3rd Quarter Weeks 3 & 4

Literacy

We worked on the letter Qq, which we talked about is married to the letter Uu!  They never go anywhere without each other! :-)  As you can see, our Qq list was quite short, but there just aren't as many words that start with Qq as other letter!

Some of the sight words we've been working on are:

and

5th Grade Buddies

We worked with our 5th grade buddies last week on the early out day.  We read the book The Mitten, by Jan Brett on the computer.  During the story, the kids colored a picture matching the animal in the story.  The kids really enjoyed it!

Assemblies!

Congrats to Ali on being the January Kid of Character!  Ali does a great job of following directions, participating in class, and getting along with other.

Also congrats to the following students for having outstanding attendance in 2nd quarter!  Thanks you for always having them at school and on time!

Rylan, Jackson, Gregory, Caleb, 

Katie, Matti, Andrew, Brooklyn, Cole

Math

We have been working a lot with teen numbers in math.  One of the activities we have done is to build the teen numbers with a ten stick and cubes.  We also have equation cards to put on the tray to show the teen number.  Then we do our finger flashes to show that 11 is 10 and 1, etc.

Third Quarter Week 2

Welcome to 3rd Quarter!

I can't believe it's already 3rd Quarter!  This year has just flown by!  You will be getting the third quarter objectives coming home next week.  Some things we will be working on are:

new sight words

dictation (writing a word in sound boxes ~ I'll try to get a pic of if on next week)

sounding out words into 3 parts

write a 3 part story (beginning, middle, end) with a lead

solve addition problems

Also, on that note, please remember that 2ND QUARTER HOMEWORK SHEETS ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 25TH!

Literacy

Last week we had two new sight words:

and

Our alphafriend was Keely Kangaroo.  This was a tricky one as the kids always want to think of words that start with the letter Cc!  However, they came up with a pretty good list of Kk words as you can see below!

Math

We will be taking our Unit 3 Math test this Thursday!  Please make sure your child is at school from 12-1!!  We will be testing over number partners 2-6, patterns, drawing five groups, writing numbers 1-20, and deciding if numbers are equal or not-equal.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

Holiday Celebrations!

Congrats Emma!

Emma was our December Kid of Character for always being a good helper, trying her best, and playing by the rules!

5th Grade Buddies

For our December 5th grade buddy time we each gave a little gift and then read some stories together.

Holidays Around the World

The Family Literacy Program parents presented to us to share what their tradition are in their home countries.  We heard from some parents from Russia, Mexico, and Africa.

Gingerbread Houses!

The kids had a blast decorating gingerbread houses with their 5th grade buddies!  Thank you to all who donated supplies to make it possible.

We also decorated gingerbread cookies........

And then ate them!

Miss Boltz Came Back!

Miss Boltz came back to pay us a visit and give the kids a little gift!

Present Time!