We will be having our SPELLING TEST on Thursday this week. If the students return their Homework on THURSDAY they will receive a treat. The students wrote some fabulous essays on the similarities and differences of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. I was so proud of them. Many of the students are skipping the fluency passage and answering the questions on the back. Please do your best to get this part of the homework finish.

Feb. 12

We are moving on to subtraction. The students are doing excellent in regrouping. We had Mrs. Marshall come with her puppets for Valentines Day and we played a game with a parachute and flying hearts. You should come and see our papers we wrote on the similarities and differences of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. They are impressive! We had a great week.

Feb. 5, 2016

It was great to visit with parents for Parent Teacher Conferences.  I love teaching your children. We have had fun playing math games to review the 4 ways to solve double digit addition with regrouping. We finished up our unit on Matter in Science and Asia in Social Studies. We are now moving on to Antarctica and studying about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We will be having a Valentines Party on Friday we will make a Valentine Sack at school to put all their Valentines in. The students can just put names  (Who they are from) on their Valentine or they can address it to each student.

Jan. 29th

Many of the students are finishing their FRY PHRASES for the last time. I will mark an x on their homework if they are finished.

Some of the students are not passing off their drills each week. If your child is on the same drill for 2 weeks they need to practice at more at home.  Not knowing math facts really slows down the learning and causes many errors in math. Please help your child with this at home.  You asked them their math facts while driving in the car or making dinner. Every little bit helps.

I am looking forward to visiting with each parent. If you cannot make it to the assign time please email me and we schedule a time that will work. I love teaching your children.

Mrs. Kitchen

Jan 22

This week we started regrouping in math, wrote "I Dream...." papers and went over characteristics, predictions, authors message and connections in reading groups. In Social Studies we watch slides from my trip to Thailand and China. In Science we are keeping track of our how long it takes our melted ice cube to evaporate into a gas. We also made a bar of chocolate turn into a liquid and then harden again using the physical change of "heat".  That was a yummy experiment since we poured the chocolate on Honey Combs and ate it.

The students are forgetting their library books on Thursday. Please help them remember.  I f they want to participate it the end of year school wired reading party they need to be turning in their forms.  The next form is due Feb. 5^th.

The topics they should have done are: Mystery, Biography, Free Choice, and Fantasy. They are getting pins that they put on a lanyard at school.  I am sure this will e a really fun activity. I hope most of my students will be able to attend.

Jan. 15th

We have been doing some fun winter art and poems. We will be finishing the DRA testing in reading and working on stamina. In math we are starting to work on double-digit addition. We are studying Matter in Science and Human Rights in Social Studies.  

Many of the students are forgetting their Library Books on Thursday. Please help them to try to remember them.

Thanks.
Mrs. Kitchen 

Jan 7

It is great to be back to school. The students have been fantastic! We took our money test on Thursday and we are going to start the DRA Reading test this week. We are also studying about Matter and are going to be doing some experiments. In Social Studies we are studying the continent “Asia”.  Most of the students started over on FRY PHRASES. Each student has a different amount of time to finish each list 100%. I am timing at 30 seconds, 45 seconds and 60 seconds. My goal is for every child to pass off each list at 30 seconds by the end of the year.

       I am very pleased with the attitudes of the students. We have had a GREAT start for the New Year.

PS -The students are having a hard time remembering their LIBRARY BOOKS on THURSDAYS.