READING:We are reading the story "The Science Fair". We are working on vocabulary, story structure, comprehension, using context clues, homophones, and idioms. The students are learning to look for clues in stories to find different elements in a story. We are also doing the same skills in our individual reading groups! We are also learning about idioms...be looking for our awesome idiom books coming home!!!
WRITING:
We are working on using homophones into our writing. We creating some awesome writing in our journals and we are exciting to do so many writing projects! We continue to work on writing Weekend Reports every Monday and Squiggles every Wednesday. We are focusing on writing a complete sentence with a capital letter, a complete thought, and an endmark. We are also learning to use graphic organizers to help with our prewrites. With every sentence we write, we try to think of one good detail sentence to add to our stories. The kids will be winning Squiggle Puppy in their journal writing...We look for GREAT details, CORRECT capitalization and punctuation, and a great story! :)
SPELLING:
Don't forget to study your words... our test is always on WEDNESDAY.
hole won fur Review: road
whole one fir rode
its our Challenge: peace
it's hour piece
hear their
here there
whole one fir rode
its our Challenge: peace
it's hour piece
hear their
here there
If you're on a challenge list... make sure you check your agenda for the word list. All word lists are posted weekly in the agenda.
MATH:
We are doing lots of practice with multiplication facts and fact families. The students are learning about the Turn-around-Rule (Commutative Property) and lots of ways to solve multiplication problems. They are practicing with games and using MULTIPLICATION.COM as a great tool to practice their facts. The students are taking tests every other day and are charting their progress with ice cream incentives! They are working towards an ice cream sundae party! Please help your son/daughter study at least 15 minutes nightly with their facts. They are learning about the relationship of multiplication to repeated addition and division to repeated subtraction. We are also learning how to make multiplication arrays. The students are skip counting and finding many patterns in their multiplication facts. Continue to watch for Homelinks to come home in the homework folder. A study packet will be coming home in the next week or so to work on these skills before CH 4 test.
We are doing lots of practice with multiplication facts and fact families. The students are learning about the Turn-around-Rule (Commutative Property) and lots of ways to solve multiplication problems. They are practicing with games and using MULTIPLICATION.COM as a great tool to practice their facts. The students are taking tests every other day and are charting their progress with ice cream incentives! They are working towards an ice cream sundae party! Please help your son/daughter study at least 15 minutes nightly with their facts. They are learning about the relationship of multiplication to repeated addition and division to repeated subtraction. We are also learning how to make multiplication arrays. The students are skip counting and finding many patterns in their multiplication facts. Continue to watch for Homelinks to come home in the homework folder. A study packet will be coming home in the next week or so to work on these skills before CH 4 test.
HEALTH: I am teaching Mrs. Stahlman's class...
We are studying Nutrition! The kids are learning the "NEW PLATE" which is replacing the FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID to learn about the 5 food groups and the importance of eating healthy and staying active! Ask them to tell you about the nutrients we have been learning about! (and the motions that go along with them!) Also, how much water we should be drinking in a day! We will be keeping a weekly calendar of our food choice and exercises....BE READY!!!!!!Our test will be on 12/14.
HANDWRITING:
We are currently working on learning our lowercase letters in cursive! They are doing great! Keep practicing and check out the link for Handwriting Without Tears for helpful hints and practice tips. Click Here.
