Spelling Words unit 19


no


so


rode


nose


stone



hope



those



never



The spelling test will be Thursday the 17th.

Please Help!!!!! We NEED Tissue. We are asking each family to send in 2 boxes of tissue. Thanks in advance

Parents:

The Bishop's visit was a huge sucess. Your children were very well behaved and the Bishop was delightful. I have attached some awesome pictures taken by Amy Coleman (Thank you so much Amy!) We'd also like to thank all our mom's and dad's who helped out on the field trip.

PS:

Parents:



Please send in more boxes of tissue. We are running low.



Thank You,



Lizzy

Unit 17 Spelling Words

red

green

blue

yellow

brown

black

for

to

Unit 15 Spelling Words

Unit 15 Spelling Words
Words with Long e

we
she
me
he
tree
feed
see
a

Thank you so much for all of your support during the Can Drive. All of the food we collected will go to The Neighborhood House and Our Lady of Mercy Outreach Center. First Grade did an awesome job. Final totals will be available next week.
First Grade Rocks!!!!

Unit 14 Spelling and CANS

Unit 14 Spelling Words
Long a words

made
came
gave
late
say
day
may
make


The final push for can goods is on!! First Grade desperately needs more cans!! We have an awesome class I know we can pull this off and we're helping others too!!!! So please send
CANS!!!

Unit 13 Spelling

Unit 13
Words with Short u

fun
sun
us
bus
up
cup
but
cut

Also please remember that we have started the food drive. First Grade needs to bring in as many can goods as possible. Please help your child earn these can goods. Enlist the help of neigbors and relatives!!! I have donated about 60 cans of vegetables and 20 pounds of rice so far to the First Grade effort! We will be collecting cans for the next 2 weeks. The class with the most pounds of cans will get to go the Bishops house for a celebration!
FIRST GRADE ROCKS!!!!!

Unit 11 Spelling List

Unit 11
Number Words

one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
or

Just a reminder, if you're planning on driving for our December field trip please send in your money ($6 per person) as soon as possible. We have to send in confirmation and payment at the beginning of November.

Also at the beginning of November we will be having a food drive for 2 weeks. Thank you to all who have already begun to send things in. Please let your child do extra chores to earn more can goods - we want First Grade to win the special meeting with the Bishop!!!

Thanks for everything you do.

Kathy and Lizzy

Unit 9 Spelling Words

Unit 9
Words with Short i

sit
hit
big
dig
in
pin
it
will

Have a great Columbus Day Weekend!

The First Grade has already been talking about the Food Drive that will be taking place at the beginning of November. It will run for 2 weeks. The Bishop has challenged us to collect food and the class that has accumulated the most "weight" in food collected will be invited to the Bishop's house for songs with "Mickey" (his dog) and other fun things. Of course, I have taken the opportunity to encourage them to do extra chores to help parents, grandparents, neighbors etc. so they can earn "heavy" canned food or other dry food items. Please help First Grade.

First Grade Rocks!!!!

Kathy

Unit 8 Spelling

Unit 8 Words

bed
led
met
get
pen
ten
yes
then

Remember book orders are due Monday, October 5th.

If you are planning to drive on the field trips please make sure you have all the paperwork filled out in the office.

Unit 7 Spelling Words

Spelling words for week of September 28th:

at

bat

cat

an

man

ran

and

am

On Friday, October 2nd, we will have our first spelling test. Every Monday, the students will have the list in their Homework Folders and will write the words 3 times for homework. I will also try to post them on my Blog every Friday.

I'd like to remind you that our drivers/chaperones need to be approved by the Diocese. If you are planning on driving on our field trips, please fill out the paperwork that was sent home at the beginning of the school year. If you can't find your form, please contact the office. We need to have them in and processed by the first field trip on October 16th.

Read Log

Welcome to First Grade!!

We have sent the Reading Log Folders home.
Every night read to your child or have your child read to you. Make sure you write down the title of the books and list how many minutes you read. On Sunday, total the minutes and sign the form. Return the folders to school on Monday and we will put a new Reading Log form in the folder.

At the end of the year we total the number of minutes the your child and the rest of First Grade has read. It's amazing how those minutes add up!

Kathy and Lizzy

Spelling Extra Unit 5

brother
along
spring
sang
growing
peering
wriggles
carrying

Bonus:
ladybug
beautiful

EXTRA SPELLING UNIT 4

EXTRA SPELLING UNIT 4

age
phone
write
jump
that
rode
lamb
quick

BONUS WORDS:
rainbow
classroom

Spelling Extra Unit #3

SPELLING WORDS:
sister
porch
judge
clown
soon
knee
draw
tube

BONUS WORDS:
afternoon
something

Spelling - Extra Unit 2 (May 4, 2009)

SPELLING WORDS EXTRA UNIT 2

they
each
can't
don't
said
cent
circle
few

BONUS WORDS:
family
write

Auction Project

FIRST GRADE TOTALLY ROCKS!
Thank you so much for all of your help and your generosity. The First Grade Project was awesome and it went for $1,400! Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything!!! We have some very talented parents in this class! Thank you for sharing all of your time, talent, and all of the donations that made our project so great! (Of course, thank you to the French's for purchasing our wonderful project)!

Kathy

Spelling Words

Dear Parents,
We have finished the words in our Spelling book. We will continue to have extra units and weekly tests. Every week we will also have 2 bonus words. The students will get 5 extra bonus points for each of the bonus words, so they can earn 10 extra points every week. They will not be penalized if they miss the bonus words.


