This week

Hopefully we'll have a full week this week!!! Keep your fingers crossed! Oops, just a reminder... tomorrow is a 2 hour late start.  Don't forget!!!

Today we took our Unit 4 week 2 spelling and reading tests.  Tomorrow we'll begin Unit 4 week 3. 

The story this week is called Soil.  Students will be reading a non- fiction story and learning about different types of soil.  The question of the week is; What Changes Occur Under the Ground?
Students will be learning the phonics sound and spelling of oi,ow, oy, ou.  For comprehension, students will be reviewing and finding facts and opinions in texts.  They will also be continuing to practice with adjectives as well as writing complete expository paragraphs using  complete introductions and conclusions.

In math, students will continue to work through Unit 7 with Miss Waskow's guidance.  The unit 7 math test will be given on Friday.

Thank you for continuing to encourage your students to practice their fact fluency using reflex.  Please keep that up.  Tomorrow we will not get to the computer lab due to the late start so please have your child get on in the morning if possible.

Thank you for all the well wishes and Valentine gifts!  We had a lot of fun showing our affection for eachother through passing out Valentine cards on Friday.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me anytime.  Thankyou.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Today the students were so excited to pass out valentines to each other.  They also had the chance to do some fun "sweet" valentine math activities that Miss Waskow prepared for them.  Here are a few pictures of the kids as they are working on their valentine math centers.

Here is a photo of the kids with their 100th day glasses and crowns on. Thank you, Alex's mom for allowing us to borrow her class 100th day glasses. The class loved them!!! :)

Hip Hip Hooray! It's the 100th Day!!

Finally, tomorrow is the 100th day of school.  We will be doing some fun activities related to the 100th day. Miss Waskow has some neat things planned. :)

Valentine's Day is Friday. If we have school we'll pass out Valentine cards and have a little treat.  Please check with one of the room mothers to see if you signed up to bring something in. The class list is coming home today. If your child forgets to bring one home please email me. 

If we're not in school on Friday, we'll move our Valentine celebration to Monday.  Thank you so much for all your understanding with this crazy weather!!!
Reading and Spelling tests will be moved as many days as we miss. ie- miss 1 day- Test on Monday, Miss 2 days- Test on Tuesday.

I'm in the process of rescheduling some of the Parent / Teacher conferences for March 13 &14. Once I have all families rescheduled, I'll send home reminder slips for everyone.  Thank you for your flexibility.

Please let me know if you have any questions and as always, thank you for your support.

Question for Students

What is your favorite thing to do on a Snow Day?  Please answer and describe, then comment on another students post.

Okay, so it's definitely been a broken up week.  We see evidence of this with the students attention spans.  We will move our Reading and Spelling tests to Monday, February 10th.  We'll continue with math and writing this week but everything is pushed backed a few days.
All students have spelling lists that they're bringing home tonight.  Sorry about the delay.  If ever you don't have the lists, they are all listed on Spelling City under Ozimok.  You can always find them there.
Hopefully we won't have anymore surprising weather that takes us out of school.
 ( wishful thinking???)

Please let me know if you need to reschedule your March Parent/ Teacher conference. 
Thank you so much.

This weather is something!!!

Wow!!! This weather is really something!  We have begun Unit 4 week 1 in reading today.  We will try to stay on target depending on how the weather cooperates.  Please be aware that we may not have our reading and spelling tests on Friday because of the delays, snow days, etc... We will try to have our test within a 4 or 5 day school week whether it is all in the same week or not.  It looks like we may not be in school tomorrow therefore, we would have our reading and spelling tests next Monday or Tuesday. I hope that makes sense.

Also, please, please, please make sure your child is getting onto Reflex math at home to practice his/ her math fluency.  This is especially important with how the weather is affecting school because we don't have as many opportunities to practice in school. 

As always, thanks so much for all your continued support!  I'm going to be posting another question for students to respond to either tonight or tomorrow.

Have a wonderful day and be careful out there on the roads.