School
School is fun! School is cool! School is for learning and we like to learn! School can be hard and school can be easy but the best part about school is when you show kindness and you know it!
It is always fun when I can share work done by the children that was not even an assignment! (: This poem was written by Ashlyn and shared with her permission
School School is fun! School is cool! School is for learning and we like to learn! School can be hard and school can be easy but the best part about school is when you show kindness and you know it!
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In the morning we did our lunch count. Today we went to PE. We are doing Jump Rope for Heart. We did three stories on the Unit Reading test. We talked about summarizing. We worked on our sand paintings in Art. In Math we talked about angles and segments. In Science, we did an experiment with water...and I got wet. We went to Tiger Time. We worked on homophones and finished our day doing Math centers.
First, we did Morning Math and learned about pictographs. Then we went to PE and learned about Jump Rope for Heart. Next, we watched JJ get released. We did a bar graph and an extended response in Reading. Then, we went to Art and did sand paintings. In Math, we did solid figures and an ISAT sheet. Last we had a brain break. We acted out Bob's story!
The students in my class have made me one proud teacher this week! They have decided to make and sell rubber band bracelets while donating the profit to "Locks of Love". Their goal is to raise $50. By the looks of their profits from the last two days, they are well on their way to reaching and surpassing their goal! These students came up with the idea all on their own! What a selfless and compassionate act! I am so blessed to have these students in my class! Congratulations to Hunter for being our orange card winner of the week! Also, congratulations to Dannie for receiving a good news call for his efforts in making good choices and for being such a hard worker!
Our Spelling Bee was a big success! The students really enjoyed the format of the Bee. To go along with our study of the Olympics, everyone was rewarded a medal for their efforts. The students all agreed that they would like to hold another Spelling Bee in the future! We are making our final preparations for our ISAT tests which will be administered the first week of March. I will be sending home the testing schedule and an explanation of our week on Monday. There is also a list of our testing schedule on the Coming Attractions page of this website. Please make every effort to make sure your child gets plenty of rest and a good breakfast the week of our testing. Please assure your child to do their best and not to worry. It will be done before we know it! We will be finishing up our unit on measurement next week in Science. In Math, we will be covering several topics that will need to be learned before the ISATS. We will have a unit test in Reading on Wednesday to complete the first unit in our second book. We will taking a "mock" test on Friday to show the students what the actual testing will be like. It will be timed and cover all the concepts in Math that we have covered so far. I hope that this will ease some of the worries that some of the students are experiencing. Today was fun at Tiger Time. We did math and Mrs. Taylor was helping us to prepare for the ISATs. Earlier in the day we were seeing how long the blue whale actually was. We measuri in feet using the tile squares on the floor and laying down on the floor with our class. That was our math lesson. Then at the end of the day we did fun, cool, awesome math games. At the very end of the day Mrs. Bergner signed our assignment notebooks.
We are on a streak! We have now officially attended school for seven days in a row. Of course, President's Day will break that streak, but we will gladly start another one!
Congratulations to Mia, Ella, Mason, and Kaci on being our orange cards winners this week! Love to see the students making good choices! Check out our writing on our favorite Olympics Sport! Click on the link below to see a preview of our writing! Don't forget to come to Open House on February 25 from 6 to 7 to see our work up close and in person. Our Favorite Winter Olympics Sport This week we will begin our measurement unit in Science and solid figures and congruency in Math. Reading will be a review of skills including figurative language, cause and effect and sequencing. In Language, we are still learning different kinds of suffixes, which is also the skill we are covering in Spelling. Sharpening our writing skills is also preparing us for the ISATs. We have done so much writing lately that some students have had "writer's cramp." (: Our Spelling Bee will be held on Thursday, February 20. We are not following a tradition Spelling Bee "style", enabling all the students an equal shot with multiple chances to practice spelling. It should prove to be a fun and exciting event! The Spelling Bee will replace our spelling test for the week, but we will still take our dictation sentence test on Friday. In a few weeks we will be taking our ISAT tests. More information will be following in next week's blog! Students found that practicing their multiplication facts became just a little more fun using QR codes! The object was to answer the problem then scan the QR code using iPads to check their work. Challenging problems were thrown in the mix to test the students' ability to problem solve. The conversations overheard and the "meeting of the minds" were fabulous! Four days this week!! Woohoo! Let's hope we can make it 5 next week!
Congratulations to Mason for winning the Red Ribbon week coloring contest! Great job! We are working hard to get ready for our ISAT tests! We have been working on our extended response writing piece as well as finishing up our 5 paragraph essay. Don't tell the kids, but I think they are starting to enjoy writing! This week will be spent on writing and more writing. We will finish up our study of suffixes in Language and begin place value in Math. In Social Studies, we will take a short break from the Native Americans and discuss the history of the Olympics, including the tradition of the flame, and the background of Olympic rings. There might even be a writing activity involved. (: In Reading, we are working on cause and effect and author's purpose. We have also been studying figurative language, which has been such a fun concept to study. We will wrap up our Science unit this week on environment and endangered species and begin our customary and metric units next week. Our Valentine's Day party will be held on Friday at 10:10am. You may begin sending valentines in this week. The students are super excited. We will also be dismissing at 11am on Friday for School Improvement. There is no school on Monday, February 17 for President's Day. Have a great week and stay warm!! We made it through three days this week!! I really hope Mother Nature allows us to go all 5 next week, but I don't think I will hold my breath to see!
Congratulations to Mia for making good choices and being our orange card winner this week! The snow days have thrown our schedule off as far as our Reading units. The quizzes will now be on Tuesday for a while. This week we will wrap up our Money chapter in Math and our study of the Cheyenne Indians in Social Studies. For the next month in Math, we will be covering the concepts that we have left to cover before we take the ISAT tests in March. We may not always finish the entire chapter, but we will cover all the important concepts we need to cover for the children to be successful on the ISATS. In Science, we remain on the topic of changing enviroments and endangered animals, and in Language we are discussing suffixes and will add prefixes in the coming weeks. Please make sure your child is practicing their multiplication facts for 10 minutes a night. This can be done by using computer games, flash cards, or even regular playing cards. It is soooo important that your child learns these facts as we are using them almost every day. Thank you for your help! Mrs. Smith will be finishing up her lessons on internet safety this week and Mrs. Crist will be in our classroom on Tuesday to discuss Farm Machinery. Mrs. Simpson (our student teacher) is going to start teaching a reading group and will be taking over the spelling lessons. Let's all hope that our week is a full, productive week! |