SPELLING WORDS
Extra Unit 1

pretty
want
once
any
where
reading
because
math

BONUS WORDS
scared
afraid

Unit 35 Spelling

Unit 35 Spelling Words
Place Words

beach
home
store
school
park
outside
house
yard

This our LAST spelling list from our Spelling Book!!! I will be sending home spelling lists with words from our Reading books.

Our auction project is coming along very nicely. Thank you for all your help and please check with Robin Richter or Jeannie Fanjoy to see if we need any other "accessories" for the project.

I also need a few First Grade Parent Volunteers to help me serve cake and punch to our Second Grade students and their families after they make their First Communion at the Cathedral on Saturday, May 9th. We would need to be there at 11:00 a.m. to set up and then serve them after Mass is over. Please email me and let me know if you are available to help.

Have a Blessed Easter and a wonderful Spring Break.
Kathy

Unit 34 Spelling

Unit 34
Sight Words

her
I
their
his
him
our
you
very


Our Auction Project is coming along. Please continue to think of ideas to help "accessorize" our
Backyard/Garden Retreat theme.

Unit 33 Spelling

Unit 33 Spelling
Adding -ing

go
going
sleep
sleeping
hold
holding
know
once

Please remember that Tag Day is Friday, March 27th.

Also please remember to brainstorm for more "Garden Retreat" items to go with our Auction Project! It's really coming along. Please contact Robin Richter or Jeannie Fanjoy if you have any ideas or items you would like to donate. First Grade is doing awesome!!!!
Kathy

Unit 32 Spelling Words

Unit 32 Spelling
Adding -ed

play
played
help
helped
rest
rested
want
too

Unit 31 Spelling Words,

Unit 31 Spelling
Words with ch, sh, th, wh

chin
shoe
the
they
when
what
that
with

Ms. Lindon just provided a great web site for spelling: spellingcity.com
It's a great way to study and play with the words. The site helps your child study the words, and comes up with games for the words!

Please think about our auction project and think of things that will enhance our overall theme. We have great parents already working on it - it's going to be great!!

Please continue to practice math facts. We need to be adding and subtractingto 20 comfortably by the end of the year. We will continue to have "doubles" quizzes on Friday's. Using doubles is one of the strategies that helps with knowing our math facts.

Please have your child orally read their core books and First and Second Readers to you. This really helps improve fluency. They have come a long way and like showing you how well they read! Also, make sure you include these times in their Reading Logs!

Please make sure to sign Reading Folders and Homework notebooks, students will lose 5 minutes if their folders and notebooks are not signed.

Have a Great Week!

Kathy

Unit 29 Spelling Words

Unit 29 Spelling
Family Words

mom
dad
brother
sister
baby
family
people
said

Unit 28 Spelling Words, Math Facts

Unit 28 Spelling Words
Sight Words

do
does
could
would
be
been
did
done




Also, we need to be memorizing our Math Facts. The class needs to be "comfortably" adding and subtracting math facts up to 20. The students know the strategies to help solve the problems, ie, using doubles, using 10's, zero, etc. but now need to work on knowing the facts. Flashcards are great, playing addition and subtraction games with a deck of cards is also a fun way to "play/learn" the math facts. It's really important to memorize these math facts. It will make addition/subtraction with regrouping, multiplication and division much easier. Please work with your child.
I sent home laminated "doubles" math cards a few weeks ago. We will be having weekly quizzes on the doubles and other math facts on Friday mornings.

Unit 27 Spelling Words

Words with ld, nd, st

old
cold
end
send
fast
lost
best
went


Thank you for sending in the kleenex, I think we are fine for now. Please keep your eyes open for a letter from our room mothers giving you information for our auction class project.

Also please make sure that you sign the Homework notebooks and also if there is Reading homework, also sign the assignment sheet in the Reading folder.

Thanks,
Kathy

Unit 26 Spelling Words

Unit 26 Spelling
Words with tr, fr, gr

train
try
free
fry
grow
grandma
from
of


Also thank you for the can goods. First Grade is awesome! We contributed 356 cans to the total of 1162 cans collected. As the class says, "We really made a difference!"
Kathy

Food Drive and Kleenex

Please send a box of kleenex in with your child. First grade has a lot of sneezing and runny noses and we are desperate!!!

First Grade Rocks and we are working hard collecting cans for the food drive. This is the last week, please help your child do chores or other things so they can earn "cans" for the food drive. They are learning about serving others and helping others. Thanks,
Kathy

Unit 25 Spelling, Auction Project, Kleenex

Sorry I didn't get to post last week's words.
Here are the Unit 25 Words


Spelling Unit 25
class
clay
sled
slip
star
step
slow
story


The First Grade is ready to get moving on our Auction project and we need your help.
We are trying to do a Back Yard Retreat. One of our talented parents has agreed to make an amazing "double" swing for the back garden and we need to enhance it with other items to make this a retreat we would all love to have. The completion date for the project is April 1st. Please keep your eyes glued to the blog for further information. More importantly, please email Robin Richter, Jeannie Fanjoy or me if you have any ideas,or talent we can tap to help us with this project. First Grade Rocks!



FIRST GRADE IS OUT OF KLEENEX (WE HAVE 1 BOX REMAINING) AND IT'S ONLY JANUARY)! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, SEND IN 1 BOX WITH YOUR CHILD NEXT WEEK.

Kathy

Unit 22 Spelling Words

Unit 22

is
are
was
were
has
had
have
come

UNIT 21 SPELLING LIST

UNIT 21 SPELLING LIST
(Adding -s)

friend
friends
game
games
kite
kites
teacher
some