Week of December 14, 2009 What another busy week we had last week. We wrote letters to Santa with our eighth grade buddies on Wednesday. We also visited Santa's Secret Shop, had our First Grade Mass, and made candy trains on Friday. Thank you to Mrs. Duffy, Mrs. McHugh, and Mrs. Petticord for helping the children with their trains. The trains will come home on Monday. The children did a wonderful job during our First and Eighth Grade Mass on Friday. The cantors, readers, and gift bearers did an awesome job, and all of the children behaved so well. I am very proud of all of them. It was a nice way to end our busy week. This week, we will once again work with our eighth grade buddies on a special project. If you haven't already done so, please send in a medium size gift bag along with tissue paper by Wednesday. Report Cards will be going home on Tuesday. Please review it, and then sign the back and return it in the brown envelope on Wednesday. Chick-fil-a Lunch is Wednesday. Please bring a drink and snack or you may bring money to buy these items. We start our Star Student program this week. Our first star student is Gracie Brown!! Here is what we will learn this week: RELIGION: We will "light" the third candle on our Advent Wreaths, and continue to discuss the Jesse Tree. We will also attend the Second Grade Christmas Play and read our Promise magazine. MATH: We will begin Chapter 6- Extending Addition and Subtraction Facts. We will add numbers with sums from 13 - 18. ILA: Our Phonics story is "Trucks" and the Main Selection story is "Communities". The skills we will focus on are: classifying, special titles, and short "u" words and initial consonants c and g. SOCIAL STUDIES: We will continue with our Christmas Around the World unit. We will learn about Sweden and France.