Spelling Words Week of Jan. 28

1. use
2. June
3. tune
4. flute
5. cute
6. mule
7. woke
8. nose
9. done
10. after

Challenge List:
1. prune
2. tune
3. chute
4. June
5. flute
6. mule
7. done
8. after
9. old
10. find

Week of Jan. 21

Upcoming Events:

J Feb. 13 2 hr. early out

JFeb. 14 Valentine’s Day (a list of names will be coming soon)

JFeb. 18 No School, President’s Day

Notes:

J Throughout the year I check out books from our school library that go with the units we are studying.  These books are for students to read and look at to expand their knowledge on the topics that I am teaching.  We are missing a few books.  Please check your house for these books as they might have accidently gone home with a student.  Thank you! (Trucksgiving, The Best Book of Snakes, Molly the Great Tell the Truth, and Water As a Liquid)

J We have received our first out of country Travel Teddy back from Canada.  We have also received one back from Cherokee, Iowa.

JPennies for Patients has started.  Please send any change around your house in with your child and they can put it in the class box.

JReminder: When you come to volunteer please stop by the office and let Mrs. Siemers know you are here and pick up a visitor’s badge.  When you are done volunteering please stop in and tell her you are leaving. 

Things to Work on:

J Fractions: ½ and ¼  

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week is the first week that a challenge spelling list was offered for students who passed the pretest on Monday.  We are working on the word families –oke, -ose, and –ote.    

Math: This week we continued to compare two numbers.  Students are learning what some key words are that tell them to add or subtract.  This week we started learning about measuring using the inch.

Science/ Social Studies: This week we started the week learning about Martin Luther King and some significant things that he did.  We have finished our unit of study on United States symbols.  We wrapped up our unit talking about national holidays that we have.

Spelling Week of Jan. 21

1. joke
2. woke
3. nose
4. hose
5. note
6. vote
7. splash
8. string
9. every
10. any

Week of Jan. 14

Upcoming Events:

J Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Notes:

J Word Work activities this week included: a word sort with str- and st- words.  A scramble word building activity and word shapes.

JNext week the pajama and book drive starts.  Please send these items with your child to school and they can place them in the correct container.  Donations will go to Palo Alto County Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Des Moines.

J We have been reviewing our E’Hawk boundaries: Respect Yourself, Respect Others, and Respect this Place.

Things to Work on:

J Adding with a missing addend.  Example: 8+___=12

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we worked on the beginning sounds: str-, spl-, and scr-.  This will be the last week in which if students pass the spelling pretest they did not have to take the post test on Friday.  Starting next week students who pass the spelling pretest will be given a challenge test for the week to study and be tested on Friday. 

Math: This week in math we continued our study on graphs.  We have worked on comparing 3 or more numbers.  Students have been working on which has the most and fewest.  This week we reviewed greater than, less than, and equal to.

Science/ Social Studies: We have continued our study on United States symbols: liberty bell, bald eagle, Washington monument, white house, and statue of liberty.  Students were able to make a paper plate wheel showing all the symbols.  

Spelling Week of Jan. 14

1. strike
2. splash
3. scrub
5. sting
5. split
6. scrap
7. like
8. ride
9. says
10. were

Week of Jan. 7

Upcoming Events:

J Jan. 16 2 hr. early out

Notes:

J We have started to get some of our Travel Teddy’s back!  So far we have received Teddy’s from: Cherokee, Iowa; Carol, Iowa; Arizona; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Forest City, Iowa; and Orange City, Iowa. 

J Word Work activities this week included: typing out our words, making words with tiles with 2 letters and more, drawing a picture with our words hidden in the picture, and rainbow words with markers.

J We have started self-editing our journal writing.  Students will be checking their work for: capitalizing the word I, starting their sentence with a capital letter, using punctuation at the end of the sentence, writing neatly, and spelling word wall words correctly.

Things to Work on:

JWork on using schema to make connections when reading. (This reminds me of…)    

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we focused on –ike, -ide, and –ine.  We spent times this week working on building our predicting skills.  This week we read a reader’s theater called “Smile, Mike!”  Reader’s theater is a good time to work on building fluency by reading something again and again. 

Math: This week in math we started working on test taking skills with math skills.  The test taking clues that we worked on were: If you are not sure which answer is correct, take your best guess.  Be sure the space you mark is for the answer you think is correct. Sometimes it helps to say the pattern to yourself before making a choice.  This week we started a new math unit on constructing picture graphs.  We worked on comparing the two items and knowing how many more/ fewer one has than the other.

Science/ Social Studies: We started a new social studies unit on our country.  This week we talked about George Washington and the Pledge of Allegiance.  We learned about several vocabulary words: settler, colony, freedom, flag, and pledge.

Jan. 7 Spelling List

1. like
2. ride
3. bike
4. spike
5. hide
6. mine
7. whip
8. chop
9. call
10. there