Spelling - Vowel Teams ou, oo

trout

soup

out

pout

house

book

school

cook

soon

loon 

Phonics - We continue to add vowel teams.  Our new vowel teams are ou and oo.  We are working on words that have blends in the beginning and at the end - so they have more segments.  For example, spend s/p/e/n/d has five segments.

Reading - We continue to work in reading groups and centers.  Our word work focus is contraction words.  We will soon be starting another round of running records.

Math - In math we have been working on place value of tens and ones.  The students have learned how to make "quick pictures".  

Religion - We have been learning about Lent.  Every day during Lent we watch a short Brother Francis video.  We have started to prepare for our first mass.  We will be leading mass on March 6th.  Readings went home last week.  If your student has a reading, please practice, practice, practice.  :)  We continue to focus on the virtues and values of zeal (magnanimity) and self-control.

Science - We have come to the final project in our PLTW unit.  The project is...

The students used materials such as cardboard, straws, paper plates, paper bowls, styrofoam containers, and clay to construct their structures.  They used the design process to work through this challenge.

To test the designs, we placed UV detecting beads in their structures and used a UV light to act as the sun.  If the UV detecting beads stayed clear, the structure was able to provide structure from the UV rays.

Building during Friday Fun Time

Have a great week!

Vowel Teams - oa, oe, ow

goat

road

croak

foe

toe

flow

crow

now

how

cow

Phonics - We are continuing to learn about closed syllables and vowel teams.  This week we are adding the vowel teams oa, oe, and ow. 

Reading - We continue to work in reading groups and work in our centers.  Currently in word work we are working on words that are contractions.

Religion - We continue to learn about the virtues and values of zeal (magnanimity) and self-control.  We read a great book called The Pups of the Spirit.  It taught us about all the fruits of the spirit.  Then, of course, we practice the fruits of the spirit song.  :)  We spent some time in adoration last week.  We worked out of our Promise books.  We learned about seasons of the church.  We focused on the season coming up this week - Lent.

Science - We have been busy in our PLTW unit sun, moon, and stars.  We have learned about patterns of the moon, stars, constellations, and planets.  In one of our lessons we learned about UV rays.  UV rays can be harmful to us and we need to protect ourselves.  In our lesson, we used UV detecting beads.  We tried to heat them up to see if that affected them.  It did not.  We tried light from flashlights and our classroom lights.  That did not affect them.  Then, we took the UV detecting beads outside.  That made them change color!  

Math - In math we have been learning about graphs.  We worked on picture graphs, tally graphs, and bar graphs.  We worked on learning about tally marks.

Fun Pics From the Week -

Have a great week!