Important
Dates/Events:
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Friday, September 25th- Casual Day
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Friday, October 2nd- School mass at
10:00
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Tuesday, October 6th—Moose Hill Trip
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Friday, October 9th and Monday,
October 12th – No School
Upcoming Star of the
Week: Nicholas Silva
Math: We completed
our unit, Understanding Addition this week.
We will begin on Monday with an assessment on Unit 1 skills. We will then entering our second unit,
Understanding Subtraction. We will begin
with finding the missing parts of 6, 7, 8, and 9. After that we will move to subtraction
expressions and number sentences.
Similarly to our addition unit, students will work with counters and
cubes as manipulatives to support understanding.
Benchmark Reading
Assessments: Find out more about this on our blog! (http://mrsleary1a.blogspot.com/)
Phonics: Today in phonics we completed the first unit,
which focused on letter-keyword recognition for consonants and short vowels,
letter formation for all lower-case letters, alphabetical order, and sound
recognition for consonants and short vowels.
We will have our unit assessment on Monday. Up next in our second unit is blending and
segmenting three sound words with a review on tapping as a skill, sentence
dictation procedures and story retelling.
Religion: In
Religion we are continuing with the theme of creation. Students are exploring ways to be caretakers
of God’s creation. We have been
discussing the ways in which we can honor God by thanking, knowing, loving, and
serving God.
Science: We began
science this week with our first exploration of senses. Check out the blog below for information on
our first experiment with touch! We had
a great time.
Have a great weekend!
Alison
