Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.

Reading - We continue to work in our guided reading groups and daily 5 centers.  This week and next week our word work centers are activities focusing on Dr. Seuss.  (His birthday is March 2nd.)  We have word searches, crossword puzzles, rhyming activities, water fall books, writing the room activities, Dr. Seuss writing activities, and many more choices.

Writer's Workshop - We are continuing to work on the steps of writing.  The students are LOVING it when they get to publish a book!  We are also working on handwriting - writing neatly, writing in the correct spaces, using finger spacing, watching for backwards letters, etc.  

Math - In math last week we worked on writing money amounts, dividing shapes into halves, and we did a lot of work on subtraction facts (subtracting by 2).  We also had some math centers.

Science - We have been working on the properties called viscosity and fluidity.  Viscous means slow and means fast.  We did some tests - and one of the tests was called drop races.  We put drops of two liquids on a container and then we lifted the container to see which liquid raced to the bottom first.  Before each race we predicted.  Some of the races surprised us!  It ended up that out of the four liquids, water was the most fluid and shampoo was the most viscous.

Religion - Last week we spent all our Religion class practicing for mass.  Boy did they do a great job!!!  This was the last mass that first grade will be leading this year.  This week we have been learning about Ash Wednesday and Lent.  We also found out that first grade is going to be leading Stations of the Cross (with 7th grade) on March 20th.  Today the students that are reading took their readings home.  Please practice with them.  We have a while before we are leading Stations, but we are starting to practice now.  On March 20th, here are the parts that the students chose -

Station 2 - Rachel

Station 4 - Lorelai

Station 6 - Vincent

Station 8 - Mikey

Station 10 - Justin

Station 12 - Addison

Station 14 - Vivianna

Sign Holders - Ella, Sophia, Kambria

Here are pictures from our mass -

Greeters

Introduction

First Reading

Responsorial Psalm 

Petitions

Bread and Wine

Holy, Holy

Memorare

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.  We will have mass in the morning.

Tomorrow we are also go to The Weidner Center.

Talent Show - The talent show is going to be on Thursday, March 5th.  The first graders have decided as a class to sing 2 songs.  :)  

Have a great week!  :)

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 - Words 111-120
man
too
any
day
same
right
look
think
also
around

Reading - Our word work center is synonyms - Words that have the same meaning.  (small and little, rock and stone, etc.)  We are also loving making words out of the letters in valentine!  We finished another round of running records last week.  This week we are back at working in our guided reading groups.

Phonics - We are working on vowel teams ai and ay, ee, ea, and ey, and oi and oy.  The students are also continuing to work on closed syllable words.

Math - In math we have been working on adding 2, comparing and ordering objects by length, measuring with non-standard units (cubes) and with rulers (inches), writing number words, and using pattern blocks to cover a design and graph that.  

Science - In our science kit, we finished up the solids and we are starting to work with the liquids.  We compared water and glue, observed the four liquids (water, glue, green shampoo, vegetable oil) with our senses, put the liquids on wax paper and observed, put the liquids in baggies and observed, and spent some time learning about which liquids are slow and fast (viscous and fluid).  The properties we have been working on so far are color, transparent or opaque, and viscosity and fluidity.

Religion - This week we are preparing for our Mass on Friday.  :)

We recently celebrated two birthdays in our classroom!

Have a great week!  :)

Valentine bags are ready to go for tomorrow!  :)

Weekly spelling lists -

Phonetic List - Closed Syllable Words
trim
flat
kept
crop
pluck
clip
mask
west
chomp
rush

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Word 101-110
get
through
back
much
go
good
new
write
our
me

First Grade Mass - Friday, February 21st - This is our third and final mass of the year
Greeters - Ella, Lorelai, Kambria, Vivianna
Introduction - Addison
First Reading - Rachel
Responsorial Psalm - Justin, Addison, Sophia
Petitions - Ella, Vincent, Lorelai
Bread and Wine - Vincent, Mikey
Memorare - Rachel


Valentine's Day - Reminder -
We will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Friday.  Your child may bring in their valentines any time between now and Friday.  Don't worry about making a valentine box.  We will be making one in school tomorrow.

Upcoming Dates -
Wednesday, February 26th - Weidner Center - Snowy Day
Friday, February 28th - Early Dismissal
Thursday, March 5th - Optional Conferences 4-8
Friday, March 6th - Early Dismissal, Optional Conferences - 12:00 - 2:30
Monday, March 9th - Friday, March 13th - Spring Break

Have a great week!  :)

Spelling - Due to the short week we will not have a spelling list this week.  We did take last week's test today.  The tests went home with your children.

Happy 100th Day of School!

Today we celebrated the 100th day of school.  The whole day we worked on activities and projects that had to do with the number 100.  It was an amazing day!  Enjoy the pictures!

The 100th day projects - These are so fun!  The kids loved sharing their projects!

Wearing our crowns and glasses

Posing in front of our giant 100!

Our 100 inch man

Building things out of 100 pieces.  Some items we used are blocks, Duplos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, puzzles, and cups.  We also worked on writing 100 words!  We thought it was going to be hard - but it wasn't!  We know how to spell a lot of words!

We did a few dice rolling activities.  We predicted how many rolls it would take us to get to 100. 
Then we rolled!  This time it took us 27 rolls to get to the number 100!

In this activity we rolled the dice 100 times!  We wanted to see which number we rolled the most.  It turns out we rolled 6 the most - we rolled it 22 times!  Our least rolled number was 5.

Making necklaces out of 100 beads was a hit!  We loved this activity!

We did 100 exercises!  We picked 10 exercises and did 10 of each!  Here are the exercises we chose.

This was fun!  We had to make creations out of the number 100.  Some of our ideas were fish, a butterfly, a bulldozer, and a scuba diver!

We also talked about what we would buy if we had $100.

We put the students in an aging app.  Here they are when they are 100 years old!

The pictures are proudly displayed on their lockers!

As you can see, we had an amazing, fantastic, fun-filled day!  Happy 100th day of school!