Weekly Spelling List - Vowel-Consonant-e Syllable

safe

Pete

pine

home

mule

tape

dime

hope

cube

name

Science - We continue to work on our animal adaptations unit.  This week we will be working on our problem.  We are learning about four environments - the arctic, the amazon rainforest, the desert, and the African savanna.  We will be thinking about the animal adaptions we have learned about and figuring out how to apply that to people.  If a person was traveling to each environment, what adaptations would they need to think about?

Religion - First grade is having mass on Friday, April 26th.  Mass parts went home.  Please practice, practice, practice the reading parts with your child!

We have been focusing on Lent and Easter.  Every day during Lent we watched a short 2-3 Brother Francis video.  Our Promise Papers have been focusing on Lent and Easter as well.  

During Lent we had tasks to work on each week.  Our tasks were fasting from blurting and unkind words, saying the rosary, praying the divine mercy chaplet, decorating bags for meals, making cards for nursing homes, and fasting from being messy.  As a class, we completed all the tasks! The virtues we are working on are honesty and self control.  We have learned the Fruits of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  We learned a fun song to help us remember them!

Reading - In word work we have been learning about synonyms. (words that mean the same thing)  This week we will add antonyms to our word work centers.  (words that mean the opposite)  We are currently working on another round of running records.

Caroline, Anna, and Luca made a puppet show out of popsicle sticks. 

They worked on the story of The Gingerbread Man in reading group and then

made the characters into puppets.  

Phonics - We have been working on suffixes s, ed, and ing.  This week we are learning about a new syllable - the vowel-consonant-e syllable.  When you see this pattern, the e is silent and it makes the vowel in the word say it's name.  This week we will also be learning the letter/keyword/sounds for the long vowels.

Math - In math we have been adding coins and partners of 10.  We have also been working on place value.  (ones, tens, and hundreds)

March BOLT Awards

Social Skills and Forgiveness

Congratulations to Luca and Thomas

Have a great week!

Holy Cross School commits to each student's learning and growth, blending innovation and compassion to guide students to become dedicated followers of Christ.

 Due to our short week, we will not have a spelling list this week.  

In science we are learning about animal adaptations.  We are currently learning about different environments, animals and plants from those environments, and adaptations that they use.  The environments that we are learning about are The Pacific, The Rainforest, The Arctic, The African Savanna, and the Sahara Desert.  Here are some pictures from what are working on with our environments and adaptations -

A few pictures from reading centers -

Thomas took home the 100" man!

Crosses

Have a great week!

Holy Cross School commits to each student's learning and growth, blending innovation and compassion to guide students to become dedicated followers of Christ.

 Spelling - Vowel Teams ou, oo

out

pout

trout

house

soup

school

soon

loon

book

cook

Phonics - We have been learning about vowel teams.  This week we are up to ou and oo.

Math - In math we have worked on adding10 to a number, comparing and ordering numbers to 100, counting by 100's, and place value (ones, tens, and hundreds).

Writing - We are continuing to work on our non-realistic fiction stories.

Science -  Our unit is called animal adaptations.  We are learning about 4 animal adaptations - camouflage, protection, food, and locomotion.  

To learn about camouflage, we had an activity where we used a paper  with a pattern background.  We used cutout butterflies.  The butterflies were solid color or the pattern.  The students had 20 seconds to pick up butterflies.  We counted which butterfly we had more of.  It was usually the solid butterfrly.

To learn about protection we did an activity where we learned about something an animal uses for protection and then we had to match the animal with that adaptation.

To learn about food adaptations, we learned about bird beaks.  We had 3 items that were used to simulate bird beaks - a spoon, a tweezers, and a clothespin.  We had 3 items that were used to simulate something a bird may eat - straws, toothpicks, and marbles.  We had to test each food item with a beak to see which beak worked best for each type of food.

To learn about locomotion, we learned about different items that different birds had - long wings and short wings, webbed feet and non webbed feet, and different types of feet for climbing.

Religion - During Lent we have been watching Brother Francis every day.  Brother Francis has a short daily clip that teaches us about Lent. The virtues and values that we are currently learning about are social skills and forgiveness, prayerfulness, and moderation.  We attend Stations of the Cross each week.  This week we will also be attending Living Stations of the Cross.  We will be going to Adoration this week.  We continue to work on our weekly Promise Papers.  We fit in Friendzy as much as time allows.  Each week during Lent we also have a challenge.  Our challenges so far have been to say the rosary as a class, to make bags for meals, to fast from blurting, and to say the Divine Mercy Chaplet as a class.  We have completed all of our goals so far!  This week our challenge is to fast from being messy.  We have recently learned about the Fruits of the Spirit.  (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control).  We are learning a fun song to help us remember them.

Reading  - We continue to work in our reading groups and centers.  Our current word work centers focus on Dr. Seuss!  

Typing - We have recently started learning how to type!  The students are practicing using a website called Dancemat.  They are loving it!  They are working hard to keep their fingers on the home row!

We celebrated Lucas' Birthday

Have a great week!

Holy Cross School commits to each student's learning and growth, blending innovation and compassion to guide students to become dedicated followers of Christ.