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Floros’ First Grade News Flash
Week of February 1-5, 2010
Archive
We are Rooted in Faith
This week in Religion
We will
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Celebrate Catholic Schools Week. This is a special week to
recognize the uniqueness of SJC. On Monday we will join the entire
school at a liturgy planned by the 6th graders. We will
discuss and decorate the national logo of CSW. On Tuesday we will
view the 8th grade’s Invention Convention. We will be
supporting our buddies with our presence. On Thursday we invite you
to view our school “in action” at our Open House from 9:00-11:00 and
1-3 p.m. Friday brings much excitement for students and staff.
Each grade level has been assigned a special color to wear on this
out of uniform day. First grade is being asked to wear green
and white; our school colors. In the morning the 1st
through 4th graders will participate in 2 activities.
First we will join our 2nd grade friends in Hynes hall
for some good spirited competition. Then we will return to our
classrooms to complete a service project for the Ronald Mc Donald
House of Loyola Hospital (see more information below). To
culminate the morning we will go upstairs to watch the Great Pig
race. Each homeroom who meets their magazine drive goal will have a
mechanical pig to enter the race. Room 104 is doing well with their
sales. I will let you know if our homeroom earns a pig to enter in
the race. After lunch the entire school will gather in the upstairs
gym for an afternoon of games, races and spirit. This week we will
create our own homeroom cheer for the spirit day cheer contest. What
an eventful week!
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Write cards to explain and accompany our Friday’s service project.
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Attend a brief prayer service and have our throats blessed on
Wednesday for St. Blaise day.
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Use our Second Step program. This week’s lesson teaches us to stop,
calm down and think.
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Preview the Gospel reading for next Sunday’s liturgy.
We are Growing in Knowledge
This week in Math
We will
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Celebrate our 100th day of school! We will be doing some
additional 100 based activities that were not part of last Friday’s
festivities.
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Estimate the number of items in the estimation jar.
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Have math homework on Monday and Tuesday only.
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Complete the assessment for unit 5 this week.
This week in Reading/Writing/Spelling
We will
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Add the following word to the word wall:
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with, any his, her & your
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This week’s spelling test is igh words. The pretest will be on
Monday and the regular test will be on Friday. The list includes:
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night, tight, bright, flight, sight, high, might, would, could &
should.
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Introduce verbs and write a class book of verbs. Our noun book
turned out really neat. Make sure your child does the noun cheer
for you!
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Blue Reading homework folders will go home on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Work on printing uppercase letters in D’Nealian.
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Create a Squiggle of the Week book.
This week in Science
We will
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Return to our work in the Physical Science unit.
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Have some Groundhog Day fun. Let’s hope he does NOT see his
shadow. I think we are all ready for a bit of early spring.
Some reminders
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On Friday the 1st and 2nd graders will be creating
a service project to help the young patients and their siblings at the
Ronald Mc Donald House of Loyola Hospital. We will be creating kits
that will have all the necessary items to make a holiday themed art
project. Patients may complete one while they are in the hospital
getting treatment or a sibling may complete one to pass the time. We
are asking a $2 donation from each student to help defray the cost of
this service project. Please send in your donation by Friday. Thank
you.
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The February and March volunteer calendars are attached. There are still
some holes in February and lots in March. If your schedule allows,
please consider helping out for reading clubs on any of these days.
Thank you for your interest in our classroom!
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The February Scholastic book order is attached as well. Orders are due
Friday, 2/5. You are also welcome to order on-line. See the attached
letter for instructions and the pass word.
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Wednesday is our 100th day of school. This is a big
milestone for 1st graders. We will work on more 100 type
activities that of the day.
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Each student will need to
create their own collection box for their valentines exchanged here in
class. Shoe boxes or cereal boxes covered/decorated work the best.
Each box needs to have a slit/hole in the top for delivery of cards as
well as a way to retrieve them. Cards should NOT be address to
individual students. Simply send in a class set of 21 which your child
has signed. This will aid in the distribution. Boxes and cards can
begin being sent in next Monday, 2/8.
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Thank you for your support of our magazine drive. Students are very
excited about the opportunity to earn prizes with this event. This
drive provides for technology enhancements for the entire school that
otherwise would not be in the general budget. The Great Pig Race will
take place on Friday morning.
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Mrs. Bak would like to remind the girls to wear shorts under their
jumpers on gym days and everyone should wear gym shoes on Thursdays and
Fridays.
Important Upcoming Dates
Wednesday, February 3
– 100th day of school celebrations
Thursday, February 4
– open house. Come see our class in action from 9-11 or 1-3.
Friday, February 5
– Spirit day. We are out of uniform. Try to wear our school colors:
green and white.
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Scholastic book orders due
Wednesday, 2/10 –
class Valentine Party and exchange
Thursday, February 11 & Friday, February 12
– Parent/Teacher conferences. You are able to sign up now. Students
are in class on the 11th but have no school on the 12th.
Star of the Week: Lily Lopez Author of the Week:
Birthdays this week: Brendan Nolan’s ˝ birthday
Show and share for 2/5: 11, 10, 9, 8 & 7
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