Week of March 6-10

Monday:
We once again practiced for chapel!  We are so excited to share it with all of our friends and family on Wednesday.

We did more time today.  We did hour and half hours!

For March is reading month this week we had a production company put on the musical:
Spaghetti In a Hot Dog Bun!

We listened to our story: Dig Wait Listen during snack.

In phonics we learned the last job of Y: When Y is at the end it says the LONG E sound.....

UNLESS THE E FOLLOWS THE LETTERS N-F-L AND IS A VERB THEN IT IS A LONG I!!

For religion we talked about how Jesus raised a boy from the dead.  It shows how powerful He really is!  Then we wrote our memory verse:

We finished by partner reading for mentors!!

Tuesday:
We took turns saying our memory verse for the day.

Next we learned more about time.  We practiced telling time to the 5 minutes.  We counted by 5's to write in the numbers on our clocks.

Then we had our LAST PRACTICE before we share our chapel with the school!  They are SOOO ready!!  

We learned skill 2 for decoding 2 syllable words.  This time when there are 2 consonants after the vowel, you split between the 2 consonants.  

We had a Severe Weather Drill today to prepare us in case of the real thing!

Our letter for handwriting was Uppercase W.  Check out our Wonderful all stars!

In science we learned about rocks and minerals.  

We did partner reading with our reading books before recess!

We ended with daily 5!!

Wednesday:
CHAPEL DAY!!  We got to lead Chapel today.  I was soo proud of each and every one of my "munchkins."  They did an amazing job sharing the love of Jesus with the school!

We are still working on time in math!  We got out the plastic clocks today to use and show different times.

OUR SNACK WAS A TREAT FOR OUR BLURT AND FOR LEADING CHAPEL!  DONUTS

This afternoon, we did a rocks and minerals lab.  We checked the color of minerals, the streak and the hardness.  Then we had to use our results to figure out what the name of each mineral is! Many of the children were able to get them all right!

MINERALS

·         Halite

o   Color: colorless, clear

o   Hardness: Medium

o   Streak: White

·         Quartz

o   Color: White

o   Hardness: Hard

o   Streak: None

·         Talc

o   Color: gray

o   Hardness: soft

o   Streak: white

·         Potassium Feldspar

o   Color: Pink

o   Hardness: Medium

o   Streak: None

·         Graphite

o   Color: Black

o   Hardness: soft

o   Streak: black

We learned about pronouns in Grammar.  We put many pronoun cards on the cabinets.  

At the end of the day, we shared our career posters.   Check out the class posters in the hallway.  

THURSDAY:

Friday:

Since there was NO SCHOOl Thursday, we had a little make up work to do!

We read about how Jesus Calms the Storm today.  We talked about how we all have storms in our lives.  We learned that storms can be when someone is sick, when you are sick, when someone passes away, a divorce in the family, being bullied or anything else that troubles us.  Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee, and He can calm our storms too!

We said our memory verse:

The children all get to take home their plastic clocks today to work on time!!

Our letter for handwriting is the lowercase x.  Check out these eXcellent all stars

We did our Scholastic News today during Daily 5.  We learned about how TOO much sugar is BAD!!

The children had Art this afternoon and we ended with TIME games!!

Week of Feb 27-March 3

Monday:
We had a half day but we kept ourselves busy all morning!

We got our next religion books: Miracles of Jesus
Our first story was about when Jesus healed the paralyzed man.

We also wrote the 10th commandment in our prayer journals.

We added and subtracted money and wrote dollars and coin amounts in Math.

We learned how to decode 2 syllable words today in phonics.  

Tuesday:

We had a special visitor in the classroom today.  Mr. Simon came to visit.  He was a former student of Mr. Neumeyer's at St. Luke and a graduate of LHN.  He is creating an app for teachers.  It is similar to snapchat, but its a way that I as a teacher can take snapshots of the children's day and upload it to a safe a secure app that you as parents can view.  It will one day be able to replace my blog.  It will be a great way to keep communication and for you to have an idea of what your child does daily.

We learned the SCHWA sound today in phonics. We wrote our spelling words since they all have the schwa sound.

We did math games in small groups.  The children took turns rolling to see how many quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies they would get.  Then they added up the total to see who got the most.

We also did small group reading as well.  The children split into 2 groups to read.

Our letter today was uppercase V.  Check out these victorious all stars

We started our new science unit: Our Earth.  We learned about the different land we have on earth.  

Then we did chapel practice to get ready for next week!  We ended with Daily 5.  What a busy day!

Wednesday:

Today in Chapel we received our ashes for Ash Wednesday.  We talked about following Jesus by walking the way He wants us to walk.  

For math we prepared for our math test.  We also got into small groups to count the coins we brought in.  Our class brought in over $40!  Way to go!

The children had back to back specials today!  They went right from computers to gym!

In science we learned about Earth's water.  We learned that 75% or 3/4 of the Earth is covered in water. We talked about all the ways we use water each day and how important water is in our lives.

The children got their pen pal letters today.  They love getting these each month.  Today we began writing back.  We talked about our Valentine's Day party!

We ended by practicing for Chapel!

Thursday:

We took our math test today on money!

In religion, we read about The Ten Lepers.  We also wrote our Bible verse, 1 Chronicles 16:34

Our letter today for handwriting was the uppercase Y.  Yahoo to todays all stars.

We began taking our unit reading test today.  I read a story aloud and they answered questions.  Then they read a story on their own and answered questions.

In science we talked about different changes on Earth such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides. 

We finished writing our pen pal letters today.  Tomorrow we will address them and put them in the mail!

We ended once again with chapel practice.  We went down to the worship center to rehearse!


Friday:
We had another chapel practice today!  We are getting better each time we practice!

We started our new math unit!  TIME!  We learned the parts of the clock and telling time to the hour.

We took 2 tests today; Spelling and Reading!

We had art and we finished our Dr. Seuss art work!

We ended the day with games!!  FUN FUN