The weeks are already flying by. Students were able to start doing their class jobs this week. Police men have been writing tickets for breaking school rules, but we have also received many bonuses written for excellent behavior. Thank you Jessie and Zach N. for our wonderful World Newscasts. Thanks to all the students for completing their jobs.
*Reminder that our basket for the basket auction is "Family Fun Night". If you can donate anything to our theme by next Tuesday that would be great. Thanks to those who already have sent their donations.
Math: We finished working with multiplication and division strategies. Next week we will practice these while we learn about place value, comparing numbers, rounding, and estimating.
Science: We will be graphing the students survey results on Tuesday and look forward to learning the real answers as we study the resons for the seasons. Students wrote descriptive paragraphs about their favorite season and shared them with the class. They did an excellent job at using their senses to describe the mystery season.
Social Studies: Students looked at artifacts from years ago and tried to guess what they would have been used for. They then shared their own artifacts. We talked about how archeologists use these to learn about the ancient civilizations. As a class, we discussed the hunterer/gatherer civilization. They had to move around often to follow their food.
Spelling: This week the students took their first spelling test and began studying their first 5 vocabulary words. Next week we'll be taking a pre-test on Tuesday and have a post-test on Friday. In addition, we'll be studying 5 new vocabulary words. Students should be regularly studying and reviewing these words for vocabulary unit tests that occur every 6 weeks. Look for weekly spelling lists and vocabulary words to be posted on this blog.
Reading: We had a special guest, Mrs. Albrecht from the district, come and talk to us about reading stamina. Our class goal is 15 minutes and we've been working on silently reading for 15 minutes a day. We also started learning about the 6 elements of a story star and will continue examining those elements in picture books this week.
Writing: This week we completed our hands poems--they look great in the hall! We also did a yearbook entry and started exploring the writing process with our personal narratives. We started off with a fun lesson about memories, wrote those ideas in our idea books and are now expanding one of those memory ideas into a personal narrative. We'll continue going through the writing process with our personal narratives this week.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend! We'll see you on Tuesday!
Spelling: This week the students took their first spelling test and began studying their first 5 vocabulary words. Next week we'll be taking a pre-test on Tuesday and have a post-test on Friday. In addition, we'll be studying 5 new vocabulary words. Students should be regularly studying and reviewing these words for vocabulary unit tests that occur every 6 weeks. Look for weekly spelling lists and vocabulary words to be posted on this blog.
Reading: We had a special guest, Mrs. Albrecht from the district, come and talk to us about reading stamina. Our class goal is 15 minutes and we've been working on silently reading for 15 minutes a day. We also started learning about the 6 elements of a story star and will continue examining those elements in picture books this week.
Writing: This week we completed our hands poems--they look great in the hall! We also did a yearbook entry and started exploring the writing process with our personal narratives. We started off with a fun lesson about memories, wrote those ideas in our idea books and are now expanding one of those memory ideas into a personal narrative. We'll continue going through the writing process with our personal narratives this week.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend! We'll see you on Tuesday!
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