Happy Halloween families! Here is the week's agenda:
Reading - We will finish the BFG on Monday. The children will have an assigned fantasy by Roald Dahl. They will have 2 weeks to complete the story. (Due on November 12th.) I will give them an assignment to complete when they are done. Our skill focus for the week: Review - We will revisit Setting, Context Clues, and Sequencing.
English - Pronoun usage
Spelling - List 16 Plurals, None of the children had even looked at the enrichment list last week, so I chose not to give the test. If I have children interested this week, I will give the test. Other wise we will forgo spelling enrichment. It is the "G" enrichment list on spellingcity.
Math - We will work on multiplication facts this week as well as 2 digit x's 1 digit multiplication. We will also do some cummulative review, as well as take an addition properties quiz.
Social Studies - Indian Regions, George Washington and the Revolutionary War, and the Boston Tea Party.
***Our Halloween Party will be on Wednesday morning. If your child is dressing up, please send him/her in costume to school. The Halloween Parade will be right after Grizzly Growl, and then the party will follow the parade.***
Quote: Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. Plato
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Week of October 22nd
Hello Families! Hope your Fall Break has been as wonderful as mine has been! Here is a look at this week's concepts:
Math - Multiplication! Please keep practicing at home!!
Reading - We will finish our class novel, The BFG, and do related work. Skill Focus: Sequencing
English - Pronouns, Complete creative stories from last week
Spelling - List 15 on spellingcity /er/ We will start enriched spelling this week since I was gone the Friday we were supposed to start it. (G enriched list on spellingcity)
Social Studies - We will begin studying the NE Region of the USA. We will learn about the states that make up the region, as well as the geography of the region. We will learn about William Bradford and the 13 Colonies as well.
***Please send a pumpkin to school by Friday. The pumpkin can be as big as your child can carry or smaller than an apple. You can find a small pumpkin for .59 at Aldi. I found large pumpkins at Walmart for $3.88. We will be doing science, math, and art with our pumpkins!
Quote for the week: Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Math - Multiplication! Please keep practicing at home!!
Reading - We will finish our class novel, The BFG, and do related work. Skill Focus: Sequencing
English - Pronouns, Complete creative stories from last week
Spelling - List 15 on spellingcity /er/ We will start enriched spelling this week since I was gone the Friday we were supposed to start it. (G enriched list on spellingcity)
Social Studies - We will begin studying the NE Region of the USA. We will learn about the states that make up the region, as well as the geography of the region. We will learn about William Bradford and the 13 Colonies as well.
***Please send a pumpkin to school by Friday. The pumpkin can be as big as your child can carry or smaller than an apple. You can find a small pumpkin for .59 at Aldi. I found large pumpkins at Walmart for $3.88. We will be doing science, math, and art with our pumpkins!
Quote for the week: Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Week of October 15th
Hi Families!! Are you looking forward to Fall Break? A 4 day weekend sounds great to me!! Here is the agenda for the short week ahead:
Reading - BFG class novel......we will continue to work on comprehension, predicting, and visualizing. The skill focus for the week is: Context Clues. We will also work on dictionary skills.
English - Adjectives and Adverbs, We will also work on creative writing skills. We will work on brainstorming plot, setting, and characters and develop our ideas into a short story.
No Spelling/Quote this week.
Science - We will tie up our geology unit with learning about earthquakes and volcanoes this week.
Social Studies - We will take a quiz using our Oklahoma Symbols book.
Math - Addition Properties and Word Problems; PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE continue to work on multiplication facts with your child. We have had zero time to take speed tests these past 2 weeks, however, your child should still be practicing facts every day. We will be hitting multiplication hard after Fall Break and then moving quickly into large number multiplication. If your child does not know his/her facts, it will be very hard. Good luck and make it fun! :) Offer incentives! Believe me.....I know how hard it is. I remember my mom and I practicing over and over. She, nor I ever thought I would get them stuck in my head, but eventually I did! I went through the same thing with my daughter. We played game after game until she finally mastered them. Parents, your role is crucial in this. No matter how busy life is, please take time to help your children with this. They need you.
That's it for this week! Enjoy your Fall Break!
Reading - BFG class novel......we will continue to work on comprehension, predicting, and visualizing. The skill focus for the week is: Context Clues. We will also work on dictionary skills.
English - Adjectives and Adverbs, We will also work on creative writing skills. We will work on brainstorming plot, setting, and characters and develop our ideas into a short story.
No Spelling/Quote this week.
Science - We will tie up our geology unit with learning about earthquakes and volcanoes this week.
Social Studies - We will take a quiz using our Oklahoma Symbols book.
Math - Addition Properties and Word Problems; PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE continue to work on multiplication facts with your child. We have had zero time to take speed tests these past 2 weeks, however, your child should still be practicing facts every day. We will be hitting multiplication hard after Fall Break and then moving quickly into large number multiplication. If your child does not know his/her facts, it will be very hard. Good luck and make it fun! :) Offer incentives! Believe me.....I know how hard it is. I remember my mom and I practicing over and over. She, nor I ever thought I would get them stuck in my head, but eventually I did! I went through the same thing with my daughter. We played game after game until she finally mastered them. Parents, your role is crucial in this. No matter how busy life is, please take time to help your children with this. They need you.
That's it for this week! Enjoy your Fall Break!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Week of October 7th
Hello Families! Hope you are enjoying the cool down! Here is this week's agenda:
Reading - We will continue to read our class story, The BFG. We cover a lot of skills while reading a class story such as predicting, visualizing, schema, and literal and inferential comprehension. We will continue to look at "making inferences" as our skill focus. Our genre of the month is fantasy. I will assign a fantasy on their levels after Fall Break.
Spelling - List 14 on spellingcity We will start spelling enrichment this week. This list is also on spelling city under "G" enrichment words. This test will be on Friday.
English - Adjectives/Adverbs, Creative Writing
Math - Subtracting across zeros and subtracting money
Social Studies - Oklahoma Symbols Book and quiz
Science - Landforms, Weathering and Erosion (We are catching up from not getting to this previously.)
Caves
The children had fun and behaved well at Turkey Creek School! I was very proud of them. I am looking forward to meeting up with more parents tomorrow evening. The children last week did very well with student-led conferences and I know this week's children will do well also!
One more thing.......Most of the children rocked their Oklahoma History Test!!! I am super proud of them!!
Quote: A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can't go anywhere until you change it.
Reading - We will continue to read our class story, The BFG. We cover a lot of skills while reading a class story such as predicting, visualizing, schema, and literal and inferential comprehension. We will continue to look at "making inferences" as our skill focus. Our genre of the month is fantasy. I will assign a fantasy on their levels after Fall Break.
Spelling - List 14 on spellingcity We will start spelling enrichment this week. This list is also on spelling city under "G" enrichment words. This test will be on Friday.
English - Adjectives/Adverbs, Creative Writing
Math - Subtracting across zeros and subtracting money
Social Studies - Oklahoma Symbols Book and quiz
Science - Landforms, Weathering and Erosion (We are catching up from not getting to this previously.)
Caves
The children had fun and behaved well at Turkey Creek School! I was very proud of them. I am looking forward to meeting up with more parents tomorrow evening. The children last week did very well with student-led conferences and I know this week's children will do well also!
One more thing.......Most of the children rocked their Oklahoma History Test!!! I am super proud of them!!
Quote: A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can't go anywhere until you change it.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Week of October 11th
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!!
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 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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