1st Grade Mrs. O'Connor
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Welcome to 1A!
100th Day of School
Friday, February 7, 2020
100 Day Collection is due on Thursday, February 6th
1st grade will arrive to school dressed as a centenarian (100 year old person)
We will enjoy a day of activites incorporating the number 100!Valentine Mailboxes Please send in a cereal box by Friday, February 7th
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Important Dates
Week of February 3: Progress reports will come home
Thursday, February 7: 100th day of School
Friday, February 14: Valentine's Day
Monday, February 17: President's Day- No School
February, 26- Ash Wednesday
February, 28: Hoops for Hope begins -
Teacher Contact
I 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: Our new story this week is, The Class Pet. We will segment and blend words with the plural ending of -es. We will recognize fact and opinion. We will use use a wrap up sentence in our writing this week. We will read and identify r controlled words spelled or and ore. We will use present tense verbs with correct subject-verb agreement.
Math: We will continue Chapter 7: Place Value to 120 on counting and modeling numbers. We will make tens and ones and indentify their value. We will use tens and ones to find greater thna and less than and use a 120 chart to identify a pattern of 10 more or 1 more.Religion: We will begin Chapter 10 in our Religion book. In this chapter the students will learn that Jesus died and rose to bring us new life. They will learn that we pray Alleluia, a word of praise.
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: Monday 1:45PM
Library: Wednesday 1:15PM
Music: Thursday 10:45AMArt: Thursday 1:00PM
Gym: Friday 9:00AM
(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.