Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.

Religion - Last week we worked on two Promise Papers.  :)  Monday we learned about the Gospel from the previous Sunday (since we didn't have school on Friday) and Friday we learned about the story of Zaccheus.  We spent some time making cards for the Abbey, The Motherhouse, and the nursing home.  Brother Jacob came in our classroom and taught us about All Hallow's Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.

Reading - Last week was the last week for the Halloween word work centers.  This week we are starting Thanksgiving themed word work centers.  As always, when the students aren't in reading groups, they are doing one of the daily 5 centers.

Phonics - We are working on the suffix -s.  We learned about the suffix card, to say the word with the baseword and then the baseword/suffix, and how to mark suffixes.  We practiced making words with suffixes on our magnetic tiles.

Science - We had a fun experiment about what to wear on a rainy day.  We tested four fabrics - cotton, cotton-polyester, nylon, and wool.  We poured water over the fabrics and checked to see if they absorbed/repelled the water.  We found out that out of the four, nylon was the best fabric to wear and cotton was the worst.  

Math - We worked on +1 facts, making graphs, and we are learning the counting on method to addition equations.

Halloween - Our field trip on Halloween was wonderful!  Our first stop was the Abbey.  We sang songs, read stories, and told Halloween jokes to the priests.  (First grade read/acted out the story Scary Party by Sue Hendra.)  We also passed out our cards to the priests.  We also got some treats for our tricks.  :)  Brother Jacob then gave us a tour of parts of the Abbey.  We got to see and hear the organist play.  It was amazing!  (and loud!)  Then we ate lunch at the Abbey.

After lunch we went to the Motherhouse.  We passed out our cards to the sisters. There we again did all of our performances.  When we were leaving we were again given some treats.

Our last stop was Oak Park.  The residents there had tables set up for us to trick or treat.  We passed out our cards and went trick or treating.  Then we did all of our performances again! We ended our time there with lemonade and popcorn.

Here are our Halloween costumes -

*November dates -

    Friday, November 8th - early dismissal

    Thursday, November 14th - Weidner Center - Pete the Cat

    Friday, November 22nd - early dismissal

    Wednesday, November 27th - early dismissal

    Thursday, November 28th & Friday, November 29th - no school

Have a great week!  :)

Weekly Spelling Lists -

Phonetic List - Suffix -s
webs
mops
pegs
packs
maps
bells
sheds
pups
chips
rocks

High-Frequency List - Trick Words - Words 41-50
which
their
said
if
do
will
each
about
how
up

Reading - We are always working in reading groups and daily 5 centers.  Here are a few pictures of work on writing, word work, and read to self.  This is the last week of centers with a Halloween theme.  Next week we will start the Thanksgiving themed centers.

Phonics - We continue to work on glued sounds -all, -am, and -an.  Now we are starting to learn about suffixes.  Our first suffix is suffix -s.

Science - We are learning about the water cycle in our weather unit.

Math - We are continuing to work on doubles.  We are also learning about doubles plus one, doubles minus one, and addition facts:  adding 1.  We used our wrap-ups to help us practice our facts.

Religion - Last week we practiced for mass every day during Religion.  Boy did the kids do a great job!!!!  I am so proud of them!!!

*The weather is changing!  Please make sure your children have their snow gear!  Jackets, boots, gloves, hats, scarves, etc.  Please also have some extra clothes in their locker - just in case!  Extra socks are especially helpful this time of year.  Extra gloves are helpful too.  If they get wet at at first recess, they don't want to put them on for the second recess.  We don't have a heater in our classroom to put wet clothes on so the snow clothes stay wet.  

*Field Trip Thursday - Please remember to send back your permission slips for the field trip on Thursday to The Abbey, The Mother house, and the nursing home.

*November dates -

     Friday, Nov. 8th - early dismissal

     Friday, Nov. 22nd - early dismissal

     Wednesday, Nov. 27th - early dismissal

     Thursday, Nov. 28th & Friday, November 29th - no school

Have a great week!  :)