March Madness!

Welcome back from spring break! We hope you enjoyed the extra time with your children. It has been fun to hear all about the fun things they did over break!

Adding 10, subtracting 10, the number before, the number after....Mystery numbers!

St. Patrick's Day listening center & follow up on the iPads

Blend Diagraph Cards

Venn Diagrams comparing the Outback with the Coral Reef & doing some more math

We've been busy this week continuing our Australia unit. Your children have learned so much and have had lots of fun doing it!  Our Australian Animal Hunt stories are published and hanging outside our room ready for you to read!  Check them out!  We were so lucky to have Ms. Lorfing tell us all about her Haiti trip over Spring Break.  The first graders there loved our friendship bracelets the kids made them.  

During Social Studies we have started presenting our Australian Animal Reports and the kids love showing off their animals.  What a neat way to learn about all the Australian Animals!

The Red Kangaroo

Sugar Glider, Koala, Fairy Penguin, Frilled-neck Lizard, & the Thorny Devil

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADA!!!!

In Language Arts this week we focused on the "ir" & "ur" sounds in our Phonics books.  We also worked on Nouns in our Grammar Books. In Guided reading we are working on different reading strategies as well as doing story picture walks.  We did a sentence assessment over punctuation.




In Math this week we are introducing and working with 2D Shapes.  This is a review from Kindergarten as well as expanding our knowledge about shapes.  We differentiated into different math groups so different kids were doing different math activities on all different levels. Some kids were sorting 2D shapes in categories, some were making a flip book by tracing and drawing shapes and others were going on a math shape scavenger hunt.

Geoboards with rubberbands...making shapes that can fly...

Matching up symettrical shapes on popsicle sticks for a fun game

How many Hexagons can you find??

Scholastic news

Matching Coins with clothes pins

We were so lucky to go see "Where the Wild Things Are" at the Coterie Theater.  It was such an exciting show!!! What a special treat thanks to our Cultural Arts committee.
















Spelling: handle, wiggle, single, little, turtle, apple, pickle, saddle, tickle, buckle
Challenge Words: beautiful, fantasy, April, castle
Surprise the Teacher: ???

Reminders:
NO SCHOOL TOMORROW- Good Friday
April 1st- Australia theme ends & April 4th- Fairy Tales & Folktales theme starts
April 2nd- School Auction 
April 12th- @10am-2:30pm Zoo Field Trip

A Note From Mrs. Abio:

JOIN US FOR CHAPEL ON MONDAY, MARCH 28^th at 8:40 AM.

Please join us for a special Haiti Kick Off Chapel on Monday, March 28^th in the ECC Commons. Chapel begins at 8:40 am. We will share pictures and highlights from our recent trip, and will inspire our kids to get out there and work hard to raise money for Holy Cross School. Fundraising efforts will support the food program for the 2016/17 school year. The teachers at Holy Cross School are so grateful for our support.

Holy Cross is also in need of financial support to purchase the following items:

• School Supplies – Story Books, Textbooks, Student Workbooks, French to Spanish Dictionaries
• Furniture – Several teachers as well as our cooks are without chairs. They need money to purchase the wood and money to pay for the labor to build chairs that will be safe, lasting and durable.
• Money to compensate the cooks for their hard work.

INFORMATION ABOUT HOLY CROSS SCHOOL

• Salaries – range from $40.00 Month to $130.00 Month – 13 total teachers
• Food Program - $2000.00 Per Month (Rice & Beans)
• Textbooks/Supplies - $500.00/Month

The total cost to educate a child at Holy Cross School = $150.00 Per Student/Per Year

Current Enrollment

·         Kindergarten through 6^th Grade = 371 Students

·         7^th, 8^th and 9^th Grades = 43 Students (We currently do not provide funds to support the middle school, this is a future goal)

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Enjoy your long weekend.  Love, The First Grade Teachers