Mrs. Kristine Fava

St. Joseph Regional School teachers welcome and encourage communication with families regarding all aspects of a student's development.




Faculty Fast Facts
Contact Information
kfava@sjsbatavia.org
585-343-6154

Why Catholic Education Matters:
Catholic Education is important because it teaches the whole child.  St. Joseph Regional School meets students’ academic and spiritual needs.  Students are able to feel safe and secure in their environment when all of their needs are met.   

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First Grade News

Welcome to First Grade! We are off to a great start.

We have been working on establishing routines and procedures in our classroom.  We are always working on being a kind and caring friend.  This also ties into our first Social Studies unit on Citizenship.

In reading, The Superkids will take us through review of letters and letter sounds.  Students will also be mastering short vowel sounds. Blending sounds to decode words and encoding letters for sounds to spell words will also be a large focus.  Students will practice writing each letter properly as well.  Sight words, spelling words, sentence structure and story elements will be practiced often.

Math begins with reviewing number bonds and ten frames. We begin every math lesson with working on word problems.  Students will be working toward sums and differences to 10.  Our goal is to build automaticity with math facts.
  
Our first Science unit is Sky Patterns.  We will observe sky patterns such as sunrise and sunset.  We will make a sundial to track the sun and learn what causes the sun to set.
 
 In Religion, we focus on learning Jesus is our friend and loves children.  We learn the sign of the cross is a blessing.  We touch on creation and relate the beauty of creation to God’s goodness.  We learn God loves, cares for and forgives us like a good Father.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at kfava@sjsbatavia.org