Ms. Ebrom

Grandparents Mass is Friday in the church at 1:00. Your children will sit with me during Mass. We will then walk back to the classroom together. All Grandparents are welcome back to the classroom and to the gym for a photo with their grandchildren. The children are dismissed once their Grandparent picks them up. If a Grandparent is unable to attend, please feel free to send someone else in his or her place. First graders love to show off their classroom.

WOW!! I cannot even believe that Thanksgiving is next week and that November is over. The month has just flown by. Busy week this week. We have our Art Moms coming in this week and the Grandparents Mass on Friday. Thank you to all who have been bringing in the gum drops I really appreciate it! Also if you want to add a deceased grandparent's name to our card please do so before Wednesday. You can send the name in with your child or you can email me. Here is what we plan on doing this week in Room 10:

Religion: We will finish up our chapter on thanking God for all that he has given us and move onto Chapter 9 which is about God's son Jesus. Please look out for the family letter that will be sent home about Chapter 9

Phonics: We will be starting short u this week. We will have a spelling test on Friday 11/21. I will send home the words on Monday.

Reading: We have come to the last story of our unit (A Vet) and we will have our second test on Thursday and Friday of this week. Please look for the vocabulary words for this story and work on them with your child. Just a note some items that will be covered on the reading test include short u, short o, short e and blends (fl, fr, sm, sl and sn), comprehension (including main idea ,characters and plot), -ed ending, context clues and figuring out a map. I urge you to work with your child on comprehension. When your child reads a book at home please ask them what happened in the story, who were the main characters, what was the setting , what was the plot and what was the main idea. This only strengthens the skills I am showing them in the classroom. We constantly look at these items when we read our story for the week or in our small group readings.

Math: We are starting Chapter 4 which looks at graphing (picuture graphs, tally graphs and bar graphs). The chapter letter will go home on Monday.

Handwriting: This week we will be practicing Y, W, X and K. Please have your child practice their handwriting at home as well. We do practice our handwriting in other ways at school such as when we write sentences.

Social Studies: We are talking about Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Students will be working on a writing project this week.

Science: We will continue to chart the weather and make our observations about what we see.

Looking forward to a great week! Just a reminder that the Grandparents Mass is on Friday at 1pm and that we would like to invite the grandparents to our classroom afterwards to see what we are doing.

Thanks,

Ms. Ebrom

Just a couple of reminders...

**Friday 11/14 No uniforms!!

**If you would like me to add the name of a deceased grandparent on our list for the grandparents mass please do so by 11/19

**I sent home the new scholastic orders if you are interested I will place the order on December 1.

**Parent/Teacher Conferences are on 11/24 and 11/25 please refer to the letter that was sent home about the time slots.

Thanks,

Ms. Ebrom

Dear First Grade Parents,
The first week of December we will be making a special craft for Christmas. If possible, we would like each child to donate one tub of “Spice Drops” for this craft. They are usually sold at Wal-Mart, Walgreen’s and Happy Foods during the holidays. At the moment Wal-mart on Golf Rd. has them in the bag for a dollar. We would prefer you bring in the tub because there are more than in the bag. If you can only find the spice drops in a bag, we would like you to bring in two bags per child. The “Spice Drop” candy tubs are sold in multi-colors or red and green. Either one is fine.
You can start bringing them in as soon as you find them in the store. They do sell out early. Other schools must do a similar project.
Thanks!
The First Grade Teachers

Room 10 is very busy this week!!

In Religion we are starting Chapter 8. Please look for the family letter going home on Monday. We are talking about thanking God which fits in well for our theme of thanksgiving in November.

Phonics: we are finishing up short i and we will have our spelling test on Friday 11/14. I will send the words home on Monday.

Reading:We will be starting our next story "What Bug Is It?" This story will help us to learn about various kinds of bugs. We will be doing some fun activities this week to accompany the story. The genre of this story is informational story. We will be talking about Proper Nouns and words with blends. Word cards will be going home on Monday please practice these words with your child.It is very beneficial for them to see the words at home and in our story at school. Also, please make sure to read the take home books with your child that I send home on Thursdays. When the students read these books with you please ask them questions to make sure that they are understanding what they are reading. We are working on comprehension strategies with all of our stories.

