Spelling - ank, ink, onk, unk
Hank
sink
honk
junk
tank
wink
bonk
bunk
thank
chunk
Vocabulary A-Z is a great resource for practicing spelling words at home! Each week I upload the current spelling list into assignments.
To access the website, students will again go to
Once there, go to kids login.
*If you haven't logged in before, it will have you put in a teacher username. The
teacher username is jsullivan 174. If you have already logged into Raz for reading, you will have to click change teacher. From there, you would type in jsullivan 174.
Once in, the student will click on their name.
The password is the apple.
Press go.
Click on vocabulary.
Click on the assignment.
The students can choose either phonics, spelling, or vocabulary. All choices have different games with the weekly spelling list for them to choose from.
If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page. The Clever QR code is in your child's Bee Binder.
Reading - We work every day in reading groups and centers during our daily 5 reading block. In the month of December we have lots of Christmas centers, such as Christmas pictures with sight words, making words our of the letters in Christmas, writing Christmas cards, making Christmas lists, Christmas word searches and crossword puzzles, putting the words to Jingle Bells in order, putting Santa's reindeer in ABC order, and filling in Christmas words on pictures. While the students are in read to self, read to someone, listening, work on writing, and word work, our students are meeting with me in small groups reading stories at their reading level.
Our reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes a day at home. Sight words, which are in the Bee Binder, are another thing students can practice at home. By the end of first grade, the students should know 175 sight words.
Raz Kids is a great resource for reading at home. Each student's page has books at their level.
To access Raz Kids, you can either go to the website or download the app.
The website is https://www.raz-plus.com/
Once there, go to kids login.
The teacher name to enter is jsullivan100.
Once in, the student will click on their name.
The password is the apple.
Press go.
Click on the purple planet - reading.
Then there are some choices.
*If the student would like to read the stories we have read (or will be reading) in our reading groups, they will click on my assignment.
*If the student would like to choose books on their own, they will click reading room.
In reading room, they have lots of options on how to choose the books they want to read. If they want to read books at their level only, they may press leveled books. Every student has their level entered in the website. This allows them to read books at their level, as well as 2 levels above and below.
If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page. The Clever QR code is in your child's Bee Binder.
Phonics - We are working on the glued sounds -ank, -ink, -onk, and -unk. These are very close to the last glued sounds we learned -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung. Since they are so close, we have spent 2 weeks working on the difference. The students have known the spelling words that go with these new glued sounds since last week. They will have their spelling test on these new glued sounds this Friday.
Math - In math we worked on covering designs with pattern blocks in different ways, +2 addition facts, adding two to even and odd numbers, and recognizing / spelling the number words from 0 to 10.
Religion - We continue to learn about Advent. This week we light our third candle - joy. Each day we read a Bible story and add to our Jesse Tree. Each week we read from our Promise Paper and add to our Advent calendar. Last week in our Promise Paper we also learned about Our Lady of Guadalupe. Each day Mrs. Boudwin reads an Advent act for us to follow. Last week one of our days talked about being "good fruit". On that day, we learned about The Fruits of The Spirit. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We also learned a fun song. You can find that song here - The Fruit of Spirit Song.
Writing - We continue to work on handwriting. Our goal is to write neatly, write on the correct lines, form the letters the correct way, and use good spacing. We work in our monthly journals multiple times a week. Our current big writing project is working on personal narratives. We have been reading mentor books and brainstorming what we can write about. Last week we narrowed down our choices into one idea. We then took our idea and narrowed it down to our small moments. This coming week we are going to work on the beginning, middle, and end of our personal narratives.
Science and Social Studies - We have been reading out of our Scholastic News weekly. This week I will pick up our next Einstein Kit from the Einstein Project. Our next kit is called Solids and Liquids.
Fun Pictures from our Class
Beginning of the walk
End of the walk :)
Most of the kids in our class walked five laps. Each lap was 852 feet. Some students walked 6 laps, some walked 7 laps, some walked 8 laps, and Jackson walked 11 laps! We calculated how far we walked depending on how many laps we walked.
Elves have taken over our classroom :)
Dates to Remember
*Thursday, December 16th is the Christmas concert
*Thursday, December 23rd is and early dismissal day
