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1st Grade - Mrs. Elizabeth Guck
First Grade Supply List
United Nations Day Guidelines 2009
St. Joseph's Day Costume Guidelines 2010
Room Moms:
Talia Toya
Stacy Watson
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 involved in the "Accelerated Reading" (AR) program,
which is a computer based reading program where they read books,
and take quizzes on our classroom computers. AR, assesses the comprehension of the read material. The children enjoy counting the number of book they read as a class in a year. Last years class read 794 books!
Our "Blessing of the Crosses" has become a fifteen 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 local charities such as, 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 and something the student will always cherish in their homes.
For the second year in a row, the First Grade class will be collecting Pull Tabs for Ronald McDonald House. The money earned-100 percent of it-goes to off-set the costs of running the Orange County Ronald McDonald House. Our class has found great enjoyment in this service project and feels they are able to give of themselves by collecting these tabs from the MPS community.
St. Joseph's Day
2009
The first grade danced as the SJC Swallows
United Nations Day
The first grade represented Tahiti
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