Spelling - Glued Sounds -ang, -ing, -ong, -ung

bang

ring

song

lung

gong

hang

wing

long

hung

thing

Phonics -  This week we will be introducing a new group of glued sounds.  The new glued sounds are -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung.

Religion - This week we learned about the 7 sacraments.  After learning each of the 7, we focused on baptism.  Many of the students are unaware if they have been baptized.  If they have been, share some information or pictures with them.  I think they'd love to see it.  :)  We continue to learn about gratitude and humility for our November virtues.  In Friendzy, we are also learning about gratitude.  Our unit is called Grow Gratitude.

Writing - We have started our personal narratives unit.  A personal narrative is a true story about you.  We have been researching and planning.  We have been listening to stories that are personal narratives.  We have brainstormed ideas that we could write about.  We learned that personal narratives have a beginning, a middle, and an end.  This week we are going to pick one of our ideas, learn how to focus on the small moment, and work on putting our idea into a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Reading - We work in our daily five centers and reading groups every day.  We practice read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, work on writing, word work, and meeting with the teacher to read.

Science - We are almost finished with our PLTW unit light and sound.  Our last task is the problem.  The task is to build a communication device that would use light and our sound.  Last week we made the devices.  We used the design process.  This upcoming week we will test them.

A visit from the firefighters

The Cookie Election

Buddies

Have a great week!