Fire Safety Week!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a great day! 

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

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. We began by reviewing our oral vocabulary words and learning three new words (agree, difficult, and exhausted). We then worked on asking and answering questions as we read a folktale. Following that, we used our letter tiles to spell and read s-blend and r-blend words. Next, we learned about possessives and had fun creating possessive phrases. After that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We ended our morning focusing on comprehension. We reread Move and Grin and wrote facts we learned from the story along with its main idea and key details. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced writing sentences. We also continued with our Fire Safety lessons. Today, we talked about how to feel a door with our hand, how to stay low and go, and how to stay out once we are out. 

In Math class today, we used number bonds to help solve subtraction problems. We used the number bonds to write subtraction sentences two different ways. 

Have a great night! 

Praying the Rosary

 Greetings! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend! The students were quite excited to tell me about PotatoFest this weekend. 

In Religion class today, we learned how to pray the rosary. We colored a sheet showing when we pray each prayer. The students were then given rosaries. Today, we prayed the first decade of the Joyful Mysteries. We will continue to pray one decade a day during the month of October. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we are reading about how our bodies move. We began by learning two new oral vocabulary words (exercise and physical). We then worked on asking and answering questions as we read a nonfiction story about how animals move. Next, we learned how to blend and read r-blend and s-blend words, words like frog and swim. Following that, we learned our new sight words for the week (jump, move, run, two). Finally, we read Move and Grin which helped us practice our new reading skills. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced writing sentences with correct word order and punctuation. 

We also began our Fire Safety Week lessons. Today, we talked about calling 911 in an emergency, staying away from things that are hot, and stop, drop, and roll. 

In Math class today, we learned how to subtract by counting back. We used our number lines to help us do this. 

Have a great night! 

Happy Birthday, Johnny Appleseed!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! Today was a very exciting day in first grade. We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday by making applesauce. 

Before church, we mixed apples, sugar, water, and cinnamon in a crockpot. We turned it on and let it cook. Our classroom smelt so good today! 

At Mass, we celebrated the feast day of saints Cosmos and Damien. 

We wrapped up another week of learning in Language Arts. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, took our weekly assessment, and wrote sentences using our sight words. We also wrote the steps we did in making applesauce. 

In Math class today, we continued to practice writing subtraction sentences. We are doing very well with this. 

Our Science class today also revolved around apples. We talked about how apples turn brown when exposed to air. So, we did an experiment to see what works best to keep the apple from turning brown. We put a slice of apple into water, vinegar, and lemon juice and watched what happened all day. Lemon juice works the best at keeping an apple from turning brown. 

In Science class, we created an apple by stamp painting it and adding it onto construction paper. 

After waiting all day, it was finally time to try our applesauce. The students loved it! 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Apple Sampling!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! I don't know about you, but this week has gone by so quickly. 

In Religion class today, we talked about how our soul helps us to know God, love God, and serve God. 

In Language Arts class, we answered questions using our oral vocabulary words, read short o words, and put words in ABC order. We also reviewed our sight words by playing "Apple Man". The goal was to guess the word before the apple man was drawn. I am happy to report that the children won all 4 times. To build our fluency, we partner read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We ended by practicing writing sentences with correct punctuation. 

After all of that hard work, it was time for some apple fun. We began by tasting three different types of apples: red, yellow, and green ones. 

Next, we the students voted on their favorite one and we recorded our answers on a graph. Surprisingly, no one like the red apple the best. 

Finally, we wrote about why we liked the one we did. 

In Math class today, we practiced writing subtraction sentences for pictures. The key for us to remember is that we need to count back. 

We ended our day with Gym. Today, we went to the Gym and played scarecrow tag. 

Have a wonderful night! 

Beginning Subtraction!

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

In Religion class today, we talked about how God gave us a soul. We talked about how our soul is God's life within us and how our soul makes us different from everything else God created. 

In Language Arts, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words, practiced reading short o words and our sight words, and practiced putting words into ABC order. To help build our fluency and comprehension, we partner read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We also read Friends, a nonfiction story about two friends. After reading the story, we wrote details from it. We ended our morning by practicing ending sentences with the correct end mark. 

