First grade and second grade have math homework tonight.

Your child may have come home with some "treasures" today.  :)  The closet at the end of the hallway got cleaned out.  We were going to recycle / throw things away.  We had a "rummage sale" in our class instead.  They loved it!  There were a ton of math manipulatives for and overhead projector.  They didn't know what an overhead was.  I brought one in our classroom.  They were amazed.  It was awesome.  Mrs. Franz even found something I never used as a teacher.  A slide projector.  Who knew that pretend money could be so fun?  (That was the hottest seller at our rummage sale.)

***First and second grade have math homework tonight.

***The spring concert is on Thursday, May 19th.

***The talent show is on Friday, May 6th.

***Second grade families - The students are to wear their First Communion clothes to school on Thursday, May 5th, for May Crowning.  They will change into their uniforms after mass.  Usually the second graders get a dress down day after May Crowning,  This year we are going to The Building for Kids so that won't work.  Mrs. Franz has given the ok for second grade to have a dress down day on a different day.  They will be having their dress down day on Monday, May 9th.


Here are a few pictures from our reading group that is doing a play of Stone Soup.

Weekly Spelling Lists-

First Grade - Phonetic List - ll and lk words
chalk
fall
talk
small
call
walk
wall
tall
ball
crosswalk

First Grade - High Frequency Words - Words 181-190
few
those
always
show
large
often
together
asked
house
don't

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Unit 32 sh words
shine
rush
shoe
cash
short
shore
wash
shout
shaggy
bushel

Second Grade - High Frequency List - Words 401-410
round
dark
past
ball
girl
road
blue
instead
either
held

Yesterday we learned our new name!  Father Allouez Catholic School!  Each grade had to make up cheers for our school.  Here are the first and second grade cheers.

A few updates -

First grade math - We are working on story problems, story problems, story problems!  We are also continuing to learn how to play cribbage.

First grade phonics - We are now learning two syllable words. We learned about each syllable being closed, and one syllable being closed and one syllable being vowel-consonant-e.  We are also learning how to break words into syllables.

Reading - We are working on homophones.  The kids are doing awesome in centers!

Writing - These kids are rocking poetry!  This week we learned about diamante poems. When they are finished I'll snap a picture to share with you.  I am blown away!

Science - This week we took our plants home.  The kids loved watching them grow.  Today we will be adding guppies and snails to our aquariums.

Religion - Today we had a special guest speaker.  He's a parishioner named Tom Wall.  He has written children's book about our Catholic faith.  Here are a few pictures of his visit.

First grade has math homework tonight.

Second grade has phonics homework tonight.

Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade - Phonetic List - Unit 34 - th
that
then
this
bath
path
with
thin
thump
thud
booth

First Grade - High Frequency List - Words 171-180
along
while
might
next
sound
below
saw
something
thought
both

Second Grade - Phonetic List - Unit 31 - R-Controlled o - or, ore
for
more
corn
door
fork
horse
torn
store
explore
morning

Second Grade - High Frequency List - Words 391-400
class
piece\
surface
river
common
stop
am
talk
whether
fine

***We still have a few people who have not returned their permission slips for Wednesday at St. Matts and for The Building for Kids on May 5.  Please return your permission slips.

***Please return your report card envelopes.

Our plants grew like crazy over the weekend.  Here's a picture -

We are having mass on May 5th.  This mass is also May crowning.  The second graders will be dressing up in their First Communion clothes for this mass.  They will change their clothes after mass.  We are also going to the children's museum this day.  Here are the parts for that mass -

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

Parts went home yesterday.  Please practice reading parts at home.

A few FYIs-

First Grade Math - This week we worked on equation chains.  We also worked on adding 3 and 4 numbers while finding an easy way to do it.  (find a 10 or find a double)

First Grade Phonics - We are testing on Unit 11 today.  This unit focused on vowel-consonant-e syllables with and without suffix s.

Reading - This week we continued to work on synonyms and antonyms.

Writing - April is National Poetry Month.  The kids have been writing amazing poems.  We have written acrostic poems and personal cinquains.  They have turned out absolutely awesome!

