Reading - We continue to work on word families. All of the students have been tested on sight words. Almost all of the students have done running records. Just a few more to go! Wow! The improvements that they have made since August are absolutely amazing! :)
Macy working on a word family house
Yaretzi practicing spelling words
Luke working on a word family neighborhood
A few pictures of reading buddies this week
Math - This week we continued to work on adding two digit numbers using dimes and pennies. We are also working on doubles plus one and doubles minus one. (Ex. If 8+8=16, then 8+9= 17 or if 5+5=10, then 5+4=9)
Phonics - We have a new set of vowel teams that we are working on - oa, oe, ow. The keywords are oa boat, oe toe, ow has two sounds and two keywords - ow snow and ow plow. We learned how to tap out words when they have five sounds.
Writing - The students continue to practice writing in writer's workshop. Our steps are 1.brainstorming, 2. rough draft, 3. edit, 4. rewrite, and 5. publish. The students love creating, writing, and illustrating stories!
Typing - Something pretty cool we did for the first time on Friday - typing! The students are always amazed at how you can type fast and without even looking! I told them with a lot of practice, they will be able to do that too. I introduced them to a website called dancemat. The website link is https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr This website is great at teaching kids how to type. It's from the BBC - so the animals that are talking have a British accent. :) It starts with teaching how to place your fingers on the keyboard. The first step is teaching home row. Then each lesson adds a few more letters. Friday we worked on home row. The kids loved it! It was so fun to watch them soak this up!
Religion - This week we will be able to get back to our book. Friday we read about the Gospel from our Promise Paper. It was pretty cool - the Gospel message was about kindness. Abbot Gary's message at Friday mass was about kindness. We read two books about kindness on Friday. Sometimes it's amazing how things all tie in together. :) All last week during our Religion time we practiced for our mass - and boy did the kids do an amazing job! I am so proud of them!
A few random pictures from the week -
Calla looking like a squirrel
Snowy fun at recess
More snowy recess fun
Have a great week! :)
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