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Spelling - Glued Sounds -all, -am, -an

ball

ham

fan

tall

ram

pan

call

Sam

man

fall

Phonics - We are starting to learn about glued sounds.  The first three glued sounds we are learning about are -all, -am, and -an.  When we tap glued sounds out, we "glue" or fingers together.

Reading - We have added reading groups to our daily five time.  The goal is to have each group "meet with teacher" every other day.  In reading groups we are reading stories, learning vocab, learning grammar concepts, learning and applying phonics concepts, working on comprehension, etc.  

Writing - We continue to practice our handwriting.  We are up to letter Jj in our practice.  We continue to work on our personal narratives.  We worked on breaking our stories into a beginning, a middle, and an end.  This week we will start our rough drafts.  

Adopt - A - Cow - This year we are again participating in the Adopt-A-Cow program.  Last year in kindergarten you may remember that the class adopted a cow named Ruby.  (First grade had Ruby last year too!)  This last week we were given our host farm information.  This coming week we will be learning our cow name.  :)  We found out that our host farm is Selz-Pralle Dairy in Humbird, Wisconsin.

Math - In math we have been working on +1 facts, +0 facts, -1 facts, using pattern blocks to cover designs in different ways, and the strategy of counting on.  

Religion - Each week we work on our Promise Paper.  The Promise Paper shares the story of Sunday's Gospel and teaches us a lesson.  This week's Gospel comes from the book of Matthew.  It is the story of the wedding feast.  We are finishing up our first Friendzy unit called "We Are One"  We continue to read from our virtues and values cards.  We are currently working on the kindness cards and the orderliness cards.  

Read-Aloud - We finished Junie B. Jones -  First Grader At Last and Junie B. Jones - Boo! And I Mean It!  We are now starting a Magic Tree House book.  We are continuing where the students left off in kindergarten. We are reading book # 6 - Afternoon on the Amazon.

Reading with our 4th Grade Buddies

Our newest therapy dog - Murphey

Fun Pictures

Have a great week!

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