Social Studies - We have now learned all fifty states and capitals!

Science - We have built terrariums and aquariums.  Our aquariums have water plants and our terrariums have land plants.  Our seeds that we planted have mostly started to grow roots and sprout.

***Please remember to return your permission slips and your report card envelopes.

Here are a few pictures from the week -

Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade Phonetic List - Unit 33 - sh
ship
shop
show
dish
wish
push
shut
crash
hush
shake

First Grade High Frequency List - Words 161-170
line
set
own
under
read
last
never
us
left
end

Second Grade Phonetic List - Unit 29 - ch, wh
chop
each
when
chin
what
why
which
cheek
wheel
chain

Second Grade High Frequency List - Words 381-390
strong
voice
probably
area
horse
matter
stand
box
start
that's


***MAP testing starts this week.  Today we will have the reading test.
Thursday, April 14th, the second graders will have the language arts test.
Monday, April 25th, we will have the math test.


****Remember to return your report card envelopes.

***Return your permission slips for The Building For Kids and our morning at St. Matts.

A few FYI's...

First Grade Phonics - We are learning about vowel consonant e syllables and vowel consonant e syllables with a suffix s.  (Ex. home, homes)

First Grade Math - This week we worked on  odds and evens, doubles, doubles plus one, doubles minus one, doubles plus two, and doubles minus two.  We are also attempting to learn how to play cribbage.  So...much...counting!  :)

Social Studies - We have learned 45 states!  We are so close to 50!  The kids love singing 50 Nifty and The 50 States that Rhyme.

Science - This week we started our organisms kit.  We have brainstormed about living things, talked about how plants and animals are alike and different, observed our four seeds using our senses and took notes about them, and we planted seeds.  (pea, sunflower, kidney bean, sunflower)  Our next task - building a terrarium!

Writing - April is National Poetry Month.  We learned about all different types of poems.  Then we wrote acrostic poems about spring, butterflies, sunshine, and flowers!  They turned out amazing!

Reading - Our word work focus is antonyms and synonyms.  They are rocking these centers!  They are such hard workers!

Religion - We have continued our talk about the Resurrection!  The kids made a really cute art project called Jesus is Risen!  I'll have to snap a picture.  Tomorrow we will be having Divine Chaplet at 2:40.

A few fun pics from the week -

ART

In art class we have been working on 2 different projects. One project is a drawing of a cat or dog on a rug. In this project we are learning to look for the basic shapes we see to help us draw an animal. We are learning about including spatial ideas, like adding a floor line, and showing the animal "on" the rug, the rug "under" the animal, the rug "on top" of the floor, and the wall "behind" the animal. We experimented with different effects, like, crayon resist, and scratching off oil crayon to make our animal look furry.

  We are also working on a still-life collage of fruit in a bowl sitting on a table. We are learning how to overlap items to create spatial effects. We've added spatial ideas like fruit "in the bowl" or "out of the bowl, and how to show fruit piled up "on top" of each other without looking like the fruit is floating in the air. This week we added thinking about how light casts shadows and creates highlights, and are adding these with pastels. This collage is a study for a future still-life painting. 

Each spring our school has an art show to showcase student artwork.

 St. Matthew's art show is scheduled for Thursday evening, May 12th. Artwork will remain on display in the gathering space through the weekend masses.

 Resurrection art show is scheduled for Thursday evening, May 19th. Artwork will remain on display in the gathering space through the weekend masses.

Have a great week. Mrs. Ihlenfeldt

***Please return your report card envelopes.

***A paper went home today about Arbor Day trees.  If you want an arbor day tree, the form needs to be returned by Thursday.



Weekly Spelling Lists -

First Grade - Phonetic List - Final ck
back
pack
neck
pick
sock
duck
tuck
quack
crack
cluck

First Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 151-160
every
found
still
between
name
should
home
big
give
air

Second Grade -Phonetic List - r-controlled a - ar
far
farm
art
park
cards
part
dark
star
hard
arm

Second Grade - High-Frequency List - Words 371-380
state
list
stood
hundred
ten
fast
felt
kept
notice
can't