Hi Parents and Families,
Next week we'll begin a new story in Reading Street; Bad Dog, Dodger! We will be learning how to be responsible pet owners. Our phonics skill for the week is kn, wr, mb, gn; and our comprehension strategy is plot and theme.
In writing we're continuing to write about our community and students will try to make their stories more detailed and elaborated. We've looked at our community on Google Earth and students were to pick one of their favorite places in our community to write about.
We'll finish up Unit 9 on Measurement, Area and Perimeter at the end of the week. Our Unit 9 test will be given on either Thursday or Friday of next week.
As the weather starts to turn warmer, please make sure to check because as we all know the weather can be very sporadic in the spring and students will go out to recess so we'd like for them to be dressed properly. Thanks for helping with this.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Question
Students have been asking me to post questions that they could reply to so...
What do you like to do after school and in the evening for fun?
Students please reply to this and comment on one other students post. Remember to post using correct sentence form.
Back to normal
It looks like things are getting back to normal with school days. The students are doing really well! We've had some great learning going on in the classroom so far this week.
We went to the computer lab to do Reflex today so students shouldn't need to do it at home tonight.
There are still some nasty viruses flying around our classroom. Students have been out with the stomach bug and lots of colds. I'm trying to combat that with lots of hand washing.😁
Today we'll be doing explorations of area, perimeter, and measurement. It should be an enjoyable learning experience.
Miss Autenrieth , a junior block student from LVC, is back in our room this semester. She will be here on Wednesdays. Yesterday she taught our writing lesson. It went very well.
In writing, our theme is Communities. We'll be talking, reading, and writing about communities.
In Science, we're awaiting the arrival of our insects so that we can begin learning about the life cycle of an insect.
Please remember to make a free educreations account for your child so that I can teach and create with them in that format.
Also, thanks for all the tissues and wipes. We could still use a few more of each.
I think that's it for now!
We went to the computer lab to do Reflex today so students shouldn't need to do it at home tonight.
There are still some nasty viruses flying around our classroom. Students have been out with the stomach bug and lots of colds. I'm trying to combat that with lots of hand washing.😁
Today we'll be doing explorations of area, perimeter, and measurement. It should be an enjoyable learning experience.
Miss Autenrieth , a junior block student from LVC, is back in our room this semester. She will be here on Wednesdays. Yesterday she taught our writing lesson. It went very well.
In writing, our theme is Communities. We'll be talking, reading, and writing about communities.
In Science, we're awaiting the arrival of our insects so that we can begin learning about the life cycle of an insect.
Please remember to make a free educreations account for your child so that I can teach and create with them in that format.
Also, thanks for all the tissues and wipes. We could still use a few more of each.
I think that's it for now!
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Next Week
Parents and Families,
We enjoyed a great , uninterrupted week last week. We're looking forward to another one this coming week. We will be starting our Unit 5.2 in reading. The question of the week is-how can being responsible help others?
The skills for the week are; prefixes, cause and effect, and pronouns
In writing, we're continuing to work on the narrative writing process.
In math we're continuing with measurement in Unit 9. As I told most of you, we'll be trying to do math more like centers to optimize differentiation for all students.
We enjoyed a great , uninterrupted week last week. We're looking forward to another one this coming week. We will be starting our Unit 5.2 in reading. The question of the week is-how can being responsible help others?
The skills for the week are; prefixes, cause and effect, and pronouns
In writing, we're continuing to work on the narrative writing process.
In math we're continuing with measurement in Unit 9. As I told most of you, we'll be trying to do math more like centers to optimize differentiation for all students.
Monday, March 17, 2014
This week
Parents,
Hopefully we'll have a "normal" week, this week. We are starting Unit 5 in reading. The big idea question for the unit is: What does it mean to be responsible? And our question of the week is; Why should we be responsible for doing a good job?
For phonics, we'll be working on the suffixes; ly, ful, or, er, ish. Our comprehension strategy is fact and opinion ( which the students know well) and in writing we're working on summarizing and process writing.
