Yesterday we made our pretzels to remind us to pray. This is a great Lenten activity the kids really enjoy! The pretzels are "arms crossed in prayer". Most kids chose to take a copy of the recipe home for you to try with them. Kosher salt for the top can be purchased at the grocery store if you choose to do so. In addition to Lent activities we are also preparing for our First Holy Communion. Even those who aren't making their First Communion get to do the lessons with us which are all part of our basic Religion class.
We are going to be learning to subtract 2-digit numbers beginning next week! We continue to practice our facts. Hopefully, the students are practicing with them at home, too. Each child was given a laminated practice sheet ( which I would like returned after they know those facts), and they can get the next one to study.
In English we are doing more possessives and next week will be present tense verbs. In addition, we do Daily Language Practice each day. This is a sentence on the board which they "proofread" and correct to help them learn about capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. They have been doing really well with this daily practice.
In Science, we are learning about water as a resource. We made a chart of as many ways as we could think of that we use water every day, and then tallied how many times that day we used water in those ways.
Next week is Holy Week. May it be a blessed week with prayer and worship!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
March 5
Next week we will be finishing up our 4th theme in Reading. That means only two more to go! We will be doing our Theme Skills Tests and hopefully begin a March story.
I will be gone on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Bell and I will be at St. Louis School on the validation team. It will be different to be on the "other side" of the site visit!
Next week, too, we will begin our lessons in preparation for First Holy Communion which is on April 25th. It's coming sooner than we might think!
Our Lent projects and meditations have been going very well. We all enjoy the peacefulness of the meditations and writing our responses or prayers about the meditations. We do them once a week, and the theme is from the Sunday's Gospel.
We are working on two-digit addition in Math. This is going MUCH better than telling time! :-) We're having fun using the base-10 blocks as well as the overhead projector.
We read "The Great Ball Game" in reading this week. The phonics lessons included OA, OW, O words for the long o sound. We also reviewed Cause and Effect.
In English, we are working with plural possessives. They "got" the singular possessives, but the plurals are more difficult.
We are learning about rocks and sand in Science. We looked at different kinds which the kids enjoyed. They knew some of the rocks such as the granite which is pretty plentiful around here. Of course, quartz and sandstone are also, which they recognized.
Have a good weekend!
I will be gone on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Bell and I will be at St. Louis School on the validation team. It will be different to be on the "other side" of the site visit!
Next week, too, we will begin our lessons in preparation for First Holy Communion which is on April 25th. It's coming sooner than we might think!
Our Lent projects and meditations have been going very well. We all enjoy the peacefulness of the meditations and writing our responses or prayers about the meditations. We do them once a week, and the theme is from the Sunday's Gospel.
We are working on two-digit addition in Math. This is going MUCH better than telling time! :-) We're having fun using the base-10 blocks as well as the overhead projector.
We read "The Great Ball Game" in reading this week. The phonics lessons included OA, OW, O words for the long o sound. We also reviewed Cause and Effect.
In English, we are working with plural possessives. They "got" the singular possessives, but the plurals are more difficult.
We are learning about rocks and sand in Science. We looked at different kinds which the kids enjoyed. They knew some of the rocks such as the granite which is pretty plentiful around here. Of course, quartz and sandstone are also, which they recognized.
Have a good weekend!
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