Hi Families! Hope you are back in the groove of school again! Here is what's ahead:
Math: double digit multiplication, daily review of previous concepts learned
Reading: skill - sequence and flashbacks, biography poster completion, begin a tall tales unit
Spelling: I left my list at school. I will post it tomorrow.
English: pronouns, prepositions
Social Studies: SE region partner projects
Science: We will begin a science unit in February after the completion of our SE region unit. I am still debating which unit I want to do. We have covered Earth science and I will do Life science in the Spring, but I can't figure out which Physical science unit I want to do. So many fun things to teach and so little time!
Homework: Don't forget to talk to your child about their reading/math weekly homework assignment. I will hand it out tomorrow and it is due on Friday. Remember that they can bring a juice on Friday with their homework. We will review the work while drinking juice that morning.
Book orders are due on Friday.
If you have any, don't forget to save us Kleenex boxes.
On January 30th, we will do a mini China unit and have a Chinese New Year celebration with our Kindergarten buddies. We will be having a Chinese meal at 1:00 that afternoon. The meal includes fried rice, an egg roll, and a fortune cookie along with chopsticks! Miss Jenkins and I need $2 to help cover the cost of the meal. Please send the $2 to school by Jan. 28th. If anyone can help with picking up the food at Imperial China and/or help with set up/clean up, please let me know. We will greatly appreciate it!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Homework
I forgot to mention in the previous post about homework for this semester. This second half of the year, I want to do a more skill focused approach to homework. Each Monday, I will send home a story for the kids to read with questions at the end of it. It will also have a few math review questions. The homework will be due on Friday. Your child may bring a juice to school that morning to drink while we are going over the homework. This homework is worth 50 points in reading and 50 points in math. This week they will have 3 days instead of 4 days to get the homework completed, but I know they can do it! Please look for this homework and make sure your child completes it and gets it in his/her backpack.
Book orders for January will go out this week. Remember that you can make one check out to Scholastic for different orders.
We had a super day today! The kids worked hard!
Book orders for January will go out this week. Remember that you can make one check out to Scholastic for different orders.
We had a super day today! The kids worked hard!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Week of 1/06
Hi Families!
Hope your holidays were wonderful! I wanted to start this post with a heartfelt thank you for your generous Christmas gifts and very sweet words in your cards. I feel very overwhelmed with gratitude for your generosity and kindness, but mostly thankful for the fact that you are entrusting your precious children to me this school year. They are the biggest gift, I am sure you would agree!
Tuesday we will start the day running! We have learned a lot this past 1st half of the year, from Oklahoma history and the Northeast region of the USA, to geology, rounding and multiplying big numbers! We have spent a lot of time reading and working on not only our fluency levels, but comprehension levels as well. We, however, have a lot more to learn! This week in math, we will spend one day reviewing multiplying big numbers by 1 digit, and then the rest of the week learning how to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. In reading, we will focus on context clues and every child will read a biography and do a biography poster. The biography posters are very cool! On Friday, I received 8 new fun reading games from a grant I won! Baylee, Brian, and I have been trying them out this weekend. They are lots of fun! The games focus on different reading skills, such as context clues, main idea, inference, etc. In social studies, we will begin the Southeast region. We will start off with learning what states make up the Southeast and then on Wednesday, I will partner up kids to become experts on an important person, event, or feature of the Southeast. They will do the research, 2 projects on their topic, present to the class, and then create a game to reinforce the topic for our game day held at the end of the unit. My students in the past have always enjoyed this unit and they tend to remember things more learning this way, then when they just read things out of a textbook! In English, our focus will be pronouns. In spelling, we will study compound words. Here is the list:
anyone
however
everything
himself
birthday
herself
somewhere
afternoon
chalkboard
daydream
downstairs
grandparents
breakfast
outfield
scarecrow
nobody
dragonfly
keyboard
special words are: adversary & context clues
Could you please save empty kleenex boxes for me? I only need the kind like Kleenex brand that open on top (rectangle shape), not like the Puffs brand that open on side and top. I know some of the generic brands open on top too. Any like that would be fine if you get any! Thanks so much!
Hope your holidays were wonderful! I wanted to start this post with a heartfelt thank you for your generous Christmas gifts and very sweet words in your cards. I feel very overwhelmed with gratitude for your generosity and kindness, but mostly thankful for the fact that you are entrusting your precious children to me this school year. They are the biggest gift, I am sure you would agree!
Tuesday we will start the day running! We have learned a lot this past 1st half of the year, from Oklahoma history and the Northeast region of the USA, to geology, rounding and multiplying big numbers! We have spent a lot of time reading and working on not only our fluency levels, but comprehension levels as well. We, however, have a lot more to learn! This week in math, we will spend one day reviewing multiplying big numbers by 1 digit, and then the rest of the week learning how to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. In reading, we will focus on context clues and every child will read a biography and do a biography poster. The biography posters are very cool! On Friday, I received 8 new fun reading games from a grant I won! Baylee, Brian, and I have been trying them out this weekend. They are lots of fun! The games focus on different reading skills, such as context clues, main idea, inference, etc. In social studies, we will begin the Southeast region. We will start off with learning what states make up the Southeast and then on Wednesday, I will partner up kids to become experts on an important person, event, or feature of the Southeast. They will do the research, 2 projects on their topic, present to the class, and then create a game to reinforce the topic for our game day held at the end of the unit. My students in the past have always enjoyed this unit and they tend to remember things more learning this way, then when they just read things out of a textbook! In English, our focus will be pronouns. In spelling, we will study compound words. Here is the list:
anyone
however
everything
himself
birthday
herself
somewhere
afternoon
chalkboard
daydream
downstairs
grandparents
breakfast
outfield
scarecrow
nobody
dragonfly
keyboard
special words are: adversary & context clues
Could you please save empty kleenex boxes for me? I only need the kind like Kleenex brand that open on top (rectangle shape), not like the Puffs brand that open on side and top. I know some of the generic brands open on top too. Any like that would be fine if you get any! Thanks so much!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Week of 12/15!
