Welcome to Mrs. Asaro's First Grade class! I am so excited to be your child's teacher this year.  I look forward to working with you to instill a love of learning in your child. By working together as a team, we will ensure your child's success inside and outside of the classroom!  It will be a productive year filled with learning and lots fun! 

The children should now be wearing their winter uniforms.  For the girls, that is the jumper and the for the boys that is long pants.  All students should be in school shoes each day.  On Tuesdays, the children wear their gym uniforms and sneakers.  Thank you!

Chapter Four - Addition and Subtraction Relationships within 10

In this chapter, the children will connect addition concepts with the subtraction concepts they have already learned as we explore the question: How does knowing addition help you to subtract?  We will study fact families, bar models, missing addends and solving comparison word problems.

Chapter Two - Heaven Is Our Home

In this chapter, the children will learn that Heaven is God's home and it is a place of perfect happiness. They will recognize Heaven as the place where good people go after death. Students will be able to identify earth as their temporary home and Heaven as their forever home.  During this chapter, the children will also practice making the Sign of the Cross.  They will learn that this prayer expresses there is one God in Three Divine Persons.  

The children attended a Video Conference titled "Plant Parts and Pumpkins."  We watched a presentation on the different parts of a plant.  The children had an opportunity to examine a variety of plants and compare their parts.  They explored in more detail, the pumpkin, its parts and their functions.  We had a fantastic time carving a real pumpkin and observing all of its parts.  The children learned the scientific name for the stem on a pumpkin is Peduncle!  We also took a class vote on how to carve our pumpkin.  The choices were scary or happy.  The scary face won by a landslide!

This past week we learned all about bats!  The children all agree that bats are fascinating to learn about and a little creepy at the same time!  We have been discussing and investigating bats behaviors and characteristics as well as their habitats, habits, size and diets. Did you know bats are nocturnal and use echolation to travel at night? Ask your first grader to tell you all about it!

This week the children will participate in a Mystery Science investigation with Scientist Doug titled, Why do leaveschange color in the fall? The students will discover how and why some trees change color when the weather starts to get colder.  They will make crayon rubbings of tree leaves and then take a closer look to observe the characteristics of the leaves as they identify what type of tree they came from.

We are beginning a small unit on Families and Family history.  It is going to be very exciting and fun. Your child will be learning more about his/her own family history.  We will be focusing on the immediate family, family trees, family homes, wants and needs and traditions. We will be discussing all types of families.  Families also include step-parents, brothers, sisters, adoption and foster care.

Monday:  Music and Italian                            Thursday:  Art

Tuesday:  Gym                                              Friday:  Technology

Wednesday:  Library and Italian