1st Grade Mrs. O'Connor
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Welcome to 1A!
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Important Dates
Monday, January 3, 2022 Classes Resume
Friday, January 7, 2022 First Friday Mass and Awards 9:00 Monday, January 17, 2022 No School: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Friday, January 21, 2022: $1.00 Dress Down for CSW
Sunday, January 30, 2022: Catholic Schools Week - Open House -
Teacher ContactI make every effort to stay in communication with parents and check my email daily.
I check my email at least twice a day. I always check in the early morning before school and at the end of the day. My email is doconnor@stdots.com .
You can always call the school office at 610-789-4100 to relay a message.
If you send in a note with your child, please make he/she aware that they have a note for me so that I will receive it.
Absences
If your child is absent, please call the school before 8:30 a.m. Leave a message that includes your child’s name, grade, homeroom number, and reason for absence and check the Attendance policy for further information. -
Announcements:
Skills this week:
ELA: We will begin a new story, The Blackout. Students will blend and read words with short a. They will discuss the final sound of m.s. t. We will create an -ap wheel of words. Our grammar this week will focus on nouns as a person, place, animal, or thing. Our spelling words will be short a and sight words.
Math: We will continue and complete Chapter 1 on addition facts and strategies within 10. Students will know when adding that the sum stays the same no matter what order we place the addends. We will continue to add addition sentences and problems within sums of 10.
Religion: We will conclude and review Chapter 1 on God's Love and Creation. Our test will be on Thursday, 9/23.
Phonics: We will continue to review our letter sounds in Fundations and focus on our handwriting of our letters using the sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line.
Please take some time to review math facts with your child this week and use the websites listed below to help with fact fluency.
Pirate MathWe will begin our Pirate Math Program in class this week! First grade curriculum requires that all first graders demonstrate mastery of addition and subtraction facts within sums to twenty. This memorization must be done through consistent and regular practice at home.
Below are websites you can visit to help your child learn and memorize their math facts.
http://www.aaamath.com/add.htm#topic6
http://mrnussbaum.com/speedmath/
http://www.mathplayground.com/
http://www.aplusmath.com/
http://www.funbrain.com/
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/math/mc_minutes.cfm?grade=2&sp=student
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Please check the Weekly Communications/Upcoming Reminders page under Parent Resources often during the school year for the latest updates on school happenings. Also, don't forget to read Mrs. Tomasetti's Principal's Newsletter which is released every Thursday during the school year.
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Room 1 has lunch from 11:40am -12:00pm and recess from 12:00-12:20pm
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Specials Schedule
Computers: Wednesday 8:15AM
(Library: Wednesday )
Art : Thursday 1:00PM
Music: Thursday 1:45PM
Gym: Friday 1:30PM
(Please make sure to wear gym uniform.)
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Homeroom Parent Representatives
Our Homeroom Parent Representitive for the 2019-2020 school year is Jennifer Corcoran and the Homeroom Assistants are Kelly Gust and Julia Stell. They will be reaching out to you via email during the school year to coordinate volunteers and special events on my behalf. For further information regarding some of these events please check the Homeroom Parent Representative pages.