In Math class today, we began our chapter on subtraction. We were just introduced to subtraction. We looked at a picture and thought of subtraction scenarios in it. We will be practicing solving subtraction problems tomorrow. 

Have a great night! 

Our Gifts from God!

 Greetings! Today was an awesome day of learning in first grade. 

We are really enjoying our center time. We love practicing our reading skills in small groups! 

In Religion class today, we talked about how God created us with a body and soul. We focused on our body today and talked about how we use our eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and hands to experience the world around us. 

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. We reviewed our oral vocabulary words from yesterday and learned three new words (chore, collect, and deliver). We then worked on answering questions as we read a nonfiction piece about games long ago. Next, we used our letter tiles to spell and read short o words. Following that, we learned how to put words into ABC order. After that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We ended our morning focusing on comprehension. We reread Toss! Kick! Hop! and wrote about its main idea and key details. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced using correct punctation marks in sentences. 

In Math class today, we took our chapter test on addition. Tomorrow we will begin our chapter on subtraction. 

For our Apple Week fun, we finished our Johnny Appleseed project. We then created an apple. Tomorrow we will label the parts of the apple. 

Have a great night! 

Apple Week!

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

Today we practiced our emergency drills. We had a fire drill, lockdown drill, and severe weather drill. The children did excellent during our practices! 

In Religion class today, we reviewed how God knows everything, is everywhere, is all powerful, and is all good. We also reviewed the creation story. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about friends. We began by learning two new oral vocabulary words (cooperate and relationship). We then worked on answering questions from a text as we read Friends All Around. Next, we learned how to blend and read short o words. We ended our morning by learning our new sight words (fun, make, they, too). 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we read Toss! Kick! Hop! which helped us practice reading short o words and our sight words in sentences. We also talked about exclamatory sentences. 

In Math class, we used our critical thinking skills to solve problems. We did an excellent job of explaining our thinking. We are ready for our chapter test tomorrow. 

This week is Apple Week in first grade. We will be learning all things apple this week. Today, we learned about the life cycle of an apple. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. We tied in our Social Studies lesson with Apple Week as we learned about Johnny Appleseed. We wrote facts about Johnny Appleseed and are in the process of adding it to a craft. 

Have a great night! 

The Leaf Thief!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! I hope everyone had a nice day. We had a great day to end our week of learning. 

In Religion class today, we talked about how our guardian angels help us. We also talked about how we can call upon our guardian angels when we need to make a choice. 

We wrapped up our week of learning in Language Arts. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences. We read words with l-blends and plurals. We wrote sentences using our sight words, took our weekly assessment, and practiced identifying statements. 

This afternoon we finished the writing project we began earlier in the week. We added our squirrel topper to the writing we did on what we would do if someone was stealing our leaves. 

In Math class today, we continued to review adding to 10. The students did a great job using their critical thinking skills to solve problems. 

We ended our day with Gym class. We really enjoyed playing with our friends on the playground. 

Have a wonderful weekend! See you on Monday! 

Creation Story!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful day! 

In Religion class today, we reviewed the creation story. We then created a mobile to help us remember all what God created. 

In Language Arts, we continued with our week of learning. We reviewed our oral vocabulary words and practiced reading words with l-blends, plurals, and our sight words. To help build our fluency and comprehension, we partner read a story from our decodable reading booklets. We also read Flip and completed pages in our packet which focused on the characters. We ended class by writing sentences with a capital letter and ending them with the correct punctuation mark. 

In Math class today, we reviewed how to tell if a number sentence is true or false. We also began reviewing how to solve addition problems in preparation for our test next week. 

Have a great night! 

Picture Day!

 Greetings! Happy Picture Day! The students were quite excited for picture day today. They all showed Officer White their smiles as we headed to take our pictures! 

In Religion class today, we read the creation story. We then watched a video on the creation story. We will continue to talk about the creation story tomorrow. 

Our Language Arts class was a bit disruptive today between pictures, the nurse's visit, and computer help. We were really excited that Boddle was working today. Of course, it worked when tech support was here. I'm hoping it works tomorrow when tech support is not around. 

