September 23-September 27, 2013

We survived ITBS testing!  The 1st graders worked very hard last week.  Now we are off to the rest of 1st quarter !  I was very pleased with their progress report grades, and I am looking forward to seeing them continue to make great strides in their learning.  

Just a heads up:  we will be taking a field trip to the Bear Creek Pumpkin Patch on Wednesday, Septmber 23, 2013.  If you would like to drive and chaperone, you must have taken safe environment this year or last year , and have your fingerprints on file in our school office.  There will be more information to follow!

Vocabulary words for this week:

boy

girl

how

with

very

much

I'm

can't

I'll

it's

they

bet

lift

As you can see we will begin working on contractions. We will also be working on parts of a sentence.  

Spelling words this week:

bat

cat

cap

fan

rat

the

has

had

and

ran

Math: 

We will continue with basic addition facts this week.  Please continue to work on basic facts to the sum of 10.  Timed tests will continue this week.  Next week we will begin working on basic subtraction facts with differences from 12 down.  We will continue with addition timed tests for a while. 

Science

We have been working on living and nonliving things.  We will continue to work on parts of a plant and what plants need to survive.  

Social studies

We have been working on where we live - continent, country, state, city.  We have also been learning about maps, the compass rose, and the directions north, south, east, and west.

Religion

We have been learning about creation, and how God created us to be like him.  We are to praise God and to be thankful for his many gifts.