Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week due to the short week.  We will be learning new glued sounds this week.  I will most likely share the next spelling list with the students later this week - as our next spelling list will be glued sounds.  The students will then have a test on the glued sounds next week.

Phonics - We have learned our first glued sound.  A glued sound is when letters are "glued together" to make a sound.  Our first glued sound is -all.  The keyword is ball.  Later this week we will be learning 2 more glued sounds.  

Religion - This week our Bible story was Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors.  Our virtues and values for October are trustworthiness and sincerity.  We went through all of the trustworthiness cards and this week we will switch to the sincerity cards.  Our Promise Paper was from the Gospel of Mark.  It talked about Jesus and "Let the children come to me."  

We had an author visit us.  Her name is Kristina Schoh and she wrote a book called Seek And You Will Find - A Catholic Sacraments Adventure.

Science - We are working through the light centers.  We learned that light also travels in waves.

Color Filters

Diffraction Grating

Light and Shadows

Light and Mirrors

Working in our launch logs

Math - We weighed objects using nonstandard units.  We used pennies as our units.  We weighed school supplies such as pencils, erasers, markers, crayons, and scissors.  We worked on an addition strategy called counting on.  We worked on +0 facts.  We worked on graphs.  We worked on covering shapes using pattern blocks.

Read-Aloud - We finished reading Junie B. Jones - First Grader at Last!  We are now reading Junie B. Jones - Boo! And I Mean It!.

Reading - In word work we are working on rhyming centers, spelling words, and Halloween centers. The students love daily five time!  They are working so hard on read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, work on writing, word work, and of course small reading groups!

Centers with buddies

A Friday Fun Time Message

Have a great week!