Ms. Gonzalez's Newletter
First Grade, St. Mary's School
Welcome Super First Graders!
I will be posting a weekly newsletter which parents should check before the week begins. In it I will be posting homework assignments, curriculum updates, important news and reminders.
Our Friday Class Collage
We Survived the First week of First Grade!
What are we up to this week?
We have been practicing how to...
- organize ourselves in the classroom
- rotate from different classes
- keep track of homework assignments
- take care of materials and complete assignments
- fulfill our class jobs
- work as a classroom family to learn and grow together
Curriculum Updates
Here is a brief overview of what we will be learning this week in our various subjects
LANGUAGE ARTS- Mrs. Fibelkorn will be continuing charting stories and practicing letter recognition/pronunciaiton with the students
MATH- We will continue number recognition (both numerical and word representations), value understanding and proper number writing up to 20. We will also begin adding numbers 0-10 and finish with a short assessment at the end of the week.
SOCIAL STUDIES- We will finish up our "World We Live In" unit with a Mobile that we will create in class. Please have each student bring in a hanger from home for this special project!
SCIENCE- We will begin our study on the states of matter and end with a short field trip that you will recieve more details on in the near future!
CHINESE- Ms. Yang will continue her introduction to Chinese and practicing common greetings with the students
Reminders
- Tomorrow Night (9/3) is Parent Teacher Conference Night with attendence hours varying from 4:30-7:30pm. Check the St. Mary's site for more details
- Lunch Orders are now being taken! Logon to Google+ to check out Principal Kwong's tutorial on how to order your child's lunch.
- Thursday Interfaith Shofar Blowing @ 3pm with Rabbi Peretz Mochkin
- Friday is Minimum Day! Class is out at 12pm
- Friday Mass @ 9:30 at Old St. Mary's Church
Homework for Week 2
TUESDAY
- Read for 30 minutes
- Social Studies Mobile- North America and USA sections of mobile
- Science- "Matter Walk" Handout
WEDNESDAY
- Read for 30 minutes
- Math pgs
- Social Studies Mobile- Chinatown section of mobile
THURSDAY
- Read for 30 minutes
- Math pgs
- Science- Matter Sort Activity
FRIDAY
- Read for 30 minutes
- Have A Great Weekend!
Ms. Angelina Gonzalez
Email: agonzalez@stmarysf.com
Location: 838 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA
Phone: 626-689-3741