Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.  We are still working on the v-e unit in phonics.  It's a long unit.  :)

Phonics - We are working on vowel-consonant-e syllables.  That simply means words that have a vowel, a consonant, and then a silent e.  The silent e makes the vowel have the long sound.  Examples are kite, ape, rode, etc.

Here we are working on sentence frames and white boards in phonics

Math - In math we took a little break from the units this last week.  We are learning how to play cribbage.  There is a lot of counting in the game of cribbage!  The kids are catching on!  If you know how to play, ask your child to play with you.

Reading - We worked on homophones in word work.  Starting this week we will have a new word work focus - synonyms and antonyms.  While the students are working in centers, I meet with small guided reading groups every day.  As always, the centers are read to self, read to someone, listening, work on writing, and word work.

Religion - Our new virtue card is kindness.  We have been reading books about kindness as well as going through our kindness cards, our kindness prayer, and learning about saints.  This week we read the story of  The Prodigal Son out of our children's Bible - that was the Gospel story for the weekend.  We talked about forgiveness after discussing the Bible story.  Each day during Lent Mrs. Gast gives us a take 5 challenge.  This week one of our challenges was to say a decade of the rosary and pray for five minutes.  Another day we learned about the virtue of honesty.  We then took five minutes to color the word honesty.  Our class is loving the take 5 challenge!

Social Studies - We are up to 18 states and capitals.  The students are LOVING learning facts about each state!  They can sing Fifty Nifty like champs already!  We have also listened to two other songs about states and capitals - but I thing Fifty Nifty is their favorite.  We have lots of state books in our classroom that are being read a lot right now.  

Flat Stanley - We have heard back from 6 Stanleys so far.  The kids LOVE getting Stanley mail!  It has been awesome reading the stories that your families and friends have shared with us about their time with Stanley!

 Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin

 Tokyo, Japan

 Luxemburg, Wisconsin

Lompoc, California

Field Trip - We are going to The Building For Kids on April 11th.  We will be gone most of the day.  We are still in need of chaperones.  We need to have four chaperones - three plus me.  We have one for sure and one maybe.  Please let me know if you'd be willing to chaperone.  It is a really fun day!  I promise!  Thank you! :)

Have a great week!