January 18-22, 2016 Week 19

If you are a weekly follower,  you can see that me and my OCD self didn't post last week's class activities!   BUT since we have a short 3 day week we are going to stay on the same skills as last week. 

In Reading we will reread "Frog and Toad Together."  We will blend and read words with inflectional endings -ed, and -ing;  past and future tense verbs;  read diagrams;            r-controlled vowels -ar;  identify the author's purpose for writing a story; and practice Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will review past learned skills and get ready for our math benchmark test coming up next week.

In Science we will study Conservation.  We will learn about recycling items and how to reduce and reuse objects.

In Social Studies we will discuss the contributions and effects that specific historical leaders have had on our society.

Upcoming Events...

January 22 - No School/Staff Development

January 28 - 3rd Six Weeks Report Cards

January 29 - Jump Rope 4 Heart Money Due

February 3 - 100th Day of School

February 12 - Valentine Party

Congratulations to Kamdyn, Sam, Aubrey, and tomorrow Brooks and Justin for earning 25 AR points and Kamdyn again for earning 50 AR points!   YAY!!!  Eager readers!

Please remember that you have all year to get a shirt.  I love that it has been such a great incentive for your child to want to read! Please pace your child when reading.  I don't want them to feel that they have to hurry to get the 25 or 50 points. Our class is on fire!  Super job to all my students who have AR points!  WOWIE WOW WOW!

Remember in addition to the AR points that can be earned for an AR shirt, all students will be expected to get 12 AR points to go Glow Bowling later in May. These points can be combined so once you reach 25 points, those points can also be used for the bowling trip.

 Learning about fact and opinion can be tasty!  We used Kisses, Whoppers, and M &M's to form facts and opinions about each!

                     We can identify ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans!

        Aubrey, Kamdyn and Sam earned 25 AR points 

and got a blue AR reading shirt!

Happy Birthday Levi!  

We read "Frog and Toad Together."

We made a frog to hold our spelling words and sight words!

Brooks and Justin will receive their blue AR shirt on Tuesday.  Their pictures will be on next week's blog.  Again, I want to congratulate all my students with AR points!  Great job eager readers!!!

Thanks for following us!  Have a happy week!

January 4-8, 2016 Week 17

Happy New Year!  Welcome back everybody! We had a great day everyone was bright-eyed and bushy tailed!  I'm sorry that our blog is a little late. I was slow getting back into "school" mode!  But now the switch is back on! 

This week we will read "The Class Pet."  It is a story about a real class that has mice as pets. Our reading skills are to blend and read words with plural -es; identify fact and opinion; read words with r-controlled vowels; identify adjectives; and practice our daily Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue working with numbers up to 99.  We have been working on this skill for several weeks because it includes composing numbers, decomposing numbers, skip counting, place value, greater than, less than, equal to, and many more skills.

In Science we will learn about the different forms of water.  We will learn about rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans.  We will discuss freshwater and salt  water.

In Social Studies we will learn about historical figures and what they contributed to society.  We will discuss how their contributions shaped our country.

READ  READ  READ!
Please keep reading and practicing spelling and sight words every night.  If you are able, please help your child take AR tests at home.  This is a great way to check their reading comprehension skills. 

When our basal reading story is long, please partner read the story with your child or you can even read it to them, then afterwards discuss the questions at the end of the story. Remember that listening to a story is allowing your child to hear a story read aloud to them which is good for young readers.  Please always ask them story questions to make the reading meaningful.


Upcoming Events...
January 18 - School Holiday
January 22 - Staff Development (No School)

Getting ready for our Christmas Music Program!

We played BINGO!

YAY!  BINGO!

                          

  Ho Ho Ho!  Look who came to see us!

 

Beautiful Parents Helping us Celebrate!

And a Proud Grandparent!

"Mmm!" We decorated sugar cookies!

We had a great Christmas! 

 Thanks for visiting us!

December 14-18, 2015 Week 16

This is our last week before Christmas break!  We have been busy learning lots of new skills and in between making Christmas crafts.  There are only 12 more days until Christmas!     

This week in class we will not have a reading story from our basal or new sight words.  We will read different Christmas books and discuss the main idea; beginning, middle, and end; author's purpose, and sequence of events in the books. We will continue to practice Saxon phonics this week.

We will not have homework this week BUT please keep reading to build fluency.  :)

In math we will practice addition and subtraction; fact families; and missing addends.  We will play games to reinforce these skills.