In math, as I told many of you, we'll be finished up Unit 8- fractions on Tuesday with our Unit test. We'll begin area and perimeter and measurement on Wednesday. Please ask your child how we will have changed the lessons for math. Hopefully it will be more beneficial for all of the students.
Specials this week are; M- day 4, T- day 5, Wed- day 6, Thurs.- day 1, Fri. - day 2
One final note- on Tuesday our schedule will be changed to help accommodate 3rd grade PSSA testing. We wont have lunch recess at 11:35-12:35. We'll have lunch at 12:45-1:15/ recess 1:15-1:45. Please have your child bring in a snack on Tuesday to help he/she get through the long morning.
Thank you.
Hopefully we'll have a "normal" week, this week. We are starting Unit 5 in reading. The big idea question for the unit is: What does it mean to be responsible? And our question of the week is; Why should we be responsible for doing a good job?
For phonics, we'll be working on the suffixes; ly, ful, or, er, ish. Our comprehension strategy is fact and opinion ( which the students know well) and in writing we're working on summarizing and process writing.
In math, as I told many of you, we'll be finished up Unit 8- fractions on Tuesday with our Unit test. We'll begin area and perimeter and measurement on Wednesday. Please ask your child how we will have changed the lessons for math. Hopefully it will be more beneficial for all of the students.
Specials this week are; M- day 4, T- day 5, Wed- day 6, Thurs.- day 1, Fri. - day 2
One final note- on Tuesday our schedule will be changed to help accommodate 3rd grade PSSA testing. We wont have lunch recess at 11:35-12:35. We'll have lunch at 12:45-1:15/ recess 1:15-1:45. Please have your child bring in a snack on Tuesday to help he/she get through the long morning.
Thank you.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Hi Parents!
Today we celebrated St. Patrick's Day in the classroom with a fun treat from Lydia and from Ashley. We also watched an informative video about the history of St. Patrick's day.
Today we celebrated St. Patrick's Day in the classroom with a fun treat from Lydia and from Ashley. We also watched an informative video about the history of St. Patrick's day.
Monday, March 10, 2014
A full week ahead!!!
Parents and Families,
I'm back to teaching full time. Miss Waskow has moved on to another placement. This week we'll be reviewing all skills we learned in Unit 4 reading. We'll have our Unit 4 reading test on Thursday and Friday. There will be no new spelling words this week.
In writing, we're learning about how to write about weather. This week, we began with learning to research information about thunderstorms.
We're continuing to learn about fractions, equivalent fractions and fractions of a set. We'll have our unit 8 test next week.
Today we had art. Students made "bugs". Artistic bugs????
* Just a reminder; students have an early dismissal on both Thursday and Friday due to Parent/ Teacher Conferences. We can't wait to meet with you. ( Allie Waskow will join me in conferences on Thursday) If you're unsure of your conference time, please email me.
* FYI- I will be out on Wednesday. I'll be at a conference in Philadelphia learning about "flipped" classrooms.
Specials this week; Today- day 5- art, T- day 6- gym, W- day 1- computer, Th- day 2- library, F- day 3- gym
Thank you.
I'm back to teaching full time. Miss Waskow has moved on to another placement. This week we'll be reviewing all skills we learned in Unit 4 reading. We'll have our Unit 4 reading test on Thursday and Friday. There will be no new spelling words this week.
In writing, we're learning about how to write about weather. This week, we began with learning to research information about thunderstorms.
We're continuing to learn about fractions, equivalent fractions and fractions of a set. We'll have our unit 8 test next week.
Today we had art. Students made "bugs". Artistic bugs????
* Just a reminder; students have an early dismissal on both Thursday and Friday due to Parent/ Teacher Conferences. We can't wait to meet with you. ( Allie Waskow will join me in conferences on Thursday) If you're unsure of your conference time, please email me.
* FYI- I will be out on Wednesday. I'll be at a conference in Philadelphia learning about "flipped" classrooms.
Specials this week; Today- day 5- art, T- day 6- gym, W- day 1- computer, Th- day 2- library, F- day 3- gym
Thank you.
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