St. Christopher School

Happy 2012 to friends old and new!

We are anxious to begin the new year at St. Christopher School!  We will begin learning the long vowel sounds and the rules that go with them.  We continue to work with blends, homophones, opposites and nouns, verbs and adjectives.  Weekly spelling will now consist of 10 words instead of 8. Reading and learning to spell our weekly words is reinforced in the classroom daily and on SpellingCity.com. Our weekly WWW(Word Wall Word ) checkup on Friday now consists of more dictation sentences than individual words.  The class does so well with the sentences! It reinforces listening skills and handwriting !

We will be continuing our addition and subtraction facts and begin groups of tens and ones...place value...in Math.  We will also begin our unit on time and money! Our Math concepts are reinforced with manipulatives used at our desks and virtual manipulatives and games used on the Eno board.

This month 1M and our buddy class 6E will be busy preparing for our Catholic Schools Week mass at the end of the month.  The 6th graders and first graders will work together to do readings, bring up the gifts and be ushers! The school is practicing a beautiful song "Light of the World" to sing together during mass. It will be a wonderful beginning to our Catholic Schools Week celebration. Please save the date for our mass...Monday January30th at 9:15!  We all hope you will join us!