Reminders and Events:

• Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch - Monday, October 22 - dress in warm clothes!

• Wednesday, October 31 Halloween Parade, 1:00 pm

• Thursday, November 1, 8:30 Mass (dress uniform)

• Saturday, November 3, Taste of Strathmore

• Wednesday, November 7th - Field Trip to Hospital-land 12-2pm (dress uniform)

• Friday, November 9, Parent-Teacher Conference Day, NO SCHOOL

• Monday, November 12, Veterans' Day, NO SCHOOL

• November 15 - School Picture Retake Day

• November 21-23, Thanksgiving Recess

• Wednesday, November 28, PTC Meeting. 7pm

Each Friday, first graders will have 5 dictation sentences to write as a spelling and grammar assessment. If you would like to practice at home, have your child write down simple sentences as you say them, checking for a capital letter at the beginning, punctuation at the end, and proper spelling (stretch out the sounds for words that can be spelled phonetically, sight words must be memorized.)

Spelling/Phonics Theme, Week of Oct. 22nd: digraph -ck (any words ending in -ack, -eck, -ick, -ock, -uck)

*If you don't see the current date, please email me - I may have forgotten to update. Thank you! 

Snap words to master this week: look, here, his, my, all

Previous weeks' words: they, this, went, come, saw  

If your child is having trouble with snap words(sight words,) have them try the following steps:

1. Say the word.

2. Close your eyes and say it, spell it, say it.

3. Open your eyes and write the word.

More practice:

4. Cut the letters apart

5. Mix it and spell it 3 times.