Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week. We are on a long unit. Our focus this week is still suffix s.

Reading - We work in daily 5 and reading groups every day. Each group works on stories at their reading level. When the students are not in meet with teacher, they are in one of the daily 5 centers. Reminder - our reading goal is to read at home for at least 20 minutes every day. Sight words, which are in the Bee Binder, are another item you can practice at home. By the end of first grade, the students should know 175 words.

In the month of November, all of the word work centers have something to do with Thanksgiving. Some of our word work and writing centers are making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving, rhyming turkey words, cloze activities with Thanksgiving poems, writing thankful letters, Thanksgiving sight word activities, word searches, word scrambles, and putting Thanksgiving words in ABC order.

Raz Kids is a great resource for reading at home. Each student's page has books at their level.

To access Raz Kids, you can either go to the website or download the app.

The website is https://www.raz-plus.com/

Once there, go to kids login.
The teacher name to enter is jsullivan100.
Once in, the student will click on their name.
The password is the apple.
Press go.
Click on the purple planet - reading.
Then there are some choices.
*If the student would like to read the stories we have read (or will be reading) in our reading groups, they will click on my assignment.
*If the student would like to choose books on their own, they will click reading room.
In reading room, they have lots of options on how to choose the books they want to read. If they want to read books at their level only, they may press leveled books. Every student has their level entered in the website. This allows them to read books at their level, as well as 2 levels above and below.

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.

Phonics - We are working on suffixes. Our first suffix we are learning about is suffix -s. We are learning about suffix -s as a plural of a word and as an action word.

Math - Recently we have worked on odd an even numbers, counting coins (dimes and pennies), telling time to the hour and the half hour, counting by 2's, and subtracting a number from itself. We have also been doing some fun Thanksgiving math worksheets.

Religion - Our new Friendzy unit is "You First". We have been talking about putting others before you. We learned an acrostic for others.

O - Observe

T - Think

H - Honor

E - Encourage

R - Respect

S - Serve

In our Promise Paper we learned about the parable of the poor widow who gave the smallest amount of money, but she gave more than all the others because she gave all that she had. Our parable went perfectly with our Friendzy theme of you first!

In our virtues and values, we are focusing on gratitude.

Social Studies - We finished up our weather unit with our visit from Mr. Beylon. In Social Studies we have been learning about the origin of Thanksgiving. We also learned about veterans and the branches of the military.

Buddies - We wrote Thanksgiving stories with our buddies. They turned out fantastic!