Eagle Excellence

HOMEWORK

Parents are the FIRST and BEST teachers of their children. It is very important that parents take time to complete homework attentively with your child. ALL of the studying and religion assignments are for parent/child time together, especially those children who come to Homework Room after school. At Homework Room, we complete the written work only--- all review, study, religion, and Art Class assignments need to be completed at home. PLEASE set aside some time each night to review your child's classwork, work on Words Club sight words and discuss religion activities. It is THE ST. EDWARD WAY!!

In reading we are learning to identify long vowels as we continue blending, spelling, writing and reading words with the short Aa, short Ee, short Ii,  short Oo, and short Uu sounds. We are also reading our HIGH-FREQUENCY sight words.  GO, EAGLES!!!

We will begin in Chapter 10,  TIME!! This will be a fun chapter because we have been learning all about TIME all year long.   Our Math vocabulary includes our number words, and --- calendar, month, week, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, minute hand hour hand, o'clock. We will continue to study the value of each coin as we count money and make change. Please help your child by using these coins at home to "pretend" to buy things and make change. Adding and subtracting money is fun!! We will continue counting by 1's, 10's, 5's, 25's, 2's. We are also working on writing our numbers correctly from 1-100. Can your child identify the numbers in any order?? Can your child accurately count from 1-20 objects??? Practice at home. We also enjoy adding and subtracting --- to find how many in all or how many are left. We are excellent! Math is FUN!!

March and April are the months of the Lenten season. We will try to be more like Jesus each school day. We will try to show LOVE and KINDNESS during Lent. We will learn about the Stations of the Cross. We will have our own Station Books to read and keep to follow Jesus on His Lenten Journey. We will pray, "Jesus be with me today, in everything I do and say!"

We will continue to learn about each of the sets of mysteries -- the Joyful Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Glorious Mysteries, and the Luminous Mysteries. We will say a part of the rosary each day in January for our families.

We are learning our prayers and songs for Mass. We are learning to behave properly and respectfully in church, which is God's house. We will continue to test individually for the Sign of the Cross, the Angel of God, Blessing Before and After Meals prayer and the Glory Be. We say the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be each day as we pray the rosary. Please take time together as a family to pray a part of the rosary. It is a powerful practice!!

The Children's Rosary Club is every Wednesday at 3:15 pm in church. Everyone is invited to participate. Moms, dads, aunts, grandparents can attend with their kindergartener. Just walk to church from the pavilion with your child. Please take advantage of this beautiful opportunity to pray with your child. Jesus hears the prayers of children FIRST. 

In Social Studies we are learning how to read maps. Map skills are lots of fun. We will learn about the Irish and the Sicilians as we study two very special saints -- St. Patrick and St. Joseph. We will also learn about the custom of a St. Joseph's Altar!

In Science, we will be learning about Our Earth, Our Home! We will learn about landforms, very interesting and fun. We will learn how water shapes the earth.

 We will continue testing ALL of our students individually for letter recognition, consonant sounds, short vowel sounds, number recognition (1-100), shapes(circle, square, rectangle, triangle), patterns, money value, Groups 15-22 sight words, prayers and writing our whole name correctly on the lines. We will master these important skills so that we will be successful first grade eagles. It is always a very busy and exciting time!! Go, Eagles!!!

 All children not picked up promptly by 3:15 pm each day will be brought to Aftercare. There is a fee for Aftercare. Please be prompt at Pavilion Pick-up!! You can even come as early as 2:50 pm.

There is NO running in the pavilion!  There is NO playing in the grassy area. This is VERY dangerous. Adults are so busy visiting with other adults that they are NOT supervising their own children. Please be respectful of our school rules. Thank you so much for your cooperation at dismissal!! Go, Eagles!!!