Concepts Covered This Week:
Religion:
- We learned what makes our Catholic school different from a public school.
- We made cards to thank our parents for sending us to A.C.S.
- We finished our special poster for Lighthouse Mission Ministry(LMM). We shared information about L.M.M. during the assembly on Wednesday. Mrs. McClurg delivered the poster to Base Camp. They were very honored and touched by our poster.
- We practiced and presented Mass on Friday. We worked very hard to read and participate in this Mass.
Language Arts:
- We practiced reading and writing many words where “a” makes the long sound.
- We practiced reading and writing consonant blends.
- We read a story about making cookies and a folktale about a gingerbread man. These stories had many of our high frequency sight words.
- We used these words to write sentences about the stories.
- We practiced writing sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.
Math:
- We began a new unit on addition of numbers with sums to 20. We reviewed vocabulary associated with addition: addend, parts, sum, whole and plus.
- We practiced the addition strategies of counting on, switching the order of the addends and double addition facts.
- We also practiced checking to see if our papers were complete and accurate.
- We completed our January calendar and began one for February.
- We counted to 89, representing the number of days in school by using dimes, a nickel, and pennies.
Social Studies/Science:
- We completed our class study of hibernation by adding some information to our notebooks.
- We read a fiction and nonfiction book about groundhogs.
- Many of us have completed our hibernating projects and are ready to share them with the class.
Specialist Classes- Physical Education/Art/Music/Spanish/Library:
- In art we completed our truck pictures by incorporating contrasting red hearts.
- In music we continued our unit discovering the instruments of the orchestra and listened to the excerpts of Peter and the Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev. This week we listened to The Bird (played by the flute), The Duck (played by the oboe), and The Cat (played by the clarinet).
- In Spanish, we practiced winter clothing vocabulary by playing a dice rolling game to dress a snowman. We’ve also been practicing responding to ¿Comó estás? and reciting La Gloria prayer.
- ln Physical Education, we continued to work on soccer skills.
- We did not have Library this week.
