Welcome to First Grade!

Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend!

Please make sure to send in your child's First Grade work packet on Tuesday, so we can complete the day we missed in January...thank you for your help with this.

Looking ahead...March 2nd is Read Across America Day...we will begin our preparation for our annual celebration of Dr. Seuss' birthday...First Grade will begin our Read Across America Reading Challenge on Tuesday, February 4th...the challenge is to read 50 books by March 2nd...on that day we will celebrate all our hard work by dressing up as our favorite book character...there are so many great book characters to chose from (Pigeon, Fly Guy, Cat in the Hat, Splat the Cat, Pinkalicious, etc)...look for your book log to come home on Tuesday...every book you read, you will write down in your book log and each morning I will check your child's book log and they will receive a sticker for the books read the night before...the goal is to read 2 books each night...have fun READING!

First Grade goes outside for morning recess everyday...please make sure to send your child with a jacket...as it gets colder feel free to send in gloves and hats for them as well.

We use REMIND...it is a phone app that makes communication with you quick and easy.  I can send  announcements, reminders and pictures throughout the year as well which is always fun for you to see all the super things your child will be doing this year.  Please sign up as soon as you can.  Here is how you can sign up...
Take out your phone
Enter this number 
81010
Text this mesage
@stephdibr
 
Please feel free to email me (sdibricida@school.stteresacalcutta.com) or REMIND me with any questions or concerns.

CYO has a website for STC spirit wear...check it out and show your school spirit...www.ragtee.com

THIS WEEK IN FIRST GRADE
ELA Journeys - Unit 4
Theme - Travel
Reading - The Big Trip 
Skills - Compare and Contrast
Strategy - Visualize
Spelling -   Long Vowel E - ee/ea (please check spelling link)
Phonics -  Long Vowel E - ee/ea 
Grammar - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Subjects and Predicates, Plurals, Possessives, Using a, an, the, Proper Nouns, Contractions, adding -er, -est
Writing - Sentences, Punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, apostrophe), Conjunctions   
Math - Unit 9
Religion - God Loves the World
Social Studies/Science - President's Day