Weekly Spelling Lists -
Phonetic List - Vowel Teams oa, oe, ow
goat
road
croak
foe
toe
flow
crow
now
how
cow
High Frequency List - Trick Words/Sight Words Words 111-120
man
too
any
day
same
right
look
think
also
around
***Reminders***
*This Wednesday all students are being dropped off at Res. The all school mass starts at 8:05. After mass we will have the throat blessing. After that the middle school students will be putting on a carnival. All proceeds are being donated to the CP Center. Each game costs 25 cents. Each grade will have a half an hour to play games. Please send in your child's money for the CP carnival by tomorrow. Thank you!
*Tomorrow is a dress down day!
Monday, January 30, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
First Grade Math - This week we have been working on comparing story problems. We learned a new problem solving method - comparison bars. Keep practicing those math facts. We will have a quiz every Thursday. This week we are also really excited about place value...because we got to 1000 milk rings! Wow!
Phonics - This week we learned a few more vowel teams - ee, ea, ey, oi, and oy. We learned how to mark closed syllables with a suffix s. We learned the difference between a closed syllable and an open syllable. We also worked with nonsense words.
Social Studies - This week we have been learning about different types of homes. We also worked on street maps. We used the map key to find places on the map. Tomorrow we will be learning about time lines.
Religion - This week we read in our Religion books about Gods love for us. We also read about and illustrated various Bible stories. Last week we worked on the Hail Mary. This week we worked on the Our Father.
Writing - This week in writer's workshop we learned how to address envelopes. The students worked on writing an address, the return address, and personalizing the letter that we are sending with our Flat Stanleys. Our Stanleys will be in the mail today! Here are a few pictures of working on the envelopes -
Phonics - This week we learned a few more vowel teams - ee, ea, ey, oi, and oy. We learned how to mark closed syllables with a suffix s. We learned the difference between a closed syllable and an open syllable. We also worked with nonsense words.
Social Studies - This week we have been learning about different types of homes. We also worked on street maps. We used the map key to find places on the map. Tomorrow we will be learning about time lines.
Religion - This week we read in our Religion books about Gods love for us. We also read about and illustrated various Bible stories. Last week we worked on the Hail Mary. This week we worked on the Our Father.
Writing - This week in writer's workshop we learned how to address envelopes. The students worked on writing an address, the return address, and personalizing the letter that we are sending with our Flat Stanleys. Our Stanleys will be in the mail today! Here are a few pictures of working on the envelopes -
The letters - all ready to be sent!
Reading - Our word work focus again this week is synonyms. This week we will finally wrap up running records. Next week we will start meeting in our new reading groups.
***MAP Test - The students will be taking the reading MAP test this afternoon.
***Catholic Schools Week is January 30-February 3. During Catholic Schools Week one of the activities is putting together snack packs for those served at St. John's shelter. Each class is being asked to provide one item. The first grade students are being asked to donate pretzels and cheese dip packs or cracker sticks and dip packs.
***CP Carnival - Next week is the CP Carnival. The middle school students make games for the elementary students to play. Each game will cost 25 cents. The students have 30 minutes to play the games. All of the money collected will be donated to the CP Center. The students may bring in money ahead of time.
January/February 2017 (All posted on school web page.)
PE
K-2
Good day to all. I am a little out of sorts with the two cancelled days of school. I got a little bit behind but am catching up today. Well, this week we worked on tennis ball throwing and catching. I am trying to get all to see how the entire body is used when throwing a ball. They tend to throw it to the floor and then run after it. Partner will will alleviate some of that but I am trying to get them to figure things out on their own. They know the answers to some of the questions but now need to build on muscle memory. We will continue on.
