This week was filled with a variety of exciting activities! We kicked things off on Monday with a special Veterans Day program, where several veterans graciously joined us to share their inspiring stories from their time in the service and explain the true meaning behind this important holiday. The excitement continued on Thursday as we celebrated the 50th day of school with a lively Back to the Fifties Party! We immersed ourselves in fun by counting to fifty, writing fifty words, and even enjoying a delightful Sock Hop complete with refreshing Root Beer Floats. Our exploration took a fascinating turn as we delved into the world of corn, conducting hands-on experiments with an ear of dent “feed” corn. We discovered that this ear floated in water, weighed about 18 blocks, and contained around 500 shiny kernels! We also learned the science behind popcorn, observing how it pops due to steam pressure, and enjoyed a tasty taste test of various toppings, with cinnamon and sugar emerging as the clear favorite. To wrap up our adventurous week, we embraced our artistic sides by creating our own vibrant Indian corn using colorful tissue paper squares, celebrating the diversity and creativity that this amazing plant brings to our lives!
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Created list of words that begin with the /i/- identified the number of syllables, broke word apart and identified corresponding letter sounds
Completed a letter I worksheet
Completed a short a words matching worksheet
Reviewed all of the information we have learned about Veterans and American Symbols
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Collected different data from an ear of corn after making predictions - number of links long, number of blocks to equal the weight, float or sink, number of kernels
Religion:
Prayed a decade of the rosary
Today we celebrated Veterans Day! After recess, we had a short Veterans Day program. Several veterans from the community stopped by to talk to use about their time in the service and why we celebrate Veteran’s Day. We gave them the special Thank You pictures we colored earlier this week.
Tuesday
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter. Nn worksheet
Introduced to our new word, like
Read through our emergent reader, I Like Corn
Explored why popcorn pops by watching a couple of short videos
Created list of words that of things we like to eat on our popcorn
Math:
Calendar
Tasted tested different popcorn toppings and then graphed our favorites
Analyzed the data from the graph
Religion:
Prayed a decade of the rosary
Gospel Weekly - every gift is important
Wednesday:
Scheduled early release day.
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Ss worksheet
Wrote about our favorite popcorn topping and our favorite movie and drew a picture
Math:
Calendar
Number Talks
Religion:
Painted our beads for our decade of the rosary.
Thursday:
Happy 50th Day of School! What an exciting day we had! To celebrate the 50th day of school, we had a Back to the Fifties party!
Reading
Wrote 50 words
Created a list of things we can do in 50 years
Completed a Now and Then sorting activity
Root Beer Float science experiment: Does ice cream float in root beer?
Math
Calendar
Counted to 50 by ones, fives, and tens
Number Find: located numbers on a hundreds chart to create a picture of the word fifty
Created AB, ABB, ABC patterns
Sock hop dance party
Religion:
Prayed a decade of the rosary
Friday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Cc worksheet
Created Indian Corn by gluing tissue paper squares to a corn outline
Math:
Calendar
Represented different numbers on the ten frame
Found the ten pairs (1 and 9 or 4 and 6)
Religion:
Mass
Created our decade rosary
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