Nov. 17-21/Dec. 1-5

It is almost Thanksgiving Break! Whoo Hoo! We have a busy schedule over the next few weeks, working our way to Christmas. This Thursday, Nov. 20, We have our Field Trip to Disney on Ice! I am so excited to see this show. It will be GrEaT! We will be out of school next week for Thanksgiving Break. We have talked all week about the wonderful holiday we will celebrate next Thursday. The students have shared what they are thankful for, learned about the First Thanksgiving, how the Pilgrims came to America and survived over the first winter, and learned a play about a turkey visiting for Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the week next week! Get much needed rest and spend lots of time with family and friends:)

When we come back, we will be learning about Christmas around the world. We will be visiting different classrooms to discuss, learn, and create crafts from various countries who celebrate Christmas. It is an exciting time! We have already got our Christmas decorations up and the kiddos love them! We will be creating ornaments for each country we visit and then some other keep-sake ornaments for our tree. The Santa Shop will be here beginning the first week of December. We will also have a Christmas movie day with hot chocolate and popcorn and our Christmas Party:)

Dec. 1-5

Our story for this week is Dear Juno. We will be writing friendly letters, learning about drawing conclusions, and practicing the vowel pattern oa, ow. We will have our tests like normal: practice test on Thursday and Reading test on Friday.

Spelling Words:

goat

hold

snow

most

toast

ago

open

told

toad

slow

High Frequency Words:

answer

company

faraway

parents

picture

school

wash

Upcoming Events:

Santa Shop- Dec. 4 & 5, 11 & 12

Eye Screening- Dec. 10 Please send in the forms as soon as possible!

Christmas Party- Dec. 19 at 8:00

Christmas Break- Dec. 22-Jan. 2

Students return on Jan. 5 (Monday)

Oct. 27-31

This week is RED RIBBON WEEK!! We will have dress up days each day. Please look at your newsletter daily to see what your child needs to wear.


This week we are reading The Bremen Town Musicians. We will practice words with inflected endings/plurals. Our spelling skill is plurals (change y to i, add s, add es). We will continue with plural nouns in Grammar.

We will finish up chapter 3 in math this week. We will test on chapter 3 on Thursday.

Spelling Words:
baby
babies
story
stories
lunch
lunches
switch
switches
note
notes
tune
tunes

High Frequency Words:
bought
probably
scared
shall
sign
people
pleasant


Upcoming Events:

Oct. 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses

Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero  Day

Oct. 31: School is out at 1:00.

Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day No School

Oct. 20-24

Congratulations Aggies for the win on Homecoming! Whoo Hoo!!

This week we will learning all about those creepy, crawly, spiders. We will read about them during reading and write about them in writing. We will write a report (expository) writing about different kinds of spiders. This week is going to be jam packed with the creepy, crawly arachnids! 

Our phonics skill is er, ir, and ur (the er triplets!). We will have spelling words and phonics practice on this skill. 

Our comprehension skill is Facts and details. We will also learn about opinions. 

In math we will continue in chapter 3!

Spelling Words:

purse

dirt

person

curl

curb

birth

nurse

turtle

turn

skirt

serve

her

Vocabulary Words:

toward, whole, word

enough, above, ago

Upcoming Events:

October 24: Pumpkin Character Due

October 27-31: Red Ribbon Week

Mon- Red day, Tue- Camo day, Wed- Sunglasses

Thurs- Favorite Team T-shirt, Fri- Super Hero Day

October 31: School is out at 1:00. 

Oct. 6-10

This week we are reading "Abraham Lincoln". We will learn about Author's Purpose and contractions (can't, I'm). Our grammar skill will be Proper Nouns (special names, begins with capital letters). We will begin chapter 3 in Math (basic addition and subtraction).

Spelling:
hadn't
it's
she's
aren't
he's
I'm
isn't
I'll
didn't
who's
can't
haven't

Vocabulary Words:
worst
second
laugh
great
you're
either
certainly

Upcoming Events:
Oct. 13 and 14- No School= Fall Break
Oct. 23- Make-Up picture day
Oct. 24- Pumpkin Character Project due
Oct. 31- School is out at 1:00 (Albertville vs. Guntersville Game)

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