Monday, April 30, 2012

First Grade Homework Sheet Week of April 30, 2012


First Grade Homework Sheet

Week of April 30, 2012



        This is the big week for our P.T.G. Performance!  We will have a Dress Rehearsal on Thursday, May 3 at 12:30 in the Hall.  The evening performance will begin at 6:00 pm.  I need all students to be in the First Grade classroom at 5:45 in costume!!!

All parents, grandparents, etc. may go to the Hall.  After our performance I would appreciate it if the parents would pick up their child at the classroom right after we exit the stage.  You may return to watch the other classes perform.

     All students need to bring their costumes to school Thursday morning for our Dress Rehearsal.  Please have your child’s costume in a bag with their name on it!  There will be no homework this week nor Spelling words.  We will also not have Learning Centers this week.  We have lots of rehearsing to do!

        This Friday, May 4th, will be our annual Crowning of Mary beginning with Mass at 8:15 followed by the Rosary procession and Crowning ceremony.  It is a beautiful event and all students are encouraged to bring flowers that day and during the month of May to honor our Blessed Mother.

        All students who participate in the P.T.G. performances on Thursday may have free dress the following Monday, May 7.  Also, just a note regarding the afternoon Dress Rehearsal:  all adults should sit along the sides of the hall or in the back so the school students can see.  Of course, for the evening performance you may sit anywhere!

Monday, April 23, 2012


First Grade Homework Sheet

Week of April 23, 2012





        Our P.T.G. performance is fast approaching, and we have been rehearsing every day.  Please help your child practice at home if he/she has a speaking part and make sure their costumes are ready.  The children are very excited and I am sure they will do a wonderful job.

        This Tuesday, April 24, is the First Grade on-campus Bake

Sale.  Heather has planned a “Root Beer Float Sale” which will be well-received I am sure!  Please contact her if you can help.



Monday:  Write Spelling Words List #29 five times each;

        Writing—“What a Scent!” contraction practice

        Math—“Early Birds” three-digit column addition practice



Tuesday:  Write Spelling Words List #29 three times each;

        Phonics—“Making a Splash” long vowels

        Math—“Just Hanging Around”



Wednesday:  Write Spelling Words List #29 two times each;

        Phonics—“A Team of Three” long vowels

        Math—“Sights at the Zoo” word problems



Thursday:  Take a Practice Spelling Test List #29;

        Phonics—“What a Show!” long vowels

        Math—“On the Swings”

Monday, April 2, 2012

First Grade Homework Sheet Week of April 16, 2012

First Grade Homework Sheet

Week of April 16, 2012



        Welcome back!!  I hope you all had a blessed and fun Easter Vacation.  We are in the home stretch now to the end of the year.  Our students will be second graders before they know it!!! 

        I hope you have started to get your child’s P.T.G. Program costume together.  As I indicated in the last letter before Easter I would like the boys to wear jeans/overalls, plaid shirt, straw hat, etc. something to look like a farmer.  The girls should wear long skirts, aprons, bonnets, etc. something to look like a farmer’s wife.  A few students have specific costume instructions (I am referring to my “green people” and our “goose”); they know who they are!  We are rehearsing everyday, and I know they will do a great job with our musical “Jack and the Beanstalk” program.



Monday:  Write Spelling Words List #28 five times each;

        Phonics—“A Smooth Ride!” long-vowel spelling

        Math—“What to Plant?” picture graph



Tuesday:  Write Spelling Words List #28 three times each;

        Phonics—“Over the Wall” long-vowel spelling

        Math—“A Hefty Harvest” bar graph



Wednesday:  Write Spelling Words List #28 two times each;

        Phonics—“Tiger Tricks” long-vowel spelling

        Math—“Pulling and Picking” tally chart



Thursday:  Take a Practice Spelling Test List #28;

        Writing—“Keeping Dry!” possessive pronouns

        Math—“Supersize Squash!” tally chart and bar graph

Sunday, April 1, 2012

First Grade Homework Sheet Week of April 2, 1012

First Grade Homework Sheet

Week of April 2, 2012



        I would like to wish you all a very special Holy Week and blessed Easter celebration.  I can’t believe how fast this school year has gone; our First Graders are getting excited about Second Grade already.  They have learned so much and made excellent progress all year.  We still have a lot to cover so please help me keep our students on track and on task!

        There will be no homework this week.  There will be no Learning Centers this week either.  We have special Holy Week events scheduled in the morning on Wednesday and Thursday.  We are concentrating on Holy Week, and I have included a special “Easter Cookie” recipe that I hope you can take the time to make.  It will be a very nice addition to your holiday preparation, and I know that our children love to help!

        Take care and have a relaxing and fun Easter Vacation!  Please be sure to attend Mass and many of the other liturgical celebrations and prayer services offered at Our Lady of the Assumption.  Ask your First Grader to tell you about Holy Week; they know all about it!

        Just a reminder:  school will dismiss at 12:00 on Holy Thursday and there will be no after school care that day.  All students need to be picked up by 12:15.  Also, all of the many items which are currently in the Lost and Found will be put out on tables by the Mary statue after school Mon.-Wed. this week.  Please check there for any items your child has misplaced.

        We have begun rehearsal for our upcoming P.T.G. program which will be on Thursday, May 3, 2012.  We are doing a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk.  We are learning ten songs and some students have individual lines to memorize.

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 Most of the program will be performed as choral singing, but we do need costumes for everyone and some help with minimal scenery.  I have planned on groups of students singing and reciting lines together which is easier and more fun.  Certain students will receive individual costume assignments, but basically I would like all of the boys to dress like farmers—jeans or overalls with plaid or bright-colored shirts.  If they have a straw hat, that would be great too!  I would like the girls to wear long skirts with aprons and blouses or shirts.  If they have an old-fashioned bonnet, that would also be great!

The whole class has been learning the songs for a few weeks, and if your student has individual lines to memorize, I will send home a copy for them to practice over vacation.  I have done previous musicals from the same company; the songs are easy to learn and cleverly written.  I am sure the current second graders could sing all of the “Earthworm” songs we learned last year!

I am hoping someone will volunteer to do our scenery for the performance.  What I need is a backdrop of floor to ceiling butcher paper hung on the back wall of the stage.  I have a picture of basically a wall of brick and windows painted on the paper with the beanstalk showing in the windows.  If you would like to help with the scenery, please let me know.  We have the materials here at school, and we just need someone to paint.  If you could share your artistic talent, let me know as soon as possible.  Thank you in advance; it will be a great show!!!