A Peek at the Week of 10/18/10 (and catch up, too!

Hello 1C Families!

We have been very busy in our class. Please note that the All Saints' Day information sheet and Saint pictures are due in class on this Friday, Oct. 22. The children will be working in class and in Art with Mrs. Lapolito to make saint portraits to have on display for All Saints' Day.

Many thanks to our homeroom parents for coordinating our small party on 11/1 and Pumpkin Math activities on Oct. 29. I am grateful to the parents who have volunteered to send in items and to come in to help out. Dr. DeFazio is also coordinating Mystery Readers for our class starting later this month.

We have loved having our SMARTBOARD in class! Each day we send some time using it in our subject areas. In reading we can see our stories on the big screen while we listen to them. We have been playing religion games, and have had fun vocabulary quizzes for review. We are fortunate that all of our academic programs have a variety of interactive learning material available online to us.

In Religion we are starting chapter 4 this week, " We Give Praise to God". In this chapter we will be learning about praise, prayer, and the Gloria. We will be writing a class prayer of praise this week.

In SUPERKIDS we are starting unit 4. We are learning about the sounds of /ed/ at the ends of words. Depending on the words, they can say "d", "ed", or "t". We are continuing to work on words with the sounds of "le" and "ng". As of this part of the program we have mastered reading and spelling these Memory Words: I, my, she, her, he, his, where, what, why, when, which, who, do, have, show, me, and a. This week we are starting to work on look, your, the, as, are, for. We have also been working on sequencing events, summarizing, comparing and contrasting, problems and solutions, and reading with expression.

In Math we are working on story problems that incorporate basic addition and subtraction facts. We are paying attention to the words which suggest if we are to be adding more, or taking away. We are reviewing angles, sides, ordinal numbers, practicing writing numbers, and doubles which are addition facts to the sum of 18. The children will be starting to make flash cards for the current math facts starting this week.

In Science we have just completed our unit about Life Stages of People. We learned about our habitats as people and living things around us. Our upcoming Science unit is "Observing Trees" where the children will become Botanists! Important vocabulary will be : air, water, light, nutrients, trunk, bark, branch, twig, broad leaves, needles, seedling, sapling, and seasons.

In Social Studies we are learning about needs and wants, basic needs, goods and services, and neighborhood workers. We will be using our atlases to read for information and be classifying pictures of items in the above categories.