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Newsletter for Week of Jan. 20th, 2014 = Week in Review = = Can you believe it? We completed our Map testing successfully and we have now completed one-half of First Grade. Each day the children are asked to keep trying their best as well as trying very hard to stay on task. Thinking = back to the beginning of the school year you sent so many supplies to school. This week we will get the other half of the materials that have been stored for this very time. It will seem like Christmas all over again. This week we have begun our new Science unit on matter. We have been working with solids this week and learning about the properties that make one solid the same or different from another. We are beginning to learn words like rigid, transparent, opaque, flexible, and many more. Next week we will continue our investigations and find objects of matter with similar properties.

=**Reading ** = = = We absolutely loved the story "Rose Robot Cleans Up." The children would have loved to have any of the inventions Rose constructed from recycled items. Next week we are on to a story about children from around the world entitled, "Kids Have Fun.". We will compare and contrast the children to us with the use of a venn diagram. We will see how we are the same or different from each other. We will also spend time on contractions and **scr-, spl-,** and **str- blends.**

** Vocabulary for "Kids Have Fun" **
culture...custom...skill...language...similar.. any...boy...by...does...friends...girl water...after...old...new...done...find...work...strike...string...split...splash scrub...scrap

=Religion =  We have begun our chapter on being of service to others. We emphasizing the importance of having a loving heart as we serve, not one that is grouchy or sad. In fact, a child summarized it all by saying "A happy heart makes a happy life." Perfect! Possibly your family may try to become involved in a project of service to others within 2014 and beyond. We will be working on 2 service projects during Catholic Schools Week as a school. One will be visiting Newcastle to present the portion of the Christmas program from grades 4K-3rd. The other will take place on Friday when we are making bracelets for the children at Children's Hospital and cards for the Veteran's Hospital.

= Math = We have begun our math unit on graphing. We will be learning about a variety of graphs that can display and interpret data. We will begin collecting data at the beginning of the school day and then interpret it and construct our graphs in Math class. Following this portion of the unit we will proceed into measurement.

picture graph...data...tally chart...bar graph
 * Vocabulary for Graphing **

=**Riddles of the Week** = What gets wetter and wetter as it dries? A towel. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. You eat the outside and you throw away the inside. What did you eat? An ear of corn.

== =Important Dates = Jan. 20th.....................End of 2nd quarter  Jan. 24th.....................Pizza Hut lunch day   Jan. 24th.....................Report Cards issued   Jan. 26th-31st............[|.Catholic Schools Week]   Jan. 26th.....................SUNDAY, LCT Open House, 10:00-12:30 p.m.   Jan. 27th.....................uniforms, Newcastle 12:30-1:45 p.m.   Jan. 27th.....................[|Chess club] begins  Jan. 28th.....................Sports Day, DQ treat Jan. 29th.....................Wacky Wednesday, Spaghetti Dinner @ LCM gym 5-7:30 p.m. Jan. 30th.....................Hero Day Jan. 31st.....................LCM, all school Mass, Rocky's Pizza, at LCM all day, spirit wear Feb. 3rd......................Parent Teacher Conferences 7:30-3:30, no school Feb. 5th.......................Next Class Mass, 8:30 a.m.  Feb. 5th.......................Highland House Give Back   Feb. 5th.......................Special p.m. bus routes   Feb. 7th.......................Out of uniform   Feb. 10th.....................Kohl's Wildlife Theatre, 1:30-2:30   Feb. 12th.....................Birthday Blessings, Feb./Aug. Feb. 14th.....................Valentine's Day, wear pink/red tops  Feb. 14th.....................Special bus routes   Feb. 17th.....................Special Bus routes   Feb. 21st.....................No school, professional development

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