Week of May 3rd

First Grade News and Notes

*We enjoyed a beautiful day at the zoo on Friday!  A special thanks to all the volunteers for making this day a success!

* Monday is the crowning of Mary at mass.  Students are invited to bring flowers.

Look What's Happening This Week

Monday: Spanish

Tuesday: Music, Art

Wednesday: Spanish, P.E.

Thursday: P.E., Library Religion Quiz Q. 42-44

Friday: Music Spelling Test 23, English Test Unit 5 (Verbs)

Look What We're Learning This Week

Phonics: suffixes -er, -est, & -ful, prefixes un-, pre-, & dis-, sight word eight

Math: Identifying geometric solids (cubes & cylinders), differences of 1 facts, identifying fractional part of a set, subtracting 10 from a number, identifying and drawing polygons

Religion: Jesus Goes Back to Heaven

English: using is and are, was and were, contractions

History: From Colonies to Independence

Spelling Words (spelling with ghost-letter digraphs)

know             write

known           wrote

knot              wrap

knock            wrong

gnat              *today

gnaw             *once

Do you know the date today?

Write your name on the line.

Religion Questions

Q. 42 What is the Church?

          The Church is the group of baptized persons who profess the Catholic Faith and come

           together to worship God (CCC 751-52).