News

Religion: We are learning more about the story of

creation. We sang a song thanking God for the gift
of creation. We are working on our prayer manners
each day.
Reading: This week we are working with the
ending sounds ng and le. We read a great story
in our reader. We wrote in our October journals.
Math: We are writing and reading addition and
subtraction sentences. We practiced solving word
problems using pictures. We practiced subtraction
facts up to 10.
Science: We reviewed the parts of a plant. We
used magnifying glasses to look closely at seeds.
We sorted the seeds into groups by size, color, or
shapes. We placed a stalk of celery in red water to
see how water travels through the stem to the
leaves of the plant.

Mrs. Harris
October 16, 2015

Reminders
*All School Mass celebrating the Feast
of St. Viator will be on Wednesday,
October 21. Please join us at 9:30 AM.
*October book report is due Thursday,
October 22.
*Return library books on Monday of
each week.
*Please return field trip permission slip
and money by Thursday, October 22.

Social Studies: We read the story titled 1492

about Columbus. Using a map in our textbook we
saw the path that his 3 ships sailed from Spain.
Language Arts: We are learning about nouns,
proper nouns, compound words, and contractions.
This is part of our morning routine during calendar
time at the start of the day.

Apple Week Activities

We graphed apples collected in class by color.
We graphed apples by taste our class likes
yellow apples the best. We wrote about
the way apples taste. We counted seeds,
read stories about apples and Johnny
Appleseed and ate lots of apples!

Star Students
Anthony is one of our stars this
week. He brought some of his
favorite things to share with us.
He has a photo album of his trip
to Florida! His mom was our guest
reader on Tuesday.
Nayah is our star student. She
brought 2 of her favorite
friends to meet us. Her
mom was our guest
reader on Friday. She
read a story about
Nayah to us.