Reading - Our word work focus is synonyms and antonyms. We have so many choices in centers. The students also work on read to self, read to someone, listening, and writing. While they are in centers, students also work in their guided reading groups - reading and working with stories at their reading level.
Practicing spelling words
Phonics - We are learning about long vowels. We now have letter-keyword-sounds for the short vowels and the long vowels. We are also learning about v-e...which is vowel consonant e. This happens when there's a word with one vowel and then a silent at the end. The e makes the vowel sound long. Ex. - safe, Pete, pine, home, mule.
Social Studies - We are up to 45 states and capitals. We're almost there!
Religion - The chapter we are reading out of - Jesus shows God's Love. We read two Bible stories this week. One where Jesus cures a paralyzed man. One where Jesus brings a sick girl back to life. Both examples of Jesus showing his love. On Friday we will work out of our Promise Paper to learn about this week's Gospel.
Writing - This week in handwriting we are reviewing the letters Xx, Kk, and Zz. In writer's workshop we are writing color poems. The students had to write a rough draft. After the poem was edited, they wrote a final copy neatly. We are also finishing up our acrostic poems.
A few acrostic poems
Working on the final copy of a color poem
Science - We are waiting on our next shipment - guppies and snails! We put our two water plants in our aquariums. They are called elodea and cabomba. We drew and described the water plants in our science journals. We also drew the aquariums. We took home our seeds on Tuesday. Hopefully they made it home in one piece! The plants can be transplanted into bigger pots - and eventually even planted outside if you'd like! (If we ever get rid of this snow!) We made planting cards - where we drew pictures of our seeds growing!
Pea Seeds - They started slow - but once they started, they grew and grew and grew!
Pumpkin Seeds - These had the hardest time growing.
They took the longest time to start. Some of them didn't grow at all. No worries,
we planted extra seeds. If a student's didn't grow, they took an alternate plant home.
Sunflower Seeds - These took a while to start at well. They are just starting to grow now.
The stems are very skinny and fragile. Soon enough, they'll be the tallest plants in the garden!
Kidney Bean Seeds - These were the quickest to grow roots.
They popped up above the soil quickly! They grew very tall!
Working on our planting cards -Drawing how the plant is growing.
Writing about what we found out with our seeds and plants.
And Aaron - His pumpkin seed didn't grow. He asked if I could take a sad picture with
him and his seed. He ended up taking home a kidney bean plant instead. :)
Last Friday we celebrated Grandparents / Special people. When the students visited our classroom with their special people they had a chance to make a God's Eye. Here are a few pictures.
Flat Stanley - This week Aiden received his Stanley in the mail. So far, his Stanley went further than any other Stanley we've gotten back. His Stanley traveled to Canada to visit his grandparents. We have had 20 returned so far. We love getting Stanley mail and reading about his adventures!
A few pictures of our class working on morning tubs -
Art - This year our school will have one all school art show in the St. Matthew Campus Gathering Space. Our show will open May 10th, the morning of Muffins for Moms. It will also be open for viewing around the following weekend mass schedule. All students select 2-3 pieces to display. Please plan on attending and enjoy their beautiful art work! Mrs. Ihlenfeldt
No comments:
Post a Comment