First Grade Friday News - September 17

Chapel offerings in September will go to The Lutheran Malaria Initiative (www.lutheranmalaria.org).    Our offerings will purchase bed netting and medicine for those who need our help in Africa.

Check out our first grade blog on the CLS website.  Our First Grade Friday News will be there every Friday along with photos and information about what we are learning in our classroom.  Here is the link:   http://www.clutheranschool.org/student-life/cls-favorites/

For Nature Club next week, we would like each child to bring two kinds of seeds.  They may be from flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, etc.  Place each kind in a Ziploc bag and label the bag with the type of seed.  You may send these to school any day.

Dates to remember:

Mon., Sep. 17         Fund raising orders and money due

Fri., Sep. 28          Field trip to pumpkin patch

(Drivers will be:  Baker, Burt, Hall, Hauser, and Priddy)

The week ahead:

Spelling words :  hot, hop, pop, dot, not, back, pick, now, want

                         (Practice these words at home for our Friday spelling test.)

Religion:  Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph

Reading skill:  Drawing conclusions

Math:  Writing addition number sentences, Double addition facts

Language/Writing:  Writing sentences with capitals, periods, question marks,       and exclamation marks

Science/Social Studies:  Plants, Australia

Character Education: Kindness

Nature Club: Seeds