Last week was a fun and crazy week!  We started the week with the 100th day of school, we had a theme each day for Catholic Schools Week, and we had a snow day thrown in there!  :)  This week I am just going to share a ton of pictures from last week.  Enjoy!

But first - Two items.  

First - since we do not have school on Friday, we will not have a spelling list this week.  

Second - We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday.  You can have your child bring in their valentines any day this week.  We will store them until Thursday.  Reminder that this year if you are sending treats they must be store bought/prepackaged.  We will make valentine bags at school.  Please do not send any boxes from home.

Here is a list of all of the students -

Grant

Henry

Emily

Nora

Wyatt

Chailoh

Cameron

Cash

Tommy

Serenity

Adalynn

Jack

Duke

Monday - 100th Day of School

Making necklaces out of 100 beads

Doing 100 exercises

Working on the jellyfish 100 collection project

Crosses

100th Day of School Story

Building with 100 items - cups, blocks, Lincoln Logs, etc.

Writing 100 Words

Tuesday - Buddies 

We read via zoom with 3rd grade

Kindergarten made cards for us and sent us a treat

We made cards and a banner for 7th grade

We made post cards for a nursing home in Indiana.  (We could choose

from many different locations.  After looking at the map, we chose Indiana.)

Holy Cross Spirit Day

Wednesday - Celebrate America Day

We wrote letters to people active in the military.  I shared with the

class that my niece Jessica is a nurse.  She graduated from UW Madison and

was working at UW hospital as a nurse when she decided to enter the air force.  She is

currently stationed as an air force nurse in California.  She recently found out she is being

deployed.  She can not tell us where or when.  She is not allowed to tell us where she

is until she gets there.  I shared pictures of Jessie with with the class and we wrote letters

to her.  They were sent in the mail a few days ago.  It was so sweet!

We also worked on our class snowman

We played the saran ball game!

Thursday - Snow Day!

Friday - Movie Day!

We watched the movie Bolt

Have a great week!

Happy 1ooth Day of School! 

100th Day Projects

The 100 inch man

100th day sign

Hallway - 100th day projects are up and 100 year old pictures are on the lockers

Spelling - Vowel Teams oa, oe, ow

goat

road

croak

toe

foe

crow

flow

how

now

cow

Phonics - We have started a new group of vowel teams - oa, oe, and ow.  They all sound like long o - except ow has two sounds.  It can sound like a long o as in crow, but it can also make a different sound, as in cow.  We worked on tapping words that have five sounds.  We went through all of our old vocabulary words and reviewed all of our old concepts - glued sounds, bonus letters, blends, digraphs, closed syllables, cvc words, suffixes, etc.

Reading - I met with all of the reading groups last week as usual.  Friday we started another round of running records.  I will be working on this throughout this week as time allows  (CSW Week!)  and will hopefully be done in the next 2 weeks.  The growth these students are making is absolutely amazing!

Here are a few daily five and writing pictures -

Math - In math we worked on counting by tens from a number.  (Ex. if I have 17, then plus 10 is 27, if I have 34, then plus 10 is 44, if I have 72, then plus 10 is 82, etc.)  We worked on comparing and ordering numbers from 1 - 100.  We did some over 100 as a challenge.  We worked with money.  (dimes and pennies)  We continue to practice our doubles plus one facts.  

Science - In science we tested our solids to see if they were magnetic.  One surprise was that our golden colored washer was not magnetic.  We found out that it was brass and that brass is not magnetic.  We finished our solids investigations up by testing two new solids - a blue sponge and a golden colored button.  We tested the new solids for all of the properties - color, shape, stacking, rolling, hardness, floating or sinking, and magnetism.  The students enjoyed doing all the experiments and then writing down their findings.

Religion - We finished up our generosity cards.  Our new word is meekness.  We worked on some things for Catholic Schools Week.  One thing we are doing is surprising another class with kindness.  We worked on a banner for that class.  We also are decorating our door for CSW.  Our door says "Holy Cross is the place to "Bee".  The students thought of things they like about Holy Cross and wrote their answers down on bees.  It turned out adorable.  Brother Jacob came to our class.  This week he talked to us about vocations.

Some fun pictures from the week -

Snow angels

Coloring the 100 inch man

Have a great week!