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Saint John of the Cross Parish School

Rooted in Faith Growing in Knowledge

Week of May 14-18, 2012 First Grade News

From The Teacher

There are many exciting events that happen in first grade. We thought that it would be important to look ahead and inform you of these special dates.

*May 14- May Crowning and Ribbon Ceremony.  After the 8th grade court crowns the statue of Mary, we will be giving our buddies their graduation ribbons.

*May 16 – First Grade Field Trip to the Morton Arboretum.  The weather is calling for possible showers in the morning.  The program will not be cancelled because of weather.  Please help your child dress accordingly.

* May 18 – 8th grade Memorial Games.  Friday afternoon we will watch our buddies play the first of 3 round robin basketball games.  In addition, this week during lunch a raffle will be held to raise funds for the 8th grade gift to the school.  Students may purchase tickets for $1 or 6 for $5.  Please put your child’s money in their lunchbox.

*May 23 – Buddy Lunch.  A letter listing your child’s buddy went home last week.  If you need another, please ask.

*May 25 – Author’s Day.   This is our 10th year to celebrate our authors in first grade. It will begin at 2:00pm. You don’t want to miss this event!  A flyer will be sent home on Tuesday with important information about this event.

*Celebrate SJC Day – May 31

As we get closer to these dates, we will send a more detailed description. We look forward to celebrating these events with your children.

Have a great week

Rhonda Floros and Jackie Wehner

This Week

RELIGION

*This week we will attend the all school May Crowning and Ribbon ceremony on Monday morning.

*We will begin Unit 17, “The Early Christian Church”. Students will learn about life in the 1st Christian community and how we can act more like the first Christians.

* We will preview next Sunday’s Gospel reading.

 LANGUAGE ARTS

 

*There will we begin Units 9 & 10 in SuperKids.

*This week’s phonics rule introduces the sounds of /oo/ as in book and tool.

*New Memory words are:  live, eight, old, hold & write

* This week’s story is  “The Case of the Mystery Monster”

* The spelling test will be on Friday.  The words are write, old, eight, live, hold, room, took, stood, book, and soon.

* We will also continue to work on our First  Grade Memories book and the new centers that are in our classroom.

MATH

*This week we will have and end of the year review on fractions.  the students will be making their own fraction book, creating “fractionpillars” and “cooking up” some cakes, pies and pizzas to divide into fractions.

*There will be math homework this week.

 

A few reminders

  • Some students still have not brought in photos from home to add to their memory book.  a snap shot of them in their favorite sport or one from a favorite vacation this year would be great.  Please send them in ASAP.

 

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