curriculum we will cover in November.

Math – We will continue to cover subtraction throughout the month.

Science – The unit on plants will continue with the study of trees and we will wrap it up with the Arboretum field trip “Tree Works.”

Social Studies – We will cover Unit 5 (This is Our Country).  The unit covers Native Americans, early travelers to America, the Colonies, and symbols of our Country.  We will also study Native American symbols and use these to decorate our Pow Wow costumes.

Religion – We will study about the ways that God speaks to us.  We will also spend the month studying about Saints.  Finally we will be preparing for the Advent Season which begins at the end of the month.

Language Arts – In the Unit 9 Spelling words,  we will begin to have a Thursday practice test.  In the Unit 10 Spelling words, we will begin to have a simple sentence using the spelling words.  Instructions will be sent home with the spelling lists.  In Grammar we will study plural nouns, special nouns, and pronouns.  We will continue to introduce more consonant sounds while working on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.   The Oral Reading test will continue on Fridays and we will have several new decodable books each week.

We would like to wish you and your families a wonderful Thanksgiving Season.

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Mrs. Nelson and I would like to again welcome you all to First Grade.  We’ve had an awesome month.  We have all been very busy settling into a daily routine and getting acquainted.  And as you can tell from the weekly overviews, we have covered lots of material this month.

October will also include a whirlwind of activity.  We will administer the ITBS Achievement Testing the week of October 11-15.  There will be a noon dismissal on October 15 for Staff Development.   The week of October 18-21 will be Red Ribbon (Drug Awareness) Week.  October 22 is a Teacher In-Service Day; so therefore, there will be no school that day.  The Fall Festival Halloween Carnival will be on October 30 so be sure to plan to attend for all of the fun and to work in our booths.

We will also have a jam packed month with our curriculum.  Here is a brief monthly overview of what we will cover in October.

Math – We will cover the chapter on addition and begin the chapter on subtraction.

Science – We will have ended the unit on human development and will begin the unit on plants.

Social Studies – We will cover Unit 2 (In My Community)

Health – We will discuss going to the doctor and dentist, “sneeze in your sleeve,” Halloween safety, and begin fire safety.

Religion - We will make a creation book and since October is the month of the rosary, each child will make a rosary.  We will also pray the rosary as a primary group and toward the end of the month, as a whole school, with the “Living Rosary”.

Language Arts – We will begin to have an oral reading test on Fridays using one of the decodable books from the week.  You will know in advance which reader will be tested.  This will be a one minute timed reading.  In grammar we will introduce adjectives, telling sentences, questions, -ed endings and review capitalization.  In spelling we will continue to have 10 words with 2 bonus words.  We will introduce more consonants and vowels throughout the month while working on oral blending, phonemic awareness, and phoneme segmentation.  Journal writing will also be continued.

We will also have several art projects going on in our classroom for Halloween.

As you can see, we have hit the ground running.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us.

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It is almost the end of the 3^rd quarter.  The school year will be coming to an end before we know it.  Keep studying hard to keep those grades in the A’s and B’s.  The following is what we will be doing in our subject areas:

Math

Finish money and time.  Begin Measurement (length, height, perimeter, inches, feet, capacity – cups, pints, and quarts weight – pounds  centimeters, liters, kilograms, temperature, and seasons)

Social Studies

Unit 4 – Our Earth, Our Resources Kinds of Weather, Time Lines, Land and Water, Our Earth’s Resources, Farm History, Caring For Our Resources.

Religion

Continue our study of Lent, Stations of the Cross, Finish Unit 3 – Jesus Shows us He is Good.  Begin to study about Parables.   March 12^th 1A will host the Mass and on March 26^th 1B will host the Mass.

Guidance

Continue lessons from Second Step series about Empathy Training.

Health

Start with a quiz on Nutrition and  end with Basic First Aid.

Science

Will have a test on Zoology, and then will start a new unit on Parts of the Human Body.

English/Grammar

Review nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns.  We will start more capitalization, and punctuation.

Language Arts

Review the sounds of /oo/, /ow/, long o, /aw/, /au/, /n/ spelled kn, comparatives, /oi/ spelled oi & oy,  /r/ spelled wr,  and /f/ spelled ph.  We will complete all of our decodable books by the end of the month.  In class we will be reading from a book (Open Court) that will stay in the classroom.  The focus will be on comprehension for the rest of the year.  First grade students should be reading at least 50-60 words per minute by the end of the 3^rd quarter.  Keep reading at home every night.

