Spelling - Blends

grab

best

flip

frog

jump

crash

next

drip

block

brush

Reading - Our current word work focus is compound words.  A compound word is when you have a word made out of two words like rainbow.  rain + bow = rainbow

We continue to work in our centers and meet in our reading groups daily.

Read to Someone

Word Work

Work on Writing

Compound words 

butter + fly

= butterfly

Phonics - We are starting to learn about consonant blends.  A blend is when you have 2 consonants together and your are able to hear each sound.  For example, in the word task , the blend is at the end - sk.  We are also starting to learn about r-controlled vowels - or the bossy r.  An r-controlled vowel is when you have a vowel followed by the letter r.  

Math - In math, we have been working on two digit addition.  We are focusing on adding without regrouping, but are being exposed to how to do regrouping.  We are learning about place value - the ones, the tens, and the hundreds.  

Religion - We have been learning about Epiphany.  We read about the three kings in our Promise Paper.  Mrs. Curran also brought in her gold, frankincense, and myrrh to show us! Our newest virtue and value is sincerity.

Our completed Jesse Tree

Writing - We have started our next writing unit - writing how-to stories.  We started with research.  We learned what how-to books are and read some mento texts.  We moved to planning.  We learned that how-to books can be about something you can do, make, or be.  We brainstormed ideas.  Then we wrote out our ideas.

Science - This week we will get back to our sun, moon, and stars unit.  This week we will be learning about the moon.

We celebrated Thomas turning 7!

A few fun pics -

*STAR Testing - This week Wednesday we will take the STAR reading test.  Next week Wednesday we will take the STAR math test.

*Reminders to make sure your students have hats, gloves, snow pants, boots, etc. every day!  

Have a great week!

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