March 17-21

This week, we are excited to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! On Monday, we had a surprise visit from Lucky the Leprechaun. When we walked into our classroom that morning, we discovered it was a bit messy, and there was a note from Lucky saying he lost his shoes! As we tidied up the classroom, we found his shoes hidden among the mess. After we returned from recess, his shoes mysteriously disappeared! Instead, he left us a magical hat filled with leprechaun rocks and some special leprechaun water. We used the leprechaun water to clean the rocks, and to our amazement, we found a shiny coin in the middle of one of them!  We also took some time to learn about the life of St. Patrick. We discovered that St. Patrick used the shamrock to teach people about the Trinity. To remember this important lesson, we colored our own shamrocks.

For the rest of the week, we explored the fascinating topic of rainbows. We learned that a rainbow is created when light passes through a prism, which breaks the light into a beautiful array of colors. We discovered that water can act like a prism too, which is why we sometimes see a rainbow when it’s raining. We let our imaginations run wild as we wrote about what we might find at the end of a rainbow. We also described a person who is worth more than a pot of gold!  To wrap up our week, we conducted a fun science experiment using Skittles to create our very own rainbow. What a wonderful way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Monday:

Reading:

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Dictation practice

• Introduced to our new words, as, all, & out

• Listened to the story St Patrick’s Day

• Worked in our St. Patrick’s Day packet

  • Write CVC words

  • Identified the middle/vowel sound

  • Identified the beginning digraph

  • Found the hidden CVC words

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Worked in our St. Patrick’s Day packet 

  • Fill in the missing numbers from the hundreds chart

  • Addition Problems

  • Subtraction Problems

• Leprechaun rocks science experiment

Religion:

• Watched Brother Francis Lent meditation and wrote in our journals

• Used a Shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity - then colored it.  

• Watched a movie about St. Patrick

• Colored his picture in our saint book

Tuesday:

Reading

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Dictation practice

• Completed a -un Secret Word Worksheet

• Listened to the stories, What Makes a Rainbow? and What is a Rainbow?  

• Figured out how rainbows are created

• Drew a picture of something we would like to find under the rainbow

• Worked on our Zoos

Math:

• Calendar Binder

Religion:

• Watched Brother Francis Lent meditation and wrote in our journals 

• Colored the 6th Station of the Cross: Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Face

Wednesday:

Reading:

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Dictation practice

• Completed a Secret Words worksheet

• Writing project “At the end of the rainbow, I found…” (matched the pictures we drew)

• Worked on our Zoos

• Monster Hair Journal

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Disappearing Train Game

Religion:

• Watched Brother Francis Lent meditation

• Colored the 7th Stations of the Cross: Jesus Fall for the Second Time

Thursday:

Reading:

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Dictation Practice

• Completed a short u Secret Words worksheet

• Worth More Than Gold - writing and art project

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Reviewed our shapes and different Attributes

• Played an Attribute Spinner Game

Religion:

• Watched Brother Francis Lent meditation

• Colored the 8th Station of the Cross: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem

Friday:

Reading:

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Dictation Practice

• Read through our emergent reader, Looking for Gold

• Completed a rhyming worksheet

• Monster Hair Journal

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Science experiment - Created rainbows using skittles

Religion:

• Mass

• Watched Brother Francis Lent meditation

• Stations of the Cross