Weekly Update 3/23

Good morning and happy SPRING! I hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break!! 9 more weeks to go! We can do it!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day 
Wednesday- C day
Thursday- D day
Friday- A day

Writing- Since we celebrated our realistic fiction before break, we decided to take a week or so and come up with some FANTASY fiction stories! The students are SO excited about this and it is so fun to see their imaginations soar!

Words their Way- New lists will be coming home today!

Math- We are starting our new unit on telling time to the hour and half hour. Also, if you are interested in working on some more math at home at your student's level, FrontRow is a great website for that. https://student.frontrowed.com/#login

Login- students first name and last initial
Password- liekod
*XtraMath information is coming!

Reading- Keep up the hard work! I loved seeing all of these friends who read over break too! 

Upcoming Events:
No School on 4/3

**Field Trip to the Zoo will be on April 10. Permission slips went home today! Please be sure to send those back in with $9.00 as soon as you can. Also, ALL chaperone's are welcome! 

9/15-  Baby Gregston #2 DUE!! We are beyond thrilled to welcome another bundle of joy into our lives! 

Weekly Update 3/10

Good morning and happy Tuesday! I apologize for not posting this earlier, I had a meeting first time Monday morning so that got me all mixed up!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day
Wednesday- C day (Challenge Course)
Thursday- D day and Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday- NO LETTER DAY and 11:50 Dismissal

Writing- We are continuing to work on adding stories to our realistic series and I am SO excited with how well they are turning out!

Reading- Please continue to read 15 minutes at home! 

Spelling- We are working on contractions this week.

Math- We are continuing to work on measurement and will start time after Spring Break. 

Social Studies- We are still working on our map unit and have been drawing pictures of our room, house, street, town, state, country, and world! 

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break- 3/16-3/20- 3/23 will be an A day
4/3- No School

Weekly Update 3/2

Good morning!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and didn't get snowed in! I don't know about you all but I am SO ready for spring! 

This week:

Monday- D day, Library, and wear red, white, and blue
Tuesday- A day and crazy Socks
Wednesday- B day and WACKY Wednesday
Thursday-C day and PJ Day
Friday- D day, wear green, and early release. 3Q ends!

Upcoming events:
-March 12- Spring Conferences

Math- We are finishing up graphing this week and will begin time and measurement.

Word Work- This week and next we are working on contractions!

Writing- We are continuing to work on creating our realistic fiction series books.

Social Studies- We are working on maps. 

Reading- Don't forget to continue to have your child read 15 min each night. 

Weekly Update 2/23

Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I apologize for not putting up a weekly update last week, without having school on Monday it must have thrown me off!

Monday- C day, Library, and Sydney's Birthday!
Tuesday- D day
Wednesday- A day
Thursday- B day
Friday- C day and Six Flags Read to Succeed is DUE!


Writing- We have started our next unit on Realistic Fiction and we have been SO impressed with these stories they have created. From making up their own characters, to getting them in trouble, to then finding a solution... WOW!

Reading- Don't forget to read 15 minutes ( or more ) each night! Just a helpful hint, when you are listening to your child read to you and if they come to an unknown word they should be using these strategies: finding a chunk, look at the picture, stretch out the word, or skip the word and come back.
Science- Last week we finished our Matter unit and finished it with making root beer floats. (Check the picture folder for pictures on the solid, liquid, and gas!) 

Social Studies- We are putting our map strategies to the test! I'm anxious to see who all knows what continent, state, city, and street they live on/in! 

Math- We are continuing our unit on graphing and have practiced making a tally chart, picto-graph, and even a bar graph! 

Upcoming events
3/3- PTO Meeting at 7:00
3/6- Half Day
3/12- Spring  Conferences- more information to come this week.
3/13- Half Day- No Letter Day
3/16-3/20- SPRING BREAK!

Weekly Update 2/9

Good afternoon! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and was able to get out and enjoy the beautiful "spring-like" weather. 

Monday- B day, Show and Tell, and Library
Tuesday- C day and hat day for 50 cents.
Wednesday- D day and early release at 1:40. Please make sure to let me know if your transportation will change. 
Thursday- A day
Friday- B day and Valentine parties
*Please be sure to have Valentines made for each student in the class if you choose to participate in handing out Valentines.*

Writing- Finishing up our book review unit this week!

Math- Today, we started subtracting 10s and they did a great job with it! Here is a game that we played too!
http://www.mhschool.com/math/mathconnects/assets/asset_view.html?s=SEC_1_14E&type=SEC

Words their Way- TEST FRIDAY!

Science- We are finishing up our unit on Matter this week.

Weekly Update 2/2

Good morning! Hope everyone had a fun Superbowl weekend. 
This week it is...
 
Have any box tops hanging around your house? Bring them in by Friday and help is earn a popcorn party!!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day
Wednesday- C day
Thursday- D day
Friday- A day, Box Tops DUE, and Counselor's Day

Don't Forget:
2/11- Early Dismissal at 1:40
2/13- Valentine's Day party at 2:00. Please let me know if you need another class list for the valentines. Boxes will be made during the party so you will not need to worry about making them at home. Also, please be sure if you are doing valentines that there is one for each student in the class so no one feels left out. 
2/16- No School

Words their Way- New lists are coming home today. Please refer to the blog for the new sorts.

Math- We are working on two-digit addition and subtraction.

Writing- We are continuing to work on writing reviews and answering the important information, what? where? and when?

Science-  We  are continuing to study Matter. 

February Birthdays
17- Elli
23- Sydney
25- Lydia

Weekly Update 2/26

Good morning, hope everyone had a great weekend!

Happy 100th day of School! We did it!

Monday- D day and Library
Tuesday- A day
Wednesday- B day
Thursday- C day 
Friday- D day and WTW test

Writing- We are continuing to work on writing reviews on places and things.

Spelling- We are taking our test on Friday.

Math- We will be testing over greater than, less than, place value, and more on Tuesday. We will review beforehand but I am confident that they will do just fine!

Social Studies- We are finishing up our unit on needs and wants.


Below is a note from Mrs. Black about our Valentine's Day party.

Dear Parents,

I am planning the Valentine party for our children and would very much appreciate your input.

Please email me at kbandwb@swbell.net if you have any ideas for games, food, favors, or other things to make the party fun. I'm still in the brainstorming stage, so please don't worry if your idea is perfect, and don't feel like you're committing to do it.

Thanks,

Winona Black