Week of May 24-28

Language Arts
Theme: How can weather affect us?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions, cause and effect, using prepositions toward, in, of, on, above, for, during, beyond, possessive pronouns, suffixes -ful and -ness, synonyms and antonyms, capitalizing months, days, and holidays, indefinite pronouns
Story Genre:  Nonfiction and realistic fiction
Sound pattern: silent letter patterns - gn, kn, wr
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   gathers - brings or comes together in one place
HFW: been, children, month, question, their, year
Spelling words:
1. gnat
2. gnu
3.know
4. knife
5. been
6. write
7. wrong
8. cause
9. dawn
10.  their
11.   children
12. question



Math
~ CHAPTER 13 TEST ON MONDAY, 5/24
~ introduction to time to the hour and half hour


Religion
~ Chapter 18 test



Writing
~ butterfly writing activity - life cycle writing and craft

Technology
~ EPIC reading on butterflies

 

 

Week of May 17-21

Language Arts
Theme: Who helps you?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions, cause and effect, using prepositions toward, in, of, on, above, for, during, beyond, possessive pronouns, suffixes -ful and -ness, synonyms and antonyms, capitalizing months, days, and holidays
Story Genre:  Nonfiction and poetry
Sound pattern: au, aw spelling patterns
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   accept - take or agree to something
   often - many times, a lot, frequently
HFW: brother, father, friend, love, mother, picture
Spelling words:
1. haul
2. cause
3. saw
4. claw
5. paw
6. dawn
7. moon
8. soup
9.love
10.  friend
11.   father
12. mother
Bonus word
peacemaker

Math
~ three dimensional shapes
~ sorting shapes based on number of sides and corners
~ face, vertex, edge
~ CHAPTER 13 TEST ON MONDAY, 5/24


Religion
~ honoring Mary as the Mother of Jesus and all mothers
~ making good choices and not so good choices - the ability to make choices

Science
~ dissolve and seperate
~ UNIT 9 test on Thursday

Writing
~ butterfly writing activity - life cycle writing and craft

Technology
~ EPIC reading on butterflies

 

Week of May 10-14

Language Arts
Theme: How can we work together to make our lives better?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions, cause and effect, using prepositions toward, in, of, on, above, for, during, beyond, pronouns, suffixes -ful and -ness
Story Genre:  Nonfiction
Sound pattern: oo, u__e, ew , ui , ou spelling patterns
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   demand - ask forcefully or strongly
    emergency - something you do not expect and need to take care of right away
HFW: answer, brought, busy,door, enough, eyes
Spelling words:
1. busy
2. moon
3. tune
4. flew
5. blue
6. fruit
7. soup
8. toy
9.coin
10.  enough
11.   door
12. answer
Bonus word
preposition

Math
~ two dimensional shapes
~ sorting shapes based on number of sides and corners
~ corners = vertext
~ three dimensional shapes - cubes, cylinders
~ can we roll, stack, slide three dimensional shapes?


Religion
~ honoring Mary as the Mother of Jesus and all mothers
~talk about being a light to others
~ intro peacemaker - someone who works for peace

Science
~ solids, liquids, gases
~ ways to change matter
~ gummy bear experiment
~ dissolve and seperate


Writing
~ alliteration writing activity

Technology
~ EPIC reading on butterflies

Week of May 3-7

Language Arts
Theme: How do things get built?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions, cause and effect, using prepositions toward, in, of, on, above, for, during, beyond
Story Genre:  Nonfiction
Sound pattern: oy, oi spelling pattern
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   balance - to stay in a place without falling
   section - a small part of something bigger
HFW: above, build, fall, knew, money, toward
Spelling words:
1. joy
2. coin
3. join
4. spoil
5. toy
6. boy
7. above
8. build
9. fall
10.  knew
11.   money
12. toward
Bonus word
alliteration

Math
~ Chapter 12 test on Tuesday
~ tallying and graphing our favorite season
~ introduction to open and closed shapes


Religion
~ sacrament of Baptism
~ signs of Baptism - water, white, candle
~ grace
~ Chapter 17 test on Thursday

Science
~ solids, liquids, gases


Writing
~ writing about mom

Technology
~See Saw activity on properties of matter

Week of April 26-30

Language Arts
Theme: What sounds can you hear? How are they made?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions as you read, identifying a problem and solution, comparative adjectibes - using er and est, using a, an, this, that to tell which one, capitalizing proper nouns, alliteration
Story Genre:  Realistic Fiction
Sound pattern: ow  sound made by ow, ou
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   scrambled - climbed or walked quickly
    suddenly - to happen quickly without notice
HFW: color, early, instead, nothing, oh, thought
Spelling words:
1. cow
2. how
3. mouse
4. town
5. mouth
6. out
7. color
8. early
9. instead
10.nothing
11. oh
12. thought
Bonus word
sacrament

