Mrs. Kristine Fava

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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.   

First Grade News

It is so hard to believe we are in our last trimester and headed toward the end of the year! 
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Math: We have 2 modules left to cover. 

Module 5: Students will identify, compose, and partition shapes.  Students consider part-whole relationships through a geometric lens.  The module ends with students applying their understanding of halves to tell time to the hour and and half hour.  Students will continue daily fluency with addition and subtraction to build on the next module in which they will add within 100.  

Module 6: Students will revisit place value and comparison.  Word problems this module will be more in depth and students will use comparative tape diagrams to complete the problems.   They will also complete addition and subtraction to 100.  Students will refresh their memories on dimes and pennies and are introduced to nickels and quarters.  

Reading/ELA: The Superkids will take us through learning contractions.  Students will learn to decode and encode dipthongs (ou, ow, oi, oy) and r-controlled vowels.  They will continue to expand on story elements.  Students will continue writing informational, how-to, narrative and opinion pieces.  
 
Science:  Our last Science unit is A Bunny's Life.  It explores how offspring are similar to but not exactly like their parents, how parents and offspring behave to ensure the survival of the offspring; how animals use their senses and external body parts to survive; and how humans look to nature for inspiration when engineering solutions to human problems.  

Social Studies: The last unit is on Economics.  It focuses on how people in a community fulfill their needs and wants. Students will learn how people need to work in order to meet their needs and wants.  They will explore how money can be used by an individual in the community.