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Newsletter for Week of April 22nd, 2014 = Week in Review = =I hope everyone had an amazing break and Easter celebration. We ALL needed it! Our MaryGarden, that we planted last fall, is beginning to sprout. **Finally, our Flat Stanley project is well under way. The children have made their posters and are awaiting the adventures of their Flat Stanley. Please continue to spread the word as this project will continue until May 15th. If mail iis sent to school using the address that was enclosed with the project description, please remember to have your child's name included. "From Aunt Mary" does not help the children identify the owner. Thank you so much with your enthusiastic assistance with this project. ** =

** Reading ** We will continue our story "Olivia" and her series of books. Our skills will be the "oo" digraphs as in cook and zoo, we will be introduced to subjects and predicates,work on prefixes, and differentiate between reality and fantasy. Soon your child will be introduced to the concept of a research paper and in a few weekswe will begin our final major project, our own time capsule. Vacation could not have come at a better time. We enjoyed favorite stories for our Read and Treat. Old classics bring back fond memories. = Vocabulary for Olivia = = adventurous...inquisitive...insignificant...route...anxious... always...father...mother...four...love = firm...supposed...book...look...cook...good...wood...national...border...coast

This week, within our Reading and language Arts, each first grader will be introduced to a research report. We have decided that this year, because the children have been introduced to a biography, their project will be a biography report. We will be reading an assortment of biographies in this shortened week and we will work on the concept of taking notes and writing a report through the use of planners. Your child will receive their report project and information regarding the specifics of this report during the week. In seems like every year the children are always working on this project the day before it is due. One gift we can give our child is to show them how to pace through a project such as this. If they wait until the last minute they will understand that projects need not be started until then. Your conversation may consist of what famous person would make a good First Grade report. It may be a scientist, and inventor, an author, musician, artist, or even a special athlete. //THERE WILL BE **NO SPELLING LIST** THIS WEEK DUE TO THE SHORTENED WEEK AND CHANGE IN READING PLANS.//

= **Re** **ligion** =

We will bring out our "Alleluia" banners and recall so many important stories of the Resurrection and specific events throughout the entire Easter Season. We loved learning about Holy Week from Mrs. Kress. She explained Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Holy Saturday vigil to the boys and girls. She did a wonderful job providing an experience in which the children could truly have felt being a part of the journey of Jesus. We will discuss how the number 40 impacts the Bible stories of Noah, the season of lent, and the number of days until the Ascension of Jesus in the next several weeks. Later in the week we will begin our "Growing in Love" book in which we will review how special we are to God and that God created each of us in love.

= Math =

 Before vacation we were able to complete our standards for fractions. The children enjoyed their last class by designing their own pizza and determining what fraction would be used for their specialty toppings. Pizza Hut where are you? In our new unit we will be working on our geometric shapes and the children will be asked to determine and explain their specific attributes.

**Vocabulary for Solid and Plane figures ** attributes...curved surface...sphere...cone...cylinder...flat...surfaces...cube...pyramid rectangular prism...corners side...trapezoid...rhombus...hexagon

**What goes up when rain comes down?** An umbrella **What bow can't be tied?** A rainbow =**Important Dates ** = Apr. 22nd...................School resumes Apr. 23rd....................[|Young Rembrandts] spring session, April 23rd-May 28th Apr. 25th....................Cousin Sub Lunch...no hot lunch available. Apr. 30th....................Early Release dismissal, 11:30 a.m. Apr. 30th....................Cousins/Cherry Berry Give Back Day May 5th......................First Grade International lunch May 6th......................Field Trip-Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary Fieldtrip, 9-1:30 May 7th......................No Mass May 9th......................**Mother's Day Breakfast** at LCT-Dominiak Hall, **8:30 a.m.** May 10th....................Shamrock Student Lock-In Night 5-9 p.m. May 14th....................Class Liturgy May 14th....................May/June Birthday Blessings May 16th....................Pizza Hut Lunch May 19th....................Map testing begins, date change May 20th....................Rainbow Olympics LCM (May 22nd-rain date) May 30th....................**Father's Day Breakfast** in LCT-Dominiak Hall, **8:30 a.m.** June 2nd....................Out of uniform for the remainder of the year June 6th.....................Early Release-Last Day of School
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