A New Week!

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

In Religion class today we talked about how Heaven is our forever home. We discussed that one day we will get to live with God forever in Heaven. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts today; this week we will be reading about where we live. We began by learning two new oral vocabulary words (city and country). We then worked on visualizing as we read Alicia's Happy Day. Following that we practiced blending and reading short i words. Next, we learned our new sight words. Finally, we put our new skills to work as we read Six Kids, a fantasy story about chicks. The students really enjoyed this story. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we talked about how it is important for sentences to be in correct word order. We practiced unscrambling sentences and putting them in the correct word order. 

This week in Penmanship we will be practicing the letter L. 

In Math class, we began our chapter on number bonds. We learned that when we have two parts we can put them together to get the whole. We practiced using hula hoops and ourselves then went to linking cubes. We will continue our exploration of number bonds tomorrow. 

Have a great night! 

A Day of Firsts!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! Today was a day of firsts in First Grade!

At Mass this morning, Fr. Brian reminded us to not put others down but to build them up. He encouraged us to pray for one another each day. 

We wrapped up our first week of learning in Language Arts today. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences and read short a words and words with inflected ending -s as we played "Stinky Feet". The goal of the game was to clean the feet by reading short a words. The team with the most points wins. After our game, we wrote sentences using our sight words. Then we took our first reading assessment of the year. 

After lunch, we took our first Spelling test. Everyone was so nervous this morning, but all did a fantastic job on the test. 

Then it was time for our first Math test. Everyone took their time and used their critical thinking skills to solve the problems. 

In Science class today, we talked about the different ways animals move. To show the different ways animals move, the students worked in groups. Each group was given a cube with pictures of different animals on them. One at a time, they rolled the cube and acted out how that animal moves. 

In Art class today, we painted for the first time. Everyone was excited to paint! We are making an owl. Once the paint dries, we will add the wings, eyes, and beak. I'll post pictures next week. 

Have a great weekend! 

A Beautiful Place!

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

In Religion class today, we talked about how Heaven is the most beautiful place and is God's home. 

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. We practiced using our oral vocabulary words in sentences, read short a words, words with the inflected ending -s, and our sight words. To help build our fluency and comprehension we read a story from our decodable reader booklets. We also read a nonfiction piece about school rules. Following that story, we completed pages in our close reading that helped us find the key details in the selection. We ended the morning by practicing writing sentences with a capital letter and a period. 

In Math class today, we reviewed the concepts we learned with the numbers 0-10: counting, finding one more and one less, and patterns. Tomorrow we will take our test. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today we talked about different jobs people have and jobs we can do in the classroom. 

Have a great night! 

Building Math Thinkers!

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

In Religion class today, we wrapped up our chapter on God is our Father. We reviewed how God is our father, how God made us and gives us everything we need, and on how we need to thank him. 

In Language Arts class, we practiced using our oral language words in sentences. Next, we used our sound boxes to segment words into sounds. After that we practiced reading short a words, words with the inflected ending -s, and our sight words. We then switched our focus to building our fluency and comprehension. We partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets. We then read Nat and Sam. Following that story, we completed pages in our close reading companion that focused on the key details from the story. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we separated examples of sentences and not sentences. We then wrote in our journal. 

In Math class today, we used our critical thinking skills to solve problems. For many of the problems, we had to draw how we know that. I was quite impressed with their drawings! 

Here is a picture from Friday's Art class. 

Have a great night! 

Finding Key Details!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I loved hearing all of the weekend happenings today. It sounded like so many had fun at the fair especially with the animals. 

For Religion today, we headed over to church for Adoration. Since this was our first time going to Adoration, we sat in the cry room and talked about Adoration. We went over what it is and what we do. We ended by spending a few quiet moments praying to Jesus. 

We continued our week of learning in Language Arts. We reviewed the oral vocabulary words we learned last week and then learned three new words (common, recognize, and object). We then worked on visualizing as we read a nonfiction piece about schools around the world. Next, we used our letter tiles to spell and read short a words. After that, we learned how to blend and read words with the inflected ending -s. Following that we practiced using our sight words in sentences. We ended our morning focusing on comprehension; this week we are working on finding the key details in a story. We reread Jack Can and our decodable reader. After each story, we identified the key details. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced identifying sentences. We also practiced writing sentences. 

In Math class, we explored the numbers 1-10. The students used linking cubes to show different ways to make a number. This will help us when we begin to add. 

Have a great night! 

Happy September!

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

At Mass this morning, Fr. Brian reminded us to always be in the present and not worry about the past or future. 

We continued with our week of learning in Language Arts. Today, we reviewed short a by matching words to pictures. We also worked on our fluency as we read Jack Can. Finally, we learned what a sentence is and practiced identifying sentences. 

In Math class, we learned about number patterns. We used our linking cubes to show various number patterns. 

In Science class we talked about the different coverings animals have. We then sorted pictures of animals based on their coverings. 

Finally, it was time for Art class. Today we made a pencil person. They turned out cute. I will post pictures next week once everything has dried. 

Have a wonderful three day weekend! See you on Tuesday! 

The Beginning of Reading!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! I hope everyone is having a nice day. 

In Religion class today we talked about how God wants us to pray and talk to him every day. He wants us to have a close relationship with us. 

We began our first week of first grade Language Arts today. We began by learning two oral vocabulary words (learn and subjects). We then worked on visualizing as we read This Will Be the Best School Year Yet. Following that we practiced rhyming words. Next, we practiced blending and reading short a words. We ended the morning by learning our new sight words. 

In Penmanship class, we practiced writing the numbers 5-9. 

In Math class, we practiced finding one more and one less than a number. We used our linking cubes to help us. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today, we wrapped up our rule building lessons by reviewing what it means to be respectful, make good choices, and listen. We learned about classrooms rewards when we do them and promised to try hard to be fantastic first graders. 

Have a great night!