Phonetic List - Suffix -s
webs
mops
pegs
packs
maps
bells
sheds
pups
chips
rocks
High-Frequency List - Trick Words
which
their
said
if
do
will
each
about
how
up
Religion - We spent last week practicing for our mass. This week we will work out of our Religion books, learn about saints, make cards for the sisters at the mother house, and learn about the weekly Gospel in the Promise Paper. Reminder - Mass this week will be on Thursday since it is All Saints Day.
Reading - This is the final week that all of the word work centers will be Halloween themed. The students have done a great job with all the Halloween centers! The students are doing great work in both daily 5 centers and guided reading groups.
Owen in a writing center - Story cubes
Calla and Luke putting Halloween poems together
Bennett working on a noun word work. He had to color words
either red, yellow, or blue depending on if the word was a person,
a place, or a thing.
Kenzy and Luke - Busy book makers!
Kenzy and Luke putting Halloween poems together
The Twelve Days of Halloween! We learned a parody of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
The students read it, illustrated it, sang it, and performed their version for other classes.
Sister Carolyn thought it was so great, she asked the first graders to perform it at the
Mother House on Wednesday when we go trick or treating! :)
Science - In science we learned about the water cycle. We learned the words precipitation, condensation, and evaporation. We did a puddle experiment. We put water in a bowl and drew what the water level looked like each day. It took 3 days - and then all of the water evaporated out of the bowl.
Phonics - We are starting to learn about base words and suffixes. Currently we are learning about suffix -s. The base word is the main part of the word. The suffix is the word ending. In the word rocks, rock is the base word and s is the suffix.
Math - In math we have been talking a lot about doubles. We made flash cards of all the doubles from 0+0 to 9+9. We have been learning about different shapes. After a lesson about shapes, we took some time to make our own creations out of pattern blocks. The students loved it!
Frankenstein Subtraction
Kindergarten Buddies - Mrs. Anderson asked us for some help. She asked the first graders to show the kindergarteners how to do some daily 5 centers. She wanted us to teach them the website Epic on the their computers. She also wanted us to help them learn how to do some word work centers. The first graders loved being their big helpers!
Class Book - We read the Eric Carle book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? We then made our own version of the book called Children, Children, What Do You see? Each student created a page. For example, the first page says Owen, Owen, what do you see? I see Bennett looking at me. It turned out amazing! Here are the pictures we used to create the book.
Reminders -
Wednesday we are going trick or treating at the mother house. The students may bring their costumes to change into after lunch. The students are allowed to stay in their costumes as we will be having a Halloween party when we return.
Mass this week will be on Thursday due to All Saints Day.
Have a great week! :)
