September 25-29, 2017 Week 8

Fall is here Y'all!  We are looking forward to cooler days!  

This week we will have our first Mystery Readers!                       "Shhhhhh  I wonder who they will be?" 

We will read "A Big Fish for Max."  It is an animal fantasy story about animals that act like people.  Our reading skills are to read words with digraphs sh and th, sequence (put events in order), identify common nouns, and practice Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will tell Time to the Hour using an analog and digital clock.  We will learn new vocabulary "analog" and "digital".

In Science we will learn the 3 Forms of Energy.  We will explore light, heat and sound.

In Social Studies we will continue our unit on Good citizens.  We will discuss local and state officials.

Upcoming Events...

Sept 28  ~ Back to School Ball 
Oct 13 ~  No School
Oct 16-20 ~ Fall Break
Oct 24 ~ 50th Day of School
Oct 26  ~ Report Cards
Oct 30-Nov 3  ~ Red Ribbon Week

Highlights from our week!

Family Picnic!

Thanks to our wonderful parents for taking the 

time to come and enjoy a picnic lunch with us!  

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September 18-22, 2017 Week 7

This week in learning we will read "Animal Park."  It is a literary nonfiction story about wild animals in Africa.  Our reading skills are read short u words, identify cause and effect, recognize exclamatory sentences (excited sentences), antonyms (opposites) and Saxon Phonics.  

In Writing we will write in our journals four days a week and one day a week we will write using our 5 rubric checklist.  A grade will be taken weekly from the 5 rubric checklist writing.


In Math we will work on subtraction facts.  We will use a whole-part-part mat and manipulatives to take away.  We will learn the vocabulary words "minus, take away, how many left."

In Science we will explore the Three Forms of Energy (Heat, Light, Sound)

In Social Studies we will learn about historical figures that were good citizens.  

Upcoming Events...

Sept 20 ~ Family Picnic on playground 12-1
Sept 28 ~ Back to School Ball
Oct 13 ~ No School
Oct 16-20 ~ Fall Break
Oct 24 ~ 50th Day of School
Oct 26 ~ Report Cards
Oct 30-Nov 3 ~ Red Ribbon Week

                           Using manipulatives to Add!

  
                             Sorting the 3 States of Matter!
                                       Solid, Liquid, Gas

                         Wait! Are these clouds a solid, liquid, or gas?

                            Experiments require safety goggles!


  

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September 11-15, 2017 Week 6

Hi everybody!  I'm sorry I got a little behind blogging so we skipped last week but I will post some pictures of things we did in class.  
Last week we learned about inflectional ending -s and -ing.  We talked more about the traits of a good citizen.  We all agreed that we are good citizens.  LOL!  In math we reviewed tens and ones. We started addition and identified the plus and equal signs.  We learned the math vocabulary "in all, how many, altogether, and total."   We let "Brain Pop" help us!

We had college students visiting from China.  They came to watch our "Nurture Group" lesson and decided to stay a little longer and teach us how to write our name in Chinese.  They also taught us how to say "please and thank you".  We enjoyed them and they enjoyed us! 

We had a great time with our new friends!

This week we will read "Get the Egg".  It is realistic fiction because it is a story that could really happen.  Our reading skills are: blend and read short e words, identify main idea and details, recognize interrogative sentences which are asking sentences, discuss fairy tales and folktales, and practice daily Saxon phonics lessons.

In Math we will continue to work on addition.  We will use manipulatives to add.  We will work on part part whole mats and learn new vocabulary "addends."

In Science we will explore the 3 States of Matter (liquid, solid, gas)

In Social Studies we will continue to identify the traits of a good citizen.  We will read about some historical figures that were good citizens.

Upcoming Events...

Sept 5-21 - Mr & Miss CES Fundraiser

Sept 14 - Fall Pictures

Sept 20 - Family Picnic @ 12-1 on playground

Sept 28 - Back to School Ball

Our class is outstanding!  They work hard and support each other each!  It is so sweet to watch as they clap and cheer each other on!

                   Recognizing the characters and setting 

                   in last week's story "The Big Blue Ox"

            Taking a little "brain break" with Go Noodle!

                        Identifying and sorting Properties!

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