"Be Good"

Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone made it home safely tonight. As pretty as the snow looked falling, it is not always pretty to drive in. 

Jingles left the students a special message today. He reminded them to be good by spelling those words using our letter tiles. And, yes, the students had a great day today! 

Today for Religion class we watched a movie on the life of St. Nicholas. We learned about how he helped many people and how he had strong faith. Tomorrow we will meet with our Faith Families to talk about how we can live a life on integrity just like St. Nicholas. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words. We then practiced reading long a words and contractions with not. Finally, we practiced reading our sight words. We then switched gears to focus on fluency and comprehension. We partner read a story in our decodable reader before reading On My Way to School, a fantasy story about why a boy is late for story. Following that we completed pages in our close reading companion to build our comprehension skills. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we wrote the final two steps in decorating a Christmas tree. We also practiced putting commas in a series. Finally, we created our own superhero. Around our superhero we wrote six action verbs telling what he/she can do. 

We ended the morning with Science class since we missed class on Friday because of the delay. Today we took a trip around the world to visit different habitats. We went to the desert, forest, and ocean. At each place we learned about different animals and plants that live there. 

In Math class today we explored the words up, down, near, far, under, below, in front of, and behind. We did not have any troubles with these words! 

Just a reminder that tomorrow is Gym. Please wear your sneakers to school. Also, please have your child wear his/her Christ is RICH in me t-shirt over his/her uniform tomorrow.