Spelling - This week we will not have a spelling list due to the half day on Friday.

Religion - This week we worked out of our Religion book.  We talked about the ten commandments and we starting discussing the seven sacraments.  We learned about saints.  Fr. McElroy gave us a great acronym - SAINT = Someone who Always Inspires Neat Things.  On Friday we worked on our Promise Paper.  We learned about Sister Katharine Drexel and made an Our Father prayer book. 

Math - In math we worked on doubles, math wrap ups with doubles, patterns, and using a balance to weigh and compare items.  We took a written assessment and I did oral individual assessments.  While we were working on individual assessments we worked in math centers.

Phonics - In phonics we are working on words that have suffix -s.  We are learning about saying the base word first, and then the base word and the suffix.  This helps with spelling.  (For example, the base word of rocks is rock and the suffix is s.  We say rock - rocks.  If you just say rocks, the -cks sounds like x and the student may spell the word rox.)

Reading - Last week was the last week of Halloween word work centers.  This week we will start Thanksgiving word work centers.  Some of the choices are making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving word puzzles, Thanksgiving poems (cloze activities, putting poems in the correct order, etc.), thankful turkeys, and thankful letters.  Every day in reading the students work in the daily five centers while one group is in a guided reading group.  This week on Halloween we read the story Scary Party.  We brought the book to life by reading it in partners of two and making our parts "dance in the dark" as the book says.  :)

Acting out the story Scary Party  

Handwriting - We worked on putting question marks and exclamation points on the correct lines and forming them the correct way.  We also reviewed the letters Aa, Oo, and Dd.

Writing - We started writing turkey stories with our fourth grade buddies.  We will finish them up this week.  

Halloween - We had fun on Halloween.  We went trick or treating at the mother house.  We got to perform our song "The Twelve Days of Halloween".  The kids did great!  The sisters loved it!  We had a fun Halloween celebration in our classroom when we returned to school!  Thank you Miles' mom, Owen's mom, and Bennett's mom for organizing our Halloween celebration!

A little recess bubble blowing fun with Fr. McElroy

*Reminder - Early dismissal Friday, November 9th

Have a great week!  :)