Grade 1-2 News 3-2-15

March came in like a lion!

Grade One/Two March 2-6, 2015

Greetings on a snowy and chilly first day of March! Just like the old post office saying, neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will deter us… from learning!

Reading/language finds us first on Monday, celebrating Read Across America Day and the birthday of Dr. Seuss. I have both literacy and math activities to mark the day. Later in the week we will read stories about space exploration. A reading skill this week is finding the main idea of a passage, and our sounds are oo as in moon and oo as in book.

We continue to explore money and place value in math.

Steady albeit slighty slow progress is being made on our book projects in social studies. My hope is to begin making covers on Friday. These are very special, cloth-covered books which your child has worked very hard to complete. I hope they will find a safe place in your home (instead of under the bed or at the bottom of a toy box. J)

In religion we will begin to learn about the Mass in preparation for First Holy Communion. We continue to talk about Lent and ways to observe it as we grow in holiness and relationship with Christ and His Body.

Weather permitting, and hopes for healing of sick parents (my husband and me) we will make our Lenten pilgrimage to Cheyenne on Thursday of this week. I hope you saw and read the note sent home Friday. We have drivers and do not need more, but if you are not driving please send $3 to school by Wednesday to help with fuel costs. Thank you. We will walk the 8 blocks from St. Mary’s Cathedral to Mt. Sinai Synagogue, so while we need to dress appropriately for church visits, we need walking shoes (no dress shoes, please) and warm clothes for outdoor time. Thanks. Please remember not to send a peanut butter sandwich for lunch that day.

Spelling words

moon soon noon book took cook look

looking *2^nd grade additionals: shook spoon

Homework

Monday: spelling sort, neatly

Tuesday: Math

Wednesday: Ask your child to tell you one thing about the Introductory Rite of the Mass and write a bit about it.

Thursday: study spelling, please. No written assignment as we will be returning from our trip

Have a lovely week!