From green paper circles to..................................
beautiful Christmas trees!! The children worked hard on this project! Hope you enjoy!
beautiful Christmas trees!! The children worked hard on this project! Hope you enjoy!
This week will find us quite busy!
Reading: We will finish up our Charlotte's Web literature unit with comprehension work along the way.
Math: 2 to 4 digit by 1 digit multiplication We will have a test on Thursday.
Spanish: Mr. Rainey took matters into his own hands and got my cable hooked up to my smart board. This will make viewing Spanish way easier. Because we missed a couple of episodes, we will only test on the part that we covered, which is family members. I will send home a study guide on Monday for our test on Wednesday.
We will be doing a variety of Christmas worksheets that cover topics ranging from logic and reasoning to math story problems and word play. The children will be doing a lot of Christmas projects this week too, with our biggest fun being Polar Pajama Day! Remember kids, wear your PJ's and bring your houseshoes on Tuesday. Parents/volunteers do not have to of course, but can wear your PJ's too! I will be for sure!!
Our Christmas party will be 2:00 on Thursday.
I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
ps: Be sure to check back for a slideshow of our gingerbread house making!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Week of 12/08
This week we will begin reading Charlotte's Web together. Every child will have their own copy to follow along with and take turns reading. We will stop every few chapters and complete comprehension checks. I am sure many of the children have seen the movie, but most probably have not read the story. It is a children's classic and written beautifully. I hope they enjoy it! This is the last week for multiplication speed tests. We will also begin large number multiplication tomorrow. I will not let the children use "multiplication fact cheat sheets". I use to let my students use the "cheat sheets", but I discovered they used them as a crutch and never practiced anymore. There are a few of the children who do not know their facts still. If your child is one that doesn't know, please continue to practice daily with him/her. I know it is hard to find the time, but I can't stress enough the importance of it. Please ask your child to show you how to use a deck of cards. We have been using cards for 3 weeks, and some light bulbs are going on! You will see the progress if you continue to practice every day! For science, we will finish up our owl unit this week. We will make a fact book on Monday for your child to take home and study. We will have a test over that info on Wednesday. We will also do some owl research, disect owl pellets (oooo gross, but oh so interesting!), and do an owl craft. In spelling, we will work on contractions. Northeast Region posters are due on Wednesday. In English, we will get to the adverbs we didn't get to 2 weeks ago!
Don't forget to send supplies for the gingerbread houses and Polar PJ day by Wednesday of this week. Thanks to all who have volunteered to help. I have enough helpers now! Yeah! I will have to alter the time of Polar PJ day due to PE and Music schedule changes that are out of my control. I hope that it will not cause a problem. Please let me know if it does. We will now begin at 8:15 and end around 10:30. Gingerbread house time remains the same. (This Friday from 1:00 to 1:45 or so)
The pictures below are of our 1000 Hits to the blog celebration! We celebrated by doing 3 activities related to the number 1000. First, we made a 1000 piece mosaic out of beans, small gravel, and popcorn kernels. We decided 25 of us times 40 equaled 1000, so everyone got 40 pieces to make a mosaic. We also ate 1000 pieces of food! We ate cereal, red hots, cheese crackers, and oyster crackers. Last, but not least, we tried to spend $1000! We learned how to write a check. They learned why we have to do math! It is a life skill! Below the pics, you will find the spelling words for the week!
didn't
Don't forget to send supplies for the gingerbread houses and Polar PJ day by Wednesday of this week. Thanks to all who have volunteered to help. I have enough helpers now! Yeah! I will have to alter the time of Polar PJ day due to PE and Music schedule changes that are out of my control. I hope that it will not cause a problem. Please let me know if it does. We will now begin at 8:15 and end around 10:30. Gingerbread house time remains the same. (This Friday from 1:00 to 1:45 or so)
The pictures below are of our 1000 Hits to the blog celebration! We celebrated by doing 3 activities related to the number 1000. First, we made a 1000 piece mosaic out of beans, small gravel, and popcorn kernels. We decided 25 of us times 40 equaled 1000, so everyone got 40 pieces to make a mosaic. We also ate 1000 pieces of food! We ate cereal, red hots, cheese crackers, and oyster crackers. Last, but not least, we tried to spend $1000! We learned how to write a check. They learned why we have to do math! It is a life skill! Below the pics, you will find the spelling words for the week!
didn'tthat's
they're
you're
couldn't
haven't
o'clock
we're
isn't
I'm
it's
who's
they'd
could've
they've
you'll
don't
aren't
humble
radiant
Monday, December 1, 2008
Spelling Words
across
alone
among
brother
again
front
banana
appear
compass
pedal
given
heaven
mountain
ocean
cousin
purchase
often
color
kindness
random
Spelling enrichment words are the ones for last time. We never got to it. The kids wanted to wait. They are listed in the post of 11/17.
alone
among
brother
again
front
banana
appear
compass
pedal
given
heaven
mountain
ocean
cousin
purchase
often
color
kindness
random
Spelling enrichment words are the ones for last time. We never got to it. The kids wanted to wait. They are listed in the post of 11/17.
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