Fire Safety Week!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone enjoyed their day. 

In Religion class today, we learned that the first two people God created were Adam and Eve. We talked about how they lived in the Garden of Eden and had everything they needed. We also prayed the third decade of the Luminous Mysteries. 

In Language Arts, we reviewed the oral vocabulary words we learned yesterday and then learned three new words (equipment, fortunately, and astonishing). We then worked on making predictions as we read about jobs in the community. After that, we used our letter tiles to spell and read short e words. Following that, we practiced using our sight words in sentences. Finally, we focused on building our comprehension skills. This week we are talking about character, setting, and event. We reread Good Job, Ben and wrote about the characters, setting and events in the story. After we read our decodable reader, we identified whether sentences talked about the characters, setting, or events. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced identifying nouns in sentences and using nouns in sentences. We also wrote about what firefighters have, can do, and are. 

In Math class today we practiced identifying whether a number sentence was true or false. We used our linking cubes to help us with this. 

We continued with our fire safety lessons today. We talked about feeling a door with the back of our hands before opening it, staying low and go, getting out and staying out, and going to our meeting place. 

Have a great night! 

Picture Day!

 Greetings! Welcome back after the long weekend. I hope everyone was able to find some time for rest and relaxation. The students were quite excited for picture day today. They all looked so nice and handsome. 

We began Religion class today by praying the first two decades of the Luminous Mysteries. We then reviewed our chapter on God giving us life and our guardian angels to help us to know, love, and serve Him. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts today; this week we will be reading about community helpers. We began class by learning two new oral vocabulary words (community and occupation). We then worked on making predictions as we read Millie Waits for the Mail. After that, we learned how to blend and read short e words. Following that we learned our new sight words. We ended the morning focused on practicing our new skills as we read Good Job, Ben!

This afternoon we created a foldable to help us remember that nouns name a person, place, thing, or animal. 

In Math class today, we learned to use related facts to help us solve problems. The students didn't even realize they were doing this as they solved the problems. They just knew what they needed to do. 

This week is Fire Safety Week. We will be spending some time this week reviewing fire safety tips. Today, we reviewed that we call 911 in an emergency. We also talked about staying away from things that are hot. Finally, we talked about what to do if our clothes catch on fire. 

Have a great night! 

Silly Monsters!

 Greetings! Happy Friday! Today was a great and busy day to end this first week of October. 

At Mass today, we welcomed Fr. Harris. He talked to us about having our hearts opened when we come to church so that we can hear God's word. 

We wrapped up another week of learning in Language Arts. Today, we used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, wrote sentences using our sight words, and took our weekly assessment. To help us practice reading r-blend and s-blend words we played Memory; the students matched a word to a picture. 

In Math class today, we learned about fact families. We were able to look at a number bond and write two addition and two subtraction sentences. The students did quite well with this. 

In Science class, we talked about how baby animals look like their parents. The students worked in groups to match a baby animal to its parent. 

We ended our day with Art class. Today, we completed a directive drawing activity. The students followed along to draw a monster. We then used water color paints to color it in. They all did a nice job with this activity. Here are two of our monsters. 

And here is a picture from the fall writing we did this week. 

Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday. See you on Tuesday! Enjoy the long weekend! 

Finding New Things!

 Greetings! Happy Thursday! Today was another great day in first grade! 

In Religion class today we talked about how our guardian angels help us to know, love, and serve God. We also prayed the fourth decade of the Joyful Mysteries. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words, practiced reading r-blend and s-blend words, and wrote possessive phrases. We also partner read a story in our decodable booklets. In addition, we learned about diagrams and completed pages in our close reading companion that focused on diagrams. Finally, we practiced capitalizing sentences and ending them with the correct punctuation mark. This afternoon we finished our fall writing project from yesterday by writing about what we like about fall. 

In Math class today, we continued to practice solving subtraction story problems. We do a nice job at listening to the story before writing anything. 

We ended our day with Social Studies. Today, we learned that Christopher Columbus found a new land that people didn't know was there. We wrote about what we would do if we found the new land. 

Have a great night! 

Creative Mathematicians!

 Greetings! Happy Wednesday! Wow! Today was another gorgeous day. 

In Religion class today, we reviewed how God created us with a body and soul. We then talked about how our soul helps us to know, love, and serve God. We ended class by praying the third decade of the Joyful Mysteries. 

In Language Arts class, we reviewed our oral vocabulary words, read r-blend and s-blend words, practiced reading and using possessives in sentences, and read our sight words. We then switched our focus to fluency and comprehension. We partner read a story in our decodable reader booklets. We then read Move It. After reading that story, we completed pages in our close reading companion that focused on key details from the story. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we practiced writing sentences using capital letters and correct punctuation. We also started a fall writing project. We have the art part completed. We will be doing the writing part tomorrow. 

In Math class today, we practiced creating subtraction stories and then solving the problem. The students were very creative with their stories today. 

Have a great night! 

A Beautiful Day!

 Greetings! Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine and warmth today. Today is a day that you would like to bag up and open when the weather is cold and dark. 

We went to church for Adoration today. We spent some quiet time praying to Jesus. When we came back, we prayed the second decade of the Joyful Mysteries. 

This morning, we heard from Brenda Garcia. She talked to us about her Catholic faith and about her movies. 

We were able to continue with our week of learning in Language Arts today. We reviewed the oral vocabulary words we learned yesterday and then learned three new words (difficult, exhausted, and agree). We also worked on asking and answering questions as we read a fable. We ended the morning by using our letter tiles to spell and read r-blend and s-blend words. 

This afternoon in Language Arts, we learned about possessives. We also used our sight words in sentences. Finally, we worked on our comprehension as we wrote details from Move and Grin and from our decodable reader. 

In Math class today, we reviewed all of the subtraction strategies we learned. We will now put them to work as we solve word problems. 

Here is a picture from our Art project on Friday. 

Have a great night! 

Welcome to October!

 Greetings! Welcome to October! I don't know about you, but it seems to me that the trees are changing earlier this year. I hope that doesn't mean a long winter! 

In Religion class today, we learned how to pray the rosary. We colored a sheet showing us which prayers we pray. Each student was then given a rosary. Throughout the month, we will pray a decade a day. Today, we prayed the first Joyful Mystery. 

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 Move!, a nonfiction story about how animals move. Next, we learned how to blend and read r-blend and s-blend words. Following that, we learned our new sight words. We ended the morning focusing on our new skills as we read Move and Grin. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we practiced writing sentences. We wrote sentences using correct punctuation. We also wrote a sentence describing a picture and then jazzed it up by inserting adjectives. We all agreed that the adjectives made it a better sentence. 

In Math class today, we practiced subtracting by using a number bond. The key for us to pay attention to the problem so that we write the number sentence the correct way. 

Have a good night!