We did make it through our day of learning. We reviewed our oral vocabulary words learned yesterday and learned three new words today (companion, groom, popular). We then worked on visualization as we read about different pets. Next, we used our letter folders to spell and read words with l-blends. Following that, we learned to make most words plural we add an -s. We practiced spelling and reading -s plural words. We ended our morning by using our sight words in sentences. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we reread A Pig for Cliff. We then wrote about what makes the story a fantasy and about the characters, setting, and events in the story. We ended our day by color coding sentences based on whether they were a statement or a question. 

In Math class today, we looked at whether a number sentence was true or false. We will be practicing more tomorrow. 

Have a great night! 

L-Blend Words!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a nice weekend. 

We began our day with Religion. Today we talked about how God is everywhere, how God is all powerful, how God knows everything, and how God is good. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about pets. We began by learning our new oral vocabulary words (care and train). Then, we worked on visualization as we read Cool Dog, School Dog. Next, we learned how to blend and read words with l-blends, words like black, clip, flag, glad, plan, and slam. Following that, we learned our new sight words (be, come, good, pull). Finally, it was time to put everything together. We read A Pig for Cliff which helped us practice reading l-blend words and our sight words in sentences. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we talked about the difference between statements and questions. We also began our writing project for the week; we are writing about what we would do if someone stole our leaves. 

In Math class today, we practiced writing number sentences for pictures. We practiced writing them two different ways. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today, we talked about leaders and why they make rules. 

Have a good evening! 

Acorn Art!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a nice day to end the week. 

In Religion class today, we wrapped up our chapter on God and Heaven. We reviewed what heaven is like and how one day we will get to be with God in heaven. 

We wrapped up our second 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. 

In Math class today, we learned how to count on to solve addition problems. We used a number line to help us count on to solve the problems. 

In Science class, we talked about how parents help their babies. We saw videos of parents bringing their babies food, teaching them to swim, warning them of danger, and carrying them around. 

We ended our week with Art class. Today, we made an acorn surrounded by fall leaves. Have a look: 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Filling Our Buckets!

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

Because of our special guests tomorrow, we had our weekly Mass today. Fr. Brian reminded us to call upon Jesus and Mary. We also prayed a special prayer for our country. 

After Mass, we held our annual Peacekeeper Program. Today, we talked about filling one another's invisible bucket. We talked about different ways to show kindness. 

In Language Arts, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words and practiced reading short i words and words with final double consonants. To help us build our fluency and comprehension, we partner read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We also read a story about a girl in the city. Finally, we practiced writing sentences in correct word order. 

This afternoon we worked on our writing skills. We wrote about what we like to do in the fall and added it to a craft. 

In Math class today, we continued to practice writing addition sentences for pictures. 

We ended our day with Gym class. We enjoyed our time playing and running in the sun. 

Here are some pictures from our latest Art projects. 

Have a great night! 

Literacy Centers!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a great week! 

In Religion class today, we talked about how Heaven comes to earth each time we celebrate Mass and go to Adoration. 

We began Language Arts by working in our literacy centers. Students rotated between phonics practice, sight word practice, and fluency practice. They loved each station and had fun working on building their reading skills. 

After that, we dove into our Language Arts learning. We reviewed our oral vocabulary words, practiced reading short i words and words that end in double consonants, and read our sight words. To help us build our fluency, we partner read a story in our decodable reader booklet. We also read Go, Pip. After reading this story, we completed pages in our close reading companion that focused on characterization. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced writing sentences in correct word order. 

In Math class today, we practiced writing addition sentences by looking at a picture and telling the number story. 

Have a wonderful night! 

Our First Adoration!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone was able to enjoy the beautiful early fall day today! 

Today marked another first in first grade. We went to Adoration for the first time. Because it was our first time at Adoration, we went to the cry room so that we could talk about what Adoration is and how we pray during Adoration. After talking about it, we spent some quiet time with Jesus. 

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. We reviewed the oral vocabulary words we learned yesterday, and then learned three more new words (bored, feast, scurried). Next, we worked on visualization as we listened to "City Mouse, Country Mouse." Following that, we used our letter tiles to spell and read short i words. Then, we practiced reading words with double final consonants, words like miss, hill, mitt, and jazz. After that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We ended our morning focusing on our comprehension skills. We reread Six Kids. We then wrote about what could not happen in real life and about the characters. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced writing sentences in correct word order. 