For a little bit, our cardio Fridays will be jumping rope to ready ourselves for Jump Rope for Heart which at St. Matthew will happen on April 7th. Each child should have received a magnet (which they were instructed to not put by a computer or a phone) with that date and some direction on it. I will send home envelopes next week in the weekly communication. We will all be jumping during their class time. Please feel free to stop in to jump or help out with the event. Times Below:
F, April 7
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Kindergarten
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10:15-10:45
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Grade 1
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8:15-8:45
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Grade 2
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8:45-9:15
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They should have plenty of room as each class will be jumping on their own. This will help with the movement while they are jumping for a higher success rate. We have already worked a few times on their jumping and they are showing an immense amount of improvement.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Weekly Spelling Lists -
Phonetic List - Vowel Teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi, oy)
main
say
paid
tree
seat
key
green
join
toy
foil
High Frequency List - Trick Words/Sight Words - Words 101-110
get
through
back
much
go
good
new
write
our
me
***If you haven't yet, please send in a blank stamped envelope and who your child is sending Flat Stanley to. We would like to send our Stanleys out ASAP. Thank you!***
Phonetic List - Vowel Teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi, oy)
main
say
paid
tree
seat
key
green
join
toy
foil
High Frequency List - Trick Words/Sight Words - Words 101-110
get
through
back
much
go
good
new
write
our
me
***If you haven't yet, please send in a blank stamped envelope and who your child is sending Flat Stanley to. We would like to send our Stanleys out ASAP. Thank you!***
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
A few FYI's -
First Grade Math - This week we have been comparing data with three numbers. We have been using the words more and fewer. We will be having a math facts quiz on Thursday again.
Phonics - This week we are continuing to talk about closed syllables. We learned three new vowel teams this week - ee, ea, and ey
Reading - This week our word work focus is synonyms - words that mean the same thing. (big, large) The students are working on the daily five centers and I am doing running records assessments. We are getting closer to finishing. :)
First Grade Math - This week we have been comparing data with three numbers. We have been using the words more and fewer. We will be having a math facts quiz on Thursday again.
Phonics - This week we are continuing to talk about closed syllables. We learned three new vowel teams this week - ee, ea, and ey
Reading - This week our word work focus is synonyms - words that mean the same thing. (big, large) The students are working on the daily five centers and I am doing running records assessments. We are getting closer to finishing. :)
Eddie and Aisling working on compound words
Clare, Dakota, and Kate working on synonyms
Social Studies - This week Monday we learned about Martin Luther King, Jr. Tomorrow we will be talking about the presidential inauguration happening on Friday. We are also combining reading and social studies. We just finished reading the story Flat Stanley. Today we made our own Flat Stanley. A letter went home today explaining our project. Please look for it in your child's folder.
Here we are working on our Stanleys today -
***MAP - The students will be taking a MAP test tomorrow afternoon. They will also be taking a test next week. In first grade they are tested in math and reading.
***Next week Monday (January 23rd) will be a Packer Dress Down Day.
***Catholic Schools Week is January 30-February 3. During Catholic Schools Week one of the school activities is putting together snack packs for those served at St. John's shelter. Each class is being asked to provide one item. The first grade students are being asked to donate pretzels and cheese dip packs or cracker sticks and dip packs.
***100th Day of School - The day keeps moving with our snow days. :) As of today, the 100th day of school will now be on Monday, February 6th. Next week I'll be sending home some information about the 100th day of school projects.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
A few FYI's -
First Grade Math - This week we had the unit 5 test. We worked on the test Monday and Tuesday. Today we started unit 6. We are working on interpreting data. Today the students had to cut out pictures of bugs and sort them in 2 different ways. (First they sorted bugs with legs and bugs without legs. Then they sorted the bugs by color.) Then they had to answer questions about what they had sorted. Today we also had our firsts math facts quiz. I am super excited! Every single student passed the first time! Woohoo! Tomorrow they will be getting their next set of math facts to practice. The next set has problems that go up to 8. The next quiz will be next Thursday.
Phonics - This week we learned a new concept - closed syllables. Closed syllables have a short vowel sound and they are closed in at the end of the word with a consonant (or digraph or blend). This week we also practiced making words with our blank tile cards. Today we started learning about vowel teams. Our first two vowel teams are -ai and -ay.
