Weekly Spelling Lists-

Phonetic List - Glued Sounds -ank, -ink, -onk, -unk
Hank
sink
honk
junk
tank
wink
bonk
bunk
thank
chunk

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 61-70
into
has
more
her
two
like
him
see
time
could

It was such a great day in our classroom today!  We got to welcome back our friend Macy!!!

Enjoy the long weekend with family and friends!  I feel so 

thankful and beyond blessed to be a part of this school and this classroom!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week we will not have a spelling list due to the short week.

Phonics - We have been working on the glued sounds -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung.  We worked on dictation in our student notebooks, sentence writing on white boards and sentence frames, and we used magnetic tile boards to make words with glued sounds.

Writing out words on sentence frames

Writing sentences on our whiteboards

 

Math - In math we worked on weighing using a balance.  We used a pencil, a crayon, an eraser, and a marker.  We used pennies on the other side to balance out the weight.  We counted how many pennies it took to balance each item.  We worked on doubles plus one and doubles minus one.  We learned about math mountains to make partners, switch partners, and fact families.  We used dice.  We rolled two dice and added them together to find the sum.  We made a bar graph of our totals.  

Religion - In Religion we worked out of our book.  We learned about four types of prayer - asking, praise, sorry, and thanking.  Our Promise Paper also talked about the four types of prayer!  We read to stories out of our Children's Bible.  We read the story of The Prodigal Son and Jonah and the Whale.  We also watched short videos of both Bible stories.

Science - In science we talked about clouds.  We then made cloud pictures out of cotton balls.  We also read the story Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 

Reading - We continue to have daily 5 and reading groups every day.  The students are busy working in their centers while I meet with guided reading groups and do sight word checks.  We also put together and read a story called Five Wild Turkeys.  We shared the book with our reading buddies.  This week I am going to start another round of running records.  I can't wait to see how much the students have grown already!  The students work so hard in daily 5!  Their writing has improved so much already this year!  It is great to see all their hard work!

Luke in a sight word center

 Miles putting all the words to Five Wild Turkeys in the right order

 Kenzy, Bennett, and Eli making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving

Finley in a sight word center

Miles put all these words in alphabetical order

Friday it was one of our volunteers, Ms. Mac's, birthday.  We had fun celebrating her.  The students made a book for her, danced a birthday Go Noodle with her, played a game with her, and made a birthday board for her.  It was a fun way to end Friday afternoon!

Reminder - Wednesday dismissal is at 11:30.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Glued Sounds - ang, ing, ong, ung
bang, ring, song, lung, gong, hang, wing, long, hung, thing

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 51-60
out, them, then, she, many, some, so, these, would, other

Religion - The students in this class - wow!  They often just ask to pray.  Inspired by this, I've been wanting to create a prayer center.  I made a few prayer books and found a few fill in the blank sheets for the Our Father and the Hail Mary.  I made some write a prayer sheets.  I bought a table and put our Children's Bibles and prayer books on it - as well as a few rosaries.  Monday morning the kids walked in and saw that the prayer center was finally created!  A few kids immediately went over, took the rosaries, and did a decade of the Hail Mary!  It was amazing!  The kids had an idea to put a basket at the table to place their written prayers in.  Then they asked for rosary directions.  We found some and added them to the center.  Miles brought in a binder for the students to put their non-finished prayers in.  Bennett came into our classroom on Friday and brought us a Mary statue.  Our friend Macy has been in the hospital and so many of our friends went over to the prayer center to write prayers for her.  This center is a work in progress - and it has been such a success so far!  I am so proud of these kids!

The prayer center before the students came in and saw it -

The prayer center a few minutes after the students arrived at school -

Hands and Feet Turkeys - We made turkeys in our classroom out of our hands and feet!  The students traced their feet on brown paper.  Their feet are the turkey bodies.  They traced their hands.  Their hands are the feathers.  They are adorable!  

We also made thankful turkeys.  The students wrote what they are thankful for on the turkey feathers.  

Reading - Every day we have reading and daily 5.  We will be reading a few turkey poems this week.  The poems will then have activities in our word work center.  This week the students will also be putting a turkey book together in word work.  In reading each group works on stories at their level.  We also practice our sight words, vowel teams, word families, nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.  

 These boys were busy making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving!

Science - In science we are learning about weather.  We did an experiment with fabric.  We had to figure out which fabric was best to wear in rainy weather.  The choices were cotton, cotton-polyester, wool, and nylon.  First we made a prediction.  Then we did our experiment.  We put the fabric squares over a cup of water and poured the water over them.  We found out cotton was the worst - it soaked up the water right away!  The best fabric choice of the four? Nylon was the best.

Writing - We finished up our turkey stories with our fourth grade buddies!  It was great to have buddies help us!  The stories turned out awesome!  

We also wrote about Holy Cross.  Mrs. Gast asked each class to write about what they like about Holy Cross.  Their writings turned out great!  

Have a great week!  :)