Month: November 2023

Mrs. McClurg’s First Grade

Concepts Covered This Week:

       Religion:

• We listened to the Gospel where Jesus taught us how to love.
• We shared our Saint reports and pictures with our classmates.
• We had a visit from the Sisters of Mercy.  They explained their vocation and answered our questions. We learned that our guest speakers were teachers before becoming sisters.
• We participated in a prayer service honoring Veterans and a Mass honoring Grandparents.

Language Arts:

Math:

• We continued to use the math vocabulary words; whole, part, difference, minus and equals.
• We practiced using models, pictures, number bonds and the number line to show what happens when we subtract one number from another.
• We practiced writing out subtraction sentences.
• We solved real world subtraction problems.
• We counted to 55, representing the number of days in school by using dimes and pennies, filled in our November calendar and weather graph.

Social Studies/Science:

• We learned that a veteran is a person who served in our armed forces.  We discussed ways we could say thank you to veterans.
• We discussed ways that we can show respect and be responsible to our classmates.
• We participated in and completed the Circle of Grace Program. (This is the new Safe Environment program offered by the Archdiocese of Seattle.)

Specialist Classes- Physical Education/Art/Music/Spanish/Library:

• In art we finished our coffee cups project by adding patterns with oil pastels and painted the background with watercolors. We discussed how some lines can add movement and why watercolors and oil pastels do not seamlessly blend.
  • In music we danced the 7 Jumps dance to actively listen and follow musical cues,
    • practiced The Grandparent’s Day Song and performed at the Grandparent’s Day reception and keep the beat by bouncing a ball.
  • In Physical Education, we are learning to dribble, shoot and pass a basketball.
  • This week in Spanish, we practiced saying “Doy gracias”- I give thanks. We created a booklet of things we are thankful for to share with our families. We also practiced counting Thanksgiving foods!
  • At the library, we listened to a Thanksgiving story and browsed the Scholastic Book Fair.
    
    

Mrs. McClurg’s First Grad

Concepts Covered This Week:

Religion:

• We listened to the Gospel where Jesus teaches us to love.
• We learned that Saints are people who loved God and followed Jesus.
• We said prayers where we asked the Saints to pray for us.
• We shared information and a picture of our special saint. 

Language Arts:

• We practiced reading and writing many words with the short sound of “i”.
• We practiced reading and writing words with the -ck ending.
• We read words that represent sounds, zip, slip, quack, kick.
• We practiced reading stories with high frequency sight words.
• We used these words to write sentences about fun adventures at the park and a farm.
• We read a poem about baby animals.
• We listened to many stories about pumpkins and Halloween.

Math:

• We added some new math vocabulary words to our list, minus, difference, and subtraction sentence.
• We practiced using models and pictures to show what happens when we subtract one number from another.
• We to write out subtraction sentences.
• We counted to 46, representing the number of days in school by using dimes and pennies, filled in our November calendar and weather graph.

Social Studies/Science:

• We learned that a bird’s beak will help determine what kind of food a bird eats.
• We used a straw and a cup to represent different bird beaks.  We practiced picking up food (elbow macaroni) with our beaks without adding rocks (beans).  It was a bit tricky.
• We continued to practice active listening using the steps from the Second Step program.

Specialist Classes- Physical Education/Art/Music/Spanish/Library:

• In music we practiced reading quarter and eighth note rhythms with the song Bounce the Ball, learned a song to share at Grandparent’s Day and played rhythm 4 Corners.
• In Physical Education we reviewed underhand and overhand throwing and catching cues.  We practiced throwing and catching various size balls.  We also played games using our throwing and catching skills called Catch Everything, Protect the Castle and Hungry, Hungry Monster.  
• This week in Spanish, we practiced numbers 1-20 with a Bingo game and a color by number. We also reviewed vocabulary from Día de los Muertos by counting the items on an ofrenda!
• No Art this week.  We were in Mass for All Saint’s Day during our art time.