Reading - This week we continue to work on adjectives and compound words in work on writing and word work. We also started running records this week. I love seeing the progress that the students have made! Running record take a while to complete. I would guess we'll be doing this for another week or two. After that we can get into our new reading groups. Here are a few pics of students working in the spelling center this week -
First Grade Math - This week we had the unit 5 test. We worked on the test Monday and Tuesday. Today we started unit 6. We are working on interpreting data. Today the students had to cut out pictures of bugs and sort them in 2 different ways. (First they sorted bugs with legs and bugs without legs. Then they sorted the bugs by color.) Then they had to answer questions about what they had sorted. Today we also had our firsts math facts quiz. I am super excited! Every single student passed the first time! Woohoo! Tomorrow they will be getting their next set of math facts to practice. The next set has problems that go up to 8. The next quiz will be next Thursday.
Phonics - This week we learned a new concept - closed syllables. Closed syllables have a short vowel sound and they are closed in at the end of the word with a consonant (or digraph or blend). This week we also practiced making words with our blank tile cards. Today we started learning about vowel teams. Our first two vowel teams are -ai and -ay.
Reading - This week we continue to work on adjectives and compound words in work on writing and word work. We also started running records this week. I love seeing the progress that the students have made! Running record take a while to complete. I would guess we'll be doing this for another week or two. After that we can get into our new reading groups. Here are a few pics of students working in the spelling center this week -
Social Studies - This week we finished the first chapter of our social studies book. We learned about school communities, school workers, basic maps, the map key, and directions.
Religion - This week in our Religion book the focus was baptism. Some of the students knew where they were baptized, some didn't. If you have a chance, talk with them about their baptism. :) We talked about baptism, but then expanded a little bit. We did go over all seven of the sacraments briefly.
Writing - This week we got to have work on writing in daily 5 and handwriting, but we didn't get to have writer's workshop because of the snow day. Writer's workshop is each Wednesday from 2:00-3:00. We could always use more help editing, typing, and binding books. If you're ever free on Wednesday at 2:00, you are welcome to join us and help us out.
Tomorrow is a Packer Dress Down Day!
January 2017 PE
K-2
Happy New Year. I am glad to feel it warm up (relative term). I don’t
like those below 0 wind chills. That is just too much when your coat
crunches within seconds.
We still have our cardio Friday’s. You are welcome to join during
your child’s PE class if you want. Feel free. There are some that are
struggling with the counting and keeping track. (Example: The other day
there was a child that said they had 99 in 15 minutes.) OOPS.
During the other class of the week, we are doing to start working on
throwing and catching with hands. The throwing with opposition comes
easy for some but it is difficult for others. So, we will all work on it. It is
important for them to learn to catch with their hands and not always do a
basket catch with their arms. We will continue to add spurts of gross motor
skills as well.
Monday, January 9, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a relaxing break and were able to enjoy the company of family and friends.
Thank you so much for the class gift of scrip! That was so kind of you! I can't wait to do some shopping! :)
A few FYI's from this week -
First Grade Math - This week we worked on adding single digit numbers and then adding a 0 to that number. For example - 3 + 7 = 10 and 30 + 70 = 100. We worked on story problems. In the story problems there were three numbers to add. Each time two of the numbers equaled 10. Then we added 10 + the other number to find the answer. We have been playing shut the box and double shut the box to practice our math facts. Remember to practice those math facts - our first math facts quiz will be next Thursday. Tomorrow we will practice for our end of unit test. Monday we will have the unit 5 test.
Phonics - This week we learned about digraph blends. This is when you combine a digraph with another consonant. We learned three more r-controlled vowels - er, ir, and ur. They are very tricky as they all say the same sound. We worked on making the words with our letter cards, as well as making them with the blank letter cards. Today we worked on writing sentences on our white boards with new and old trick words, as well as vocabulary words.
