Oct. 22-23

This is a short week! Fall break was a well needed break and I hope everyone got lots of rest:) This week we are studying BATS! This (short) week will be full of so much fun!! Here is the newsletter for this week:

Oct. 12-16

One week until FALL BREAK!! WHOO HOO!! This is our last full week before we have our well-needed fall break:) Here is what our week will look like-

We will learn about Christopher Columbus on Monday and Spiders Tuesday-Friday! We will complete research on a spider and write a report. Then we will draw and label our spiders on Friday:) This will be a packed week! Let's get to it!

Oct. 5-9

This week we are learning all about PUMPKINS!!! It is finally fall and the weather is cooling down some. The leaves are turning beautiful colors and falling to the ground! Football is on Fridays and Saturdays (and if you are my husband, every other night as well!) and soups go in the crockpots:) I love this time of year! We will begin our October units with pumpkins and then we will continue the unit with bats, spiders, and Halloween. We will compare bats and owls. We will learn how pumpkins grow. Hopefully we will even get to carve a pumpkin somewhere in this month:) Here is what is happening this week:

Sept. 21-25

It's Aggie Week and Apple Week and Penny War Week! Woah! It is a busy week this week. Good thing we are reviewing (YAY!).
Here are the skills we will be reviewing:

Pay special attention to the Dress up days for this week. We will be dressing up each day to support the Aggies! It is homecoming week afterall:) Thursday is Kids day on the Farm. We will learn about and pet different farm animals. A big THANKS to the AHS FFA members!

Let's go camping with Henry and Mudge!

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/what and something being done (follows a verb).
We will talk about Who/what subject) and what is being done (predicates) in the sentence.
      Mudge (walks around the camp fire). --- complete sentence
       subject          predicate

Aug. 24-28

This week we are Exploring Space! We will be reading the story "Exploring Space" in our reading books and talking about the Solar System. We will learn about astronauts and outer space. Our spelling skill is CVCe (sneaky e). Our Comphrension skill is Main Idea and Details. We will begin chapter 1 and practice even and odd numbers, place value, and simple addition.

Spelling Words:
space
vote
blaze
late
page
mice
size
huge
nose
fine
race
hope

Vocabulary Words:
everywhere
live
machines
woman
work
move

Writing Skill:
We will be 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

Upcoming Events:
Sept. 3- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night!
Sept. 7- NO School! Labor Day
Sept. 9- Grandparents' Day 9:00-10:00
Sept. 8-11  Book Fair in the library
Sept. 10- Fall Pictures

The First Week of School, a monster, and a case of Tattle-tongue!

This week has been a very busy week! We started Monday with Meet and Greet! We had a great turn-out. Thank you to ALL the parents who were able to take time to join us! Wednesday was the first day and it was definitely a FIRST DAY! We talked about class rules, procedures, and responsibilties. We met Mrs. Stanley (across the hall) and joined her class for some read alouds! I read "David Goes To School" and we discussed what makes a good student and took our Peacemaker Promise. We also learned about a monster who came to school and acted AWFUL! He was so AWFUL, that he was not invited back. But he learned the correct way to behave in school and was allowed to stay. We also learned how NOT to get a case of the TATTLE TONGUE! No one wants a super long, yellow-with-purple-spots, tongue!! We sorted and cleaned and organized and colored... We even learned about our classmates by making an "All About Me" puzzle. It was a great week! I am exhausted. I am now going to rest with my Now-3-month-old-today baby! My how time (and the summer) flies!