Our Bible story for Religion was Jesus Feeds the Crowd. We talked about how we can feed people not just by giving them food. We can feed them with love, and kindness. We can feed them by helping those less fortunate than us.
For math, we learned different ways to say half hours such as half past, 30 minutes after and 6:30. We also learned about quarter hours.
In reading we listened to a play: Pushing Up the Sky
We learned double consonants today in phonics. When you have a 2 syllable word with double consonants you split the two consonants. The first consonant will be silent in the word. The exception is if there are double c's and the second c is followed by an e, i or y.
We learned about soil in science.
We also wrote all about Jesus for writing.
We ended with reading mentors. Each group had a readers theater script that we will be working more on this week and perform to the class!!
Tuesday:
We took turns saying our memory verse Luke 18:38
In phonics we learned that when there is an LE at the end of the word, the e is silent and there is a schwa sound as the vowel.
We learned about elapsed time for math. This was a hard concept we did many of the problems as a class.
Our letter for the day was lowercase k. Check out our all stars
We learned about our resources for science. We also learned the 3 r's
We learned when to use the pronoun I and Me in sentences.
Wednesday:
The fifth graders led our Pray and Praise Service today. We had a special guest speaker: Sam Kell. Sam is a student at Stony Creek High School. He is a former student of Trinity Utica. Sam has dealt with his deal of loss in his life. Currently, he is living with brain cancer. He shared his story and how to stay BOLD in your faith. What a great example he was to the children.
We learned about problems and solutions for reading today.
We watched Magic School Bus for science to learn about how water can change rocks.
We shared our readers theater scripts today. We had 3 groups: The Cranky Bear, Chicken Little and Little Red Hen
Thursday:
We read about Jesus walking on water today for Religion. We talked about keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus like Peter did.
We wrote our memory verse:
In math we learned about the calendar. We sang the months of the year song as well as the days of th week song to help us!
Our letter for handwriting was lowercase z. Check out our all stars
For science, we practiced some of our vocabulary words for our science test next week. We also colored to show if it is a slow or fast change, if its a landform or inside the Earth.
In grammar we talked about the pronouns we and us. We also corrected mistakes in sentences.
We ended with Weekly Reader and Music. The children read about
In music we learned about question and answer while singing. The children each had a chance to answer what their favorite color was.
Friday:
We had such a fun day celebrating. Check out some of our fun hats!
In math we did Lucky Charm Graphing. We compared our results as well.
For writing, we wrote If I Could Meet a Leprechaun.
In phonics we had a contest to see who could make the most words out of ST. PATRICK'S DAY
For science we did a fun experiment! We put skittles in water to see what would happen.
We played Irish Hot Potato, and Where's the Gold.
We had a fun snack with lunch! Shamrock Shakes!!!
We ended with a game where we had to see who could add up to 17.
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