Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Week of September 30-October 4


 
Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!
Please continue to turn in your magazine sales!

Math
We have started chapter 2 addition and will continue to work on addition. Please be practicing the addition facts at home.

Spelling
We will be on List 6 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will continue our book buddies this week while putting into practice our complete Daily 5 rotations. We are working on building stamina while becoming better readers and writers.  

English
We will be presenting our Me Bags to the class for a grade on Monday and Tuesday. Your child will be getting an assigned day. Please be practicing over the weekend good eye contact and volume. We will then be starting our descriptive writing unit after we finish our presentations.

Social Studies

We will start the week off by learning about hemispheres and how they relate to our world.


Science
We will start chapter 4 lesson 3 this week!

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 20, 2013

Week of September 23-27

Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!
Please continue to turn in your magazine sales!
Johnny Appleseed day is on Thursday, September 26. Students need to bring one PEELED, CORED, and SLICED apple to school in a baggie. We will be making apple sauce in class to eat. If you would like to donate small bowls, spoons, or 100% apple juice boxes for that day that would be greatly appreciated!!! (19 of each)

Math
We have finished with Chapter 1 and we will start with chapter 2: Addition. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction facts at home.

Spelling
We will be on List 5 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will be starting book buddies this week while continuing our Daily 5 study. Students will be paired up with each other and reading a leveled book. During work on writing, students will be working on a comprehension activity as well as a project that corresponds with their book.

English
We finished our first English Unit! We will now be starting a writing project. It is called “Me Bag”. Students will go home and find three items that represent themselves. In class we will be writing a 5 paragraph essay about how those items represent them. Then the students will read their essay to the class for a grade.

Social Studies

We will continue studying continents and oceans. The quiz over continents and oceans will be Thursday 9-26.


Science
We will continue to focus on Chapter 4 lesson 2: Ecosystems.

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Week of September 16-20

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!
Please continue to turn in your magazine sales!

Math
We will continue with chapter 1: Place value. There will be a chapter 1 test on Thursday, September 19. Please be reviewing the book they bring home.

Spelling
We will be on List 4 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We reviewed many reading strategies this week. We also made a record of building our reading stamina to 15:55 seconds this week! WAY TO GO CLASS! We will start a story called Lost and Found next week and there will be a vocabulary test over the words on Friday, September 20.

English
We will be finishing up our very first unit in English next week. The unit 1 test will be on Thursday, September 19. There will be a study guide that will go home on Monday and your child can take home a textbook to help review as well.

Social Studies

We will start our new Social Studies lesson: Continents and Oceans.

Science
We will focus on chapter 4 lesson 2 in science.

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 6, 2013

Week of September 9-13

 


Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest, that would be greatly appreciate it!
Magazine drive starts Tuesday, 9-10-13

Math
In Math this week we will start Chapter 1: Place Value. We will be focusing on lessons 1-3 and have a graded checkpoint on Thursday.

Spelling
We will be on List 3 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will be starting reading with learning different strategies good readers use. We will be incorporation these strategies into reading our own books and building our stamina for reading.

English
We will continue with chapter 1: The sentence. We will focus on lessons 2-5. There will be a graded review on lessons 1-3 on Wednesday.

Social Studies

We will continue with directions this week. There will be a short quiz on directions on Friday. A study guide will go home this week.

Science
We will focusing on chapter 4 lesson 1 in science.

Have a great week!