Hello First Grade Families! November 1, 2017 is a Holy Day of Obligation recognized by the Catholic Church as "All Saint's Day," a day to honor and recognize the Saints of our Church. In order to help our first grade students better understand this Holy Day of Obligation, our first grade class will be completing a "Saint Plate" project. Students are to choose ONE Saint … [Read more...]
Math Review Packet & Test TOMORROW (9/29)!
Hello First Grade Families! I hope you are having a wonderful week! Tomorrow your hard working mathematicians will be taking their first test on chapter one in the Go Math! curriculum! In order to help them study and prepare for their upcoming test, a review packet was sent home tonight for their math homework. Each page of the packet covers a different addition concept that … [Read more...]
Thursday Birthday Celebration & Class Pictures!
Hello First Grade Families, I hope you all are having a wonderful week! Our first graders had a terrific Tuesday focusing on choosing kindness and working together as a team. I wanted to remind you of two important events coming up this Thursday, September 21st, in our first grade class: class pictures & our first class birthday celebration! Below is the information for … [Read more...]
Math Homework 9/18
Dear First Grade Families, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Today a new homework assignment sheet went home in your student's homework folders (it was printed in green this week). I wanted to inform you of a slight change to tonight's math homework. The math homework assigned for tonight (Standards Practice Book pages 11 & 12) was already completed by your … [Read more...]
Weekly Math Homework Update!
Hello First Grade Families, I hope you all are having a wonderful week! Our first grade class is having a fabulous week learning and growing together! I wanted to address a question I have received about the weekly math homework to avoid any future confusion. This week I collected Monday night's math assignment as a formative assessment in order to drive my math instruction … [Read more...]
P.E. for First Grade Tomorrow (9/8)
Hello First Grade Families! I wanted to remind you again that tomorrow (9/8) Coach J was so nice as to offer first grade the opportunity to have P.E. since we missed it on Monday for Labor Day. P.E. will be tomorrow from 10:25am-11:25am. On Monday (9/11) we will go back to our normal P.E. schedule from 1pm-2pm. Because tomorrow is Friday, we will be attending Mass. … [Read more...]
FYI for Parent Volunteers in the Classroom
Hello First Grade Families! It was such a great pleasure to see all of you last night!! I look forward to working with each of you to make this an unforgettable year for your child. Parents who would like to volunteer in the classroom or go on future field trips MUST be BOTH fingerprinted and Virtus Trained. For Virtus … [Read more...]
Homework Announcement!
Hello First Grade Families! We are officially through our third week of school, and I couldn't be happier to be your child's teacher! More information will be given at Back to School Night, but I wanted to inform you that homework will officially start being sent on on Monday, September 11th. This homework will include a reading log, sight word practice, phonics focus words … [Read more...]