Math
~ showing 10 less
~ subtracting tens



Religion
~ sacrament of Baptism
~ signs of Baptism - water, white, candle
~ grace

Science
~ matter
~ night and day sky

Writing
~topic sentcnes and supporting details
~ writing about rainy day activties
~ Mother's Day writing

Technology
~See Saw activity on adjectives

 

Week of April 19-23

Language Arts
Theme: What inventions do you know about?
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions as you read, identifying a problem and solution, comparative adjectibes - using er and est
Story Genre:  Informational Text/Nonfiction
Sound pattern: or sound made by or, ore, oar spelling
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   idea - a picture or thought you get in your mind
    unusual - something that is not common
HFW: began, better, guess, learn, right, sure
Spelling words:
1. born
2. core
3. corn
4. more
5. roar
6. soar
7. began
8. better
9. guess
10. learn
11. right
12. sure
Bonus word
invention


Math
~ Chapter 11 test on Tuesday
~ introduction to Chapter 12
~ showing 10 less



Religion
~ celebrating special times with our family and parish family
~ the 7 sacraments are special signs from Jesus about God's love for us
~ Chapter 16 test on Thusday

Science
~ properties of hot/cold and heavy/light
~ sink or float experiment - making predictions
~ Earth day - discussing ways to care for our Earth

Writing
~topic sentcnes and supporting details

Technology
~See Saw activity on adjectives

 

 

Week of April 12-16

Language Arts
Theme: What can you see in the sky?
Skills/concepts: making and confirming predictions as we read, determining cause and effect, adjectives that describe color, shape, and size
Story Genre:  Fantasy
Sound pattern: ur sound made by er, ir, ur spelling
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   leaped - to have made  abig jump
    stretched - to extend a body part
HFW: another, climb, full, great, poor, through
Spelling words:
1. bird
2. dirt
3. fern
4. fur
5. her
6. work
7. barn
8. arm
9. climb
10. through
11. great
12. full
Bonus word
adjective

Math
~ addition problems and key words
~ finding 10 more and 10 less
~ identifying missing addends



Religion
~ God's love brings new life
~ celebrating the Risen Lord
~ talk about times we celebrate
~ Alleluia is a word of praise
~ meaning of a sacrament

Science
~ words to describe texture
~ matter - anything that takes up space
~ properties of size, shape, color, and texture
~ sorting matter based on characteristics

Writing
~topic sentcnes and supporting details

Technology
~See Saw activity on HFW

 

Week of March 22-26

Language Arts
Theme: How can we classify and categorize things?
Skills/concepts: making and confirming predictions as we read, looking at things from a character's point of view, joining words ( because, and, but, so, or), irregular plural nouns (man-men, mouse-mice)
Story Genre:  Fantasy
Sound pattern: ar
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
   trouble - to have problems doing something
   whole - complete, no parts missing
HFW: four, large, none, only, put, round
Spelling words:
1. arm
2.art
3. barn
4. cart
5. harm
6. yarn
7. four
8. large
9. none
10. only
11. put
12. round
Bonus word
resurrection

Math
~ Chapter 10 test on tally marks and graphs
~ finding 10 more and 10 less
~ identifying missing addends



Religion
~ Palm Sunday - Jesus' ride into Jerusalem
~ Lent as a time to pray, fast, and give
~ assembling Easter baskets for the Emmanuel Dining Room
~ Lent - ways to open our hearts during the season of Lent
~ The events of Holy Week
~ Stations of the Cross

Science
~ 5 environment types - tundra, prairie, desert, rain forest, ocean
~ Unit 5 test
 ~ careers in Science

Writing
~March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

Technology
~ Wonders Reading

Week of March 15-19

Language Arts
Theme: How do people work with animals?
Skills/concepts: visualizing as we read, sequencing plots - word order first, next, then, last - adverbs that tell when (soon, today, yesterday, etc), compound words
Story Genre:  Nonfiction
Sound pattern: y and ey at the end of a word making the long e sound
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
    clever - quick to think of good things or solve problems
   signal - a gesture, action, or sound that tells you to do something
HFW: found, hard, near, woman, would, write
Spelling words:
1. bumpy
2. funny
3. key
4. penny
5. puppy
6. sandy
7. my
8. night
9. found
10. near
11. woman
12. would
Bonus word
leprechaun

Math
~ tallying
~ picture graphs to show information
~ collecting data using graphs
~ using words more or less to compare graphs


