Dear Readers,
Today is our last day of this church year. Sunday is the first day of Advent and a new church year. In the afternoon, after the computer room,we took a challenge and tried to make the tallest tower using marshmallows and spaghetti (not cooked). It had to stand for 30 seconds and we discovered it was very hard to do. The tables that worked together really made less mess and had a good base for their tower. We are thinking of ways to improve our towers for when we try it again. It was fun.
Now we are thinking of our Thanksgiving dinner and holidays and next Thursday's field trip to West Chester University's planetarium. We hope you all have a great holiday and a happy Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Grandparents and Special Friends Day
Dear Readers,
Today some of our grandparents and special friends came to our school to visit us. We enjoyed a snack, going to chapel for a prayer service, seeing our classroom, and going to art and music with them. Some of us finished our turkeys that hold our Thanksgiving letter to Jesus.
This week we read from our IPads, did some oral reading to the teacher, and did a oral presentation of our saint that we researched and wrote about. We worked in the computer room and started researching on Little Explorers Dictionary from Enchanted Learning. We are looking for different animals that begin with different letters of the alphabet and giving clues about them for others to guess the animal. Different habitats are a part of our project. We hope everyone has a great weekend and happy Thanksgiving.
Today some of our grandparents and special friends came to our school to visit us. We enjoyed a snack, going to chapel for a prayer service, seeing our classroom, and going to art and music with them. Some of us finished our turkeys that hold our Thanksgiving letter to Jesus.
This week we read from our IPads, did some oral reading to the teacher, and did a oral presentation of our saint that we researched and wrote about. We worked in the computer room and started researching on Little Explorers Dictionary from Enchanted Learning. We are looking for different animals that begin with different letters of the alphabet and giving clues about them for others to guess the animal. Different habitats are a part of our project. We hope everyone has a great weekend and happy Thanksgiving.
Monday, November 17, 2014
More Excitement
Dear Readers,
We had another exciting day because we finished our letters to Jesus in the computer lab. We even added a picture or two or three to our letters. Thanksgiving turkeys were colored and some of us cut out the turkey parts to hold the letter to Jesus about being thankful for everything.
Handwriting is fun because we are so close to starting cursive writing. We demonstrated how venial sins can hurt the whole group. By using clear water and dropping in food coloring when something said or done was mean or wrong on purpose. Prayer, kindness and compliments turned the water clear again. We also enjoyed working on word problems and solving them by using data in a graph. Friday is grandparents day and we are getting excited to welcome visitors. What an exciting week this is going to be!
We had another exciting day because we finished our letters to Jesus in the computer lab. We even added a picture or two or three to our letters. Thanksgiving turkeys were colored and some of us cut out the turkey parts to hold the letter to Jesus about being thankful for everything.
Handwriting is fun because we are so close to starting cursive writing. We demonstrated how venial sins can hurt the whole group. By using clear water and dropping in food coloring when something said or done was mean or wrong on purpose. Prayer, kindness and compliments turned the water clear again. We also enjoyed working on word problems and solving them by using data in a graph. Friday is grandparents day and we are getting excited to welcome visitors. What an exciting week this is going to be!
Monday, November 10, 2014
Busy Week Planned
Dear Readers,
Today we worked on our Saint projects and saved our Solar System Sentinel News Report to our electronic folder. We learned more about Veteran's Day. We found out that Nov. 11th every year is about celebrating all those who served in our military services to protect our country's freedoms. This week we will be having Visit to Villa Day on Wednesday. So many visitors come to our classroom. What a popular room we have!
We will be working on a comic strip maker for a digital comic of making a choice-using free will. We will be acting out a story about the Loving Father or the Prodigal Son found in Scripture. We are trying to add some characters that are in the Scripture story of the Prodigal Son but not in our Religion Book, play version. We are still trying to complete the saints common craft video. We have quite projects happening at the same time. It really is fun.
Today we worked on our Saint projects and saved our Solar System Sentinel News Report to our electronic folder. We learned more about Veteran's Day. We found out that Nov. 11th every year is about celebrating all those who served in our military services to protect our country's freedoms. This week we will be having Visit to Villa Day on Wednesday. So many visitors come to our classroom. What a popular room we have!
We will be working on a comic strip maker for a digital comic of making a choice-using free will. We will be acting out a story about the Loving Father or the Prodigal Son found in Scripture. We are trying to add some characters that are in the Scripture story of the Prodigal Son but not in our Religion Book, play version. We are still trying to complete the saints common craft video. We have quite projects happening at the same time. It really is fun.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Fun Friday Again!
Dear Readers,
Today was fun Friday and we got a pin for reminding us we are preparing for the sacraments of First Penance and First Holy Communion. We worked on our E.L.A. assignments and got to play different board games and work on the IPads too. We made our bar graphs and questions to go with it. What fun we had!
Today was fun Friday and we got a pin for reminding us we are preparing for the sacraments of First Penance and First Holy Communion. We worked on our E.L.A. assignments and got to play different board games and work on the IPads too. We made our bar graphs and questions to go with it. What fun we had!
Monday, November 3, 2014
Exciting Times
Dear Readers,
Friday was Halloween and we didn't have to write in this blog. We had a great day on Mission Day for Halloween. We went to the gym and spent our money on singing and getting our nails and hair done and buying Oreos. We came back and had art then music and lunch. After lunch we played Halloween Bingo and won sticky eyeballs. We wrote guess who we are paragraphs and mad libs. What a blast we had!
Today we tried writing our Wordles again and had better luck but some of our work would not print. Our spelling needs a little practice on some of our papers. We saw the Saints that the 1st grade presented in chapel. They were awesome. We can hardly wait to see what tomorrow brings for us!
Friday was Halloween and we didn't have to write in this blog. We had a great day on Mission Day for Halloween. We went to the gym and spent our money on singing and getting our nails and hair done and buying Oreos. We came back and had art then music and lunch. After lunch we played Halloween Bingo and won sticky eyeballs. We wrote guess who we are paragraphs and mad libs. What a blast we had!
Today we tried writing our Wordles again and had better luck but some of our work would not print. Our spelling needs a little practice on some of our papers. We saw the Saints that the 1st grade presented in chapel. They were awesome. We can hardly wait to see what tomorrow brings for us!