Spelling week of Sept. 30

1. pin
2. win
3. hit
4. sit
5. miss
6. kiss
7. sad
8. map
9. be
10. ride

Week of Sept. 23

Upcoming Events:

*Oct. 9 Early Out (2 hrs.)

*Oct. 24 and 28 Conferences  (Conferences on the 29th have been moved to the 28th due to regional volleyball)

Notes:

*The Tuesday that we missed last week will be made up on Jan. 6.

*We have started Super Achiever.  Each Friday one student will be picked who has shown exceptional character that week.  They will receive a subway coupon.  At the end of the month all of that month's Super Achievers will get to eat in the room with the teacher and receive a special treat.

*We are doing an excellent job of returning homework.  Keep it up!!

*Please make sure your child is reading their Hawk book each night and you are recording their minutes.  Prizes for the most minutes read by class and by student will be awarded next week.

Things to Work on:

*Time to the hour and half hour

*Recognizing penny, nickel, and dime

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we have been talking about the word families /ack/, /ap/, and /ad/.  Students were able to sort words into these categories. n We also discussed the use of punctuation at the ends of sentences.

Math: In math we have finished our first unit.  Students did very well on this.  Our next unit will focus on relating equations to story problems and to solution methods.  We will also spend some time introducing money.  Students will begin adding and subtracting money amounts.

Social Studies: This week we wrapped up our study on maps.  We spent time talking about the cardinal directions.  We also briefly introduced the importance of reducing, recycling, reusing.  We will come back to this topic later in the year around Earth Day.  We sent out our Travel Teddies and are anxiously awaiting them.   

Unit 1, Week 2 Spelling

1. dad
2. sad
3. back
4. tap
5. sack
6. too
7. over
8. man
9. mat
10. nap

Homecoming Days

This week is homecoming week and we have special spirit days.
Monday- mismatch day
Tuesday- class color day (ours is tie dye)
Wednesday- dress your best for picture day
Thursday- pajama day
Friday- E' hawk spirit day

Field Trips

We have had some great field trips.  Yesterday we had Farm Safety Day and today we went to the apple orchard by the community college in town.

 One of the sessions we went to we learned about Sun safety.

 We learned about water safety and the correct ways to wear a life jacket.

 State Farm brought in their fire house for us to learn about fire safety.  We were able to feel how hot a door would get if there was a fire behind it.

 We learned what it would be like if the room filled with smoke by them releasing fake smoke into the air.

 Students then practiced climbing out of the smoke filled room through the window.

 Tug of War against grain in a grain bin.

At the apple orchard we learned how apple juice was made in the olden days.  They used an apple press to squeeze out the juice.  When we returned to school we were able to have some apple juice.

Week of Sept. 16

Upcoming Events:

*Sept. 25 School Picture Day

*Sept. 27 1 hr. early out (Homecoming Parade) School Spirit Day

* Oct. 9 2 hr. early out

Notes:

*We started spelling.  A pretest was given on Monday.  If a student passed the pretest they do have to complete the spelling homework in the week but do not have to take the posttest on Friday.  I will send home the checked pretest each Monday attached to their spelling homework.  Students are to work on their spelling contracts each day.

*Homecoming is next week please watch for a flyer notifying you of scheduled days of the week.

Things to Work on:

*Identifying even and odd numbers

*Using decoding strategies to help solve an unknown word: chunk the word into parts they know or stretch out the sounds.

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we continued to review beginning, middle, and end parts of stories.  We also practiced sorting words into the –at and –an word families.

Math: We practiced counting on from 5 to make the numbers 6,7,8, 9, and 10.  We have started BUILD (Buddy Games, Using Manipulative, Independently Working, Learning about Numbers, and Doing Math).  Students have started scootpad in math.   I am sending home a letter with their password that you can use at home.  While students are busy with BUILD I am working with a small group of students on problem solving skills.  We work on solving story problems by using manipulatives, drawing pictures, and writing number sentences.  This is a chance for me to differ my instruction to fit your child’s needs.  Math problems will be given to your child based on what they need.

Science: We read the book A Tree for All Seasons.  We then made a poster showing an apple tree in each season.