Religion
~ Chapter 15 test on Wednesday
~ ways that our parish helps others
~ St. Joseph's Day - Joseph was Jesus' stepfather, he was a carpenter
~ Lent - ways to open our hearts during the season of Lent

Science
~ 5 environment types - tundra, prairie, desert, rain forest, ocean
~ food chain
~ santuaries to keep animals safe
~ careers in Science

Writing
~ Easter bunny writing

Technology
~ See Saw - practice orally reading HFW

 

Week of March 8-12

Language Arts
Theme: What insects do you know about? How are they alike and different?
Skills/concepts: visualizing as we read, using sensory words to describe, see and saw verbs, changing word endings - y to i and add es or ed, character point of view, using context clues to find word meaning
Story Genre:  Fantasy
Sound pattern: long i spelled y, i, igh, ie
Vocabulary - know meaning of each
    beautiful - very pelasing to see or hear
    fancy - not plain
HFW: caught, flew, know, laugh, listen, were
Spelling words:
1. by
2. find
3. kind
4. night
5. pie
6. right
7. boat
8. no
9. caught
10. listen
Bonus word
environment

Math
~ review of subtraction from 20
~ Chapter 9 test on Tuesday
~ intro to graphs in Chapter 10
~ using words more or less to compare graphs
~ tally marks

Religion
~ intro to Chapter 15
~ we belong to a church community
~ our parish is St. John the Beloved
~ Lent - ways to open our hearts during the season of Lent

Science
~ 5 environment types - tundra, prairie, desert, rain forest, ocean
~ food chain

Writing
~ leprechaun craft and writing
~ favorite color of the rainbow - writing and graphing

Technology
~ See Saw - practice orally reading HFW

Week of March 1-5

Language Arts
Theme: How do animals survive in nature
Skills/concepts: asking and answering questions as we read, main idea and key details to support, using go and do, capitalzing proper nouns, categorizing words
Story Genre: informational text/nonfiction
Sound pattern: long o spelled o, oa, ow, oe
Vocabulary: know the meaning of each
     search - to try to find something
     seek -  to hunt or look for something
HFW: find, food, more, over, start, warm
Spelling List
1. low
2.boat
3. no
4. row
5. oat
6. toe
7. we
8. keep
9. over
10. more
Bonus Word
habitat

Math
~ doubles facts
~ word problems
~ subtraction facts from 20
~ whole and parts

Religion
~ bishops
~ the role of the pope
~ Peter was the leader of the Apostles
~ Chapter 12 test on Thusday

 Science
~ environment
~ types of environments

Writing
Writing about Mr. Popper's Penguins

Week of February 22-26

Language Arts
Theme: How do animals help each other?
Skills/concepts:  asking questions as you read, identifying the main idea of a story and the key supporting details, using has and have properly , prefixes re, un, and pre, comparing and contrasting using a Venn Diagram
Story Genre: Informational text/nonfiction
Sound pattern:  long e sound spelled e, ea, ee, ei
Vocabulary: know the meaning of each
danger - a risk of being hurt or harmed
partner - a person who works with another person
HFW: because, blue, into, or, other, small
Spelling List
1. me
2. we
3. keep
4. feed
5. beak
6. seat
7. play
8. rain
9. because
10. other
Bonus word
February

Math
~ modeling subtraction stories using cubes
~ subtraction facts from 20
~ fact families
~ making 10 to subtract example
  16-7=
 16-6-1=
   10-1= 9

Religion
~ Apostles
~ we are the Church
~ the role of the Apostles
~ special meanings of our names
~ the Bishop and his role in our Church
~ Church leaders

Science
~ plant needs
~ plant parts
~ 3 types of plants - trees, shrubs, grasses
~ Unit 4 test on Wednesday

Writing
~ If I had a pet penguin
~ Summary of Mr. Popper's Penguins
~ Create penguin craft
~ what words can we make out of winter

 

Week of February 16-19

Langauage Arts
Theme: -  How do animal bodies help them?
Skills/concepts -  asking and answering questions as we read, sequencing, discussing the plot of a story, using was and were correctly - past tense verbs, putting words in ABC order
Story Genre -  folktale
Sound pattern -  long a spelled a, ai, ay
Vocabulary words -  know the meaning of each
     *special - something that is important
     * splendid - something that is wonderful or good
HFW -  about, animal, carry, eight, give, our
Spelling List
1. chain
2. day
3. mail
4. play
5. rain
6. way
7. took
8. hood
9. our
10. carry
Bonus Word
 president


Math
~ subtraction facts
~ taking one away
~ whole and part

Religion
~ Chapter 11 test on Thursday
~ Ash Wednesday - the beginning of Lent

Science
~ plant needs
~ three types of plants - trees, shrubs, grasses
~ flowers make seeds

