Weekly Rap Up March 14-March 18

Hi All-
I decided to start a blog for our class so that you could stay up to date with all of our information. I am hoping you find it as useful and as informative as our weekly newsletter as I would like to phase that out and replace it with this blog. I hope that you will enjoy reading the parent tips and reading tips from Reading Rockets. We will see how this goes...fingers crossed.

• Reading/Language Arts/Phonics: We did a lot of writing this week and read a lot of stories themed around St. Patrick's Day. Students are working on spelling, reading and writing with long vowels in phonics. Mrs Hajjar brought in a reader for us from the high school who read us a book for Read Across America. He read a book to us about Jimmy Hendrix. We also worked on fluency. Fluency is having the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Children who do not read with fluency sound choppy or awkward. Children time eachother while reading a passage to figure out our words per minute.
  
  
  
  Reading and Timing our Partners

• Social Studies: We worked on understanding our place on the map. Thank you for sending your children in with their addresses. They worked on knowing their addresses, town/city, state, country. We even worked onn working on our continents. Students also learned abour types of land and water that make up our beautiful country and resources we use including wood, gas, water, and soil.

"Me on the Map" mapping projects on bulletin board

• Religon: We took our test on the Good Samaritan story. Tests will be given back on Monday. Please remember to send back the text book if it has not already been returned.

• Math: We worked on place value (tens and ones), comparing numbers and ordering numbers. As a St. Patrick's Day treat students graphed lucky charms cereal.

Our First Grade Classroom is in need of donations! We need paper towel, clorox wipes, tissues and antibacterial hand sanitiezer. If you did not donate in the beginning of the school year please think about donating now.

Please see our school website for up to date calendar information. We have a half day next Friday! http://www.ourladystaroftheseaschool.org/

Go to the Daily Stamford and vote for your favorite OLSS teacher so that our school can win a $5, 000 dollars and the teacher can win a $100 gift card to Staples. Voting continues until April 11th and you have one vote each day until voting ends.