Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 Greetings! Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone had a fantastic day! It's the luck of the Irish day! 

After a delayed start, we got to work. We answered questions using our oral vocabulary words. We also used our letter tiles to spell and read r-controlled -or words. We ended our morning learning how to write abbreviations for titles, months of the year, and days of the week. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We also learned our new vocabulary words: idea and unusual and wrote sentences using the words. Finally, we worked on our comprehension skills. We reread The Story of a Robot Inventor. Afterwards, we wrote facts about his life and wrote about a problem he had and how he solved it. 

In Math class today, we began our chapter on data and graphs. We used our linking cubes to show the data in a more organized way. Tomorrow we will transition to graphs. 

We ended our day with some St. Patrick's Day fun. We reviewed the colors of the rainbow and used food dye to show a rainbow. We put the dye in cups of vinegar. Then, we added baking soda to the cups and watched our rainbow erupt. We loved this! 

Have a great night! 

Leprechaun Writing!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoyed the weekend. I think the children really enjoyed the break on Friday; it was much needed. 

In Religion class today, we continued to learn about the miracles of Jesus. Today, we read about Jesus helping the paralyzed man. First, Jesus forgave his sins, and then, Jesus helped him walk. We talked about how Jesus can forgive sins because he is the Son of God. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about inventions. We began by learning our new oral vocabulary words (curious, improve, device, imagine, and complicated). Then we worked on retelling as we read about inventions. Following that, we learned how to blend and read r-controlled -or words, words like corn, more, and soar. Next, we learned our new sight words (began, better, guess, learn, right, sure). We ended our morning focusing on fluency. We read The Story of a Robot Inventor which helped us practice our new phonics skills. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we learned about adjectives that compare. We add -er to an adjective when we compare two things, and we add -est to an adjective to compare three or more objects. We also did some St. Patrick's Day writing; we wrote about what we would do if we were a leprechaun. 

In Math class today, we learned how to solve a problem by creating a chart. We enjoyed looking for patterns as we made our charts. 

We ended our day over at church praying the Stations of the Cross. 

Have a great night! 

Cotton Ball Clouds!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! It looks like winter has returned. The children were so excited to see the snow on the grass this morning. I'm hoping that this return does not stick around that long. 

In Religion class today, we read about more of the miracles Jesus did. Today, we learned how Jesus raised a girl from the dead, helped blind people see, and helped deaf people hear. 

We wrapped up another week of learning in Language Arts. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, read r-controlled er, ir, or, and ur words and words that end in -er, and wrote sentences using our sight words. We took our weekly assessment and practiced finding adjectives in sentences. In addition to that, we worked on our fluency and comprehension. We partner read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We also read about the moon. Did you know that people once thought that the moon was made of cheese? 

In Math class today, we took our test on adding and subtracting with and without regrouping. Next week, we will begin our chapter on graphs. 

We ended our day with some Science and Social Studies fun. In Language Arts this week, our stories centered on what we observe in the sky. Today, we learned about different types of clouds. We used cotton balls to show each one. 

Then, we talked about the seasons of the year. The students used paint to show how trees look in each season. 

Here is a picture from our Art class last week. 

Have a fabulous weekend! 

Trusting in Jesus!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is doing well tonight. 

In Religion class today, we continued learning about the miracles of Jesus. We read about how Jesus calmed the storm. We talked about how Jesus can calm storms in our lives and how we need to trust him. We made a small poster to help us remember this. 

In Language Arts class, we answered questions using our oral vocabulary words, read r-controlled words, words ending in -er, and our sight words. To help us build our fluency, we partner read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We also read Kitten's First Full Moon. After reading this story, we answered questions that focused on cause and effect examples from the story. Finally, we practiced finding adjectives in sentences and wrote sentences using adjectives. 

In Math class today, we reviewed adding and subtracting with and without regrouping. We will be taking our chapter test tomorrow. 

We ended our day in church praying the Stations of the Cross. 

Have a great night! 

Blossoming Writers!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone was able to get outside and enjoy the warm weather before it disappears tomorrow. 

We began our day by going to Adoration. We spent some quiet time praying to Jesus. 

We continued with 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 r-controlled er, ir, or, and ur words. Then, we learned how to read words that end in -er. Following that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. After that, we learned our vocabulary words (leaped and stretched) and wrote sentences using them. We ended our morning focusing on comprehension. We reread A Bird Named Fern and wrote cause and effect examples from the story. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we wrote sentences using adjectives. We also wrote our very own how-to paper. I'm so pleased with how their writing skills have grown this year. 

In Math class today, we continued to practiced solving subtraction problems with regrouping. We did very well today paying attention to see whether or not we needed to regroup. 

Have a great night! 

Being Feed by Jesus!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend! 

In Religion class today, we reviewed the story of Jesus feeding the crowd with five loaves of bread and two fish. We talked about how Jesus still feeds us in the Eucharist today. To help us remember all of this we made a poster. Have a look: 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about things we see in the sky. We began by learning our oral vocabulary words: observe, vast, remained, certain, and thoughtful. Next, we worked on making predictions as we read a folktale about why the sun and moon are in the sky. Then, we learned how to blend and read r-controlled er, ir, or, and ur words, words like her, bird, word, and turn. Following that, we learned our new sight words for the week: another, climb, full, great, poor, through. We ended the morning working on our fluency by reading A Bird Named Fern. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we learned about cause and effect. We matched causes to their effects. Then, we learned about adjectives. We described an apple. Finally, we illustrated the steps in a process. Tomorrow we will write the steps. 

In Math class today, we learned how to subtract a two-digit number by a two-digit number with regrouping. The students did well with this. Again, the key is to look at the ones and decide where the bigger number is. 

Today, we welcomed Johnstown Tomahawk Evan Kensey to our classroom. He read us a story and talked with us about hockey. 

Have a great night! 

Brushing Our Teeth!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! We have made it through the first week of March. It is hard to believe that it was 60 degrees today when the other day we had ice. 

At Mass this morning, Fr. Brian reminded us how special Mary is. 

We wrapped up another week of learning in first grade. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, read r-controlled -ar words, and spelled plurals when we need to change the y to an i and add -es. We also wrote sentences using our sight words and took our weekly assessment. Finally, we partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets to help us build our fluency. 

We wrapped up our Dr. Seuss week fun today. We read The Sneetches and wrote about what makes us special. We are going to miss our special friends we had with us this week! 

In Math class today, we learned how to subtract a two-digit number from a two-digit number without regrouping. The students did very well with this. 

Our Science class today was devoted to learning about how teeth and how to take care of them. We learned that germs are on our teeth. We also talked about how sugary foods stick to our teeth. To keep our teeth healthy we need to brush them twice a day, floss, and eat healthy food. Our lesson did include practice in brushing teeth. Pairs of students were given a hard-boiled egg soaked in Coke-Cola. Working together the students brushed their tooth to make it white again. They loved getting messy today. 

We ended our day with Art class. Today, we decorated a shamrock using pieces of green scrapbook paper. We will mount our shamrock to construction paper on Monday. 

Here are pictures from last Friday's Art project along with the President's Day writing we did. 

Have a great weekend!