President's Day
 ~ EPIC story
~ Discuss role of the president
~ George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

Writing
~ sequencing events of a winter story
~ building words out of the word winter
~ melted snowman writing - cause and effect

Week of February 8-12

Language Arts
Theme: -  How do we get our food?
Skills/concepts -  reading to anwer questions, contractions wth not, adding word endings ed, ing, plot and sequencing
Story Genre -  Nonfiction
Sound Pattern -  oo sound in book, look
Vocabulary words -  delicious, nutricious, delighted, enormous, responsibility
HFW - after, buy, done, every, soon, work
Spelling list
1. book
2. cook
3. hood
4. look
5. took
6. wood
7. nose
8. cute
9. buy
10. done
Bonus Word
St. John the Beloved

Math
~ adding doubles
~ Addition to 20
~ solving addition problems and looking for key words
~ adding with 3 addends
~test on Chapter 8

Religion
~ Pentecost

 

Week of January 25-29

Language Arts
Theme: How is life different than it was from long ago?
Skills/concepts -  rereading for information, comparing and contrasting, is and are verbs for present tense, using commas in dates
Story Genre-  Nonfiction
Sound pattern -  long o spelled o__e, long u spelled u__e, long e spelled e___e
Vocabulary words -  century, past, entertainment, future, present
HFW -  ago, boy, girl, how, old, people
Spelling list
1. hope
2. nose
3. note
4. rope
5. cute
6. cube
7. nice
8. ledge
9. ago
10. people
Bonus Word
penguin

Math
~ introduction to Chapter 8
~ breaking numbers apart to make 10
~ addition to 20

Religion
~The Holy Spirit was sent to help and guide us
~ ~ The sign of the cross and the Blessed Trinity
~ Pentecost - when the flames appeared
~ Chapter 10 test on Thursday

Science
~ plant needs and what happens if needs are not met
~ plant parts and the role of each part

Social Studies
~ our place on the map - in our town, state, country, continent

Writing
~ snowman writing

Week of January 19-22

Language Arts
Theme: -  What is a Folktale?
Skills/concepts - making and confirming predictions, finding cause and effect, past and future tense verbs - adding ed and will, commas in a series
Story Genre -  Folktale
Sound pattern - soft c, and g, dge
Vocabulary Words -  hero, tale, eventually, foolish, timid
HFW -  any, from, happy, once, so, upon
Spelling List
1. rice
2. nice
3. page
4. age
5. wedge
6. ledge
7. like
8. ride
9. from
10. once
Bonus Word
Cuocolo

Math
~ place value review
~ Chapter 7 test on Thursday

Religion
~ Chapter 9 test on Tuesday
~ remembering special times and special people
~ why God sent special people to take care of us
~ Introduction to Holy Spirit

Science
~ needs of plants
~ what happens if plant needs are not met

Technology Tuesday
~ Epci reading on winter

Writing
~ Snowman writing

Week of January 11- 15

Language Arts
Theme - How do plants change as they grow?
Skills/concepts -  alliteration (words with the same beginning sounds), long i sound with silent e at the end, reading and writing titles of a book, making and checking predictions, identifying the plot of a story and placing the events in the correct sequence, present tense verbs ( end in s and are happening now), making words plural 
Story Genre -  Drama
Sound pattern -  long i with CVCe pattern
Vocabulary Words -  bloom, sprout, assist, grapsed, spied
HFW -  green, pretty, togetherm grow, should, water
Spelling List
1. like
2. spike
3. ride
4. hide
5. bike
6. mine
7. make
8. came
9. water
10. should
Bonus word - January


Math
~number chart to 100
~ looking at place value to 120
~ identifying patterns in numbers
~ comparing numbers using the words and symbols for greater than/less than
~ using a number line to compare

Religion
~ Jesus as a teacher
~ church as the House of God
~ showing our love for others
~ thanking God for His love
Chapter 9 test on Tuesday, 1/19

Science
~ ways that animals move
~ classifying animals based on how they look and move
~ Unit 3 test on Thursday

Social Studies
~ Learning about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
~ Writing about our dreams for the world

** New Year's Writing project

 

Week of December 14-18

Language Arts
Theme - How can you find your way around?
Skills/concepts -  irregular plural nouns (men, children, mice), rereading to gain better understanding, locating the main topic and key details of a a story, adding es to make words plural (words with x, ch, sh, tch)
Story Genre - Informational Text/Nonfiction
Blends -  ch, tch, wh, ph
Vocabulary Words -  locate, route
HFW -  around, many, by, place, walk
Spelling List
1. whip
2. whale
3. catch
4. match
5. chiin
6. graph
7. shop
8. with
9. many
10. around
Bonus Word
Christmas