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Math

We will cover Chapter 4 this month.  It will consist of data and graphs.  Graphs will be comprised of Venn diagrams, tally charts, real graphs, picture graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs.  We will conduct simple surveys then organize and interpret the results of a survey.  Then using sets of data, we will find and use the range, mode, and median. We will have a test over Chapter 4 on Thursday, December 17^th.

Religion

We will study about the Advent Season.  This will include discussing that Jesus is our Savior, Adam and Eve, the Holy Family, the story of Jesus’ birth, our families and parish families.  We finish the month performing the Nativity Story at the 7:00 Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve.

Social Studies

We will finish Unit 5 before the Christmas break.  We will talk about holidays we celebrate, Abraham Lincoln, choosing our country’s leaders, and Eleanor Roosevelt.  After the break, we will review Unit 5 and have a test on Thursday, January 7^th.

Science

The field trip has been rescheduled for December 16, 2009.   For the month the topic will be water and how it changes, how we need to conserve water, how we use water, and soil.  Unit test will be on December 15^th, 2009.

Health/Guidance – Empathy will be covered for this month.

Language Arts

Phonics- sound of /y/ and long /a/.  Grammar – continue with sentences, nouns, verbs, verbs with /ed/ endings, and pronouns.  Word families of /og/ and /un/.  Read with you child every night for at least 20 minutes.

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Important Information for November

• Field trip money and form must be returned by November 12th

• Pow Wow – November 24th at 11:00 in the cafeteria – all families are welcome

Social Studies – Native Americans will be the topic for the month.  This will include: customs, clothing, and symbols.

Science – Deciduous and evergreen trees, seasons, conifer, cones, and fruit that is produced by trees.

Math – Subtraction will continue throughout the month.  Practice addition and subtraction facts to sums of 12.

Religion – November is the month of saints.  We will pick a boy and a girl to represent our classroom saints for the Mass on November 20th (8:00am).  Teachers will supply the costumes.

English – Nouns, pronouns and sentence types will be tested on November 18th.

Language Arts – We will continue with oral reading tests on Thursdays or Fridays but will not tell you what book of the week will be testing on, so practice all books.  We are starting to blend more sounds – these blends are all part of your decodable and spelling words.

Spelling – Added to your list of words is now a sentence.  It is made up of spelling words and frequency words.  Your child will have to practice writing this sentence at home and it will be read during the test.

We wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving.

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Wow, we have been in school for 7 weeks already. The students have enjoyed meeting all their new classmates and teachers. The following is what we will be covering over the month of October:

Math
Continue addition problems with sums to 12. Also, adding 3 addends together (3+2+1=6). Watch for Chapter 2 test review in the upcoming weeks. Subtraction will follow.

Social Studies
“In My Community” will be the next unit. We will learn about buildings, diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions of people of our neighborhoods. We will discuss differences and similarities between life in city, town, and farm communities. Lastly, we will finish the month with maps and map keys.

Religion
October is the Month of the Rosary, so we will be making rosaries in the classroom. This includes the prayers and parts of the Rosary. K-3rd grade will be having a Living Rosary on October 7th at 2:00pm in the church. Please come and join us.

Science/Health
We will start a new unit on plants. Students will learn what a plant needs to live and identify parts. Students will finish the month learning about trees and shrubs, leaves and parts.

Health
October is Fire Safety Month. We will talk about fire and make an exit plan to get out of your home safely if you have a fire. We will have a special guest on November 2 who will visit the school to talk about Fire Safety.

English
What is a telling/question sentence, what is a noun, and what is a verb, will be covered for the month. This unit comes from the Shurley Method English System. Students will also learn to label a sentence.

Language Arts
We will start off the month with the following sounds; /r/, /u/, /g/, /k/, /f/, /e/, and end with blending /sh/. Short vowel sounds will be reviewed throughout the month. Remember to read all decodable books and keep at home. We will tell you what test will be given at the end of the week. In writing, students continue writing in their Daily Journals and we are learning the writing process in the classroom.

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