Week of November 16, 2009
We had another great week in First Grade. Last week we had 2 guest
speakers. Mrs. Petticord, a dietician, discussed the importance of adding
fruits and vegetables to our meal and we played a fun "healthy food" bingo
game too. Dr. Duffy, a pediatric surgeon, brought his friend Stuffee, to
share his job. A very special thank you to both for sharing their time with
us!
We are participating in a Thanksgiving Outreach. Our class needs to bring in
boxes of stuffing. All donations are due on Thursday Nov. 19th. Thank you
in advance for your generosity.
We will have our Thanksgiving Feast on Thursday during our lunch periods. A
letter went home explaining this, last week.
What we will learn this week:
Religion
This week we will read and discuss Chapter 7--Ordinary Time. In this
chapter we will focus on the Season of Ordinary Time. Fr.Reilly will be in
to show the children all the differnt colored vestments We will also review
for our test and listen to the gospel reading and complete our Promise
magazine.
Math
We will continue Chapter 3--Subtraction Strategies and Facts to 12 this
week. This week we will discuss the relationship between addition and
subtraction, use related facts to check subtraction, identify addition and
subtraction facts to 12 in a fact family, use subtraction facts to find the
missing addend and use subtraction to compare sets.
ILA
We will review for and take our Unit 2 test and then begin Unit 3 "Let's
Learn Together" this week. This week the Phonics story is "The Big Mess"
and the Main Selection story is "The Little Red Hen". The skills we will be
working on this week are: Compare and Contrast, Nouns that name people,
places, things and animals, and decoding words with short e, and double
final consonants.
SS
We will discuss Homes this week.
Science
We will wrap up Nutrition this week. We will create our own healthy meal.