Math
~ modeling two digit numbers
~ review of tens and ones
~ adding tens to make a new number
~ Chapter 6 test is Thursday

Religion
~ the birth of Baby Jesus in the Stable
~ The Christmas story
~ the angels appearing in the night sky
~ Chapter 8 test on Tuesday

 

Week of December 7-11

Language Arts
Theme -  How do people help out in the community?
Skills/concepts -  rereading fro information, common and proper nouns, isolating sounds in words, changing sounds to make new words, words ending in th, sh and ng, capitaliazing proper nouns, identifying the character, setting and events in a story, making lists to help organize writing, reading fantasy stories and naming what makes them fantasy
Story Genre - Fantasy
Blends -  words ending in th, sh and ng
Vocabulary words -  leadership, admire, connections, enjoy, rely
High Frequence Words (HFW) -  all, call, day, want, her
Spelling List
1. fish
2. shop
3. ship
4. with
5. thing
6. sang
7. fast
8. wink
9. want
10. call
Bonus Word
December

Math
~ Chapter 6 place value
~ Using tens rods and ones to model numbers
~ Mental math to solve
~ Chapter 6 test on Thursday 12/17

Religion
~ what does it mean to follow Jesus
~ how can we follow Jesus
~ The Lord's Prayer
~ We belive statements
~ Chapter 8 test on Tuesday 12/15

Science
~ needs of all living things
~ types of shelter for animals
~ grouping and classifying animals

Technology Tuesday
~Seesaw activity on fact families
~ Epic books on living things

~Writing
~ Elf life
~ What it is like to be one of Santa's reindeer

Week of November 30- December 4

Language Arts
Theme - Animal Homes
Skills/concepts -  identifying ending sounds, changing ending sounds to make new words, possessive with 's, adding the ending - ing to word, re reading to find information, looking for the main topic and finding key details to support it, reading nonfiction stories and informational text
Story Genre -  Informational Text and Nonfiction
Blends -  words woth ending blends - nk, nd, nt, st, sk, mp
Vocabulary words -  habitat, depend
High Frequency Words -  eat, no, of, under, who
Spelling List - 
1. lend
2. send
3. fast
4. past
5. sink
6. wink
7. run
8. bug
9. of
10.who
Bonus word
Advent


Math
~ Introduction to Chapter 6
~ place value
~ Identifying groups of 10
~ Number words 
~ Counting by 10

Religion
~ Story of St. Nicholas
~ Advent is a time to wait and prepare our hearts for the birthday of Jesus

Science
~ Living and nonliving things
~ basic needs of animals
~ Pets and how we meet their needs

Technology Tuesday
We will explore Epic and do a SeeSaw Activity on nouns.

Writing
Santa is stuck in the chimney. How will we solve this problem?

Week of November 16-20

Language Arts
Theme - Big Buildings
Skills/concepts -  creating rhymes, singular and plural nouns, character, setting and events in a story, making and confirming predictions, contractions with 's (ex. let's, she's, he's it's), writing captions for pictures
Story Genre -  Fantasy
Vowel sound -  short u - blending, reading and writing words with the short u sound as in umbrella
Vocabulary Words -  shelter, materials, collapsed, furious, refused
High Frequency Words -  could, live, one, three, then
Spelling List
1. run
2. fun
3. nut
4. cut
5. bug
6. rug
7. men
8. head
9. could
10. one
Bonus Word
Thanksgiving

Math
~ more and less
~ subtracting to compare
~ Word problems
~ review of related facts and fact families
~Chapter 4 test on Thursday

Religion
~ Chapter 5 test on Tuesday
~ discuss Ordinary Time in the church calendar
~ Sunday is a day for God
~ Saints and how to follow their example

Science
~ introduction to living and nonliving things
~ 4 needs of living things - food, air, water, shelter
~ environments for living things

Technology Tuesday
 We will explore Epic reading! We will look for books on Community Helpers.

Scholastic News
~ Thanksgiving and having a grateful heart!

We will do many writing activities for Thanksgiving this week. How to convince Mom to have pizza for Thanksgiving and how to disguise a turkey!

