Starting today, we will have spelling lists.  Please look in your child's Bee Binder.  There is a spelling letter, your child's pre-test, and the list they will be practicing this week.  The students will be practicing their words at school during daily 5 as time allows.  They should be practicing their spelling words at home as well. 

Phonetic List - Digraphs
such
thin
fish
rich
thud
shop
quick
dock
thick
shock

Trick Word List - Words 11-20
he
for
was
on
are
as
with
his
they
at

Reading - The first week of daily 5 and guided reading groups was a huge success!  Our class has four reading groups.  Guided reading lessons are geared at the reading level of each group.  While I am teaching the group, the class is hard at work in the daily 5 centers.

Word Work

Word Work

Word Work

Work on Writing

Math - We have been working hard on memorizing our doubles facts up to 10.  We played such a fun game last week - chutes and ladders with doubles facts!  We are starting to work on doubles plus one and doubles minus one.  (If 4+4=8, then 4+5=9 and if 4+4=8, then 4+3=7)

We also worked on number sentences (equations) and ordinal numbers.  

Phonics - We are still working on digraphs.  (Digraphs are our first spelling list)  Today we worked on nonsense words.  A nonsense word isn't a word - but you can tap it (sound it out) because of the sounds that you know.  It's a great way to practice sounding out words.  We also worked with our magnetic tiles for the first time this last week.

Religion - In Religion we worked out of our book.  We started our third chapter called God is Our Father.  On Friday we worked on our Promise Paper.  We learned about the Gospel of the rich man and Lazarus.  We also made a mobile of the world and things that God made.  On Wednesday Brother Jacob visited our class.  He brought the monstrance to our class.  He told us about the symbols on the monstrance.  

Read-Aloud - Every day we end our day with a chapter book.  We have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Friday we finished our book.  Today we took some time to watch the movie.  We are looking for things in the movie that are the same and different.  This week we'll take some time to finish the movie.   

Wake-Up Work - When we come in the morning, we've been working on morning tubs.  The kids love to create and they love to have their picture taken.

Book Order - The October book order is in the Bee Binders today.  If you would like to order any books please have the book orders in by next Monday.

Have a great week!  :)