FIRST GRADE HOMEWORK SHEET

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 19, 2012

1.       There is no school on Monday, February 20.  Happy President’s Day!

2.      Please continue to have your child read for the Pizza Hut Book-It program.

3.      Our Math test over money will be early this week.  Some of the children are struggling with counting money.  Please work with your child on this concept over the weekend.

4.      We will go to Mass on Wednesday for the celebration of Ash Wednesday.  This will start the Lenten season.  Every Wednesday during Lent, we will have Silent Wednesdays in the cafeteria.  There will be no talking at all during our lunch period.  Also, if your child brings a cold lunch to school on Fridays during Lent, please be respectful of our Catholic faith and do not send meat in your child’s lunch.  Thanks.

5.      On Tuesday, I will be giving your child a cross for the bulletin board.  I will be asking each child to think of one thing he/she would like to give up during Lent, or something additional he/she would like to perform during Lent.  Some possible ideas might be:  give up snacks after school on Fridays, give up ice cream, pray one decade of the rosary each night, read a Saint story each night, etc.  You might, as a family, like to come up with something to do together.  This is a wonderful opportunity to help teach your child to act as Jesus did.

6.      I will also be starting another service project with the children during Lent.  Everyday I will be reading from a devotional book that relates the reading to third world countries.  The children will, on most days, be given a project: i.e., bring a penny for each bar of soap in your house, bring a nickel for each family member.  This project involves a lot of counting, it does involve money, but it also makes the children think about how much better off we are than a lot of other children in the world.  After collecting the money during Lent, we will purchase an animal from the Heifer Foundation to help a family in the third world. ( Please do not feel you have to participate every day.)  I will have the children write out every day what they are counting and it will be attached to their backpacks.  Just do what you can.  Thanks so much for your help and support.

I hope everyone has a great three-day weekend!

Mrs. Sharum