September 18,  2026

Happy Friday Everyone! 

The class has been working hard this week, yet is ready for a weekend!!! 😁 We’ve had several visitors this week so it has been quite exciting!

Mrs. Ciesluk, our Music teacher, came to our classroom on Wednesday as a trained instructor for the Little Spot program.  During this time, the students learn about emotions and how to understand which emotions they are feeling.  They also learned that emotions are normal!

Dr. Ray comes in for about 20 minutes on Tuesday mornings to lead us in practicing some songs for upcoming Masses.  She gets the kids actively involved and moving around, even singing back responses!!  SHE IS WONDERFUL!!

This morning, ladies from the Rosary Project at our parish came to visit the first grade classrooms.  This is such an incredible gift to us as they prepare little decade rosary kits for the students to assemble.  Afterwards, each child has a little labeled bag for their rosary so that we can keep it at school until the end of the year.  After they are blessed, we will be praying with them in the Holy Family Chapel on Mondays in addition to using them at various times throughout the school year.

We started a reader in our ELA Skills this week!!  This reader is full of stories about a girl named Beth and her friend Nat that had to move to the UK.  Throughout the reader, the students are introduced to various customs and famous places in the UK.  Surely your child will come home sharing what they learn! 🙂

We will be finishing our ELA Knowledge module about fables next week.  Our second module focuses on the human body.  We will learn that our body is a network of systems.  We will begin by learning about the skeletal system.

AR is moving along beautifully and the students are EXCITED about reading!!  Hopefully you are seeing that motivation to read at home!

Reminders:  

      *Picture Day is September 22.

Weekly Highlights:  

*Today, ladies from our parish’s Rosary Project came to help us make little decade rosaries.  

*Our last caterpillar, “Canada”, will emerge as a butterfly probably by Monday!!

Religion - Adoration (Tuesday.);God is Love and we can share His love;  Mass (all are welcome on Thursdays at 8:35am)

Math -    story problems, number paths (lines); commutative property (2+5=5+2); Math facts + 0, +1, +2 (only to 10); subtract 0 or ALL (9-0, 9-9)

ELA Skills -  *tricky words:  which, what, why, when, where (words that do NOT sound like they look); hunks and chunks: wh; double consonants (gg, dd); c, k, and ck; writing with complete sentences

ELA Knowledge - completing our first module of fables; vocabulary words:  systems, support; “Dr. Wellbody”, “The Body’s Framework”

Author- Steven Kellogg

Enjoy some sunshine while you can!!  Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Greer