Week of November 29

READING:We are going to read the story "The Picture Book of  Thomas Alva Edison". We are working on vocabulary, discussing steps in a process, comprehension, using context clues, and talking about biographies. Keep reading nightly and record on the Reading Calendar to be turned in on Monday in the Red Folders. Remember to read for AT LEAST 15 minutes on 3 separate nights....HAPPY READING! ")

WRITING:

We are currently working on our BIOGRAPHY reports and using the computers in the computer lab. We are learning to take notes and to organize our notes into categories. Continue to work on the reports at home as well. Read the NEWSFLASH on the side for more details. A written note will also be sent home with the students. 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 LOVE winning Squiggle Puppy...We look for GREAT details, CORRECT capitalization and punctuation, and a great story! :)

SPELLING:

Don't forget to study your words... our test is on Wednesday. This week's words:

words will be posted on Thurs. after pretest....                      BONUS:

              

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 learning all about multiplication and how to create arrays, models, and skip counting. We are making flashcards in our classroom to practice our facts and today we discussed the importance of learning our math facts and that will become a good habit and give us FACT POWER!!!!!!!!! We will continue to look for patterns and look at repeated addition as well as looking at fact families in multiplication and division. PLEASE start studying MULTIPLICATION FACTS AT HOME...we are starting to take timed tests. There are 25 to 30 problems and the kids get 3 minutes to master the facts. A GREAT site to practice and even take tests right on the computer is multiplication.com.

SCIENCE:

We continue to study ROCKS and SOIL. Our rock test will be on this Thurs. (Dec. 2) and then we will be investigating the different properties of soil. We will be taking an open book/notes test on soil on the Dec. 10th. (I currently am teaching Ms. Beeker's 3rd graders) My class will resume with me on the 13th of Dec.

HANDWRITING:

We are still 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.

Week of November 8

READING:We are going to read the story "Dragon in the Rocks". We are working on vocabulary, discussing steps in a process, comprehension, using context clues, and talking about historical fiction.Keep reading nightly and record on the Reading Calendar to be turned in on Monday in the Red Folders. Remember to read for AT LEAST 15 minutes on 3 separate nights....HAPPY READING! ")

WRITING:

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 LOVE winning Squiggle Puppy...We look for GREAT details, CORRECT capitalization and punctuation, and a great story! :)

SPELLING:

Don't forget to study your words... our test is on Wednesday. This week's words:

back             pack            neck                      BONUS: sedimentary

trick             cricket        lock                                       metamorphic

block           clock           creek                                      igneous

leak             speak          break

oak              croak          shook               

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 continue to work on measurement. We just finished our perimeter books! We are skipping around a little in the Math Journal so don't be alarmed to see some unused pages! We are supplementing some measurement to cover all state standards! We will be working with some line plots this week along with area and making a dream house using different measurents with area!

SOCIAL STUDIES:

We continue to learn about our national and local government and are currently working on a special flag project. We are going to write about what our symbols mean on our flag just like our country's flag has symbols that represent certain things. I will let you know when our unit test will be given when it gets closer.

HANDWRITING:

We are still 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.