Week of Feb 20-24

Monday:

Tuesday:
We learned the jobs of Y today.  Y at the beginning of a word is a consonant.  Y with skills 1 or 2 says the short i sound.  Y with skills 3 or 4 says the long i sound.  Y with skill 5 is silent.

In math, the children used their coins to solve story problems.  Then they counted up coin amounts to see which items they could purchase.

We read from our reading books.  Our story this week is Nutik, the Wolf Pup.

Our letter for handwriting was the lowercase y.  Yippee for our all stars today!

We had our last choir practice before we sing at the 10:45 service THIS Sunday.

We did a study guide for Social Studies.  We also learned more about President Abraham Lincoln.  In honor of President's Day, we will be learning about some of our Presidents this week.

We reviewed our irregular verbs and learned about contractions today in Grammar.

Wednesday:

Today's Chapel was led by the 3rd graders in Mrs. Jacques class.  We learned about how when we have a bad day and do something hurtful to others it often moves from person to person.  We need to work on being nice to our friends.

We learned about making a dollar.  The children have been doing this for a while when we count our coins every week.  This week, the 2nd graders collected $70.  Great job.

We learned about AU and AW making the aww sound during reading.

We got into small groups for a practice social studies test. We also learned about President George Washington.

We finished by working with more contractions.

Thursday:

We finished another of our Religion books today.  We read about God's People Returning Home.

In math we did dollars and cents.  We added up the dollar amount and the amount of the cents.  

We had our field trip to Nino Salvaggio's today.  The children learned about different services they provide as well as the different types of fruits and vegetables they sell.  They learned about exotic fruits like the passion fruit, coconut, and star fruit.  The children took a trip in the back into the big fridge.  They saw where the trucks unload the goods and met Sam the receiving manager.  They saw fresh pasta being made in the back room.  We walked through and saw the meats, cheeses and seafoods too.   Then we took a trip in the freight elevator!  We saw the spot where ALL the signs for the store are made.  Then we went and had a snack of fresh squeezed orange juice and mixed popcorn.  

When we returned to school we had an international taste fest.  Each child had a chance to taste papaya, passion fruit, star fruit and kumquats.  

We had the lowercase w today.  WOW was I impressed.  Jacob and Peyton were our all stars!

We played Jeopardy today to review for Social Studies.

We proved our Many Jobs of Y words in phonics, and practiced inferences in reading.  

We watched Mouse and the Motorcycle today as our BLURT dessert.  

Friday:

We began with our Social Studies Test.  This test seemed harder for the students this time.  Still many A's but not as many as normal.

We added and subtracted money today in math.  It took the children some time to get back to regrouping since we have been counting coins.  

Then we practiced our chapel words and sang our special song!

We had Art this afternoon and parents came in for games.  

Week of Feb 13-17

Week of February 13-17

Monday:
In religion we learned about Daniel and His friends.  They were faced with a tough decision to follow the King or to follow God.  We talked about times we are tempted to follow others or to do something wrong instead of doing what God wants us to.

In math we compared money.  We had to decide if we had enough to purchase items.  Our worksheet showed how we had, and how much the item we wanted to buy was.  Then we had to circle yes or no if we could buy it.

Our phonics lesson this week is about the GH sound.  When GH is at the beginning of a word it say the G sound.  But if its at the end paired with igh, or ight, the GH is silent and the vowel is long. 

We listened to our story, SUPER STORMS today.  The children learned about storms and how to stay safe. 

During Social Studies, we did an activity about Spending, Saving and Sharing our money.  Each child had $30 to decide what to do with it.  They children all came up with great ways to use their money.

We learned irregular verbs today.

We finished by  making our valentine buddies to hang in the classroom!

Tuesday:

Our first valentines activity was making words using the letters in valentine.

Then we did graphing of our candy hearts.

Next it was snack.  We had our bagels and watched Charlie Brown.

Then we did a science experiment.  First we wanted to see if candy hearts would sink or float.  They sunk!  Then we put the candy hearts into 3 different liquids.  Water, Vinegar and Pop.  The hearts in water and vinegar just got soft and lost their color but the pop got fizzy and the candy floated!

During lunch we played hide the heart.  We hid the heart in the classroom and then the classmates had to use hot or cold to help them find it!

After lunch we made a craft of heart valentines.  Then we passed out our valentines and carnations. 

After recess we ate heart cake and drank juice!  What a great day!

Wednesday: 

Our chapel today was led by some of the 8th graders.  We had a pray and praise service.  We sang some very fun songs and grew closer with our Lord.

We counted our coins for our Hearts For Jesus Campaign.  We had $36.15!  With the money Mrs. O'Meara's class brought we were over $40 once again!  Great job

We also learned how to make change.  We see how much the item we bought cost, then count up to how much we gave them.  

We worked on predictions today for reading.  After during Daily 5, small groups came to work with me on a prediction game.  

In social studies we learned more about goods and services.  We learned about things being scarce and how the supply and demand can effect the prices of things.  

We did writing using our candy hearts.  Each child got a bag of conversation hearts.  Then the children had to write a story using those words!

While they worked on writing, the children painted a foot stencil onto our bridge that will be auctioned off a the auction next week.  

Thursday:

We read the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  God protected them when they stood up for their beliefs.  God protects us too everyday from all the the temptations of our world too!

In  math, we played Math Scoot again counting coins.  Then we did more making change.

Our letter for handwriting was the lowercase v.  Check out these VERY GOOD all star handwriting.

During Daily 5, the children had to spell their words and use the coin chart to see how much their words cost.

In social studies we learned about barter and trade.

                                        

We read about Puffin Birds and Penguins for Weekly Reader.

We ended by making cards for Hearts for Jesus.  Our Praise Band Members always help to create an amazing worship service each weekend.  We wanted to thank them for serving us!

Friday:
 We picked our friends for their homework slips.  2 friends got to move their desks, 2 friends got to be the teacher assistant, 1 friend got a comfy chair at their desk and 1 friend can invite a friend from 2-O for lunch.

We played MONEY BINGO this morning.  We had 6 winners today!  They had to find the coin combination as I said the coin amount.

The children wrote to me today in their journals.  We started by me writing them a letter that they had to respond to then ask me 3 questions.

In gym, the children got a special gym teacher today!  MR. NEUMEYER!!

We are almost finished with our read aloud book, Mouse and the Motorcycle.  The children are really enjoying this story.

We played games with parents and friends to end the day!