Spelling - 2 Syllable Words with Suffix -s, -ed, and -ing

dishpans

invented

finishing

includes

expected

disrupting

bathtubs

insisted

publishing

athletes

We do not have school this Friday.  So we will again have 2 weeks to practice the words.

Reading - This week our word work centers will start focusing on plurals - s, es, and irregular.

This week we will be starting our final round of running records.

Our reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes a night at home.  Sight words, which are in the Bee Binder, are another thing students can practice at home.  By the end of first grade, the goal for the first graders is to know 175 sight words.

Raz Kids is a great way to practice reading and spelling.

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.
The student can now click on the purple planet for reading or the yellow plant for spelling.  (It says vocabulary)
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 the student would like to practice their spelling words, they will click on vocabulary.

    

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.  The Clever QR code is in your child's Bee Binder.  Once you are in clever and you click on Raz Kids, you just have to put in our class username - jsullivan100.

Science - We have been busy learning about organisms!  We have now received all of our organisms.  In the aquariums we have two types of water plants, snails, and guppies.  In the terrariums we have pine tree seedlings, moss, pill bugs, and millipedes.  We have been learning about all the organisms - and then comparing and contrasting them.  Our plant seeds that we have been growing are ready to come home.  We have been keeping a picture record of how our plants have looked since we first planted them.

Religion - We had been working on the Friendzy theme I Am Chosen.  This week we will be switching to our final theme Friendship is a Gift.  We are also down to our last 2 Promise Papers!  Last week we attended adoration, May Crowning, and the living rosary.

Math - We are currently working on +9 math facts.  We have learned that they are very close to +10 facts - and we just have to think of the +10 fact and subtract one.  

Writing - We have finished our how to stories.  We shared them with kindergarten.  :)  The students did a great job writing about how to either do something, be something, or make something!  The stories had to have at least 4 steps, trasition words (such as first, next, then, last),  a materials list, a title page and illustration, good spacing, punctuation, capital letters in the correct places, wow pictures (sometimes including labels, captions, or steps), and use great describing.  Mrs. Anderson calls those adjective juicy details!  The students worked very hard on these stories!

Phonics - We have learned about words with 2 syllables where one syllable is closed and one syllable is a v-e.  We learned the "ic" rule.  If a word has 2 syllables and it says "ic", you spell it with -ic.  If the word is one syllable, you spell it with -ick.  Some one syllable examples are pick and sick.  Some 2 syllable examples are frantic and plastic.  This week we are starting to work on 2 syllable words with the suffixes -s, -ed, and -ing.

Happy Mother's Day!

The students worked hard all last week on Mother's Day.  We painted pots and then we planted petunias in them.  All week the students worked on multiple activities for you.  They should have given you a folder full of goodies - such as cards, waterfall books, and my favorite - the fill in the blank sheets of things about my mom!  I hope you enjoyed, felt special, and felt all the love from your child on your special day! 

Have a great week!

 

 Spelling - Two Syllable Words with a Closed Syllable and a v-e Syllable

reptile

inside

cupcake

dislike

baseball

rosebud

fireman

pileup

admire

mistake

We will be at The Building For Kids this Friday.  Our spelling test will be next Friday, May 6th.

 Spelling - 2 Syllable Words with 2 Closed Syllables

upset

admit

pigpen

sunfish

laptop

napkin

himself

contest

insist

cobweb

We will have the spelling test this week Friday.  

Phonics - We are learning about 2 syllable words with 2 closed syllables.  We have learned how to break words apart into syllables.  We have learned how to scoop the syllables and mark them.  

If the word has two consonants together, you scoop between the consonants.

If the word does not have two consonants together, you scoop after the consonant.

Reading - Our current center is homophones.  A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word, but it is spelled different and it means something different.  We have many different choices for this center and it has been a hit!  

Each day during daily 5 the students work on read to self, read to someone, listening to stories, work on writing, and word work, as well as meet with teacher for our reading groups.  

Our reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes a night at home.  Sight words, which are in the Bee Binder, are another thing students can practice at home.  By the end of first grade, the goal for the first graders is to know 175 sight words.

Raz Kids is a great way to practice reading and spelling.

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.
The student can now click on the purple planet for reading or the yellow plant for spelling.  (It says vocabulary)
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 the student would like to practice their spelling words, they will click on vocabulary.

    

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.  The Clever QR code is in your child's Bee Binder.  Once you are in clever and you click on Raz Kids, you just have to put in our class username - jsullivan100.

Science - Our new Einstein kit has arrived!  Our kit is called organisms.  Organisms are living things.  So far we have done three lessons.  We need our live organisms to arrive to do lesson 4.  They should arrive some time this week.  Lesson 1 was sharing what we know about organisms.  In lesson 2 we learned about seeds.  We took 4 seeds - kidney bean, pea, sunflower, and pumping - and we used our senses to investigate them.  In lesson 3, we planted our seeds.  Our fourth grade buddies helped us with our planting.

Religion - We have been learning about Jesus' death and resurrection.  We have read stories about it out of our Children's Bible, we have been learning about it in our Promise Paper, and we have been attending Stations of the Cross and the Living Stations.  The Living Stations were our favorite!  We also had a chance to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet as a school.  It was beautiful!  The students did an outstanding job leading mass!

Have a great week!

 

 Spelling - 2 Syllable Words with 2 Closed Syllables

upset

admit

pigpen

sunfish

laptop

napkin

himself

contest

insist

cobweb

We do not have school this Friday or next Monday.  The test for this list will be on April 22nd.

Spelling - We will not have a new list this week.  We still have at least a week left of our Fundations unit on v-e and v-e with the suffix s.  We will get a new list next week.  Next week we do not have school on Friday, so the next spelling test will be on April 22nd.

Phonics - We continue to work on the long vowel sounds.  As mentioned above, our unit also continues to work on v-e and v-e with the suffix s.  (vowel consonant e syllable)

Reading - We will work on synonyms and antonyms one more week before we change out the word work centers.  The students are LOVING this round of centers!  Each day during daily 5 the students work on read to self, read to someone, listening to stories, work on writing, and word work, as well as meet with teacher for our reading groups.  

Our reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes a night at home.  Sight words, which are in the Bee Binder, are another thing students can practice at home.  By the end of first grade, the goal for the first graders is to know 175 sight words.

Raz Kids is a great way to practice reading and spelling.

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.
The student can now click on the purple planet for reading or the yellow plant for spelling.  (It says vocabulary)
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 the student would like to practice their spelling words, they will click on vocabulary.

    

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.  The Clever QR code is in your child's Bee Binder.  Once you are in clever and you click on Raz Kids, you just have to put in our class username - jsullivan100.

Math - We have been working on sums of ten and finding the missing partner.  We know the sum (10), but we have to figure out the missing partner.  For example 4 + ___ = 10 and ___ + 4 = 10.  This week we will be working on congruent shapes, measuring to the nearest inch, and counting dimes, nickels, and pennies.

Religion - We have been working out of our Friendzy curriculum.  Our theme is Friends Forgive.  Our Promise Paper the last two weeks have also been about forgiveness.  We have mass this Friday.  We have been practicing our parts for Mass during our Religion time.  Please continue to practice, practice, practice those readings at home.  Once a week we have been praying the Stations of the Cross.

Science and Social Studies - While we are between Einstein Kits, we have been reading out of our Scholastic News magazines weekly.  This week, however, we will be receiving our new Einstein Kit - Organisms.  We are going to be learning about living things!

Writing - We are working on writing how-to stories.  We have done our brainstorming, planning, and writing step 1.  This week we should be able to finish writing step 2 and step 3.  

We love building with cups!

Have a great week!