November

October Review

• Science - The Body

The Circulatory System
The Skeletal System
The Muscular System
The Digestive System

• Religion

All Saints Day
The Catholic Church - Items found in the church
Objects used during Mass - examples (chalice, paten, cruets, pall, altar, altar cloth, ciborium, corporal, tabernacle, stoup, wine-Blood of Christ, bread-Body of Christ)

•   Language Arts

Reading Street - weeks 3-4-5
Narrative writing
Vowel games
Spelling words - 60 to date
Nouns - verbs - adjectives
Author Study - Mo Wilems, Kevin Henkes and  Shel Silverstein

•  Math

addition
subtraction
10 frames
addition/ subtraction sentences 
terminology - sum, addends, parts of a whole, parts I know, solving for the unknown 

 

• Social Studies / Geography

Christopher Columbus
address / city / state / continent / planet - ME ON THE MAP
Safety with strangers

Welcome to November

 

Thank you to our Veterans!!

 Veterans Day

by Cheryl Dyson

On Veterans Day we honor all,

Who answered to a service call.

Soldiers young, and soldiers old,

Fought for freedom, brave and bold.

Some have lived, while others died,

And all of them deserve our pride.

We’re proud of all the soldiers who,

Kept thinking of red, white and blue.

They fought for us and all our rights,

They fought through many days and nights.

And though we may not know each name,

We thank ALL veterans just the same.

 

 

November in Review

 

We are enjoying working together as a first grade family. The first graders have settled-in and know the first grade routine. This month we will continue review on how we walk in Jesus' foot steps; that we all help and love each other. We will finish our unit on objects and items found in the Catholic Church, with emphases on the objects/items used at the altar during Mass. We will celebrate the feast day of Saint Francis Cabrini on November 13th. Saint Francis is the first American Saint.  We will also study early exploration and settlement of the Americas. The first graders will learn the story of the Lost Colony, Sir Walter Raleigh, Virginia Dare, and the First Thanksgiving. As always we will have a full morning of Reading Street (language arts) and our daily math lessons.  As we get closer to Thanksgiving we will discuss being thankful for all our blessings.