Monday, March 31, 2014

Enjoy Spring Break! Here's info for the first week back- April 14-18

Reading Street 4.3

Amazing Words: nation, tourist, splinter, harbor, symbol, abandon, sunken, statue

High-Frequency Words: found, took, mouth, once, wild

Spelling Words oa, ow: boat, row, coat, pillow, road, yellow, soap, snow, loaf, blow

Skills: Facts and Details, Descriptive Poetry, Isolate Initial Phonemes, Adjectives for Size

Think Math!
Chapter 13: Fact Families, Cross Number Puzzles, Sums to 12, Sums to 15, Sums to 16. 

Science
We will begin a new unit on the Earth's Surface. 

**Report Cards for Quarter 3 will go home on Friday, April 18.**

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Looking ahead to March 31- April 3

Reading Street 4.2

Amazing Words: delightful, original, tangle, royal, imagination, carve, peer, sighed

High-Frequency Words: colors, great, sign, draw, over, drew, show

Spelling Words (ea): eat, team, treat, lean, sea, please, beach, each, dream, clean **Test Thursday*

*We will continue to focus on adjectives, segment and blend phonemes, and changing final sounds. 

**In Math, we will continue to practice skills in EB and addition and subtraction computations in class. 

***In Science, we will wrap up our study of the Earth in space. 

SPRING BREAK ahead!  NO SCHOOL on Friday, April 4- Friday, April 11.  ENJOY (and READ!)

THIS WEEK is SPIRIT WEEK!  Monday: Pajama Day, Tuesday: Twin Day, Wednesday: Crazy Hair Day, and Thursday: Sports Shirt Day

PLEASE continue to bring in CAT items for our basket for the Booster's Auction by Thursday, April 3. 

Our last day of swimming is on Tuesday, April 1. 

Monday, March 24, 2014

We are collecting cat items!

Our class has been assigned the theme of CATS for an auction basket.  Please bring any cat items (cat food, cat toys, cat stickers, cat collars...) by next week Thursday, April 3. 

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Looking ahead to next week...March 24-28

Reading Street 4.1
Amazing Words: celebrate, grateful, rarest, genuine, cherish, delicate, loot

Spelling ai, ay Words: way, day, gray, train, tail, may, mail, play, rain, afraid

High-Frequency Words: about, enjoy, give, surprise, worry, would

**In Math, we will be practicing some +/- computations, along with problem solving. 

**Swimming Lessons continue all next week.  We leave at 10:30 and return about 11:35. 

**Thursday, March 27 is "Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character Day" and on Friday, March 28 we will have an all-school assembly to wrap up Reading Month! 


Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Looking ahead to next week...March 17-21

Reading Street 3.6
Amazing Words: hibernate, temperature, freeze, weary, migrate, autumn, bitterly

High-Frequency Words: before, does, good-bye, oh, right, won't

Spelling -er -est Words: faster, fastest, taller, tallest, shorter, shortest, sadder, saddest, bigger, biggest


*We will wrap up our Math Test on measurement on Monday.  Math EB has been added to our day on Tues- Thurs.  This allows for more small group differentiated instruction.  During swimming lessons we will hold off on regular math lessons because of the interruption to our day. 

*Swim Lessons begin on Wed. March 19-Tues. April 1.  We leave at 10:30 and return close to lunch at about 11:40.  Swim suits and towels are provided by the Aquatic Center.

*Science- We will begin a new unit about Earth in Space! 

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Reading Street 3.5 (March 10-14)

Amazing Words: cycle, insect, flurries, fragile, develop, rearrange, emerge, vessel

Spelling Words er, ir, ur: her, first, bird, girl, burn, were, shirt, fur, hurt, sir

High-Frequency Words: done, know, push, visit, wait