Welcome back from Easter Break!!! I hope you all had a relaxing and fun time off of school!

This week in 1st grade:

Reading: "The Parade Marches By" and "The Lesson". This week we are focusing on the "ow" sound. We make the "ow" sound with the letters 'ou' and 'ow'.

Writing---Informational on Muscles

Spelling: loud, cloud, proud, found, round, sound, town, clown, brown, frown

Math: Test on numbers to forty....Start addition and subtraction without regrouping

Religion-Practice for May Crowning mass

Social Studies: Finish maps---hopefully start continents

Art---Spring bird art

This week:

Minimum day on Friday---May 3rd
May Crowning Mass/Grandparent's Day--May 3rd
Field Trip to UC Merced Children's Opera---May 22---10:00--Permission slip will be going home May 6th.

Have a great week!!
Mrs. Scheurich

P.S. Registration for next school year is due April 30th...avoid the late fee!! :)

Holy Week

This week in 1st Grade:

Reading- Our two stories are: "The Winner's Mitt" and "The Lost Mitt". We are learning about the soft 'c' and the soft 'g'. When the letter  c is followed by an e or an i the c makes an s sound. For example: city, face, center. When the letter g is followed by an e or an i the g makes a j sound. For example: gentle and ginger.

Spelling Words: face, place, cage, page, kind, buy, find, right, wash, light

Writing- poems

Math: Numbers up to forty---short chapter---counting on by tens and switching over to ones...For example: 10, 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

Social Studies: Continents and Oceans

Religion: Holy Week---Practicing for May Crowning Mass

Art: Finish Jesus' Face----Easter Egg 

Have a happy and holy Easter!!

​Mrs. Scheurich

This week in first grade:

Send your child with a booster seat on Wednesday and Friday please. We will be traveling to Park Merced on Wednesday and Hampshire and Pacifica on Friday. We will be performing the stations at school on Holy Thursday.

Reading: We are reading "Garden Club" and "For the Birds". This week we are focusing on the 'oy' and 'oi' sound. 'Oy' is used at the end of words and 'oi' is used in the middle of words. We are also learning about adding ly to the end of the word to explain how you do something...quickly, softly

Writing---Poems

Spelling---oil, boil, soil, coin, join, joint, point, joy, toy, boy

Math---Finishing weight, practicing subtraction

Religion---Practicing for Stations of the Cross

Social Studies---Maps

Art---Face of Jesus

P.E.---Bouncing and catching a basketball

Have a great week,
Mrs. Scheurich

This week in first grade:

Purple free dress on Friday for $1.00---money goes towards Relay for Life------parents needing hours--Mrs. Wennberg needs help at 6 A.M. on Saturday setting up for relay at the college. Let me know if you are interested. 
Friday---Dogs need to be at school at 9:30 for Bark for Life if you would like to participate
12:30 dismissal on Friday

Reading: "Sal and the Fire Department" and "Fire" We are working on the sounds of ur, ir and or sounding like er.

Spelling: bird, third, turn, burn, cold, know, does, laugh, both, again

Writing: Narrative---Understanding setting

Math---weight----as heavy as, heavy, heavier, lighter, comparing weights

Religion---Practicing for stations

Social Studies--Maps and globes

Science---Finishing up matter----solids, liquids and gases

Art--Bunny Art

P.E.---Catching and throwing---overhand--taking a step to throw

Have a great week!!
Mrs. Scheurich