We will not have a spelling list this week or next week.  :)


PBIS -
The first and second graders have been working really hard and they have met our class goal - 500 Faith Shields!  That is awesome!  Those Faith Shields represent acts of kindness, helping others, doing the right thing, etc. etc.!  I am so proud of them!!!  The incentive that they chose is a pajama and electronics/free time day!  So, the students may dress in their pajamas this week Wednesday, March 2nd.  They may also bring in an electronic device if they choose to.  They do not need to. We have plenty of  iPads at school if they want to have a device.  They could also bring a board game or another activity of their choice.  We will set aside 30-40 minutes on Wednesday to have free time.

Aloha!

***First grade has math homework tonight.

***Tomorrow is a Hawaiian dress down day.

A few FYIs -

First Grade Math - We learned about basic fractions.  We learned 2D shapes and 3D shapes.  We are measuring using non-standard units.  (paper clips, paper)

2nd Grade Math - Second grade has officially finished the second grade book and started the third grade book.  We are starting multiplication with fives.  Many of the students have mastered multiplication up to 12 already!

First Grade Phonics - We have learned the vowel teams oi, oy, oa, oe, and and ow.  We have learned about closed syllables (and the difference between open and closed syllables).  We learned how to tap when there are five sounds in a word.

Social Studies - We learned land and water terms.  (hill, lake, mountain, ocean, plain, river)  We learned about resources.  We got to the part in our book about the United States.  We're taking it a little bit farther.  We are now learning the names of each of the fifty states, their capitals, and a few facts about each state.  We're doing this little by little.  Each time we have social studies we learn three states.

Reading - This week in word work we are focusing on contraction words.

Religion - This week we learned about the transfiguration of Jesus.  Ms. McAllister gave us a nice talk.  We also learned about it in our Promise Paper.  We are working on looking up readings in the Bible.  Each day we add to our Lenten Path.

First Grade has math homework tonight.

Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade - Phonetic List - Long o Words
rose
note
pole
hope
joke
cone
chore
stove
stone
broke

First Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 131-140
place
well
such
here
take
why
help
put
different
away

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Suffixes -ed and -ing
walked
looking
planted
asked
jumping
filled
talking
needed
spelling
played

Second Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 351-360
rest
perhaps
certain
six
feel
fire
ready
green
yes
built

Starting tomorrow all gym classes will be outside due to setting up for the auction.  Mrs. Petrick asks that you make sure your child has winter clothes (and maybe even extra winter clothes) for playing outside at recess and gym.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Weekly Spelling Lists

First Grade - Phonetic List - Long i Words
bite
kite
time
life
line
mine
tide
vine
pine
hive

First Grade High-Frequency List - Words 121-130
another
came
come
work
three
must
because
does
part
even

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Plural -s, -es
birds
boxes
boats
glasses
pies
dishes
boys
foxes
girls
wishes

Second Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 341-350
wind
behind
cannot
letter
among
able
dog
shown
mean
English

We are in charge of Mass next week Thursday, February 18th.  I just received the readings today (yikes!)  The parts have been picked and the readings have been sent home.

Greeters - Max, Jonas, Claire, Mario
Cross - Ryan
Book - Monika
Introduction - Gabriel
First Reading - Landon, Madison, Cullan
Responsorial Psalm - Kyan, Katey, Kate
Petitions - Clara, Maxim, Misha, Rowen, Jonah
Bread - Ella
Wine - Anna Meyer

A few FYIs -

First Grade Math - We finished up the time portion of our unit.  We are now learning about shapes.  We've learned about rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles.  We also learned the names of shapes up to ten sides.  Today we started talking about halves and equal parts.

First Grade Phonics - We are learning about vowel teams.  We have learned about ai, ay, ee, ea, and ey.  We are also learning about closed syllables.

Social Studies - We have been learning about basic maps, directions, communities, times lines, and goods, and services.

Religion - We have been discussing the Lenten season.  Next week we will spend our Religion time practicing for our mass.  Second grade families - Don't forget to register for First Communion.