Week of November 9-13

Language Arts
Theme - "Our Community"
Skills/Concepts - making and confirming predictions, blending and isolating phonemes, adding - ed to a word to make it past tense, introduction to nouns, using a comma to seperate a series of words
Vowel Sound -  short e - blending, reading and writing words with short e sound
Vocabulary words -  community, occupation, astonishing, equipment, fortunately
High Frequency Words -  again, help, new, use, there
Spelling List
1. leg
2. beg
3. men
4. hen
5. head
6. bread
7. grass
8. spin
9. there
10. again
Bonus word
November

Math
~ modeling subtraction with cubes
~ finding key words in subtraction word problems
~ fact families - problems with the same 3 numbers
~ related additon and related subtraction facts
~ review of subtraction facts from 10

Religion
~ how we can "spend time" with Jesus
~ treating others with kindness to show that we are a friend of Jesus
~ introduction to a Commandment - a rule from God
~ The Greatest Commandment to love God and your neighbor
~ Loving ourselves to show love for God

Science
~ Review of engineers and the jobs that they do
~ Designs
~ Sorting items based on matural or manmade materials
~ We will take the Unit 2 Test

Scholastic News
~ Veteran's Day and the courage and bravery shown by the men and women in the Military

Technology Tuesday
~ We will doa short vowel sorting activity on SeeSaw.
 

Week of November 2 - 6

Language Arts
This week we will focus on moving our bodies in Unit 1 Week 5. Our essential question is "How does your body move?" We will look at our new vocabulary words -  exercise, physical, agree, difficult and exhausted.  We will continue to work on the skill of visualizing as we listen to stories. We will categorize sounds. Children will be introduced to r blends - cr, dr, fr, gr and tr. We will also look at s blends - sm, sn, sp, st, sw. We will focus on sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks. We will look at stories that share informational text and are written with a purpose. My friends will also be introduced to possession with 's. 

High Frequency Words
 jump, move, run, two

Spelling List 5
1. drip
2. drop
3. grab
4. grass
5. spill
6. spin
7. lot
8. hot
9. move
10. two
Bonus word
pumpkin

Math
We will start Chapter 4. We will focus on solving word problems and looking for information that we know and finding the information that we need to know. We will look for related math facts - problems with the same 3 numbers - 8-2=6, 8-6=2. We will be introduced to Fact Families - 4 problems with the same 3 numbers - 2 addition and 2 subtraction.

Religion
We will talk about Saints as we celebrate All Saint's Day. We will talk about Saints and how they help us grow closer to God. They set a good example for us to follow in life. We will take Chapter 4 test on Wednesday.

Technology Tuesday
We will do a Seesaw activity on voting. 

** Reminder that Wed, Thurs and Fri are all 11:35 dismissal days. There is no lunch on half days unless your child attends Eagle's Club. We will have morning snack each day.
 

Week of October 26-30

Language Arts
 we will focus on Unit 1 Week 4. Our essential question this week is  "What do Friends like to do together?" We will talk about what it means to be a good friend. Our vocabulary words for the week are cooperate, relationship, chore, collect and deliver. We will work on categorizing sounds of words. The children will be introduced to short o sound and we will work on blending and building words with this sound. We will be introduced to putting words in ABC order. We will look at examples of nonfiction stories and fantasy. We will also work on identifying sentences aas asking or telling.

High Frequency Words -  fun, make, they, too

Spelling List 4
1. hog
2. hop
3. hot
4. log
5. lot
6. top
7. flip
8. black
9. they
10. too
Bonus word
Halloween

Math
We will finish up Chapter 3 this week. We will continue to review subtraction facts and straegies to use for subtraction. We will look at what happens when we subtract zero from a number. My friends should all know the meaning of the word difference. We will take Chapter 3 test on Thursday.

Science
We will look at materials and what they are made of and used for this week. We will look for examples of glass, metal, wood and brick on our school campus. We will take a look at natural and manmade objects. We will also work on pumpkin experiments - if pumpkins sink or float, how many cubes tall our pumpkins are and we will make a pumpkin volcanoe!

Religion
We will talk about being kind to one another - even when it is not easy to do. We will talk about the word trust and how we trust in God at all times. We will take our Chapter 4 test on Thursday.

Social Studies/Scholastic News
We will talk about the voting process and will have the chance to vote on a Halloween movie to watch on Friday.

Week of October 19-23

Language Arts
This week we will focus on Unit 1 Week 3. Our essential question this week is "What makes a pet special?" We will brainstorm ways that we care for pets and our stories will center on pets. Some of our stories will be reality and some will be fantasy and some will be realistic fiction. Our vocabulary words for the week are - care, train, companion, groom and popular. We will work on identifying contrasting vowel sounds. We will take a look at singular nouns and making them plural by adding an s. We will be introduced to -l blends like bl, cl, fl, gl, sl, pl and we will work on blending words with these sounds. We will look at what makes a sentence - capital letters, complete ideas and endmarks. 

