1st Grade - Mrs. Elizabeth Guck

Please join us for our Open House on Sunday, January 27, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. until noon and Friday, February 1, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. until noon.

First Grade Supply List

U.N. Day Costume Guidelines

St. Joseph's Day Costume Guidelines

Room Moms:

Michele Carrillo

Terri Munz

Stacy Zehren

First grade is the beginning of an exciting journey in reading, writing and spiritual growth. Our year is filled with continued emphasis on academic excellence in the areas of math, handwriting, social studies, history, geography, maps, globe skills, and citizenship. In science, we learn about living things, matter, weather, and seasons. Our science and social studies are enhanced with various enrichment units.

Our first graders are introduced to our "Accelerated Reading" program, which is a computer based reading program where they read books, take quizzes on our classroom computers, and then are tested and rewarded with points for each test they complete and pass.

Our "Blessing of the Crosses" has become a thirteen year tradition for our first graders. Each year the children hand paint Jesus on a small wooden cross which is then blessed at a special ceremony during the Easter season. Some of the crosses are then given to Saddleback Hospital's prenatal bereavement program. The crosses are put in a memory box that is given to the grieving families who have lost a baby. Other crosses have been donated to Toby's House, a home for homeless, pregnant women and their children under the age of five years old.  These outreach programs helps aid in the spiritual healing of many families. For our first graders and their families, this is the most memorable part of our school year.

United Nations Day

October 31, 2007

The first grade represented China