NCEA - This week Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Schauer, Mrs. Parker, and I will be at the NCEA conference in Chicago Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  Mrs. Waterstradt will be our substitute teacher.  We will all be back at school on Friday.  :)

Spelling - Due to the short week, we will not have a spelling list.

Building For Kids Field Trip - Reminder...our new date for the field trip is April 30th.  Please return your new permission slips.  Thank you!  :)

Talent Show - Wow!  Our kids are so talented!  The class did an amazing job! 

Reading - This last week and this week our word work focus has been Bossy R words.  This week while I am gone the students will be working in centers.  When I get back on Friday we will meet in guided reading groups again.  The students love daily 5!

Word Work

Listening

Word Work

 Word Work

 Work on Writing

 Work on Writing

Phonics - We are working on two syllable words with two closed syllables.  This week we will also start working on two syllable words where one syllable is closed and one syllable is a vowel-consonant-e syllable.

Social Studies - We are up to 45 states!  Didn't the class do an awesome job singing Fifty Nifty at the talent show?  :)

Here are the 45 states we've learned about.  Only 5 more to go!

Science - In science we have now built our terrariums and our aquariums.  The aquariums have two types of water plants.  This week Wednesday we should be getting our next shipment of organisms - snails and guppies!  We have been watching our seeds grow!  Each day we water our plants and draw how our seeds/plants look on our planting cards.

Working on aquarium plants

aquarium plants

aquarium plants

Thursday - the beans finally popped above the soil

Thursday - pumpkin seeds

 Thursday - sunflower seeds

Thursday - pea seeds

I stopped at school on Saturday - What a difference from Thursday! - Beans and Pumpkins

Sunflowers and peas on Saturday!

Math - In math we have been working with the hundred chart.  We have been working on adding ten to a number.  We also worked on subtracting ten from a number, as well as adding one and subtracting one.  So if our number was 74, we added ten to it (84), subtracted 10 from it (64), added 1 to it (75) and subtracted 1 from it (73).

Religion - We focused on Holy Week!  We learned all about Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.  We also worked with our virtue card responsibility.

Writing - We worked on acrostic poems this week.  Our next type of poems will be cinquain poems.

Have a great week!  :)