Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - 2 Syllable Words with 2 Closed Syllables
upset
admit
pigpen
sunfish
laptop
napkin
himself
contest
insist
cobweb

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 131-140
place
well
such
here
take
why
help
put
different
away

Field Trip on April 11th - This Thursday, April 11th, we will be going to The Building For Kids in Appleton.  Thank you to Mrs. Schleis, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Mrs. DeFrank for chaperoning!  We will be gone most of the day - 8:30 until about 2:15.  Every student will need a cold lunch on Thursday.  Please make sure everything in the lunch is consumable - "a brown bag lunch".  Please pack the lunch in a brown bag, baggie, grocery store bag, etc.  All silverware should be plastic.  Please don't pack any tupperware or containers.  When we are finished with lunch everything the children bring should be able to be thrown out or recycled.

The field trip is very fun!  We will arrive at the museum around 9:30.  The students will be able to explore the museum until 10:30.  At 10:30 we are taking a class called Magnificent Matter.  It is awesome!  They will get to do many hands on science experiments.  Lunch will be from 11:30 - 12:00.  The will have from 12:00 - 1:30 to explore more of the museum.  We will depart around 1:30.  We will be back at Holy Cross around 2:15.

Reading - Our current word work focus is synonyms and antonyms.  Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.  Antonyms are words that mean the opposite.  Every day we work in all five daily 5 centers and we meet in guided reading groups.

Social Studies - We are up to 33 states!  The students love learning about the states, their capitals, and facts about each state!

Science - We just got our last Einstein kit of the year.  It is called organisms.  Organisms are living things.  Friday we did the first lesson - Sharing What We Know About Organisms.  We brainstormed a list of organisms, discussed how plants and animals are alike, and how plants and animals are different.  We ended the lesson by drawing an organism and writing what the organism is and what we think it needs.  This week we'll work on seeds - observing and describing seeds and planting seeds.

Religion - We are continuing with the virtue card kindness.  During Lent we have been working on our Take 5 every day.  This week we wrote in our journals about prayer.  We have been talking about Lent and watching videos from the Rice Bowl.  We keep talking about was to pray, fast, and give during Lent.  Our promise paper this week was a story about Jesus forgiving.

Journaling about prayer

Phonics - We are finishing up our vowel consonant e unit.  We are starting a unit on 2 syllable words that have 2 closed syllables.

Writing - We continue to work in writer's workshop.  April is poetry month.  We will be doing a small unit on writing poetry as well.

Math - All last week we worked on cribbage!  The students have done such a great job learning this game!  There is so much counting to do in cribbage!  This week we will get back to our regular lessons.  

Flat Stanley - We have now received information from all of our Stanleys!  Some Stanleys we got pictures and letters via email.  The students LOVE getting Stanley mail!  It has been such a fun project!  We have learned how to write letters, how to address letters, we've learned about the places our Stanleys have gone, we've learned geography by locating the Stanleys on maps, etc.  We have learned so much!  Thank you to your friends and families for helping us with this amazing project!

River Falls, Wisconsin

 River Falls, Wisconsin

 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Nashville, Tennessee
Calla's went to her grandma in Tennessee.  Her grandma took us on a virtual tour of Germany!

Phoenix, Arizona

 Rome, Italy

Our Flat Stanley maps

The Wizard of Oz - The students are so excited to work on this play!  We are practicing our lines right now.  The kindergarten is working with us too.  They are going to be flying monkeys, munchkins, and narrators.  They just got their parts on Friday.  This weekend I collected all sorts of goodies for costumes. :)  If you have anything that you think could help us out for costumes please send it in to school.  (We are mostly looking for something for Toto, munchkins, the tin man, and flying monkeys if you can think of anything.)  After we get good with our lines, we'll practice actions, using our props, wearing costumes, etc.  We'll let you know when we are ready to share our performance with you.

Talent Show - The talent show is going to be on Thursday, April 18th in the afternoon.  First grade is going to do two performances together as a class.  Since their Kidz Bop performance last year was such a hit, they will be performing another one this year - The Kidz Bop Shuffle.  They will also be singing The Fifty Nifty.  If your child signed up to do anything else, there will be auditions this week Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Thank you so much for all your hard work on the Holy Cross Auction!  What a fun night!

Have a great week!  :)