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Jan 23, 2015 Newsletter

Mrs. Donohue's first grade class at St. Thomas school has been very busy in January. They have been preparing for Catholic Schools Week activities next week, including a non-uniform day and parent presentation. The teacher has seen academic growth in her students and plans a Valentine's Day party. She reminds parents to dress children appropriately for outdoor recess.

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Jan 23, 2015 Newsletter

Mrs. Donohue's first grade class at St. Thomas school has been very busy in January. They have been preparing for Catholic Schools Week activities next week, including a non-uniform day and parent presentation. The teacher has seen academic growth in her students and plans a Valentine's Day party. She reminds parents to dress children appropriately for outdoor recess.

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First Grade News

A Dynamic Catholic Education Centered in Christ

Mrs. Donohues Class

January 23, 2015

January is a very busy month here at St. Thomas. We have Catholic


Schools Week next week. Please read further on in the newsletter for information on Catholic
Schools Week.

I have done some more assessing with the students. Wow! There has been a lot of growth. The
children are amazed too when I show them the difference from the first marking period. Its so exciting to see.
You should be able to see your childs report card online. Please keep in mind that expectations are changing as the year progresses.
I am going to have a small Valentines Day party on Friday, Feb. 13th. If you would like to
send in a small treat for the whole class that day it would be fine. We will make Valentine bags at
school. I am asking that each child bring a Valentine for each of the students in our class. A class list
is attached to this newsletter.
Please remember to have your child dress for outdoor play (snowpants, boots, mittens, warm
coat, hat, scarf). They do go outside if the temperature is 0 or above.
Thank you again for all your encouragement and support! You are the best!
God bless,
Kelly

Catholic Schools Week


DIBELS SCORES
The week of Jan.26th is Catholic
Schools Week. Monday is also a
non-uniform day. Also on Monday is the Parent Virtues Presentation given by Liz Peters at
2:30 in the church. This should
be very interesting for you.
Wednesday afternoon we go to
the gym for the Living Rosary.

I will be sending home, in the next week or so, a


sheet with your childs DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of
Basic Early Literacy Skills) scores for the winter.
This time we assessed Oral Reading Fluency and Nonsense Word Fluency. The sheet will explain both of
these assessments. The benchmark is in parenthesis.
The score for Fall are also on that sheet. We will be doing the DIBELS one more time in the Spring.

FYI: Mrs. Jazwiecs wiki site (Great


for the students)
www.jazwiec.pbworks.com

Science/Social Studies

Reading/Writing

We are having a lot of fun


Our Word Wall Words this
learning a little bit about penguins.
week were: use, under, stop, two, down. Next
We will be doing some mapping
week the Word Wall Words will be: from, get, so,
work with where penguins live. The chil- as, too.
dren are really enjoying this unit. We
We had a lot of fun with the story, Tacky the
learned about the equator and how the
Penguin this week. We read the Readers Theater and
acted it out. We also enjoyed writing about penguins.
world looks. Next week we will discuss
cardinal directions and how to use map
Next week for Guided Reading we will read the
story
Hattie
and the Fox. We will do some sekeys.

Math

How are the flashcards going? They tell me they are working
on them every night. I will test all
the students next week to see what their goal
should be for Mastering Math Facts. On
Monday, February 2nd I will put in their green
folders their one minute test. Your child
should practice saying the top half out loud
and then when he/she is ready you can give
them a practice minute test on the top half
only. This should only take 5 minutes. The
sheet should go back into their green folder
so they can use the bottom half the next
day for their test. Each childs goal is different, depending on how fast they write. The
goal is found at the bottom of the test paper.
Next week we will work with comparing
measurements.

quencing and we will do another Readers Theater


and act out the story.

We have learned about the digraphs: sh, th,


ch, wh, and qu. The digraphs (th, sh, ch,wh, and
qu) we call the h brothers. Theodore (th) is not nice,
he sticks out his tongue at everyone; Shane (sh) tells
everyone to be quiet; Charlie (ch) thinks he is a train
and goes, ch, ch, ch,; Whipple (wh) tries to whistle
but he cant. We also learned that th has two sounds,
voiced (thin) and unvoiced (that).

Important Dates to Remember


Jan. 26: Non-uniform day/ Catholic
Schools week
Jan. 26: Parent Virtues Presentation 2:30 Gym
Jan. 28: Living Rosary 2:30 Gym
Jan. 30: All School Mass 9:55
Feb. 10t 100th day of school & Evening Conferences

100 Day Celebration


Can you believe it; 100 days of school!! We are celebrating
this big day on Feb. 10th. We have several activities planned.
This week we continued The children will draw what they will look like when they are 100
to discuss how we can be
and write about their life at 100 years of age. We will sing a song
about 100 days of school and make glasses in the shaped of the
Fishers of Men.
Next week we will review number 100. We will graph using conversation hearts and do several
other activities.

Religion

the Sign of the Cross as a way


of praying to the Holy Spirit.

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First Grade News

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