March 27

The students wrote their first non-fiction summary from their notes. They are to have a 5-paragraph essay with an introduction, 3 supporting details and a concluding statement.  I haven’t seen their final work as I get these packets ready earlier, but I think they are going to do a great job. They were able to do their worksheets fairly easy.

     We are in the middle of making our habitats. This usually takes us all week.

     We are also finishing our “Twisted Fairy Tales” for our writing project this month. 

     We will be finishing our TIME unit and start on number sense and place value to the 1000”s in math. Thanks for the cute door, notes, and gifts for teacher appreciation week.  I have an amazing class with amazing parents.

March 20

We had our feasts for Antarctica and Australia. We finished writing about them in our passports. We are in the middle of our Non Fiction and Fairy Tale units for reading and I am hoping that we are understanding quarter after and quarter till. It has been a great week. I am really proud of the students. They had a fun Friday with their Teddy Bears. 

March 13

Everyone has officially passed 2 digit subtraction and money with 90% or higher. We did our first Non Fiction Summary. I was impressed!!!  The students really thought about the answers and worked hard.. They were not perfect, but the students did better than I expected. You will see lots of marks on their papers as we talked about and ask questions to see how they could improve. You will see how I crossed off lots of words. I am trying to model how good writers and thinkers are. That it is OK to make a mistake and make changes. These summaries are not final publish work. We are PRACTICING and trying to become better. We are in the middle of our clock unit and the hardest part for the children is to do quarter after and quarter till. Any help at home with this would be great!
We are going to be making our HABITATS in Science and every student will need to bring a shoebox and at least 1 batch of salt dough.  Any extra silk or plastic flowers and greenery that is no longer needed at home would be appreciated.

Salt Dough

3 cups of flour

2 cups of salt

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

1 cup of water (put in a zip lock bag)

March 6th

We had a great week!  We are moving on to "Time" in math and we kicked it off by making giant clocks with "Fruit Loops" as our minutes. We divided the clock in hale and then into fourths. We labeled and colored each section. Then the students made their own small ones.  Time is a hard concept for the students to get. So we will be studying it for awhile.  We finished our Non- Fiction Text Features book and you will be getting them when we start our animal books. We are studying about HABITATS in science. Great week!!!  Great Students!!!