Hi Families! Here is the agenda for this week:
Reading - We will begin the book, The BFG, by Roald Dahl, this week. It is a delightful fantasy that will keep us both laughing and in suspense! The genre we are studying this month is fantasy. The skill of the week is making inferences.
English - Verbs and Adjectives
Spelling - List 13 on spellingcity Suffixes
Math - Estimating sums and differences, Adding whole numbers, Word problems
Social Studies - Oklahoma History - We have been talking about and will review Oklahoma history. The children will create a study guide for a test over this information. The study guide will go home on Monday. The test will be on Friday. We will also work on our Oklahoma Symbols book.
Don't forget that the field trip to Turkey Creek School is this Thursday. Look for an envelope to come home on Wednesday. In this envelope, please include the $5 admission fee and an extra $7 if you want a class picture.
Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences begin this Tuesday. I will send home a reminder of the time you signed up for on Monday. Looking forward to sharing a little spot of time with you and your child to talk about our days at school and your child's strengths, weaknesses, grades so far, reading level, test results, and AR points and goals, etc. :)
Quote of the week: A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
Have a great first week of October!!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Week of September 24th
Hello Families! Here is what's ahead:
Reading - Leveled Novels should be finished by Monday, Sept. 24, and the Story Element Poster Project will be due this Friday. Most of the children are done with their stories and some have even started or completed their poster project. Our skill focus this week will be "setting".
English - The children will complete their final draft of their animal reports and picture. We will also be learning how to write a Friendly Letter.
Spelling - List 9 on spellingcity. (Days on the Week and Months)
Math - Decimal place value and money
Science - Minerals, Landforms, Weathering and Erosion
Social Studies - We will paint our Oklahoma Dough Maps. We will also make an Oklahoma Symbols Book.
Conferences will be coming up next Tuesday and the following Monday. I will be sending home a letter tomorrow about how I do conferencing. Please look for that letter, sign and return it.
Reading - Leveled Novels should be finished by Monday, Sept. 24, and the Story Element Poster Project will be due this Friday. Most of the children are done with their stories and some have even started or completed their poster project. Our skill focus this week will be "setting".
English - The children will complete their final draft of their animal reports and picture. We will also be learning how to write a Friendly Letter.
Spelling - List 9 on spellingcity. (Days on the Week and Months)
Math - Decimal place value and money
Science - Minerals, Landforms, Weathering and Erosion
Social Studies - We will paint our Oklahoma Dough Maps. We will also make an Oklahoma Symbols Book.
Conferences will be coming up next Tuesday and the following Monday. I will be sending home a letter tomorrow about how I do conferencing. Please look for that letter, sign and return it.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Week of September 17th
Hello Families! Hope you've enjoyed this rainy weather!! It has been nice!
Agenda for the week:
Math - Place Value Test on Wednesday.....I will send home a study guide on Monday. We will look at money and decimals.
Reading - The children will continue reading their leveled novels. I will teach a lesson on story elements on Monday and the children will have a story element poster to complete on their books when they are done. The stories need to be read by Monday, September 24th. I will give a grade on their AR test and the story element poster project.
Spelling - List 8 doubles Find the list on spellingcity
English - Verbs; We will also finish up our animal research report this week.
Social Studies - Oklahoma geography
Science - Last week we began a unit on Geology. We looked at the layers of the earth and learned about what each layer is made of, and the temperature and the depth of each layer. This week, we will look at the 3 types of rocks.
***Don't forget that the Map Homework Project is due this Thursday.***
The quote of the week is: When you choose your friends, don't be short changed by choosing personality over character.
I am so very proud that most of my children are choosing to read at home!! Good job! Keep up the good work! Moms and Dads.....you have a lot to do with instilling good work habits at home, as well as making your children better readers. This is where it begins. Children who read at home and/or are read to at home are better readers and have bigger vocabularies!
We had a great time on our field trip on Friday. It was a bit cold and damp, and the children had to wait sometimes for long periods of time to go to a learning station, but most were well behaved. I had a couple really good class leaders that had a great effect on the class. So proud of them!! There were a few that had some issues, however. Hopefully, they will learn how to act in a public place on a field trip, so that they will be allowed to go to the Science Museum in OKC in the Spring. I will be watching them closely on the next field trip to the Turkey Creek School in October. :)
Thursday will be an exciting day!! We will have our first payday!! Thank you to Gayla Brice, Rick Goben, and Carri Crockett for coming Thursday morning to help us make duct tape wallets! I so appreciate you!!
****Don't forget that book orders are due this Thursday. Remember, even if you order just one book, you get a free book! (Buy one, get one free!) That's a great deal and it sure helps our class!*****
Agenda for the week:
Math - Place Value Test on Wednesday.....I will send home a study guide on Monday. We will look at money and decimals.
Reading - The children will continue reading their leveled novels. I will teach a lesson on story elements on Monday and the children will have a story element poster to complete on their books when they are done. The stories need to be read by Monday, September 24th. I will give a grade on their AR test and the story element poster project.
