Weekly Spelling Lists

Phonetic List - Short e Words
let
pen
met
bed
yes
leg
fed
vest
mend
mess

High-Frequency List - Words -1-10
the
of
and
a
to
in
is
you
that
it

Math - This week in math we are starting the part of unit 2 that focuses on subtraction.  We are making circle drawings, writing equations, and acting out subtraction stories.

Writing - This week we are still writing in our journals, but I am going to start introducing writer's workshop.  I will be send home an interest inventory one day this week.  The interest inventory is a list of things that your child likes.  We will glue this to the back of the writer's workshop notebook to give the students ideas of things to write about.

Reading - This week in word work our centers are:  putting together the poem "Five Little Monsters", filling in the blanks of three Halloween poems, making Halloween books, and reading and illustrating "The Twelve Days of Halloween".  Every day we have Daily 5 in reading.  This means I work with small groups.  While I am working with the groups, the students have five choices - read to self, read to someone, work on writing, listening, and word work.  We also work on Odyssey at this time.  Odyssey is a computer program that all GRACE schools have.  Each student has their own username, as their page correlates with their MAP test scores.

Phonics - This week we are starting to learn about glued sounds.  The sounds we will learn are -all, and we'll probably get to -am and -an.  The glued sounds are a little trickier to tap out, as the students "glue" their fingers together.  Ask your child to show you.  :)

Science - We continue to work on our weather Einstein kit.  This week we are learning about clouds.  The three groups we are learning about are cirrus, stratus, and cumulus.  Next Thursday, November 7th, Steve Beylon from Action 2 News will be coming in to our class to talk to us about weather.

Religion - This week's gospel story and activity is about making friends, and being a good friend.  We are also going to practice The Hail Mary.

Have a great week!  :)

Reminder -

Our first mass is tomorrow!  :)  We hope you'll join us.  The students have been practicing very hard!  Please remember to sit behind us or to the left of us.  Thank you!

Tomorrow is also the day that we are going to take group pictures.  The students are to wear their uniforms.

Conferences are tonight and tomorrow.  I look forward to meeting with all of you.

Have a great night!  :)

Tomorrow, October 18th will be a Packer (or favorite team) dress down day.

A few notes -

*Tomorrow is the Mind Marathon.  Practice one last time tonight.  :)  We have been practicing at school and I think most of the students know most of the answers.  If you have pledge forms and money, please turn those in tomorrow.

*Tomorrow we will have fourth grade reading buddies for the first time.  We will meet with our fourth grade buddies every other Friday.

*Next week K-2 is having MAP testing.  Most of the students brought in headphones.  If you didn't please send some in.  I only have two sets of extra headphones in our classroom.  (It's been great having indivdual headphones for listening to stories on the iPads!)

*Our first mass is next Thrusday, October 24th.  Please keep practicing the reading parts at home.  I am hoping to get into the church today to practice. 

Have a great night!  :)

Our spelling list this week...

Short A Words
am
at
cat
hat
has
and
bag
pan
mat
lamp


*Mass parts went home with the students today.  Please practice the reading parts at home.  We will start getting into the church in a few days to practice at school.

*The Mind Marathon is on Friday.  Keep practicing those questions.  :)

Have a great night!  :)

First Grade is in charge of mass on October 24th.  Today the students chose their parts.

Greeters - Megan, Keegan, Heath, Mia
Cross - Teddy
Bible - Hannah
Introduction - Ruby
First Reading - Megan, and Hannah
Responsorial Psalm - Mia and Cassie
Petitions - Heath, Reese, Zak, and Mary
Bread - Enzo
Wine - Brett

This weekend I will write out the mass parts and then I will hand them out on Monday.  The day of mass all are welcome to join us at church.  However, I ask that you do not sit with the children on this day.  I put the children in their specific order for our masses.  You are more than welcome to sit to the left of us or behind us.  Thank you.

Have a great weekend!  :)

Tomorrow, October 4th, is our field trip to the pumpkin patch.  Please dress your child in clothes you don't mind getting dirty.  :)  The weather forecast for tomorrow is scattered thunderstorms.  If the weather is bad, we will reschedule the field trip.  We won't know until tomorrow, however.  The plan right now is to pray for good weather and go the the pumpkin patch.  :) 

Have a great night!

First grade happenings ~

Spelling - Today we started spelling.  A list will be coming home with your child today.  Eventually I will differentiate the lists.  The first few weeks everyone will be practicing the same words. 

All of our spelling words are on Spelling City.  Spelling City is a way to practice the words by playing games.  This can be found on your computer or downloaded as a free app.  To find our lists, search by teacher name.  Type in Jodi Sullivan.  There will be two to choose from.  Choose Resurrection School.  Our lists should pop up.

Reading - We have been doing reading groups and Daily five for two full weeks now.  It has been going great.  The first week our word work was ABC order.  The second week our word work was sight word games.  This week word work will be sight word sheets and spelling practice.

Math - We finished up unit one last week.  Unit one dealt with numbers 0-10.  Today we started unit 2.  We are working on addition stories.

Science - We have been working on the Einstein weather kit.  We have learned about reading thermometers, tested water temperature, learned about cloud cover, precipitation, and wind, and tested if thermomters are hotter in white or black bags.

Phonics - We have reviewed all of the letters, keywords, and sounds.  We have reviewed tapping.  We are currently working on digraphs.  (sh, ch, th, wh, ck)

Handwriting - We have only worked on a few letters so far - Ll, Ii, and Tt.  We are working on putting the letters in the correct places and forming the letters the correct way.

Writing - We journal nearly every day.  The students write a sentence or two and illustrate.

Religion - We have been learning about the weekly Gospel through our Promise Papers.

Pumpkin Patch - Friday, October 4th
The students may have a dress down day for the field trip to the pumpkin patch.  Currently the forecast has a chance of rain...Let's hope it doesn't rain! 

Have a great week!  :)