Math: We will continue talking about addition and subtraction this week. We are reviewing key words in our problem solving stories and we are reviewing different tools we can use for subtraction (i.e. using counters, drawing a picture, using number lines or using the related addition facts). We have our Chapter 3 Test on Friday 11/14. I will send home the Chapter Review on Thursday as homework to practice for the test. Please keep practicing the math flashcards with your child. The more they see the facts the easier it will be for them to recall them.

Handwriting: We will be working on H,V and Y this week. Please have your child practice their handwriting at home (every little bit helps). We do a lot of practice outside of our handwriting book when we do our writing activities.

Science: We will continuing our unit on Weather. We will be doing various experiments as a means for helping us to understand the weather. The students are keeping a weather chart and chart the weather daily.

Social Studies: We will be talking about Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Looking forward to a GREAT week!

Reminders:
*Please remember to send in grandparents names so that we can add those names to our list.

Ms. Ebrom

All Grandparents are invited to attend a special Mass on November 21 at 1:00 in the church.

We are creating a special remembrance card for deceased grandparents. If you would like your child to add their grandparent to our card- please write down the name and send it in with your child. We will then add these names to the card and say a special prayer for them.

Thank you,

Ms. Ebrom

This is going to be a short week but we are still busy in first grade! Hopefully the weather will continue to be as glorious as it has been. Speaking of weather our next unit in Science will be all about weather.Some big excitement this week is that First Grade is going to be participating in the Mass on Wednesday. Our petition readers are Bridget Martin, Emmett McDonagh and William Kaporis. Parents if you are able to we invite you to come to Mass at 8:45am on Wednesday. Report cards will be going home on Monday November 3. Please ask your child who gives them their grades- because what we want them to realize is that they give themselves their grades.Just a reminder there is no school on Tuesday. On Wednesday the whole school is out of uniform and wearing red, white and blue.

In Religion this week we will continue talking about how we show our love for God. In Phonics this week we are starting to work with short i. In Reading we are beginning our next story Splash. I will send home the vocabulary cards on Monday - please practice with your child. Also, we are talking about short e and irregular plural nouns. In Math we are continuing to talk about various strategies for subtraction. We will begin talking about how addition and subtraction relate. In Handwriting we will be working on R, N, M and H.

Looking forward to a great week!

Ms. Ebrom

Thank you to Mrs. Panico and Mrs. Ganz for a wonderful Halloween Party! The kids had a great time. I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

1. The Book It reading log calendar is due on Monday. Please return the calendar colored in and you will receive a coupon for a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut.

2. Friday is our Halloween Party- if there are any other items that you need to send in, please do so as soon as possible.

3. Students do not have to wear their uniforms on Friday but cannot wear costumes

4. Report cards will go home on Monday, November 3

5. On Wednesday, November 5, First Grade will be in charge of the readings, petitions and bringing up of the gifts at Mass. Our class will be doing some of the petitions. Once the students who are reading are picked, I will send home their petition. Please practice with them. I invite you to come on Wednesday to Mass.



Have a Happy Halloween and a good weekend!

Ms. Ebrom

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I can't believe it is the end of October! Lots of things are happening this week in first grade. First and foremost our first quarter ended last Friday and report cards will be going out next week.This Friday we will have our Halloween celebration. We will use our out of uniform pass on Friday so students will be able to wear black and orange. If you were asked to send something in for our party please send it this week. Thank you.

Religion: We are finishing up Baptism and will be starting our next chapter. We will be talking about how everything God created has a purpose.We will also be talking about All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day by the end of the week.

Phonics: We are finishing up short a this week. I will be sending home our spelling words on Monday and our test will be Friday.

Reading: We will be starting our next story -The Bug Bath. Within this story we will be focusing on short o, various comprehension strategies, and story elements such as characters and plot. We will also be talking about plural nouns and the inflectional ending -ed as a review.

Math: We are continuing our look at other strategies we can use for addition and subtraction. Please keep working on those flashcards at home.

Science: We will finish up our look at how a pumpkin grows and the parts of a pumpkin.

Social Studies: We will finish our look at families, neighbors and our cultures.

Handwriting: We will be practicing writing P, R, N and M.

We will also be doing a number of Halloween activities within our lessons.

Have a great week!

Ms. Ebrom