In Math class today, we began our chapter on addition. We introduced addition sentences today. 

Have a great night! 

Unscrambling Sentences!

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

We began our day with Religion. Today we practiced making the Sign of the Cross. We also talked about how the Sign of the Cross is a reminder to us that Jesus opened the gates of heaven when he died on the cross. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about where we live. We began by learning two new oral vocabulary words (city and country). Next, we read Alicia's Happy Day and visualized the events in the story. Following that, we learned how to blend and read short i words. After that, we learned our new sight words (down, out, up, very). We ended our morning by reading Six Kids which helped us practice reading short i words and our sight words in sentences. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we talked about making sure our sentences had correct word order. The students enjoyed unscrambling sentences and writing them with correct word order. 

In Math class today, we took our chapter test on the numbers to 10. Tomorrow we will begin our chapter on adding to 10. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today, we talked about being helpers in our families and in our classroom. We listed all kinds of jobs we can do to help our families and our classroom. 

Have a wonderful night! 

A Day of Firsts!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! Today was a day of firsts in first grade. 

At Mass this morning, we remembered St. Mother Teresa. We also celebrated First Friday and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 

We wrapped up our first week of learning in Language Arts. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences and practiced reading short a words and words that end in -s. We then wrote sentences using our sight words. Finally, we took our first weekly assessment of the year. After lunch we had our first Spelling test! 

In Math class today, we used our critical thinking skills to solve problems. The children did a great job of listening and were easily able to draw more or less than a number. 

In Science class today, we talked about animal traits. We talked about how some babies look like both parents. Using a penny, we drew traits of a puppy based on whether we dropped a heads or a tails. It took a bit of listening to do this, but they had fun. 

We ended our day with Art class. Today was our first painting day of the year. We sponge painted an owl. We will need to finish it on Monday once the paint dries. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Seesaw Practice!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! I hope everyone had a terrific day! 

In Religion class today, we talked about how one day we will get to be with God in heaven. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words, practiced spelling and reading short a words and words that end in -s, and practiced our sight words. To help build our fluency and comprehension, we partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets. We also read a nonfiction piece about why we have rules. Finally, we reviewed sentences. We practiced sorting examples into whether they were sentences or not. We also practiced writing sentences with capital letters and periods. 

In Math class today, we reviewed the numbers to 10. We practiced counting, identifying more or less than a number, and comparing numbers. 

We ended our day with some tablet time. We logged into Seesaw and practiced typing and moving objects. 

Don't forget library is tomorrow. Have a great night! 

Fun in the Sun!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a great week and is enjoying the weather. It was so hard to come inside today. 

In Religion class, we talked about heaven. We talked about how God lives there and how it is more beautiful than anything we have ever seen. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words and practiced reading short a words and words ending in -s. We also practiced reading our sight words. To help us build our fluency and comprehension skills, we partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets. We also read Nat and Sam. After reading that story, we wrote about the characters and how they felt. 

With the weather being so nice today, we headed outside today for an early Gym class. We wanted to soak up the sun as long as we could. We will have our Music class tomorrow. 

In Math class today, we continued working with number bonds. We practiced splitting a whole into two parts. We also practiced finding a part when given the whole and the other part. 

Have a great night! 

Number Bonds!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. It seems that many enjoyed going to the fair. 

In Religion class today, we wrapped up our chapter on God our Father. We reviewed how God made us, loves us, and gives us all that we need. 

We began our Language Arts class by reviewing the oral vocabulary words we learned last week and then learned three new words (common, object, and recognize). We then worked on visualizing as we read a nonfiction piece about schools around the world. Following that, we used our letter folders to build and spell short a words; the students loved using them. After that, we learned how to blend and read words with the ending -s. We ended our morning by practicing using our sight words in sentences. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we reread Jack Can. We then wrote about the characters in the story and what they did. 

In Math class today, we learned about number bonds. We looked at a picture and told an addition story for it. We then broke the whole into two smaller parts. We will continue our work with number bonds tomorrow. 

Have a great night!