Reading - One work on writing focus this week has been writing thank you letters for Christmas presents. The other one has been about adjectives - The students are writing adjectives to describe a snowman. Our word work focus this week is compound words. There are quite a few choices in this center - putting plastic eggs together to make compound words, matching games, making compound word snowmen, making a flip book (the outside has two words - foot and ball. The inside has the compound word football), and cutting out words on a worksheet and gluing them into compound words. And of course there's always read to self, read to someone, and listening to stories. I haven't met with any reading groups this week. Instead I did a sight word assessment with every child. Next week we'll start another round of running records. I can't wait to see how much growth the students have had!
Social Studies - We are excited to start social studies. The first thing we did was take a picture walk preview of the book. The kids were really interested in the maps of the world and of the United States. Then we went through the first few pages in our book. We learned how to look through the book on those pages. We learned about schools and classrooms as communities.
Writing - In writer's workshop this week we worked on writing New Years resolutions. The students had to write and illustrate things they want to learn, goals for home and school, and something they can do to make a difference. They then glued their papers onto construction paper and they are hanging above their hooks. They turned out beautiful! As they finished their resolutions, they worked on their writer's workshop stories. We have writer's workshop every Wednesday from 2:00-3:00. We have two grandparent helpers, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Kelly. We could always use more help with editing, typing, and binding books. If you ever want to join us on Wednesday afternoons, feel free to come in and help us out. :)
Today we had a beautiful mass celebrating Epiphany. After mass our 8th grade buddies stayed with us. We created cards for Catholic Schools Week. (Coming up at the end of January) Here are a few pictures from today -
I hope you all had a relaxing break and were able to enjoy the company of family and friends.
Thank you so much for the class gift of scrip! That was so kind of you! I can't wait to do some shopping! :)
A few FYI's from this week -
First Grade Math - This week we worked on adding single digit numbers and then adding a 0 to that number. For example - 3 + 7 = 10 and 30 + 70 = 100. We worked on story problems. In the story problems there were three numbers to add. Each time two of the numbers equaled 10. Then we added 10 + the other number to find the answer. We have been playing shut the box and double shut the box to practice our math facts. Remember to practice those math facts - our first math facts quiz will be next Thursday. Tomorrow we will practice for our end of unit test. Monday we will have the unit 5 test.
Phonics - This week we learned about digraph blends. This is when you combine a digraph with another consonant. We learned three more r-controlled vowels - er, ir, and ur. They are very tricky as they all say the same sound. We worked on making the words with our letter cards, as well as making them with the blank letter cards. Today we worked on writing sentences on our white boards with new and old trick words, as well as vocabulary words.
Reading - One work on writing focus this week has been writing thank you letters for Christmas presents. The other one has been about adjectives - The students are writing adjectives to describe a snowman. Our word work focus this week is compound words. There are quite a few choices in this center - putting plastic eggs together to make compound words, matching games, making compound word snowmen, making a flip book (the outside has two words - foot and ball. The inside has the compound word football), and cutting out words on a worksheet and gluing them into compound words. And of course there's always read to self, read to someone, and listening to stories. I haven't met with any reading groups this week. Instead I did a sight word assessment with every child. Next week we'll start another round of running records. I can't wait to see how much growth the students have had!
Social Studies - We are excited to start social studies. The first thing we did was take a picture walk preview of the book. The kids were really interested in the maps of the world and of the United States. Then we went through the first few pages in our book. We learned how to look through the book on those pages. We learned about schools and classrooms as communities.
Writing - In writer's workshop this week we worked on writing New Years resolutions. The students had to write and illustrate things they want to learn, goals for home and school, and something they can do to make a difference. They then glued their papers onto construction paper and they are hanging above their hooks. They turned out beautiful! As they finished their resolutions, they worked on their writer's workshop stories. We have writer's workshop every Wednesday from 2:00-3:00. We have two grandparent helpers, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Kelly. We could always use more help with editing, typing, and binding books. If you ever want to join us on Wednesday afternoons, feel free to come in and help us out. :)
Today we had a beautiful mass celebrating Epiphany. After mass our 8th grade buddies stayed with us. We created cards for Catholic Schools Week. (Coming up at the end of January) Here are a few pictures from today -
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