Week of October 27th - 31st

First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
This week we worked on rhyming words, onset fluency, blending and identifying final and medial sounds. We also read Halloween books and made a special Frankenstein project.
Math
We continue to work with Chapter 4 in Math. We are focusing on addition and subtraction operations. We are also seeing how addition and subtraction are related.

Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
We worked on basewords and suffixes such as: -s, -es, -ing, -ed, - er, -est. We also worked on the oa, oe, ow vowel teams. The children journaled this week and wrote about their Halloween costumes.
Math
This week in Math we worked with regrouping. Next week we will be working on two digit addition. We will learn to add two digit problems with and without regrouping.

Halloween Projects

Pumpkin Projects

Last Friday our class joined Mrs. Spizzirri's classroom to make Witches Brew and Pumpkin cakes. The kids had a great time decorating their cakes and eating them too! On Monday we decorated gourds that were grown in Mrs. Micetich's garden. The children were very creative and had a lot of fun!

Week of October 20th - 24th

First Grade

Reading and Language Arts
This week in Reading we worked on reading as a group and individually. We worked on rhyming words, inital and ending sounds, blends, sight words.

Math
This week in math we worked with both addition and subtraction. We explored how addition and subtraction are related, identify and write related facts, write number sentences to represent addition and subtraction situations and learn how to choose when to add or subtract.

Second Grade

Reading and Language Arts
This was another busy week in Reading and Language Arts. We worked on our journals this week. The children made sure they always started with a capital letter, used finger spacing, their best handwriting and ended with a punctuation mark. We read and spelled letters using glued sounds such as: onk, ong, ing, ink, all, am, an, ive, olt, old. We also worked with phonics.

Math
This week we worked on reviewing concepts that we have learned in this chapter: rounding, skip counting and greater than less than. We had our chapter test on Friday. Next week we will start on addition of two digit numbers.

Week of October 14th - 17th

First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
We were busy this week in Reading. We worked on segmenting words, substituting words, adding and deleting phonemes and reading with expression.
We also reviewed the formations of the letters a - z and worked on sight words.

Math
This week we continued to work on subtraction. The students used counters, pictures, and symbols to explore the concept of subtraction. Please keep working on addition and subtraction with your children at home.

Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
The second graders worked on segmenting words, substituting words, adding and deleting phonemes and reading with expression.
The also worked on vowel teams such as: ay, ai, ee, ea, ey.
Lastly we started on our journals. We will be writing in them three times a week.

Math
This week we worked on rounding numbers to the nearest ten. We also worked on skip counting and identifying patterns on a hundreds chart. They have been doing a great job on their homework assignments. Thank you for working with them at home!

Character Counts Gym Night

Character Counts Gym Night took place last Friday. It was a huge success! We had 121 students in attendance and many helpful parent volunteers. We were able to raise close to $800 to use throughout the year for the Character Counts program. These funds will be put towards books, assemblies, and projects. Here are some pictures from the evening.

First Grade
Reading and Language Arts - This week we worked on rhyming with nonsense words. We also worked with onset fluency, blending and identifying final and medial sounds.

Math - We continued to work with subtraction concepts this week. Please practice addition and subtraction concepts with your children at home.

Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts - This week we worked on the bonus letters: ff, ll, and ss. We also worked with glued sounds such as: all, ang, ank, ing, ink, ong, onk, ung, unk, am, and an. The children worked very hard this week and I am very proud of them. Next week I will be introducing vowel teams to the children.

Math - This week we took our chapter test on place value to 100. We also started a new chapter on number patterns and concepts.

Don't forget to wear green on Fridays for Character Counts!

Week of September 29th - October 3rd

First Grade

Reading: We worked on segmenting words, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes and reading with expression. The children also worked hard on their sight words. Keep reading at home!

Math: This week we spent a lot of time working with number stories. The children used counters and pictures to explore the meaning of addition. We have also been working on different ways to use subtraction.

Second Grade

Reading: We were busy this week in Reading! We worked on closed syllables, diagraphs, blends, sight words, and reading with expression. The children did a great job this week.

Math: We are currently working on place value. We are also working on reading and writing numbers up to 100 and showing numbers in different ways.

Don't forget to wear green on Fridays this month for Character Counts!