September 24-28, 2018 Weeks 6 and 7

Hi Everyone!  We have been super busy in class learning how to write a complete sentence, reading and practicing sight words, practicing addition facts, identifying properties of matter and we will finish up our science unit by identifying the three states of matter (liquid, solid, gas).

This week in Reading our Interactive and Shared Reading will be books... One of Each, The Sky is Falling, Chicken Licken, The Magic Rabbit, and Silly Fun poems.
We will discuss the difference between fantasy and real life; distinguish between a funny or serious poem; listen for and brainstorm rhyming words; recognize an Exclamatory sentence; read words with short u and final blends.

In Math we will subtract numbers from 10 and learn to count back.  

In Science we will complete our unit on Matter and identify the Three States of Matter.  We will be able to recognize if an object is a liquid, solid, or a gas.

In Social Studies we will discuss Good Citizens such as Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key and Eleanor Roosevelt.  

UPCOMING EVENTS...

Sept 27 ~ Back to School Ball  
Oct 5 ~ No School
Oct 8-12 ~ Fall break
Oct 16 ~ Kona Ice
Oct 26 ~ Picture Retakes
Oct 29 ~ Red Ribbon Week
Oct 30 ~ 50th Day of School

Another Great Week of Learning...

       Tessa, my student from last year was our "Mystery Reader!"

           Learning about "Clouds" and how they make rain!

Everything is ready for our first Math Marathon of the year!

In my class we watched a video about 2D shapes, made 2D shapes on the Geoboards, and played 2D shape Bingo!  

As always thanks for the follow!  Have a great week and see you next time!    Ms. Harris' Class♥

September 10-14, 2018 Weeks 4 & 5

Hi everybody!  I hope you're enjoying this rain and cooler temperatures.  It's sleepy time for me.  :)

Last week I didn't post but I will catch you up on some things that we did in class.  We worked hard on identifying and inferring  characters feelings in a story; blending and decoding short o words; we discussed and recognized the subject and predicate parts of a sentence.  We learned that the subject is who or what the sentence is about while the predicate is the action part of the sentence.  In Math we compared numbers and learned the greater than, less than, equal to symbols.  We learned a little trick that helps us to remember that the alligator always eats the greater number.  We started Science and observed clouds.  We understand that clouds hold the water that causes rain.  We learned the Water Cycle Song.

This week we will read ""Sitting Down to Eat" and "The Goose that Got Loose."  Both books are rhyming texts and we will listen for rhyming words in the story.  We will make predictions about the stories; discuss new vocabulary heard in the stories; read plural -s words; inflectional -ing words; discuss abc order; and main idea and details in a story.

We will start AR this week.  I will send home your child's AR username and password once we get started with this in class.  You can test at home as well.  It's an online reading resource so the internet is needed.

In Math we will use manipulatives to add and subtract numbers to 10.   We will use blocks, and other objects to help us add and subtract.

In Science we will discuss Properties and Patterns.  We will describe an objects properties such as its size, texture, sound, etc.

UPCOMING EVENTS...

Sept 4-11 ~ Book Fair

Sept 10  ~ Mr & Miss CES Fundraiser begins

Sept 11  ~ Kona Ice Snowcones (cost is $2, $3, $4, $5)

Sept 13 ~ Fall Pictures

Sept 19  ~ Back to School Picnic (12:05-12:50 during our lunch time on the playground.  You can bring a blanket or lawn chair if you would like to come and eat and visit with your child)

Sept 27  ~ Back to School Ball  (Children can wear formal or church clothing.  There will be refreshments, face painting, dancing, and the crowning of Mr & Miss CES)

Oct 8-14  ~ Fall Break

And this is just a "part" of what we are doing in class!  

Thanks for dropping by...see you next week! 

                                                             xoxo Ms. Harris' Class♥

August 27-31, 2018 Week 3

I can't believe that we are already starting week 3 of school!  We have learned routines, and about each other.  LOL!  Friendships and relationships are being formed.  It's so sweet to watch the boys and girls interact with each other.  The class has our morning math meeting songs and counting down!  Whoopie!  Ask them to sing them for you at home.  We are practicing sounds, sight words and reading in small groups everyday.  Great job! 

