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!

NLSW Week of Jan 23-27

Monday:
Our first day of National Lutheran Schools Week was Patriotic Day.  We got to wear red, white and blue to school!  What a way to show our patriotism.

Our BLURT dessert from Friday was to sit under our desks and eat our snacks!

For Science we learned about mixtures so what better way to learn than to make a mixture!  We drank hot chocolate!

We stayed in the patriotic mood during reading mentors.  Our books were patriotic themed: The Pledge of Allegiance, Fourth of July Mice, Betsy Ross and The Statue of Liberty.  Then the children unscrambled patriotic words such as bravery, soldier, hero and had to use them in sentences.

Tuesday:

Today was Pajama Day!  The children looked so comfy in their PJ's!  

We wrote about our stuffed animals today for writing. We made forts with our friends and blankets.

Our letter for today was lowercase n. Check out our NEAT all starts

We had some special Immanuel Alumni from LHN come in today for activity time to play games with us!

After lunch we went into the Worship Center to sit up in the balcony to watch Finding Nemo.

Wednesday:

We learned about our friends when they were babies by reading our baby questionnaires.  Then we took our sheets and turned them into paragraphs.   The children voted today on their friends baby posters today to guess which baby is which friend.

We had show and tell today!  We saw some great things.

After lunch we went into the gym to play Hungry Hippos verses Mrs. Siekmann's 5th grade class.

Thursday:

We had our math test today! 

 Everyone got either an A or a B!  Way to go!

We learned who each baby was in the baby poster!  Great job Jacob and Ayden who got 14 out of 19 right and Laura who got 13 out of 19 right!

We had the lowercase m today for handwriting.  Check out our marvelous all stars!

Friday:

                                 

  What a great time we had with our VIP's today.  We saw some very cool and interesting items for show and tell, learned more about our VIPS and worshiped our Lord!  What a great way to end the week!