Reading - The kids are doing FANTASTIC work in daily 5!  Our word work center this week combines reading, writing, and social studies.  The students are making mobiles about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.

Handwriting - We continue to work on writing neatly, forming letters correctly, and putting letters in the correct spaces.

Valentines - The students loved passing out their Valentines today!  It was fun to watch them!  I snapped a quick picture as they were moving around passing them out.

Art - The All Grace Schools Art Show is scheduled for tonight in the Notre Dame Academy High School Commons. There is also an All Grace School Band Concert that same night in their auditorium. A few art pieces will be selected from each grade for each Grace School to showcase a variety of artwork.

Can I just say how amazing these mosaic birdbaths are turning out! I can't wait for all of you to see them. The students are doing a great job! And they really seem to enjoy working on them and seeing their sketches transformed into tile.        Mrs. Ihlenfeldt

First grade has math homework tonight.

Second grade has phonics homework tonight.

A few FYIs...

*This week we will not have a spelling list.

*We will exchange valentines on Thursday afternoon.

*Math Facts - Please have your children practice their math facts.  Sheets come home each week to practice.  We test every Thursday.

*Auction - I'm going to talk up one of the items I'm donating.  :)  I made a photo book of our class.  It arrived late last week.  It turned out awesome.  Most of the students insist they are going home with it the night of the auction.  :)  Here are a few pages -

Celebrate Super Bowl Weekend with the Souper Bowl of Sharing

Celebrate the Super Bowl Friday, February 5th, by participating with area churches in the Souper Bowl of Sharing.  Bring in a can of soup to be donated to an area food pantry and dress in your favorite sports team.

First grade has math homework.  It's not due until Friday.

A few book characters visited us today.

Two Harry Potters

Sophie from The BFG

Junie B. Jones

Fern, Wilbur, and Charlotte 

Indiana Jones

Spiderman

Cruella Deville

Reminder - Tomorrow all of the students are being dropped off and picked up at St. Matts.

In the afternoon the students will be playing minute to win it games.  They are going to be grouped by their field day teams.  If your student wants to, they may bring a shirt of their field day team color to change into after mass.

Snack - Don't worry about bringing a snack.  I packed a bag of pretzels for all of the students to have for a snack tomorrow.

Our schedule tomorrow looks something like this - mass, recess, snack, make Valentines for a nursing home, listen to a presentation, lunch and recess, finish Valentines, play minute to win it games.

I actually will not be there tomorrow.  Zak has pneumonia.  I'm going to stay with him tomorrow.  Mrs. Trester will be with my students.  The students know that this is happening.

Have a great night!

***Tomorrow, February 3rd, we are having a two hour delay.  School will start at 9:55.***

***Thursday, February 4th, all students will be at St. Matts all day.  They need to be dropped off and picked up there.  We will be eating lunch there.  The hot lunch menu is the same as our.  Chicken nuggets are on the menu for Thursday.  Mrs. Peebles has asked us to get a hot lunch count on Wednesday for Thursday.  Please let your child know if they will be eating hot or cold at St. Matts.  I'll be submitting our lunch count to Mrs. Peebles tomorrow.  Thank you for helping out with this.

A few pictures from today -

We had an amazing, awesome, crazy day today!  Our whole day revolved around the number 100.

We wrote 100 words,
were quiet for 100 seconds,
rolled dice to get to the number 100 (It took 27 rolls),
talked about what we would spend $100 on (They think it will go a lot farther than it will),
did 100 exercises,
built with 100 of all sorts of objects - legos, duplos, 100 piece puzzles, cups, blocks, dominoes, beads, etc.,
ran in place for 100 seconds,
measured ourselves on the 100 " man,
created pictures out of die cut 100's,
read 100th day books,
made 100th day crowns,
wore 100th day glasses,
and so many more activities.  We got to about half of the activities I had planned.  Have I mentioned that I love the 100th day of school?  :)

I'll post some pics later tonight.



***This week we will not have a spelling list.***


***And...TOMORROW IS A SNOW DAY!  Enjoy your day off!