Busy Bees!

Greetings! Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great day to end their week. I am looking forward to the weekend! 

We began our day at Mass. Today Msgr. Lockard reminded us about our Baptisms as he spoke about the sprinkling rite. He also reminded us to keep the Easter spirit alive during the season. 

We had a busy day 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 the variant vowel /u/. After that we practiced decoding and defining words with the suffixes -ful and -less. Following that we practiced using our sight words and vocabulary words in sentences. With all of that complete, we turned our focus to comprehension. We reread Super Tools and wrote about the theme of the story. We then read our decodable reader and discussed its theme. Finally we practiced using pronouns in sentences. 

In Math class today we continued to practice using the greater than and less than symbol. The students did very well with this. I am quite impressed with their number sense. 

Our focus in Science today switched to motion. We learned that objects can be made by either a push or a pull. The students then worked in groups to build a maze. Once they were finished, they had to blow a ping-pong ball through the maze. The mazes were quite elaborate. This is the first group that used textbooks to build a maze. I loved seeing their creativity and thinking skills put to use. 

We ended our week with Art class. Today we made bumble bees. We painted a paper plate yellow. We added wings and a stinger. We then added clothespins painted black as the antennas. Finally, the students used special stampers to add the stripes. They look really good. I'll post pictures on Monday once everything has dried. 

Have a fabulous weekend!