Villa Maria We Love You!

We had a wonderful Catholic Schools Week celebration! We enjoyed a magician, a school volleyball game, a spelling bee, ice cream sundaes and more! During the week we took time to write words that describe Villa. We had so much fun with our name Wordles, we decided to make Villa Wordles. Here are a few:

And. . .

What words would you use to describe Villa?

Awesome Adjectives!

After using adjectives in our outer space stories, we decided to have some more fun. We each thought of 10 adjectives about ourselves. Then we used the Wordle site to make Wordles about us! Check out this wordle:

Outer Space

We learned about outer space. Here are some of the things that we thought were interesting:
The moon reflects the sun's light. C.T.
The stars are bigger than the planets. J.B.
The moon is smaller than the earth. M.T.
The moon is 1/4 the size of the earth. I.M.
There is nothing to protect the moon from things crashing into it. K.G.
Saturn has rings around it. S.D.
The Earth is made of land, air and water. T.B.
Pluto is a dwarf planet. A.R.
The sun is a star. J.N.
The moon has no air. A.M.
Some of Saturn's rings are made out of ice. L.S.
Uranus spins on its side. C.G.
The stars are gases. F.D.

We were also learning about adjectives in ELA. So, we decided to write a story about taking a rocket to outer space. Our story had to have adjectives in it. Here are a couple of our stories and rockets.

Here is our question to you, "Do you know an interesting fact about space that you would like to share with us?

Place Value is Snow Much Fun

We learned about place value. One thing we did was make place value snowmen. We each got a number. We showed the number with tens blocks and ones blocks. Then we wrote the number of tens and ones. Then we wrote an addition sentence. We put it all on a snowman. We had fun!
How do you use place value?
This blog post is by I.M.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This week we learned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We wrote about how we would keep Dr. King's dream alive. Here are a couple of our writing samples:

Then we read the story "The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. We created a peace wreath made of many different types of skin color. This helps us to remember to keep Dr. King's dream alive.

How do you keep Dr. King's dream alive today?

This blog post is by the students in 1b

Created with Wallwisher

The Week Before Christmas

Christmas Around the World Continues:

We visited the country of Italy.  This is what we learned:

• Old Befana leaves candy for the children and she is still looking for baby Jesus.  CT
• She leaves candy for the children on January 6th. SD
• January 6th is the feast of the three kings.  AM
• Old Befana was mean at first and then she turned nice.  MT
• Old Befana was baking for baby Jesus.  She got tired and took a nap.  When she woke up she was running and running and running to find baby Jesus.  Then she found she was running in the air.  AH
• We read the story "Old Befana" by Tomie dePaoloa.  TB
• St. Francis of Assisi built the first nativity scene. JN

We made crowns to remind us of the celebration on the feast of the three kings.

Bear Hibernation Day

• On the first day of winter we brought in our stuffed animal bears.   CG
• Bears hibernate in winter so we brought in our bears to hibernate.  IM
• We brought in bags to be their caves so they could hibernate in them.  FD
• We made stuff for our bears like a tv, a dog, a baby bottle.  We glued them in the cave.  EM
• We will take the bears out on the first day of spring.  KG

Here are the bears before entering their caves.

Here are the bears after they entered their cave.

We can't wait until spring to see our bears again!

This week we also made beautiful nativity scenes.  The girls worked so well together, helping each other to finish their project.  There was a great spirit of cooperation and generosity throughout the room this week!  Here is one of our Nativity scenes:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our blog visitors!

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