January 19-23, 2015 Week 19

I hope that everyone enjoyed our long weekend!  Now let's get ready for the fourth six weeks.  We still have plenty more to learn between now and the end of school.  Please remember to practice reading and sight words nightly.  Students are expected to be reading on a level 10 at this time.  Please practice to build fluency and instant word recognition.

This week we will be reading "Frog and Toad Together."  It is a fictional story about two friends.  We will blend and read words with r-controlled vowels "ar" such as star, part, chart; read words with endings -ed, -ing; understand the author's purpose for writing a story; and identify past and present verbs. 

Math:  Place Value to 120

Science:  We will explore the properties of soil and the importance of water.

Social Studies:  Characteristics of the Environment (landforms, natural resources, etc)  

Upcoming Events

January 22- Report Cards
February 5- 100th Day of School  
(THINK creatively and make something that represents the number 100!)

SURPRISE SURPRISE!  We will have a "Mystery Reader" this Friday.  I wonder who it will be? Shhhh!  

Everyday we start our day off with our morning math meeting.  The boys and girls basically lead the math meeting.  They are awesome to watch!  We skip count, tell time, identify money; sing the days of the week and months of the year; identify patterns and geometric shapes; read the calendar day, month and year; discuss even and odd numbers; set and read a thermometer; interpret information from our weather graph; and make a number sentence for the number of the day.  The students are getting better and better with the skills as the days go by...here are some fantastic number sentences that the students shared in class.           SUPER JOB CLASS!

We ended the six weeks by playing Jeopardy.  It covered the skills that we learned throughout the 3rd six weeks.  It was our first time playing it this year.  We will continue to play this at the end of each six weeks as a review of past learned skills.  It was fun and they did a great job!  

           Getting our bells ready to buzz in to our "Jeopardy" game!

We used beans to count and make number patterns on a 120's chart! 

                                 HAVE A SUPER WEEK!

January 12-16 Week 18

BRRR!   I hope that everyone is staying warm!  

This week and next will be short weeks for us.  We will have teacher staff development on Friday and next Monday we will be out for Martin L. King Day.  I hope that you enjoy your extra long weekend!  

This week we will read "The  Class Pet." It is a story that tells about how real mice grow and change.  Our skills for the week are to identify fact and opinion; use adjectives that describe; blend and read words that have ending -es; and work on r-controlled vowels (we call these bossy r words such as or, store, corn, etc.); and practice daily Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue number patterns to 120.  We will skip count and identify the patterns that we observe.  

In Science we will explore soil and its properties.

 

In Social Studies we will continue our unit on good citizens.  We will discuss facts about Benjamin Franklin and Martin L. King Jr. We will also learn about the meaning of USA anthems and mottoes.

Upcoming Events  

Friday, January 16 - No School

Monday, January 19 - No School (MLK holiday)

January 22 - Report Cards

January 25 - Math and Science Night

February 5 - 100th Day of School  

Be thinking of something creative to bring to school to represent the 100th day of school.  Go to Pinterest there are lots of ideas!

Keep reading and practicing sight words at night!  Practice spelling words and the dictated sentences that are on the back of Monday's homework. Thanks for all of your help at home!

Have a wonderful week!

January 5-9, 2015 Week 17

Happy New Year!  I hope that everyone had a great Christmas holiday.  We are back in school and ready to learn lots of new things.

This week we will read a story called "Ruby in Her Own Time." This story is animal fantasy. It is about a growing duck family and little Ruby who develops and matures in her own time.  We will compare and contrast characters; identify and build compound words; read words that have consonant patterns -ng, -nk; and practice verbs that add -s.  We will decode, blend and read words in Saxon Phonics.  In Math we will work in our "Go Math" textbook and practice numbers on an open number line; and then work on number patterns.  For Science we will explore soil; and in Social Studies we will continue learning about good citizens.

I got a little behind uploading and downloading pictures.  :)   Here are some of the cute faces that I captured in December!




     Thanks to Madeline H. for all the wonderful "12 Days of Christmas" gifts!

