Reading - This week we finished all the running records and all the sight word checks. We started working in our guided reading groups. When we read stories this year, we are using Raz Kids on the ipads/tablets. (We aren't using paper books due to covid and sanitizing. Each student has their own ipad/tablet assigned to only them. We still sanitize the ipads/tablets after each use. It's been working great!) Raz Kids is an amazing resource! To read books in our reading groups, I have been assigning books to the students. They now know how to log into Raz Kids, find their assignment, and we work together as the group to read the story and learn. After we finish the story, there is a quiz the students take for comprehension. Reading groups have starting off incredibly well! While we are working in groups, the rest of the class is working in the daily 5 centers. They are getting really good at centers! The centers are read to self, read to someone, listening, work on writing, and word work. The writing center and the word work center have been very popular! :)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - We finished our first read-aloud this week! We spent a few days watching the movie version this week. We found that some parts were the same as the book, and some things were different from the book. It was fun to compare and contrast the two.
Phonics - We finished up our digraph unit on Friday. Our new topic is bonus letters. The bonus letters are f,l,s (and sometimes z). A bonus letter is when a letter is doubled. Here is the bonus letter rule - If a word is one syllable, has a short vowel, and ends with f, l, or s (and sometimes z), you double the last consonant. Examples - mess, fill, puff, buzz
Math - This week we worked on story problems, counting backwards, and our new facts are +1 facts. We used our math offices to look at the 100 chart. We learned that on the hundred chart - a number directly above is 10 less and a number directly below is 10 more. A number directly to the left is 1 less and a number directly to the right is 1 more. We played some fun math games on the Smart Board. Also - we still are talking about those doubles!
Religion - Our mustard seeds continue to grow!
This week we started a new virtue card - self-control. This is a tough one - but so very important!
After talking about the virtue self-control, we also learned about the Fruits of the Spirit. The Fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We learned a really fun song to help us remember them.
This week we read the story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors out of our Children's Bible. Then we watched a short video of Joseph.
Writing and Handwriting - This week in handwriting we worked on the letters Ee and Ff. We continue to work on writing neatly, forming the letters correctly, putting the letters on the correct lines and spaces, and writing our words and sentences with good spacing. In writing, we worked on writing a recipe. That was a fun writing! The students love the four choices writing. This week our topic was "What is your favorite thing to do in fall?" After the students finished their writing and illustrating, they posted a picture of their work in SeeSaw and they recorded themselves reading their work.
Spelling - The students did great on their first spelling list! They studied so hard! Our spelling words come from our phonics units. We will *usually* have a list each week - with a test on Friday. Some weeks we won't have a new list if we don't have a new phonics topic. I will always let you know if we have a new topic/list or not.
Bonus Letters - Spelling list for the week of October 5th - October 9th.
shell
cuff
miss
hill
puff
mass
bell
mess
toss
chill
Some fun pictures from the week -
Our first week of online learning. It's going to be different - but we'll make it a great week! :)