This week on Wednesday I will be testing students on the TPRI and checking reading, sight words, and their phonological knowledge.

In Reading this week we will read two different stories.  For the first couple of days we will read "Jamaica's Blue Marker" and discuss parts of a book such as the author, illustrator, cover, title, pages, etc.  Then the last part of the week we will read "A Fine, Fine Day" and notice features of words.  We will also practice rhyming words that end in the short i sound.  Rhyming is a difficult skill even for advanced readers, so please create rhyming words for the words listed on the newsletter. We will identify and write subjects of a sentence;  We will read poems  "Five Little Mice" and "Hickory Dickory Dare" and highlight specific words that we hear in the poem.

In Math we will work on numbers up to 20 using Place Value.  For example students will learn that 19 is 1 ten and 9 ones.  We will use base ten blocks and other manipulatives to build the numbers.

In Social Studies we will continue our unit on rules.  We will discuss creating order.  We will learn about authority figures and why we have rules in our community.

We will start Science lessons after we complete this Social Studies unit on rules.  We rotate Science and Social Studies.

UPCOMING EVENTS...

Aug 29 ~ TPRI Testing
Sept 3 ~ Labor Day Holiday
Sept 6 ~ Reading/Writing Night  6-7:30pm
Sept 13 ~ Fall Pictures
Sept 19 ~ Back to School Picnic
Sept 27 ~ Back to School Ball

Friday Fun Centers

Our class got to exercise their fine motor skills by building with Legos, we played games on the Ipads, made words with playdough, and read books in our reading center. Finally CISD personnel director caught us just as we were coming inside from recess.  We've had a very busy and productive week! 

Thanks for stopping in!  See you all next week! ❤ 

August 20-24, 2018 Week 2

We had a great first week of school❣  We were busy reviewing school and classroom rules.  We also reviewed kindergarten skills.  This week we will begin our first grade instruction.  

We have a new reading series called Fountas and Pinnell Literacy.  It focuses on small group reading instruction with students.  We will have shared reading time, interactive read alouds, guided reading groups and students will have independent reading time.

Each week we will read two focus stories and work on reading skills, grammar, and phonics.  Our two stories this week are Elizabeti's School and David's Drawings.  They are fictional stories that are based on children going to school.  

We will work on beginning sounds in words, create rhyming words, and clap syllables in words.  We will work on writing complete sentences.

In Math we will make and read data from a graph.

We will rotate Science and Social Studies lessons.  This week we will have Social Studies and learn more about rules for safety, order, and fairness.

UPCOMING EVENTS...

Aug 29 ~ TPRI Testing
Sept 6 ~ Reading/Writing Night 6-7:30
Sept 13 ~ Fall Pictures
Sept 19 ~Back to School Picnic
Sept 27 ~ Back to School Ball

Class Highlights

We had a wonderful week!  Thanks for following our blog.  Please come back next week and see what we are doing in class!  ❤❤❤

April 23-27, 2018 Week 33

We are 4 weeks away from school being out!  We are still learning new skills and reviewing past skills that we've already learned.  Even though we don't have homework anymore, please keep reading and practicing math skills at home.

This week we will read "Mole and the Baby Bird."  Our reading skills are to read diphthongs ou, ow; draw conclusions;  dictionary skills; identify pronouns; and Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue Linear Measurement.  This week we will measure with paperclips, marshmallows, and unifix cubes.

In Science we will conclude our unit on animals and their environments.

In Social Studies we will end our unit on maps and places.

Upcoming Events...

April 23 ~ Kona Ice
April 27 ~ TAMU Play
May 1 ~ CES Spring Music Program
May 4 ~ Field Day
May 10 ~ Glow Bowling
May 11 ~ First Grade Picnic

Matty, TyShaye and Parker got their "Flat Stanley's" back. 

 So far "Flat Stanley" has traveled to Oregon, Maine and Greenville! 

We matched animals and their homes!

                                          Tyler Zoo Trip

Thanks for dropping in this week!  

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