Tomorrow, November 22,  is a Packer Dress Down Day.

Our spelling lists -

Phonetic List - Short u Words
bus
cut
nut
bug
run
tug
snug
bump
drum
plug

High-Frequency List - Words 31-40
but
what
all
were
when
we
there
can
an
your

Reading  - We continue to meet in small groups every day in Daily 5.  This week in word work the students have lots of choices.  They can make thankful turkeys (make a handprint turkey and write on it what you are thankful for), put the words together on the pocket chart for the poem "Five Wild Turkeys", fill in the blanks of the poem "Five Wild Turkeys", work in their Thanksgiving fun books, make their spelling words out of magnetic letters, or work on the ipads on the app spelling city.

Writing - Last week we officially started writer's workshop.  The students are now working on the five stages of writing - making a web, making a rough draft, editing, rewriting, and publishing.

Phonics -We are learning about words that have a base word and a suffix -s.

Math - We are learning more about using math mountains.  Our focus is on the unknown partner.  Example-  3 + __ = 7.

Religion - The theme of this week's Gospel story and promise paper is forgiveness. 

Social Studies - We finished up our science Einstein kit on weather.  Now we will switch to social studies.  We are going to be learning about maps.

Computer - Since we don't have a computer teacher anymore, I have been taking the kids into the lab once a week.  (I had to wait until the laptops got set up and MAP testing was finished.)  The first three times we went into the lab, we worked on logging on, finding a program, working in the program (paint), saving their work in a file, and then finding their file again.  Last week we started to work on typing.  We learned where to put our fingers on the keyboard and what home row is.  We practiced each letter in home row.  This week we are going to continue working on typing with the letters in home row.  There's a fun game on funtotype.com called keyboard ninja.  (It's like fruit ninja...but with typing.)  After we do our home row practice this week, we're going to try that game.  :)

Have a great week!  :)

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Tomorrow, November 8th, is going to be a Packer Dress Down Day.  :)

Steve Beylon, a meteorologist from WBAY, gave a great talk this morning to the first graders about weather!  At the end of his talk, we took a picture with Mr. Beylon.  He is going to show the picture on Action 2 News on Monday morning - November 11th.  The picture will be on at 4:55am, 5:25am, 5:55am, and 6:25am.

Our Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Short i Words
his
dig
bit
sit
pig
him
slip
twin
crib
grin

High-Frequency List - Words 11-20
he
for
was
on
are
as
with
his
they
at

Reading - This week in work on writing we are drawing squiggles.  I made a squiggle on the paper.  The students have to make something out of the squiggle and write about it.  It is amazing to see the creations.  This week in word work the students are making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving, practicing spelling words, or working out of a Thanksgiving booklet that has word searches, word scrambles, etc. in it.  As always, while the students are working in the Daily 5, I am working with reading groups.

Phonics - This week in phonices we are continuing to work on the glued sounds all, am, and an.  We are also working with the trick words do, does, from, and have.

Math - In math we are working on subtracting using circle drawings, as well as the equations.

Handwriting - This week we are working on the letters Dd and a review of Oo and Aa.

Writing - This week we are starting our transition from journals to writer's workshop.  In writer's workshop there are 5 steps - Prewriting (making a web of ideas), Rough Draft, Editing, Rewriting, and Publishing.

Religion - This week's Gospel story in our Promise paper is about Heaven.  We also read the story of Adam and Eve in our Children's Bible.

Science - We are finishing up our Einstein weather unit.  Tomorrow, Steve Beylon from Action 2 News will be here to talk to us about weather.

Have a great week!  :)

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!  :)