High Frequency Words -  be, come, good, pull

Spelling words
1. black
2. clip
3. flag
4. flip
5. plan
6. slip
7. win
8. sit
9. be
10. pull
Bonus word
October

Math
We will begin our chapter on Basic Subtraction facts. We will model whole parts and taking parts away from the whole. We will learn the meaning of the minus sign. We will model using our cubes. We will work on sloving Math subtraction word problems. We will review the word difference - the answer to a subtraction problem! Practice math facts from 10!!! They must master these facts!!

Religion
We will talk about ways to make others feel welcome and how we can welcome Jesus in to our hearts. We will listen to the story Zaccheus and we will talk about John the Baptist.

Science
We will talk about the design process and how to solve problems. We will continue to make observations and draw conclusions from our observations. We will use the design process to create a back scratcher and to perform our egg drop experiment.

Scholastic News
 We will talk about the life cycle of a pumpkin and the parts of a pumpkin.

Week of October 13-16

Language Arts
This week we will focus on Unit 1 Week 2. Our essential question this week is "What is it like where you live?" We will look at our vocabulary words for the week - city, country, bored, feast, scurried. We will look at words with alliteration - same beginning sounds. Our short vowel sound for the week is the letter i and we will work on blending, writing and reading words with this sound.  We will look at stories that are fantasy and realistic fantasy. We will use details from stories to answer questions about the story. We will continue to do daily writes in our journals where we focus on correct formation of sentences - capital letters, complete thoughts and endmarks. We will work in our Handwriting books and focus on proper letter formation and using our best first grade writing.

High Frequency Words -  down, out, up, very

Spelling
1. pin
2. win
3. hit
4. sit
5. miss
6 kiss
7. nap
8. can
9. out
10. up

Math
We will review skills and concepts taught in Chapter 2. We will take Chapter 2 test on Tuesday.
We will begin our chapter on Basic Subtraction facts. We will model whole parts and taking parts away from the whole. We will learn the meaning of the minus sign. We will model using our cubes.

Religion
We will continue to talk about the Holy Family and how our families are similar and different from the Holy Family. We will take our Chapter 3 test on Thursday. We will focus on kindness and showing kindness in the classroom, on the playground and at home.

Science
We will take our Unit 1 Test on Wednesday. 

Social Studies
We will talk about Community Helpers and focus in on Firefighters and how they keep us safe. 

Week of October 5 - 9

 

Language Arts
This week we will start Unit 1 in our Reading Anthology. The chilren will receive two hard back readers to keep in their desk. We will discuss titles, authors and illustrators. We will use the skill of visualizing to create images of a story. We will continue to work on rhyming and syllables. We will be introduced to the short a sound and will spend all week building short a words by putting sounds together and blending sounds. We will work on phonemic awareness of identifying beginnig and ending sounds. We will look at the -ap, -an, -at word families. We will listen to a realistic fiction story and share details from the story. We will talk about using pictures as clues for a story.

We will also begin our handwriting book this week and really focus on proper letter formation and writing neatly.

High Frequency Words:  does, not, school, what

Spelling words: 1. man 2. can 3. nap 4. tap 5. cat 6. hat 7. not 8. does

Math
We will discuss addition strategies that we can use to solve addition problems. We will practice using each strategy. We will look for key words in a word problem that tell us to add such as more, join, in all. We will work to find missing addends. We will work on addition of three numbers. We will review Chapter 2 skills for our test on Tuesday, October 13. Continue to review Math facts to 10 to help with mastery and quickness.

Religion
We will continue to discuss the Holy Family. We will learn that Joseph was the stepfather of Jesus. We will discuss the birthday of Jesus on Christmas. We will identify ways that our families are similar to the Holy Family. We will discuss kindness and ways to show kindness to others.

Science
We will discuss what an investigation is and how clue words like first, next and last tell us the order in which to perform an investigation. We will make hypothesis on what we think will happen and we will test our predictions by performing experiments of mixing colors and kicking balls with our right and left feet. We will review the inquiry skills and how we use our five senses to learn about the world around us. We will do an experiment using our sense of hearing.

Scholastic News
We will discuss signs of Fall and complete a graph showing the signs of Fall.

Social Studies
We will discuss Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America.


 

 



Week of September 28-October 2

 

Language Arts
We will complete our last week of Smart Start in preparation for diving into Unit 1 next week. We will focus on sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks.  We will look at the pronoun I and practice using it in oral and written sentences. We will work on building words by putting sounds together. We will look at words with s blends - sn, st, sp. We will look at the letters -  g,w,x,v,q,j, y, z and short u sound. We will listen for rhyming words and we will work on identifying the number of syllables in a word.

We will have another week of "practice" spelling to get us ready for our first list next week.

