Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.  Our phonics unit is still focusing on bonus letters.

Phonics - We continue to work on bonus letters.  (f,l,s) We are starting glued sounds.  Our first glued sound is -all. To mark a glued sound, you box it. 

Reading - Last week we started working in small reading groups.  In small groups, we work on reading stories, phonics concepts, reading skills, sight words, grammar skills, etc. - whatever the group needs.  While the students are working in groups, the rest of the class are working in centers.

Math - We have been working on subtraction strategies.  This week we will be starting module 3 - Properties of Operations.

Religion - We continue to talk about the virtue of sincerity daily.  We also have added a similar virtue - respect.  We go through the virtue cards each day.  We are working on memorizing our sincerity prayer.  The latest Bible story we read was David and Goliath.  In our Promise books we talked about the sign of the cross and prayers.  We finished our first Friendzy unit - "Better Together".

Science - We are at the end of our PLTW unit Light and Sound.  The final part of every PLTW unit is "The Problem".  In this unit, the job was to create a communication device that uses either light, sound, or both.  The students use the design process to figure out how to complete their problem.

After the communication devices were created, we had to evaluate and explain our devices.  Here are all the creations -

Our therapy dogs Sassy and Morgan are back!  We had our first visit of the year!

Recess Fun!

Have a great week!

Spelling - Bonus Letters

shell

cuff

miss

hill

puff

mass

bell

mess

toss

chill

Reading - We are finally finished with all of our beginning of the year assessments.  This week we will start reading groups.  :)

Phonics - We are learning about bonus letters.  A bonus letters are f, l, s.  A bonus letter happens if there is one syllable.  That one syllable has one short vowel.  If the word ends with f, l, or s, you double the consonant.  To mark a bonus letter you draw a star above the bonus letter. 

Math - We are working on subtraction strategies.  We have used the number line to count back, used circle drawings, and used adding on to subtract.

Writing - We continue to practice our handwriting.  We are working on writing neatly, forming letters correctly, writing the letters in the correct spaces, and using good spacing between words.  We finished up our September journals and started our October journals.

Science - In our light and sound unit, we worked on mixing colors with light.  We found out it isn't always the same as mixing paint.  It was a little challenging to get the flashlights exactly where we needed them...but we did it!

Religion - We learned about our October virtues and values.  We will again have the BOLT awards this year.  :)  Our first virtue is Sincerity.  We have virtue cards that talk about what each virtue looks like and sounds like that we go through.  The virtue cards also have saints that model that virtue and prayer for the virtue.  We learned about St. Therese de Lieux.  We say the sincerity prayer daily.

We also started our first Friendzy unit of the year.  The theme for the first unit is "Better Together".

On Friday we had our first school wide rosary.  We sat with our fifth grade buddies.

While we were waiting to go to church on Friday, the students took out their bee binders and were practicing sight words.

We had a visit from the New Franken Fire Department

We adopted a cow!  This years cow is Ethel from Schleis Farm in Kewaunee. She is adorable!

We finished the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  We then watched the movie.  We found out there are a lot of differences between the book and the movie.

Pet Blessing

Have a great week!