Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Week of November 28th

Hey Families! Hope you are enjoying your Thanksgiving holiday!  Here is next week's agenda:

Reading - We will finish up our Owls in the Family book this week.  The children will begin a new leveled book as well.  We will work on comprehension, setting, predicting, visualizing, inferring, and character analysis.

Spelling - Owls in the Family vocabulary words (under Owls on spellingcity.com)  December is a very busy month, so we will take a temporary break from spelling enrichment until after Christmas.

English - Adjectives, Adverbs, and Pronouns

Math - Line graphs, circle graphs, and Venn diagrams

Social Studies - NE Region Posters   We will take a test over the locations of the Northeast states on Thursday and a test over the Northeast states/capitals on Friday.  I sent home a study guide 2 weeks ago so the children could be looking over them, but if they need a new one, I will be glad to copy some more. They need to let me know.

Science - Owls   I ordered the owl pellets! Thanks to all who contributed to this worthwhile project!!  Hopefully, they will come in soon!!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Week of November 21st

Short Week!  These 2 days will be filled with activities ranging from Owls to Thanksgiving to Graphing!!  Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!

Friday, November 11, 2011

Week of November 14th

Hey Families!! Here is a look at next week:

Reading - We will begin the book Owls in the Family.  We will work on both literal and inferential comprehension questions as well as new vocabulary with this story.  The children also have a leveled book by Roald Dahl assigned by me to complete.  They will be graded on their AR test and a conflict/resolution flip chart pertaining to their book.

Spelling - List 11 - contractions  The enriched list are the "U" words.

English - Adverbs

Math - Pictographs, Bar Graphs, and Double Bar Graphs

Social Studies - More on the American Revolution, Boston Tea Party, Ellis Island  We will take notes on the American Revolution on Monday and have a test on Thursday over it. 

Science - Owls

The turkeys are awesome!! I will be hanging them up soon! Such creativity was used !! Their turkey speeches are funny too!

Please remember to send in $2 for owl pellets by Wednesday.  Thanks to those who have already done so!

Don't forget to be looking for and pressing leaves this weekend.

Most of the children did super on their human body test! So very proud of them!! 

Don't forget  to fill out the address booklet for our easy fundraiser and send it in Monday.  The children will get a prize for participating and our school earns $2.75 per booklet returned.  Thanks for your help!

Thanks for all you do to help make this school year successful! I absolutely LOVE your children! They are gifts!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Week of November 7th

It's been a windy, but beautiful weekend!! Hope you've enjoyed yours!

Agenda:

Reading - We will finish up the BFG this week! It's been a very enjoyable story! The children have finished their leveled books and will complete their story maps this week.  The maps are due on Wednesday.  I will then give them a new leveled book by Roald Dahl. (The same author of  BFG!)

Spelling - List 10....."schwa" words   The enriched list are the "T" words.

English - Adjective Comparatives, Adverbs

Math - Telling time, elapsed time, calendar elapsed time

Social Studies - 13 Colonies and William Bradford, Woodland Indians, George Washington  Last week, I sent home a paper that included the states and capitals of the Northeast Region.  I told the children that they need to keep this paper in a safe place, like on the frig., and to be getting familiar with these states and capitals. Our tests over these won't be for a couple weeks, but it's always good to be looking over them ahead of time. :)

Science - Human Body   We will take notes and create a study guide on Wednesday for a test over the human body on Friday.  Be on the lookout for the study guide!

***Don't forget to bring in your disguised turkey homework project.  It is due this Friday. ***

***I'm noticing the changing leaves.  They are beautiful!  Every year, we do a really cool art project with pressed leaves!  I want the children to be looking for leaves in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes.  Then they should press them.  These pressed leaves will be due next Friday, November 18th.  I will send home a more specific "how to" this week. ***