Week of April 19

First Grade News and Notes

*All school prayer service for Pope Benedict XVI on Monday at 2:20 p.m.

Look What's Happening This Week

Monday: Spanish

Tuesday: Music, Art English Unit 3 Test: Nouns & Pronouns

Wednesday: Spanish, P.E.

Thursday: P.E., Library Science Ch. 6 Test Natural Resources

Friday: Music Spelling Test

Look What We're Learning About

Phonics: Trigraphs tch & dge (three letters that come together to make one sound), digraph ie

Math: Addition facts, identifying geometric solids (cones, spheres), using bills to pay for items to $20, adding 3 single-digit numbers, rounding to the nearest multiple of 10

English: wrap-up unit on nouns and pronouns, begin study of verbs

Science: Natural resources

Religion: We can live forever, Jesus begins the Church

Spelling List 21

(spelling with suffixes, using the dropping rule when necessary...drop sneaky e before adding a vowel suffix)

trade                  take

trading               taking

hope                    tape     

hoping                 taping               

round                 *early

rounded             *learn

I hope we are early.  Are you taking the bus?