 Pleasant surprises from two of my sweeties!

Aww!  Dr Pepper to start the a.m. off right!  Thanks Madeline K.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Ho Ho Ho!  Santa came to visit!

 Watching Reindeer Cam!

We watched Polar Express!

                                                       Listening to Santa on the big screen!

Our very own Elsa!

Pajama Day with my favorite sweeties!  They are so cute!

 Making Wreaths!

Making chains to countdown to Christmas!

                                           
                                             Shhh!  Making parent Christmas gifts!

Parents, we hope you enjoyed your calendars!

Getting our party on!  

Uh what are we suppose to be doing?  LOL!!!

Thanks parents for your help at our party!

                                           
          Where is my room mom?  Mrs. Harrison??? She was working so hard that I didn't get a picture!

                                                           Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Christmas!

December 15-19, 2014 Week 16

My, My, My, where has time gone?  I can't believe we will be getting out for Christmas this week!  We will not have any new spelling words or sight words this week.  We will read Christmas stories and make Christmas crafts.  We have a week packed full of activities.

Monday we will read Christmas stories and work on Christmas crafts.

Tuesday we will watch "Polar Express."  Students can bring a throw blanket and a small stuffed animal.

Wednesday we will travel to the High School to watch a play.

Thursday we will watch"Frozen" and students can wear pajamas.  Students will get progress reports.

Friday we will have our Christmas cookie decorating party at 11:00.  Students will get out early at 11:50.  

Ho Ho Ho!

On Friday I received a text from one of Santa's elves.  It said that Santa received our letters that we wrote to him.  We were "thrilled" to hear the good news.  I even wrote Santa to tell him how hard the boys and girls have been working!  :)

Thanks for following us this week! 

Merry Christmas!

December 8-12, 2014 Week 15

This week we will be reading a story called "A Place to Play."  It is a realistic fiction story that tells events that could happen in real-life.  In this story we will read about a community that builds a new place to play. Students will blend and read vowel sounds of y; sequence story events; identify verbs, and review syllables.  

Math:  We will continue to compare and order numbers up to 99.  

Social Studies:  We will discuss good citizens and their influences and contributions on our community, state, and nation.


Science:  We explore rocks and write about the rocks that we found on our rock hunt last week; we will also explore soil. 

12 Days of Christmas

Thanks Madeline for my special gifts from the 12 Days of Christmas!  You and your mom are always so thoughtful!

1st Day...A set of magnets for science activities

2nd Day...A thirst quenching Dr Pepper 

3rd Day...Chocolate Chip Cookies

4th Day...Hair gel for class to write spelling words

5th Day...Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows on a Stick

6th Day...Frog Soap Dispenser

7th Day...Rice Krispy Treats

8th Day...Giant Twix Bar

9th Day...Games for our Classroom

10th Day...Sugar Cookie Mix

11th Day...Cheese Crackers

12th Day...More Games for our Classroom

Thank You So Much!!!

Upcoming Events...

December 16-  Polar Express (blankets & stuffed animals)

December 17- Play at CHS

December 18- Frozen Movie and Pajamas

December 19- Christmas Party @ 11:00

December 19- Early Release @ 11:50

                                

We had our first "Mystery Reader" last Friday!  The students were given clues and many of them thought that it was going to be Mrs. Maroney!  Will the "Mystery Reader" please come in...???

It was Kendall Bailey!  She is in 3rd grade and was in my class two years ago!  Wow! What a great job she did!  Thanks Kendall! 

WE LOVE READING!

The boys and girls have discovered that AR testing is fun!  We have been busy reading and taking AR tests in class!  Remember to keep reading books at home.  They don't have to be AR just read!  

REMEMBER

Please continue to practice spelling words at home as they become more challenging as the weeks go by.  Also remember to practice writing the two dictated sentences on the back of the spelling sheet that is provided on Mondays.  The sentences need to be spelled and written correctly on the test on Fridays. 

Thanks and have a fantastic week!