February 11 - 15

Reading: We will be reading The Missing Cake, Flake the Missing Hamster and Three Reasons Why Pets are Great! We will be working on the a consonant e sound, high frequency words (around, found, near, tired, might, open, gone, hears), problem/solution and -ane, -ade.

Math: We will be doing Lesson 8.6, focusing on ways to expand numbers. We will then begin to review for our Chapter 8 test on Thursday.

Writing: Lesson 21 - How Many and Writing a Play, Draw and Write a Penguin, Valentines Day

Handwriting: Numbers, Days of the Week and Letters

Phonics: We haven't had a lot of time for this! We are still trying to get in the vowel y and er.

Language Arts: I found some new resources that will get us talking about language arts. I will start to incorporate this in our week.  We will be working on identifying and making a sentence and word order.

Spelling: Pre-Test Wednesday, Post-Test Friday

1. came
2. game
3. gate
4. late
5. lake
6. take
7. day
8. play
9. four
10. place
11. him
12. his

Social Studies: What is a Globe?

Homework: They will bring their reader home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They will have reading and math homework Monday - Thursday!

We will be doing Valentines projects this week as well!

February 4 - 8

Reading: We are reading Kids Play, Ways People Live and Houses. We will be working on the long a sound made by ay and ai, high frequency words (cool, dry, four, holes, move, place, warm), cause and effect, phonograms -ail and -aid and taste, smell, sound and feel.

Math: We will be doing lessons 8.1 - 8.5. These lessons focus on 10 and more, read and record numbers to 20, tens, tens and ones to 50 and tens and ones to 100.

Writing: We will be making a book for McKayren, Lesson 20, which focuses on the taste, smell sound and feel words and describing.

Handwritng: Practice, Application, # Words and #

Phonics: Vowel Y Part 2 (We have fallen behind), er, igh

Spelling:
Pre-Test Wednesday, Post-Test Friday

1. day
2. say
3. play
4. plain
5. rain
6. wait
7. feet
8. me
9. door
10. told
11. has
12. her

Science: Winter Play

Homework: They will bring their reader home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They will have reading homework Monday-Thursday and math homework Monday-Friday.

Don't forget to be working on their valentine box! It is due the 7th! 

February speaking goes home this afternoon. They have to research an American symbol and tell us 4 facts about it. This information can come from a book, Internet or a family member. This will be due the 22nd! 

January 28 - Feb 1

January 28 -February 1

Reading: We will be reading Beavers Green Treat, Little Rabbits Tale and Grow, Apple Grow. We will be working on the the long e sound made by ee and ea, high frequency words (door, hurry, mother, dear, should, sky, told), cause and effect, contractions and describing words. We will have a test on Friday to review all we worked on this week.

Math: We will be reviewing Chapter 7 for our test on Friday. This chapter was all about bar graphs, picture graphs, tally charts, impossible vs possible and more or less likely. You could review these concepts with your children to help them!

Writing: We will be doing Lesson 19, which focuses on color/size/shape and describing details. We
will be writing to Miss Childers and drawing and writing a penguin.

Handwriting: Kk, K Words, Zz, Z Words

Phonics: er, igh

Spelling: Pre-Test Tuesday because of Stephen Fite

1. ne
2. see
3. feet
4. seat
5. mean
6. team
7. slow
8. road
9. our
10. over
11. giving
12. had

Social Studies: A Street Map

Homework: They will have reading and math homework Monday-Thursday. They will bring their readers home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Wednesday we will be attending the Stephen Fite concert in Alva. It begins at 10. We plan to leave the school at 8:30. We will be back at the school early afternoon.

Don't forget to be reading! It will help them greatly!

January 21 - 25

Reading: We will be doing the Theme 4 test. No reading book this week and no test at the end of the week.

Math: We will be doing lessons 10 through 13, focusing on taking a survey, bar graphs, possible, impossible and more likely/less likely.  We will finish the week up with a review of those lessons.

Writing: We will be doing a Martin Luther King writing task. We will then research and write about a topic.  We will read a story individually and then they will have to put that story in their own writing. We will then edit our writing and make a final copy.

Handwriting: Practice, Application, Xx, X words

Phonics: cle, kle, sle, zle, Assessment,

Spelling: Pre-Test Wednesday Post-Test Friday

1. am
2. at
3. had
4. had
5. in
6. pig
7. pick
8. pack
9. top
10. hop
11. all
12. call

Science: Meet Sarah Scarecrow Draw and Color

Homework: Reading and Math homework Monday-Thursday!

January 14 - 18

Don't forget no school Wednesday as the high school team is playing at Chesapeake Arena against Cherokee.

Reading: We will be reading Shadow in the Snow, Snow Surprise and Snowflake Man. We will be working on the ow and oa, high frequency words (mouse, our, over, pretty, surprise, three), point of view, phonograms and homophones. We will have our weekly test on Friday.

Math: We will be doing lessons 7,8 and 9. They focus on making and using a graph, reading tally charts and making tally charts. We will have our test on Friday.

Writing: We will be doing Lesson 18, writing to Mrs. Gaskill and doing 100 day activities.

Handwriting: Y words, Ww, W words

Phonics: tle, gle, cle, kle, sle, zle

Spelling: Pre-Test Tuesday Post-Test Friday

1. low
2. slow
3. grow
4. road
5. soap
6. boat
7. little
8. handle
9. carry
10. would
11. from
12. give

Social Studies: A Treasure Map

Homework: Your child will have math homework on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night. They will have reading homework on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. They will bring their book home on Tuesday and Thursday night.

On Friday we will be celebrating our 100th day of school!!

January 7 - 11

Reading: We are back to the normal routine!  We will be reading Jungle Fun, Can Elephants Paint? and An Elephants Three T's. Our story starts on page 178.  We will be learning the final -le, high frequency words (buy, carry, money, other, paint, paper, would), Main idea, ed and ing with doubling the final consonant and the possessive.

Math:  We will be continuing with Chapter 7 with lessons 3,4,5 and 6.  These lessons incorporate concrete graphs, using pictures to show data, reading a picture graph and making picture graph.  We will finish this week with a review on Lessons 1-6.

Writing: We will be working on Lesson 17 writing, which speaks about possessives and a friendly letter.  We will write about what it would feel like to be a bird, write to Miss Childers and draw and write a frog.

Handwriting: Application, Slant of Writing, Vv, V Words, Yy

Phonics: Assessment, Ble, Fle, Ple, Ale, Tle, Gle

Spelling: Our words are getting more difficult. Please be working on them at home.

1. hand
2. handle
3. wig
4. wiggle
5. single
6. little
7. turn
8. girl
9. by
10. room
11. every
12. fly

Pre-Test Wednesday, Post-Test Friday

Science: Draw and Color Follow Directions

Homework:  Your child will have homework Monday-Thursday in reading and math.  They will bring their reader home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

6 points by the end of January! This will be more difficult in the past so read, read, read!

December Pictures

 

Mario - Our Elf

Jan 2 - 4

Reading - We will be working on many topics we discussed in the 1st semester to review those concepts.  We will be working on characters/settings, classification, compare and contrast, making predictions and sequence.

Math - We will begin Unit 3. We will start will lessons 7.1 and 7.2. These are about sorting and classifying and venn diagrams.

Writing - My New Years Wish, A Snail and Squiggle

Handwriting - Hh, H words, Practice

Phonics - J, V, Spelling with Final C

Social Studies - We will be picturing the United States.

We will be doing Snow Art this week as well.

I hope everyone had an awesome break!