In Social Studies we will continue to read and discuss how other cultures celebrate traditions and customs.

Upcoming Events...

December 15~Movie, Popcorn and Pajamas

December 17~ Progress Reports

December 18~ Christmas Party @ 9:30-10:00

December 18 ~Free Dress & Early Release @12

December 21-January 1 ~ Christmas Break 

I am excited to congratulate the boys and girls that made outstanding reading progress on the STAR reading test that we took last week!  BRAVO!!!

CHRISTMAS PARTY INFO...

Please make sure that you send party items to school by Wednesday, December 16.  That way I can make sure that we have everything that we need for a successful party.  My room parent will help me organize everything.  Thanks for your help with sending items.  

  HO HO HO!!!

Merry Christmas!

December 7-11, 2015 Week 15

HO HO HO!  Christmas break is just 10 days away!  I hope that the boys and girls have a great break because they have been working very hard!  We are going to be extremely busy these next 10 days!

This week we will read "Ruby In Her Own Time." It is a fictional story about a growing duck family. The author wrote this story to teach you that everyone or everything grows and develops in its own time.  Our reading skills are compare and contrast; blend and read consonant digraphs ng, nk; identify verbs that add -s; abc order; use glossary skills; and Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will learn relating addition and subtraction to make fact families; and identify the missing addend in number facts.  Example:  Fact Family    3+4=7
                                          4+3=7
                                          7-3=4
                                          7-4=3

Example: Missing Addends  8+___=15

In Science we will investigate soil, rocks, and water. 

In Social Studies we will celebrate  "Who We Are" and learn more about anthems, holidays, and traditions.

December Events...

December 8~ CES Christmas Program at CMS at 6 -7
December 15 ~ Movie, Popcorn & Pajamas
December 17 ~ Progress Reports
December 18 ~ Class Christmas Party @ 9:30-10 
December 18 ~ Free Dress / Early Release
December 21-January 1 ~ Christmas Break


We will decorate cookies at our Christmas Party!  Please see attached to the newsletter what you need to send for the party.  Please send your items by Wednesday, December 16 so that I can get a count of everything we have.  Thanks a bunch!

AboREADum Day on Tuesday!

DOJO REWARD...eating lunch in ArboREADum with me!

                                 Our Little Geologists are 

Investigating and Exploring Rocks!

Did you know that a "diamond" is the hardest kind of rock?

Did you know that a "mountain" is the biggest rock?

Did you know that a "pebble" is the smallest rock?

It takes thousands of years for a rock to form.  

Rocks comes from minerals and there are lots of everyday things that we use that have minerals in them.   Ask your child! :)

Thanks for visiting us this week!  We are counting down until Christmas!  See you next week!  Ho Ho Ho!

November 30-December 4, 2015 Week 14

I hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!  I did!  I ate, watched TV, shopped, ate, cleaned house and ate! My oldest son turned 30 and we had a surprise birthday party for him!  I am so blessed and proud of both of my sons.  They are outstanding young men! I want to share a picture of them with some family and friends...

I love my family!

Before we got out for Thanksgiving we had some fun activities.  We celebrated our friends and made friendship salad.  Each student brought fruit to add to our salad.  We then pulled names and shared something special about each other!  

Thanks parents for sending the fruit! 

It was goooood!  

All students that passed reading the 2nd six weeks got to play in a Hot Shot Reading basketball shootout game!  The boys and girls did a super job hooping it up!  

We've got some superstars!  

Watch out NBA and WNBA!  

This week in learning we will read "A Place to Play."  It is a make-believe story about a community that builds a place for children to play.  Our reading skills this week are to sequence events in a story; blend and read words with vowel sound y as in long e and long i; identify verbs; clap syllables; and practice daily Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue to work on numbers to 99 using objects, and drawing pictures.

In Science we will investigate the natural world of rocks, soil, and water.

In Social Studies we will celebrate who we are.

Parents ~ I will not send a December snack calendar because we have lots of snacks that will carry us until Christmas break.  The next calendar will be in January.  

Upcoming Events...

December 8~ CES Christmas Music Program held at Commerce Middle School Auditorium at 6.

December 15 ~ Movie, Popcorn and Pajamas

December 18 ~ Class Christmas Party /Early Dismissal

December 21-January 1 ~ Christmas Break

HO HO HO!  Only 3 more weeks until Christmas Break!  

Thanks for visiting us!  See you next week!