Spelling - List 8 doubles Find the list on spellingcity
English - Verbs; We will also finish up our animal research report this week.
Social Studies - Oklahoma geography
Science - Last week we began a unit on Geology. We looked at the layers of the earth and learned about what each layer is made of, and the temperature and the depth of each layer. This week, we will look at the 3 types of rocks.
***Don't forget that the Map Homework Project is due this Thursday.***
The quote of the week is: When you choose your friends, don't be short changed by choosing personality over character.
I am so very proud that most of my children are choosing to read at home!! Good job! Keep up the good work! Moms and Dads.....you have a lot to do with instilling good work habits at home, as well as making your children better readers. This is where it begins. Children who read at home and/or are read to at home are better readers and have bigger vocabularies!
We had a great time on our field trip on Friday. It was a bit cold and damp, and the children had to wait sometimes for long periods of time to go to a learning station, but most were well behaved. I had a couple really good class leaders that had a great effect on the class. So proud of them!! There were a few that had some issues, however. Hopefully, they will learn how to act in a public place on a field trip, so that they will be allowed to go to the Science Museum in OKC in the Spring. I will be watching them closely on the next field trip to the Turkey Creek School in October. :)
Thursday will be an exciting day!! We will have our first payday!! Thank you to Gayla Brice, Rick Goben, and Carri Crockett for coming Thursday morning to help us make duct tape wallets! I so appreciate you!!
****Don't forget that book orders are due this Thursday. Remember, even if you order just one book, you get a free book! (Buy one, get one free!) That's a great deal and it sure helps our class!*****
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Week of September 10th!
Hello Families!! Here is the agenda for next week:
Math - Rounding up to the ten thousands place; We do a short daily morning math review as well
Reading - The children will each be assigned a novel that closely matches their reading level. I will talk to them about "What good readers do when they are reading." They will be assigned a project to complete when they are finished with their books. They will have 2 weeks to complete their books. Some will probably finish in no time and others will take the whole time. It is such a learning curve for some.....learning how to pace themselves and work with a time limit. :)
Spelling - eCe pattern/ei/open syllable long e Look for that list on spellingcity
English - Verbs/Helping Verbs
Social Studies - We will begin a 3 week study of Oklahoma. This week we will look at the geography of Oklahoma including making a dough map! We will also look at Oklahoma's path to statehood as well as learning to read an Oklahoma road map.
Science - We will research animals that belong to one of the biomes we've been studying. The children will get to choose an animal and do a research report on it. This also crosses over and covers some language arts objectives as well. We will work on picking out important information, writing complete sentences in paragraph form that stick to the main idea of each paragraph, etc.
Our quote of the week is: Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
Don't forget to check over the book order. There are lots of great books for good deals and if you order online this month you get 2 free books! You will also help our class get 5000 bonus points which will buy our class more books and resources! That's a great deal for all of us!
Be looking for a note to come home at the end of the week about our Turkey Creek School Field Trip. It will be October 5th. The note will have all the information.
I really am in need of parent volunteers to come on Thursday, September 20th. I need your help making Duct Tape Wallets. (I will show you how!) Ha! I need about 3 parents. Please let me know if you can come that day. I am flexible with the time, so let me know if you can help, what time would be best, morning or afternoon, and I will choose the most voted on time. Thanks so much!!
Math - Rounding up to the ten thousands place; We do a short daily morning math review as well
Reading - The children will each be assigned a novel that closely matches their reading level. I will talk to them about "What good readers do when they are reading." They will be assigned a project to complete when they are finished with their books. They will have 2 weeks to complete their books. Some will probably finish in no time and others will take the whole time. It is such a learning curve for some.....learning how to pace themselves and work with a time limit. :)
Spelling - eCe pattern/ei/open syllable long e Look for that list on spellingcity
English - Verbs/Helping Verbs
Social Studies - We will begin a 3 week study of Oklahoma. This week we will look at the geography of Oklahoma including making a dough map! We will also look at Oklahoma's path to statehood as well as learning to read an Oklahoma road map.
Science - We will research animals that belong to one of the biomes we've been studying. The children will get to choose an animal and do a research report on it. This also crosses over and covers some language arts objectives as well. We will work on picking out important information, writing complete sentences in paragraph form that stick to the main idea of each paragraph, etc.
Our quote of the week is: Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
Don't forget to check over the book order. There are lots of great books for good deals and if you order online this month you get 2 free books! You will also help our class get 5000 bonus points which will buy our class more books and resources! That's a great deal for all of us!
Be looking for a note to come home at the end of the week about our Turkey Creek School Field Trip. It will be October 5th. The note will have all the information.
I really am in need of parent volunteers to come on Thursday, September 20th. I need your help making Duct Tape Wallets. (I will show you how!) Ha! I need about 3 parents. Please let me know if you can come that day. I am flexible with the time, so let me know if you can help, what time would be best, morning or afternoon, and I will choose the most voted on time. Thanks so much!!
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