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!

Week of February 6-10

Monday:
WHAT A GAME!! WAY TO GO PATRIOTS!

We learned about Naaman and Elisha today.  We refereed back to our Baptisms when we were cleansed by God just like Naaman!

In math we started by playing SCOOT!  Each child went around and counted the coins on the piggy banks, did a self check and moved on.  Each child counted 16 different coin amounts today!

Then we learned about the half dollar!

Our story for this week is  Time for Kids Story:  A Way to Help Planet Earth

Our phonics skills for this week is Digraphs Blends.

We began our new Social Studies Unit: Marketplace.  We will be learning about being producers and consumers in our community.  We will learn about services.  We will be talking about careers and we will take a trip to Nino Salvaggios to learn about a marketplace near us!

We began a fun writing assignment.  We are writing using sequential words such as first, then, next, last.  We are writing the steps to build a snowman.  We did our prewrite today and we will edit and rewrite later this week!

We ended with by getting into our small groups with our reading mentors and reading!

Tuesday:
The children took turns reciting the first and second commandments today.  They did a great job!

In phonics, we practiced finding our digraphs blends and used different colors to mark them.

For math we did a class hands on activity where the children were given an amount and they had find numerous ways to make that amount.  They really did a great job!

We got to read with a friend A Way to Help Planet Earth.  

Our letter for handwriting was Uppercase M.  Check out our marvelous all stars

We learned about producers and consumers for Social Studies today.  We talked about ways we are producers and ways to be consumers.  We listed different goods and services too.  Then we watched a short video.

We reviewed helping verbs for grammar and learned irregular verbs

At the end of the day, we wrote our spelling words and how much they were worth for daily 5.  The children were very challenged.  

Wednesday: Sports/Christian Day

We had chapel this morning!  For our theme week WE PLAY we all got into our chapel families and played Freddy Oka!

In math, we just assessed to see how well we were doing with coins.  They are doing GREAT!

We had back to back specials today!  Lucky us!

We finished our snowman stories and hung them in the hallway.

WE ENDED THE DAY PLAYING BOARD GAMES!  IT WAS GREAT!

THURSDAY: MRS PETTIBONE WAS NOT HERE!  HOME WITH SICK JACKSON :(

FRIDAY

 We worked on equal coins worksheet and half dollars worksheet in math.

We added suffixes to the different phonetic skills for phonics.

We played a fun game in gym.

We played in the flurry of snow at recess.

Many of our friends got to bring a friend from 2-O over for lunch!

The children traced and colored circles in art.

We played some more games at the end of the day!

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!