High Frequency Words
are, me, she, with, for, and, have , see, said, was

Math
We will start Chapter 2 where we will focus on adding 3 addends. We will look at number order and realize that the the order our numbers are in does not matter in addition. We will work on adding doubles and then adding doubles plus 1 (ex 3+3 = 6, 3 +4 = 7). We will work on finding strategies to help solve addition problems. Continue to work on addition facts to 10 to help children with Math Facts Mastery!

Religion
We will start Chapter 3 where we will learn that Jesus was a part of a family just like we are. His family was called "The Holy Family". God asked Mary to be the Mother of Jesus and Joseph is Jesus' stepfather, chosen by God. We will talk about why God chose Mary to be the Mother of His Son. We will talk about the fact that The Holy Family lived in Nazareth and did many of the same things that we do with our families also. We will discuss Guardian Angel day on October 2.

** Chapter 2 Assessment will be on Tuesday. Books will be sent home on Monday to review for the text.

Science
We will continue to use inquiry skills - observe, measure, predict, compare - to learn about the world around us. We will classify objects by observing how they are alike and different. We will graph our findings and use our graphs to answer questions about the information. We will do a Science experiment with two water bottles - a full and an empty one - and also with an orange and an apple. The children will complete a weather chart starting on Wednesday to record their observations.

Scholastic News
We will talk about Essential Workers and how they have cared for us during the last few months. We will say a prayer thanking God for them. We will create cards as a sign of appreciation.
 

Week of September 21-25

 

Language Arts
We will continue with our Smart Start review of kindergarten skills to get us reading ready!
We will focus on phonics - identifying beginning and ending sounds. We will continue to work on rhyming pairs and building words by changing beginning sounds. We will look at letters c, f, d,h and the short e sound. We will look at sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks. We will practice sounting out syllables to identify word parts for spelling readiness. We will look at examples of fiction and nonfiction of stories and using details from a story to retell the events of a story/

High Frequency Words
this, is, my, look, little, where, here, play, the, we

We will write daily in our journal to complete writing prompts. We will look at sentence structure - the beginning of a sentence, word spacing and endmarks.


Math
We will continue to review the definition of added and sum. We will work on identifying the parts that we are adding together to make a whole. We will use a number line to count on. We will look at related addition facts (2+3=5 and 3+2=5) to understand that in addition number order does not matter. We will use our ten frame cards and counters to solve word problems. 

** Chapter 1 Assessment will be on Friday. A practice packet will be sent home on Tuesday for you to start to review. This is optional but a good way to practice the concepts that will be covered.

Religion
We will learn that God sent His only Son, Jesus, to us as a gift. We will talk about the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We will understand that we are also a gift from God and must share our gifts with the world.

Science
We will review how we use our five sense to review the world around us. We will do an experiment with celery and our five senses. We will also observe what happens when we put celery in water with food coloring. 

Scholastic News
We will look at the life cycle of an apple and different ways that we use apples. We will do a fun apple volcano experiment in Science and we will graph our favorite apples. 

Week of September 14 - 18

 

Language Arts
This week we will do our first week of Smart Start to review some basic kindergarten skills and to assess where we are in terms of a starting point for first grade. 

We will work on the concept of tracking from left to right. We will also listen to the Alphabet Song. We will focus on the letters and sounds of /m/, /s/, /a/, /p/ and /t/. We will blend these sounds and change beginning and ending sounds to make new words that rhyme. We will talk about fiction and non fiction and listen to an example of each. 

We will talk about sentence structure and will look for capital letters to start a sentence and endmarks to end our thoughts. 

High Frequency Words -  go, a, has, I, like, do, to, you, he, can

Math
We will review basic addition of numbers to 10. We will look at addition as taking two small groups and putting them together to make one big group. The children will practice writing and reading addition sentences using + and = signs. The children will learn the vocabulary words  addend (the numbers added together) and sum (the answer to an addition problem). We will use ten frame cards to model addition problems. Children will realize that problems can be related and that the order of the numbers does not matter - 3+2=5 or 2+3 = 5.

Religion
We will begin with Chapter 1 and talk about Creation. My friends will learn the definition of Bible and creation and we will look for examples of God's creation. We will talk about ways that we care for God's creation and will thank God for all of the people that help us to grow in God's love. Our number one rule this year is to BE KIND so we will always focus on ways we can show kindness to others.

Science
We will begin with Unit 1 and will be discussing our five senses and how we use each of our senses to learn more about the world around us. We will descibe objects using each of our senses. We will also talk about Science tools - rulers, scales, thermometers - and how we use them to leanr more about objects.

Scholastic News
We will talk about community helpers and how we can help in our home and school communities.