Cinco de Mayo!

 Greetings! Happy Cinco de Mayo! I hope everyone had a wonderful day and maybe enjoyed a taco or two! 

In Religion class today, we talked about the marks of the church. We learned that the church is one (only one church), holy (founded by Jesus), Catholic (for everyone), and Apostolic (grown by the Apostles). We created a poster to help us remember them. Here is a picture of our poster from today and of the cross we made yesterday to help us remember the seven sacraments. 

We continued our week of learning in Language Arts. We began by answering questions using our oral vocabulary words. Next, we used our letter tiles to spell and read words with three letter blends. Then, we reviewed adding inflectional endings onto words. After that we practiced using our sight words in sentences. Following that we learned our new vocabulary words (difficult and nobody) and practiced using them in sentences. Finally, we worked on our comprehension skills; this week we are focusing on theme. We reread A Spring Birthday. Then we wrote about what makes the story realistic and what the story's theme is. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced using pronouns in sentences. We also took time to wrap our Mother's Day gifts. The students were so excited to do this! 

In Math class today we reviewed telling time to the hour. The students completed a write the room activity where they walked around and wrote the time shown on various clocks. 

Here are pictures of our latest Art projects. Enjoy! 

Have a great night! 

May the Force Be With You!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! May the force be with you! 

In Religion class today, we talked about how Jesus wanted his grace to be passed down. We do this when we celebrate the sacraments. We looked at each sacrament and talked about how we receive God's grace. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about traditions. We began by learning our new oral vocabulary words: effort, tradition, ancient, drama, and movement. Then, we worked on retelling as we read about traditional cultural dances. Following that, we learned how to blend and read words with three letter blends, words like split, scrape, three, and shred. After that, we learned our new sight words (before, front, heard, push, tomorrow, your). We ended our morning focusing on our fluency skills. We read A Spring Birthday. 

This afternoon we attended the annual 8th Grade Spring Showcase. We enjoyed watching the various skits performed by the 8th grade class. 

We ended our day with Gym class. Today, we headed outside and enjoyed the sunshine! 

Have a great evening! 

Welcome to May!

 Greetings! Welcome to May in first grade. This month is just going to fly by! 

At Mass this morning, Fr. Brian reminded the children to keep pushing and not to slow down as the year is coming to an end. He encouraged us to be workers like St. Joseph, working humbly to build up the kingdom of God here on Earth. 

We wrapped up another week of learning in Language Arts. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, wrote sentences using our sight words, and took our weekly assessment. We then worked on our Mother's Day projects. The writing just made me smile. I just love the innocence of children. 

In Math class today, we started our chapter on time. We practiced telling time to the hour. The students really enjoyed using clocks to show various times today. 

In Science class, we talked about how we can use the stars to help us. We just need to find the North star to help guide us. 

We ended our week with Art class. Today, we created birdhouses from construction paper. They turned out cute. I'll post pictures next week. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

The End of April!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! I don't know about you, but this week has flown by. Tomorrow is already Friday! 

In Religion class today we talked about how Jesus gave Peter the keys to the church. We talked about how Peter became the first Pope. 

In Language Arts class, we answered questions using our oral vocabulary words, read words with silent letters and compound words, and reviewed our sight words. To build our reading fluency and comprehension, we partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets. We also read a nonfiction piece about rainy weather. After reading that piece, we completed pages in our Reading/Writing Companion that focused on the main idea and key details from that selection. Finally, we practiced identifying special pronouns in sentences. 

In Math class today, we began our chapter on time. We introduced telling time to the hour. We will take a deeper dive into that tomorrow. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today, we talked about why people work. We also talked about how some people work in factories. We watched some short videos showing people working in factories. 

Have a great night! 

A Mid-Morning Thunderstorm!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone found some sunshine on this rainy day. At least the grass will stay green for a bit! 

In Religion class today, we finished our chapter on the Easter story. We reviewed what happened during that first Easter Sunday and what it means for us once Jesus rose from the dead. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words, read words with silent letters, compound words, and our sight words. We also practiced using our vocabulary words in sentences. To help build our fluency and comprehension skills, we partner read a story from our decodable booklets. We also read the realistic fiction story Rain School. After reading the story, we completed pages in our Reading/Writing Companion that focused on cause and effect. 

Ironic story - We were reading Rain School during the thunderstorm this morning!!

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced using special pronouns in sentences. We also wrote our very own persuasive paragraph. Next week, we will be diving into narrative writing. 

In Math class today, we practiced solving problems by looking for a pattern. We organized the information in a table, looked for a pattern, and then worked to solve the problem. 

We ended our day with Music class. Today, we created our own 4 beats in a measure. We had fun acting out our beats with everyone! 

Have a great night! 

A Rainy Day!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a nice day. 

In Religion class today, we talked about how Jesus resurrected both body and soul. We also talked about how we can live with him forever because of this. 

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. We began by answering questions using our oral vocabulary words. Then, we used our letter tiles to spell and read words with silent letters. After that, we reviewed how to read compound words. Following that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We ended our morning by learning our vocabulary words (country and gathers). We defined each word and wrote sentences using them. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we focused on our comprehension skills. We reread Wrapped in Ice and wrote cause and effect examples from the story. Then, we learned about indefinite pronouns (anybody, everything, nothing, etc.) and practiced finding them in sentences. 

In Math class we took our chapter test on shapes. Next, we will learn how to tell time. 

Have a great night! 

Blossoming Writers!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! It is hard to believe that today is the final Monday in April. Where did this month go? 

In Religion class today, we talked about how we need to feed the gift of grace Jesus won back for us. We talked about praying, going to Mass, and helping others as ways to feed our grace. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about the weather. We began by learning our new oral vocabulary words (cycle, predict, creative, frigid, and scorching). Then we worked on visualizing as we read a tall tale about Paul Bunyan. Next, we learned how to blend and read words with the silent letters kn, gn, and wr. We ended our morning by learning our new sight words (been, children, month, question, their, year). 

This afternoon in Language Arts we read Wrapped in Ice which helped us practice our new skills. We also wrote a persuasive paragraph on why we love school. We wrote the first and last sentence together. The students did the middle sentences independently. They have blossomed into writers! 

In Math class today, we again reviewed shapes and fractions. We are ready to take our chapter test tomorrow. 

Have a great night!