Mrs.

Harris
News February 16, 2018
Religion: We attended Ash Wednesday Mass to
begin the season of Lent. We started our Lent
Promises to Jesus. We are working on writing a
special Lenten prayer to God. Several students
Reminders
*No school on Monday, February 19.
shared their Baptism stories and items with the
class.
*We began a special project that will
last throughout Lent. Please remind
Reading: We are reviewing long and short vowel
your 1st grader to keep their promise to
sounds. We have added ‘y’ to the list of long vowel
Jesus daily.
sounds. We practiced changing the ‘y to i’ rule
when adding endings to the base word.
*Read to Succeed reading logs are
due on Thursday, February 22.
Math: We continued to work with related addition
and subtraction facts. We reviewed different
*February book report is due on
strategies for solving problems. We practiced
Thursday, February 22.
solving word problems by looking for clues in the
problem that help us choose when to add or
*Save Box Tops for Education. Please
subtract.
send them to school this
week.
Social Studies: We will watch a video clip from
Discovery Education about President’s Day on
Tuesday to help us continue our study of the 16th
President. We read several stories about President
Lincoln. We are working on a list of all the things
we learned about him.

Science: We read about the sun, the moon and the

stars. We are working on a booklet about the
things we find in space. We are celebrating!
Congratulations!
Arin, Dorothy, Samuel, Preston
and Magdalena have earned
Bronze Mathletics certificates.
Samuel and Matthew have each
earned a silver Mathletic
Notes and Thanks certificate.

Thank you for all of the Valentines and treats. Alaric, Hillary and
We had lots of fun sharing the cards and Mia have completed
goodies with each other on Wednesday. the Read to Succeed
Challenge. They read
for 360 minutes!