Hi!! I hope you had a great long weekend. I had a great time at our inservice and learned a few things to add to my toolbox. I am looking forward to meeting with you all this week.

Book Fair- The Scholastic Dino-Mite Book Fair is going on right now in the library or at your home. The online book fair runs through Friday. New to the book fair is the e-wallet option. Parents may set-up an e-wallet online and then your children do not need to bring money to school for their purchases. The book fair website is http://www.scholastic.com/bf/ourladyofmercyschool7
Mrs. Lorenzi and her son Lucca are organizing the book drive for the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford for those of you who would like to donate a book to the hospital.  

This week in First Grade:

Reading: "Party Planning" and "Slumber Party". The sounds for this week are--"ar" and "or" We will have a practice spelling test on Thursday and test on Friday.

Spelling: car, far, star, card, hard, born, corn, horn, short, sport

Math: Measurement

Science: Sink or float---review-solids, liquids, gases

P.E.: Throwing and catching

Art: Spring Art

Have a great week!! 
​Mrs. Scheurich

This week in First Grade:

Reading:"Golly Is on the Ball" and "Play Ball" We are working on when we see 'all' appear together in a word, they usually make the 'ol' sound.

Writing: Book review

Spelling: call, mall, small, stall, wall, baseball, basketball, hallway, fallen, taller

Math: Keep up practicing the math facts---the entire class is doing well on our timed tests. Today we start a new chapter on Length/Measurement.

Religion-Lent

Science- States of Matter---Solids, liquids, gases

Art--Leprechaun

We are responsible for St. Vincent Lunches on Friday.
No School--March 21st or 22nd
Report Cards go home on March 20th.

The D Street Shelter recently added feeding breakfast and lunch for 50 people. The students that are in CJSF (7th and 8th grade students) wrote a menu for the days during Lent. The way that the meals are divided is by Faith Family. Your child would end up bringing one thing. A paper went home in the planner for the students that are in Faith Families 1-5. The day to bring the food and what to bring is circled. Do not cook the food. At the end of this week, students in families 6-10 will bring home a note in their planner of their one item to bring. This is just one way we can try to be more like Jesus during Lent and help others. If you have any questions please ask.

Have a great week,
Mrs. Scheurich

Hello First Grade Parents:

This week in First Grade:

Reading: "You and Me and the Superkids" and "A Super Day at Happy Land". We are focusing on long-vowel trickers this week. Long-vowel trickers are words with a V/CV words with a long-vowel sound at the end of the first syllable. For example: mu/sic, spi/der.

Writing: How to write a book review

Spelling: paper, even, silent, open, super, their, now, always, because, been

Math---Finishing Chapter 8-Ways to add and subtract to 20

Religion--Lent---Practicing for Ash Wednesday Mass---Our class is responsible for this mass. Some of the students brought home readings to practice for Wednesday...please practice. I will do my best to have every student that wants to read/participate at Mass do so...we are also in charge of The May Crowning/Grandparent's Day Mass in May.

Science--Test on Weather---Start Seasons

Art---Leprechaun

Have a great week,
​Mrs. Scheurich

P.S. We start Penny Wars tomorrow. All of the money collected is going towards Relay for Life. Our class gets points by collecting pennies. Other classes may attack us with nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Pennies are positive points and all other money is negative points. This will go on for the month of March. The kids LOVE it.

In addition to the Penny War, classes have a water bottle that may be filled with dimes. If we fill our water bottle with dimes it is about $100 that is donated to relay.