Sept. 29- Oct. 3

This week we are beginning Unit 2 in reading! Wow! This school year is going by so fast. We will read Tara and Tiree in our reading books. We will discuss dangerous situations and talk about fire safety and safety animals. We will also talk about the sounds: ar, or, ore, oar (tar, torn, bore, board). This will be our spelling skill. Our reading comprehension skill is Cause and Effect and Summarizing.

Cause- why did something happen... Effect- what happened

Summarizing- telling the most important parts of the story in order

Spelling Words:
hard
horse
more
smart
before
born
more
part
farm
score
porch
corn

High Frequency Words:
once
listen
break
pull
family
heard

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, Oct. 2: Make up Picture Day
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 13-14: Fall Break
Friday, Oct. 31: School is out at 1:00

Apple Week Was a Success!

Whew! We had a busy week! This week we enjoyed learning about apples and Johnny Appleseed. Each day we had a new apple snack to try. The kiddos had a blast tasting new treats:) Thank you parents for sending the items for our kids to try! Friday was FARM DAY!!! Thanks to the high school's FFA club, we are able to have great hands-on learning experience. Our kids are able to learn about and see REAL farm animals. They get to ask questions and pet the animals as well. As if all of this wasn't enough, PTO held Penny Wars this week. The kiddos enjoy this week so much! And it's a great fundraiser! Thanks parents and PTO for making this happen as well:)

Sept. 15-19

This week we will be reading "The Strongest One". We will be learning about Realism (something that has real ideas/could happen in real life) and Fantasy (completely made up/ talking animals, objects, etc).  We will learn about consonant diagraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, tch). In writing, we will begin writing fantasy narratives. We will continue with chapter 2 in math (Working with numbers to 1,000).

Spelling Words:
wish
that
patch
math
when
what
shape
itch
bunch
them
chase
whale

High Frequency Words:
though
learn
often
gone
pieces
very
together

Upcoming Events:
We will have Farm Day at the end of the month:)
Oct. 13-14: Fall Break

Sept. 8-12

This week we are reading "A Walk in the Desert". We are practicing Main Idea (most important idea of the story) and Details (the "extras", support the main idea, tell about the main idea). We are adding -ing and -ed endings to words. We are learning to change the words before adding the endings (write... writing/ jog....jogged). In writing, we are researching desert animals and writing a brief report about them. We are finishing up chapter 1 in math this week. We will begin Chapter 2 soon! Progress Reports will go home on Friday and Grandparents' Day is Thursday at 9:00.

Spelling Words:
talking
talked
lifting
lifted
hugging
hugged
dropping
dropped
smiling
smiled
exciting
excited

High Frequency Words:
water
warm
early
eyes
full
animals
love

Upcoming Events:

Sept. 11- Grandparents' Day 9:00-10:00
Sept. 12- Picture Day
Sept. 12- Progress Reports go home

Sept. 2-5

This week we are Camping! We will be reading the story "Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night" in our reading books and talking about going camping. We will learn the stars and moon and all things needed to camp. Our spelling skill is consonant blends (br, bl, cl, str...) . Our Comphrension skill is Character (who is in the story) and Setting (where and when is the story taking place?) . We will continue with chapter 1 in math and practice even and odd numbers, place value, and simple addition.

Spelling Words:
breeze
brave
strap
twin
clip
hand
stop
mask
state
ask
nest
stream
Vocabulary Words:
build
bear
mother
father
couldn't
straight
love

Writing Skill:
We will continue practicing writing complete sentences.
       1. Senctences begin with Capital Letters
       2. Sentences end with punctuation (! . ?)
       3. Sentences must make sense (beginning and end)
       4. Sentences must have a who and a what
We will talk about the Who (subject) and the What (predicates) of the sentence.
      Mudge (walks around the camp fire). --- complete sentence
       subject          predicate
Upcoming Events:
Sept. 11: Grandparents' Day 9:00-10:00
Sept. 12: Picture Day
Sept. 12: Progress Reports go home