Week of April 13th

 The kids took adorable pictures in their rain gear, created umbrellas using coffee filters and markers, and Ms. Huggins put it all together!

Pizza Lunch Day is on Wednesday.

Please return the extra virtual day of non-completed work by Friday.  DO NOT HAVE YOUR CHILD COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENTS!

We are in need of a few items for the last quarter of school if anyone has any of the items on hand to donate:  white coffee filters, colored pipe cleaners, and play-doh.

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--Monday we will complete the Easter chapter.  Tuesday and Thursday we will be doing our Spring Self-Safety lessons.  The topic for Tuesday is emotions and Thursday is healthy/bad habits. All school Mass with our 7th grade buddies is Wednesday.

Language Arts/Grammar--The phonics skill for the week is the usage of digraph /ea/ which will also be used in the spelling words.  The grammar lesson will be to learn how change the /y/ to /i/ when adding an ending to the word.  The main story is a variation of "Cinderella."  The decodable story homework will be Wednesday.

Congratulations to our book reading goal kiddos of the week!

Handwriting:  The new spelling words will be introduced on Monday.    We are going to use our handwriting book to practice the letter strokes for lowercase /f/ and uppercase /G/.  Spelling test on Friday.

Math--The week begins with a lesson identifying the names of 3-dimensional shapes, moving to attributes of 3-dimensional shapes and finally comparing 2 and 3-dimensional shapes.

Science: -We are going to begin our unit on plants.   Monday we will enjoy a Scholastic Newspaper.  Tuesday and Wednesday the children will be making their own plant dictionary.  Thursday the students will create a plant life cycle hat and Friday will be planting day. 

SPELLING WORDS:  boat, road, snow, row, blow, yellow, loaf, coat, soap, pillow

WORDS TO PRACTICE READING:  wild, mouth, found, took, once

Holy Week

 

Ms. Huggins has us ready for Spring.  She put a bumble sticker on each child's nose then we took a picture!

Key Concepts for the Week:

Religion--Monday and Tuesday we will learn about The Triduum.  Wednesday is Mass. 

Language Arts--Monday we are going to be making the costume/hat for our play and practicing our reading parts, Tuesday perform our play, and Wednesday we will read and learn about Spy Wednesday.

Handwriting--No Spelling Test this week.  We will use our handwriting book Monday and Tuesday to practice the letter strokes for lowercase /p & r/.

Math--Monday we will complete the review of Chapter 12.   Tuesday will be the test.

Holy Week--The afternoons will be spent doing activities for Holy Week.  Monday the children will make a model for The Triduum, Tuesday we will be doing a Stations of the Cross-matching activity, and Wednesday afternoon we will be in the gym watching the 8th graders act out Shadow Stations of the cross.

We made our own palm branches last week and acted our Jesus' arrival into Jerusalem and on Friday the 1st graders had the privilege of walking the Stations of the Cross with Fr. Grant.

Thursday, we ended our water cycle unit by having the 1st graders work with a partner to make a "cloud" rain.  I hope they shared this activity with you!