Spelling - Vowel Teams - ou, oo, ue, ew
house
group
school
cook
tool
glue
true
cue
flew
stew
Again - we will practice these words for 2 weeks. This is a long unit and the words are challenging. The test will be on Friday, March 11th. We practice these words during phonics during the week. The students can also work on them in daily 5.
The spelling lists are always uploaded into Raz Kids on Vacabulary A-Z. To log onto our page, the students need our class code - jsullivan100.
Reading - We continue to work in our daily 5 centers during our guided reading time. Our word work center are contraction words. This week we will also add some Dr. Seuss centers! Dr. Seuss' birthday is March 2nd.
Our reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes a night 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 goal for the first graders is to know 175 sight words.
Raz Kids is a great way to practice reading and spelling.
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.
The student can now click on the purple planet for reading or the yellow plant for spelling. (It says vocabulary)
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 the student would like to practice their spelling words, they will click on vocabulary.
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. Once you are in clever and you click on Raz Kids, you just have to put in our class username - jsullivan100.
Math - In math we have been working on place value - the tens place and the ones place. We have been using base ten blocks to count. We also have been putting groups of items into tens and extras (ones) to count quicker.
Science - We switched from solids to liquids in our Einstein Kit. We learned about these properties of solids -
color
opacity (opaque or transparent)
feel
viscosity and fluidity
buoyancy in water
miscibility
We had four liquids that we tested - water, green shampoo, vegetable oil, and glue. After we tested all of the properties, we got two new solids to test - corn syrup and red shampoo.
One of our favorite lessons were testing for fluidity/viscosity. We did drop races. We found out that water was the fastest of our liquids.
Our other favorite lessons were testing for buoyancy and miscibility. We found out water and oil don't mix. We made a wave bottle out of water and oil. We also found out that corn syrup didn't mix with water. We made a three layer bottle. Corn syrup on the bottom, water in the middle, and oil on top!
Social Studies - We read out of our Scholastic News paper. Last week we learned about presidents for Presidents Day.
Religion - Our Promise Paper was about Jesus wanting us to be kind. The Bible verse we read discussed the golden rule - treat others the way you want to be treated. We took out the kindness virtues and values cards and went through them. Our Friendzy theme is to watch your words. We learned a great acrostic about thinking before you speak.
T - Is it true?
H - Is it helpful?
I - Is it inspiring?
N - Is it necessary?
K - Is it kind?
This week Wednesday Lent begins.
Phonics - We are continuing to add more vowel teams. By the end of this week we will have up to ue/ew. This is the most challenging row of vowel teams. There are 4 vowel teams and 7 sounds.
A few Pictures -
