January / February

 

  

 

The following is the schedule for Catholic Schools Week

·         Sunday, January 26^th- Corpus Christi Catholic School Open house – There will be an open house after the 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. masses

·         Monday, January 27^th-today students and teachers will be involved in a community service project. First grade will be going across the street to the assisted living center. The children will bring joy to those living at the facility by sing and presenting the patients with a craft they have made. There is no lunch served in the cafeteria. Please pack your child a sack/cold lunch.

·         Tuesday, January 28^th- “Fiesta Theme” – Students may dress in fiesta attire. At 1:45 students will participate in dancing, food and other fun activities.  The fiesta dancers will also perform. Parents please join us at 1:45 in the gym. Inside dismissal.

·         Wednesday, January 29^th-students may dress down in red, white and blue clothing. The American theme is celebrated as the students make valentines for Vets. Students will also be making thank you cards for our volunteers. At 2:00 p.m. there will be a flag ceremony and school blessing in the gym. All families are invited to attend.

·         Thursday, January 30^th-Celebrating Vocations – Our religious visitors will be visiting the classroom to speak and read stories. Students will make thank you cards that will be sent out to Priests, Deacons, Sisters and other religious lay employees in our Diocese.

·         Friday, January 31^st – ½ day – All Schools Mass- There will be hot chocolate served during morning drop-off. Today we thank staff and volunteers. Students will attend mass at St. Dominics and return to Corpus Christi for a 12:00 p.m. dismissal.

·         Saturday, February 1^st – HAS Spaghetti Dinner and Basket Raffle – 6:00 in the school gym.

  

Reading Fluency

 

The students are working hard on all their decoding skills. We are adding controlled "R" to our "detective reading/writing skills. Over the next couple of weeks we will be emphasizing on compound words, controlled "R", contractions, chunking, and abbreviations.  Also they are learning to pause at periods and commas, and inflection of voice while reading. Please continue to read with your child every night and help them with their decoding skills.  

 

A.R. (Accelerated Reader)

Each week the students will be choosing an A.R. book (at their level). Please make sure your child keeps their A.R. book in their backpacks so that they may read at school as well as at home. A.R. tests will be held on Tuesday. There will be some weeks where A.R. test will take place on Wednesdays. 

 

 

Barb Coughlin

I am so excited to have Barb Coughlin, retired first grade teacher, to help once a week from 8:45 a.m. -10:45 a.m. Mrs. Coughlin will be working with reading groups, as well as individual and small group help in fluency, comprehension, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary. Also coming in on the same day is Ryan Gayton. Ryan will be helping students with their A.R. tests.  I will be working with students one-on-one with reading and writing.   

 Martin Luther King – Ruby Bridges

We celebrated Martin Luther King by reading books and listening to his famous speech, "I have a dream....". While talking about the difficult times in which Martin Luther King lived, we also discussed a brave first grader girl named Rudy Bridges. Ruby Bridges  was the first black child to attend an all white school during the time of segregation. Ruby Bridges was a first grader who experienced bullying, racism and even threats to her life. The students were so taken with her story that they asked to write to her. On Friday, January 17th the children wrote Rudy Bridges letters. I will be mailing those next week. I was so proud of them for wanting to tell her that she was brave and very special. They also had questions for Ruby Bridges, and are hoping she will address those questions and write back.

 

 Family History / Descendants

This month we had fun looking into our ancestry. Thank you all for sending in the family photos. Please take time over the next two weeks to visit our first grade family tree, and map of the world showing where our class ancestors descended from.  We enjoy looking at our tree and map everyday as we come and go through the hallways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 11th

Our Lady of Lourdes

 

 

 

February 13^th – Parent Teacher conferences 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

February 13^th – Valentines Parties 1:45

February 14^th parent/teacher conferences 8:00 a.m-12:00 p.m

February 17^th Presidents Day – no school
 

     Field Trip 

This month the students will have their first field trip. Both first grade classes will join the first graders from St. Peter’s as they get a wonderful opportunity to learn about space. We will be going to Mitchell High School where the science teacher has prepared age appropriate discussion and movie on our solar system. Please be looking for more information during the first week of February.  

Solar System

We will start our unit on the solar system during the last week of January and continue this unit for approximately 2 ½ weeks.  The field trip to Mitchell High School will come at the end of our solar system unit. The students should have some great questions for the science teacher 

Story Teller

We will have a professional story teller visiting our first graders on February 11^th (tentatively).

 **More to come in February