We will plant our Gardens tomorrow

The class enjoyed completing a variety of "egg shaped" centers.

Friday will conclude our Fairy Tale unit.  We all have enjoyed studying fairy tales and twisted fairy tales. 

The word work center instructions were to make contractions.  Ask your child which contraction that they made from the egg shaped pattern. 

Playing cards are great ways to practice basic math facts.  

We learned about the importance of coal in the state of KY.  Each child mined their own samples to bring home and share. 

We used the cards to add numbers with regrouping.   Most students can now add numbers up to three place values in length. 

Don't forget that tomorrow is the awards ceremony in the cafeteria at 10:00.   Keep in mind, that if your child is receiving an award I notified you via email.  We only give out a limit number of awards each grading period.   

Chapter 12 math assessment

Students are working on the final stages of their fictional writing piece. Ask your child to tell you the setting , characters , problem and solution of their fairy tale. 

We are learning about conjunctions and writing complex sentences that include conjunctions. 

Today was our chapter twelve math assessment.  Please look over your child's test. I encourage the students to get a parent signature on their assessments.  Ever child that returns their tests within a week receives a Dojo point. 

April 11th Review Friday and April 14-18

 

 

Week of: April 14-18

Look at My Garden Grow

 

Donations of seeds needed.  I am asking students to bring in packets of seeds to share with the class. The seeds can be vegetable or flower seed packets.  We will plant gardens on Friday April 18th

Comprehension: Enhance Understanding

Vocabulary Words: seedlings, roots, growth, cycle

Phonics: ar words

Phonemic Awareness:  Phoneme Matching

Fluency: Use Punctuation to inform Meaning

Listening: Precise Listening

Writing: Fictional Writing ( we are using the Toontastic App to write fairy tales)

Science: Earth and Universe , Plant Growth

Math: Chapter 12 Number to 40 and we will begin Chapter 13 Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping

 

Spelling list A :   far, jar, part, bark, hard, star, yard

 

List B: yarn, barn, dark, sharp, charm, superstar, Mars

 

  

 

 Today was Review Friday and we worked with small groups of students that needed just a little bit of extra teach time.   We also worked on extension activities with students that are ready to move forward with their learning. It was lots of fun for all. 

 We are really wiggly, so we took time out to Tooty Ta today.   I will build in lots of opportunities for movement during this last grading period.  The warm weather often leads to more need for us to try harder to focus our learning time.  

 Ms. Leslie taught a wonderful review lesson on Comparing and Contrasting Fairy Tales.  The students used Venn Diagrams to compare two versions of the classic Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood.  The second version of the story was a twisted Fairy Tale.  

 Adam Gullion's family shared their chicken friend "Batgirl" with our class today. 

 Adam and Mr. Greg shared chicken facts with the students. 

 Mr. Greg and Adam read to the class.  We want to thank them both for being our "Mystery Readers."
Don't forget that we need mystery readers each Friday at 10:15.  Please contact Ms. Tipton if you would like to read to the class. 

 Each student had an opportunity to pet Badgirl.  

 Check out her feathered talons. 

 This is the book that the Gulliom's shared with us today.

 Ask yours child about our mystery number hundred's board  game we played today.  We are working on counting on, counting backwards, skip counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s....  to determine missing numbers. 

 We also played "I have...  who has.." the blend game.   Blends were assessed today. Your child should be bringing home their phonics assessments for a parent signature. 

 A huge thank you to Adam for the special Friday treat. It was enjoyed by all.  

April 10th

   We will have our assessment over blends tomorrow. We enjoyed the outside phonic time today.  

The students all explored Toontastic today.  Ask your child to tell you what they did with this app.