Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Glued Sounds -all, -am, -an and Bonus Letters
wall
well
fall
fell
tall
tell
ham
fan
ram
pan

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

Reading - During reading the students work in daily 5 centers and guided reading groups.  The guided reading groups have stories and lessons at the students level.  We work on things like letter sounds, vowels, contractions, compound words, nouns, when to use an apostrophe, homophones, etc. - all while reading a leveled story.  When the students aren't in group, they are working on one of the daily 5 centers.  For the rest of October, all of our word work centers have something to do with Halloween.  :)

Digraph Spider

Halloween Books

Digraph Spider

Making words out of the letters in Halloween

 Using Play-doh to spell words

 A squiggle

Halloween Poems

Phonics - We are continuing our unit on bonus letters.  We are also starting to learn about glued sounds.  (Also known as word families)  So far we have learned about the glued sounds -all, -am, and -an.  They keywords are -all ball, -am ham, and -an fan.

Religion - We are starting to prepare for our first mass!  We will lead mass on Thursday, October 24th.  Parts were picked yesterday and if your child has a reading that went home.  Please practice, practice, practice those readings!  We will be practicing at school as well - in our classroom and in the church.  

The parts will be -

Greeters - Lorelai, Addison, Kambria

Introduction - Addison

First Reading - Rachel, Lorelai

Responsorial Psalm - Justin, Sophia, Ella, Rachel

Petitions - Mikey, Addison, Justin

Bread and Wine - Kambria, Vivianna

Math - In math we worked on weighing and comparing weight of items with a balance, using pattern blocks to make creations, and more doubles practice!

Doubles practice using wrap ups

The Apple Crunch!

We made apple crisp

Ella lost her first tooth!  And she really lost it in the wood chips on the playground!  We wrote a note to the tooth fairy.  :)

Addison has been writing, and writing, and writing in our classroom!  :)

*Conferences - Conferences are next week.  Please sign up if you haven't yet.

*Brrrr!  It's getting cold outside!  Please remember to pack hats, gloves, coats, etc.

*Snack - Please remember to pack a snack every day.  

Have a great week!  :)

Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Bonus Letters
shell
cuff
miss
hill
puff
mass
bell
mess
toss
chill

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 21-30
be
this
from
I
have
or
by
one
had
not

Spelling City - A fun website the students can use to practice their spelling words is Spelling city.  The website is www.spellingcity.com.  When you go to the website you can find our page by -
1.  Login
2.  Student
3.  Type in your username and password.  I put every child's password in the pouch in their Bee Binders.
4.  Click on lists and games
5.  Choose the list.  Our current lists will always be found on the green bar on the top. 

Reading - The students are working so hard in daily 5 centers and guided reading groups!  We have four reading groups.  I typically get through three reading groups a day.  When the students are not meeting with me, they are in the daily 5 centers.  Daily 5 is one of our favorite times of the day!

There are so many work on writing choices!

Journals are one of our new favorites!

Word Work - Practicing spelling words with play-doh

Read To Someone

Phonics - We finished up our chapter about digraphs.  We are now learning about bonus letters.  Bonus letters are words that have

1.  one syllable

2.  on vowel

3.  short vowel sound

4.  the word ends with the letters f, l, or s

If all the criteria it met, you double the f, l, or s at the end of the word.  (usually)  Some examples of bonus letter words are mass, puff, and chill.

Writing - Our latest writing assignment asked us to write about our favorite season.  When writing we are working on only using capital letters where necessary, using good spacing, using punctuation, and putting letters where they belong on the lines.

Religion - Brother Jacob took us on a tour of our church.  We will be continuing the tour this week.  

In our Promise Paper we read the story of the mustard seed.  We decided to plant our own mustard seeds in our classroom.

Working on our Promise Papers

The mustard seeds are very tiny seeds

Blessing of the pets

Science - This week we learned about inside temperature vs. outside temperature.  We started looking at the temperature every day and now we are making a temperature graph each morning.

Math -  We continue to practice working on doubles.  We are working on story problems and deciding if the problem is adding or subtracting and then writing out the equation.  We have been learning about more shapes.  We learned the names of the pattern blocks and the we used the pattern blocks to make creations.  

Wake Up Work - Vincent has been working with these wooden blocks.  Every day he asks me to take his picture.  Some days he does it by himself and some days he builds with friends.  Here are some of the creations. :)

Have a great week!  :)