Important Dates/Events:
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Monday, January 4th—School
Resumes
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Thursday, January 7th—Mass
10:00
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Friday, January 15th – No
School Faculty Retreat
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Monday, January 18th- MLK –
No School
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Friday, January 22nd —Progress
Reports
Math: We have been working through unit
six, Subtraction Facts to 20. Students
are now familiar with all the doubles facts through 20 and are able to use
these facts as well as near doubles to help them solve subtraction problems. We will continue work in this unit after
vacation, and have an assessment on this topic during our first week back.
Information
about first grade math facts was sent home with your child on Thursday. Our math facts program will begin the week
return from school. We will try to do
math facts Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Nightly practice with math facts will support your child’s growth!
Phonics: Today we had an assessment on unit six, which covered
basewords and the suffix s ending. Look
for your child’s assessment early next week.
Up next in unit seven are the additional glued sounds ang, ing, ung, ong,
ink, onk, unk, and ank. Other topics
covered in this unit are blending and segmenting the “ng” and “nk” sounds,
narrative fiction vs. informational books, and reading with accuracy and
prosody.
Science: We
have been continuing our study of solids and liquids with exploration of solids
over the past two weeks. Students are
working to sort solids by like attributes and compare and contrast objects
using different terms; flexible, rigid, smooth, rough, color, surfaces and
more.
Religion: In
the coming weeks students will be hearing stories about what Jesus taught. This study will take us up to the Lenten season.
Enjoy your weekend.
