Week of Jan 30-Feb 3

Monday:
We learned about Elijah and the Widow for religion.

We started our new math unit: MONEY.  We used our coin bags today and practiced with coin values, and creating different amounts.

We read our story, Goose's Story

We learned that you use K at the end of words if it has an adjacent vowel, ends with -NK or -LK.

It was so much fun to play in the snow today at recess!!!

We did a practice test for science in small groups.

The children received their pen pal letters today and began writing back!

Our mentors came in at the end of the day to help us read too!

Tuesday:

We played panic for phonics to write and prove words.

We did more coin practice and had a worksheet.

We had the lowercase h today.  Hooray for today's all stars; Kelsey and Jacob!

Again we played in a bunch more snow today!

We finished writing our pen pal letters today.  Tomorrow we will address them and send them out!

Wednesday:

We started with 6th graders from Mrs. Piasecki's class teaching about being kind in our words, actions and attitudes.

For math, we all worked together to count the coins we brought in for Hearts for Jesus.  With last weeks money and this weeks we brought in $98!

We practiced cause and effect as our reading concept today.  We used Goose's Story to fill in our cause and effect chart together.

Science was JEOPARDY!  The children really know there stuff!  

We addressed our pen pal letters and put them in the mail!

We watched a short video about Groundhog's Day.  

We learned something new as our WE LEARN theme this week.  We learned how to play 4 corners in the classroom.  They really enjoyed playing it.

Thursday: GROUNDHOGS DAY

We took our science tests this morning!

In math, each child got a piggy bank card with different amounts of coins.  We each took turns coming to the board to say what coins and how much they were!

Our letter today for handwriting was the uppercase N.  Check out how NICE our all stars wrote!

In religion we learned about God Speaking to Elijah.  

We worked on helping verbs in grammar today. 

We had weekly reader today.  We learned about how children stood up for their beliefs back during segregation.  

Friday:

We did a great job reciting our memory this morning!

We took our spelling test!  Great Job on your words!

We had Art in the afternoon.

We played GAMES!!  YIPPIE!