We had an awesome visit with channel 2 meteorologist Steve Beylon today!  He was so fun and so informative!  Our class is going to be on the news Friday morning.  The times will be approximately 4:48 am, 5:08 am, 5:38 am, 6:08 am, and 6:38 am.

We had a yummy dessert after our visit!  Sky cups!  (Blue Jell-o = sky, Cool Whip = clouds, candy topping = rainbow)  Kambria really liked our treat!  :)

Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Glued Sounds -ank, -ink, -onk, -unk
Hank
sink
honk
junk
tank
wink
bonk
bunk
thank
chunk

High-Frequency List - Words 71-80
no
make
than
first
been
its
who
now
people
my

Reading - We love daily 5!  We have four different reading groups.  When the students aren't in the group, they are working in a center.  We are loving the Christmas centers!

A few 4th grade reading buddy pictures

Phonics - We are working on glued sounds -ank, -ink, -onk, and -unk.

Math - We are continuing to work on telling time to the :00 and the :30.

Science - Tomorrow is our visit from the meteorologist!  We are excited!!!

Religion - We are continuing to focus on Advent.  Our Jesse Tree is growing!  We are also watching the movie The Star.  This week we will be getting mass parts.  We have mass on December 20th.

We also talked about St. Nick!  We made some stockings.  And we were pretty lucky!  St. Nick left us some treats in our stockings at school!

Prayer Leader - Each week one of our classroom jobs is the prayer leader.  Lorelai brought a special book from home this week to share with us.  Here she is reading one of her prayers while some friends look on.  

Every Wednesday Brother Jacob comes into our classroom.  Last Wednesday was really special!  It was Brother Jacob's birthday!  We made a birthday board for him.  :)

The Christmas concert last week was beautiful.  Here are a few pictures of the practice and from the night of the concert.

We are getting into the Christmas spirit here at school.  We have lots of fun decorations!  We even have a classroom elf - Samantha Snowbell!  We love her!  We made ourselves into elves too!  Yesterday we had a great time ringing bells at the mall!  

Making Ornaments

 Our Elves

Samantha Snowbell

 Our door

*This Friday, after mass, we are having a groundbreaking celebration for our outdoor classroom.  Thank you to Lorelai and her mom.  They are making dirt dessert for our class.

*Friday, December 20th, we will be going to two nursing homes to sing Christmas carols and spread some holiday cheer!

Have a great week!  :)

Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Glued Sounds ang, ing, ong, ung
bang
ring
song
lung
gong
hang
wing
long
hung
thing

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 61-70
into
has
more
her
two
like
him
see
time
could

Reading - We are finished with running records and are back to reading groups and daily five centers.  Last week was the last week of Thanksgiving word work - now we are on to Christmas word work!  

Math - We are starting to learn how to tell time.  We learned about the hour hand and the minute hand.  We learned that every number on the clock is 5 minutes.  We learned that there are 60 dots on our clock for 60 minutes.  We are focusing on the o'clock times first.  Then we will focus on the :30 times.

Phonics - We are continuing with the glued sounds -ang, -ing, -ong, and -ung.

Science - We are coming to the end of our weather unit very soon!  Next week we will have a visit from channel 2 meteorologist Steve Beylon!

Religion - We have been learning about Advent.  Our first Promise Paper of December talked about Advent.  We made our own Advent wreaths.  We are taking them home today.  So far, we only have the first candle lit.  I am sending home three more flames that the students can put on their Advent Wreaths each week.  The candles are 1. Purple - Hope, 2. Purple - Peace, 3. Pink - Joy, 4. Purple - Love.  Sometimes there is a white candle in the middle of the Advent wreath.  The white candle is called the Jesus candle.  We are also making a Jesse tree in our classroom.  Each day we add another piece to our tree.  Each piece of the tree is a Bible story that we read and discuss.  

 This is the Advent wreath that is coming home today.  

This is the start of our Jesse Tree.  When we get to 

Dec. 20th,  we will have made an entire Christmas tree.

December 9th - We are going Christmas caroling.  All permission slips are turned it.  Thank you!  :)

Weather Guest Speaker - Wednesday, December 11th, Steve Beylon, a meteorologist from channel 2, will be coming to our classroom.

Groundbreaking of our outdoor classroom - 

We are going to have a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, December 13th, after mass.  Each classroom is looking for a volunteer to provide dirt dessert for their class after the groundbreaking.  Please let me know if you would be willing to make and provide dirt dessert for the first grade class.  Thank you!

Have a great week!