Holy Cross - First Grade

Spelling - Glued Sounds - ang, ing, ong, ung

bang
ring
song
lung
gong
hang
wing
long
hung
thing

Reading - Our word work centers switched to Thanksgiving centers. :) Some of the choices are making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving, putting a story titled Five Wild Turkeys in the correct order, filling in the blanks on some Thanksgiving poems, putting Thanksgiving words in ABC order, matching turkey rhyming words, Thanksgiving word searches, Thanksgiving sight word sheets, etc. The other daily 5 choices are read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, and work on writing. We worked in our guided reading groups most of the week. Friday we started running records again. This week we will continue with running records during our daily 5 time.

Read-Aloud - Junie B. Jones First Grader - Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten and Other Thankful Stuff.

Phonics - We continued working on the suffix s. We learned that the suffix s can be used to make a word plural and that it can be used for an action word. (Ex. pen, pens = plural, and run, runs = action word) We have been getting some really tricky trick words. :) Our current trick words are:

are

were

who

what

when

where

there

here

Today we will have the unit 6 test. Tomorrow we will start a new unit. We will be getting four new glued sounds in our new unit. The new glued sounds are -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung. The keywords are -ang fang, -ing ring, -ong song, and -ung lung

Writing - We continue to work on our personal narratives. I met one-on-one with each student and we chose their topic. We then broke their topic down into 3 parts - big topic, smaller topic, and small moment. This week we will work on giving each small moment a beginning, a middle, and an end.

We have also been using our November four choices journals, as well as choosing assorted writing activities during our daily 5 block.

Math - We are continuing to work on telling time to the :00 and the :30. We also worked on learning about odd and even numbers, using dimes, learning about symmetry and the line of symmetry, and learning about beginning fractions. (1/2 and 1/3). Our facts that we have been working on are subtracting 0 and subtracting a number from itself.

We used rulers as the line of symmetry.

We used pattern blocks to make patterns with symmetry.

Religion - We are continuing to learn about gratitude from our virtues and values cards. We are also continuing with our rosary. We have been saying a decade of the rosary.

The Promise Paper was from the book of Matthew. (Matthew 25:1-13) The theme of our paper was making choices. Before we went virtual in October, Abbot Gary talked during mass about the Guardian Angel prayer. We have been working really hard on memorizing it!

Science / Social Studies - In our weather unit, we learned about the water cycle. We are doing a puddle experiment. We put water (with food coloring) in a bowl. We are waiting to see how many days it takes for the puddle to evaporate.

This Friday, November 13th - we are having a virtual guest speaker! Steve Beylon from WBAY will be zooming with us to give us a talk about weather! Mr. Beylon has come to our school many times - and although I am sad he cannot come this year - I am so excited he is doing virtual weather talks!!!!

Each week we also continue reading one social studies and one science Studies Weekly magazine.

Hands and Feet Turkeys