Week of Sept. 30

     Last week we continuing talking about the Holy Family and the students created a book showing how the Holy Family showed love for others and God and then how they show love for others.  This week we will begin talking more about Mary and practicing the Hail Mary.

     We are finishing up our first unit in Adventures of the Superkids this week.  At the end of each unit we will be reading one of our Super-Duper magazines, so this week we will be reading our first one.  The Super-Duper magazines are non-fiction magazines that have some great articles that the kids really get into.  We will also begin unit 2 where our pattern words will be words with wh and th.

     For math this week we will be creating AB, ABB, ABC, and ABBC patterns, adding doubles to 18, and identifying lighter and heavier using a balance.  We will be doing a lot of hands on activities with different manipulatives this week.

     In Science we will be reading some of our dinosaur books and talking about different types of eggs.  We will be doing an experiment with eggs and vinegar.