Fun with Flashlights!

Greetings! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a nice weekend! It was surely nice to see the sun shining. We had fun outside today during recess! 

In Religion class today we talked about ways we celebrate God's love. We said that when we pray, sing, and listen at Mass we are worshiping God. Today, we also completed Week 1 of the ARISE program (I am a week behind). We talked about making good choices during Lent. 

We began Language Arts by working in our literacy centers. We then began a new week of learning. We learned five new oral vocabulary words (observe, vast, certain, remained, and thoughtful). Next we worked on making predictions as we listened to a folktale. Following that we learned how to blend and read words with r-controlled er, ir, ur, and or. After that we learned our new sight words and vocabulary words. We ended the morning by putting all of our skills to the test by reading a fantasy story called A Bird Named Fern. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we learned about adjectives. We learned that they are words that describe nouns. To help us learn about adjectives, the students ate a slice of apple and then wrote words to describe it. They really liked this! 

In Penmanship class this week we will be writing H and h. 

In Spanish class today, the students drew a pet shop with a dog, cat, fish, bird, and hamster. When everyone was finished, we labeled each pet in Spanish. 

We continue to practice adding with regrouping. We are getting much better at beginning with the ones. 

Finally, we ended our day with Science. Today we talked about light. We identified objects that give off light. We also learned that shadows are made when something blocks light. Using flashlights, the students traced different shadows that they made using objects in the classroom. Thank you to everyone who sent in a flashlight. 

Have a great night!