Week of May 17

First Grade News & Notes

*It's hard to believe there are only three weeks left in the school year!  With that in mind, we will begin wrapping up a few things in this week and the next.

*This Friday will be our last spelling test of the school year!

*All take home reader bags and books must be turned in for inventory by Friday, May 28th.  Until then, please encourage your child to continue taking home books as often as possible. 

Look What's Happening This Week

Monday: Spanish

Tuesday: Music, Art Religion Quiz

Wednesday: Spanish, P.E. History Test

Thursday: P.E., Library

Friday: Music Spelling Test 25

Look What We're Learning This Week

Phonics: Review of diphthongs, final stable-syllables, trigraphs, and spelling rules

Math: subtracting half of a double, counting hundreds/tens/ones, fact families, representing numbers to 500 using pictures

English: Adjectives

Religion: Pentecost

History: From Colonies to Independence

Spelling Words (using trigraphs dge and tch after short vowels, and ge or ch after anything else)

age               inch

page             lunch

huge             March

fudge           itch

edge            patch

change*       often* 

What page are we on?

Is it time for lunch?

Religion Question

Q. 45  What did Jesus do after His Resurrection?

                    After His Resurrection, Jesus remained on earth for forty days, then He ascended to Heaven (CCC 659).