Jan. 27

We had a great SEP's.  We have so much parent support.  Our class has done an amazing job this year and they are very kind to each other.  We started do to another art project using warm and cool colors. In reading we are trying to use thicker sentences to make our summaries better.  We started our unit on time and we have learned the O'Clock and Half Past.

JAN 23

THIS WEEK ARE SEP'S.  I WOULD LOVE TO MEET WITH EVERY PARENT IN OUR CLASS.  THEY ARE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY.

Jan.16-20

Reading:  Last week the children were each given the DRA test.  Every child made 1/2 years growth or more.  I encourage parents to work on the Fry Phrase list at homes.  Every child who has passed off their Fry Phrases Words Per Minute were at the end of 2nd grade Benchmark.  We also worked on naming 3 things about the characters we were reading about and making predictions.

We are starting to do a phonic chant in hopes to be able to look at words and be able to pronounce them without having to stop and decode them.

Math:  We took the money test.  Wow!  There was great progress!

Social Studies/Science: We looked at the temperature of different cities around the world.  We paid extra attention to the continents above and below the equator.  North of the equator were the coldest.  South of the equator were the warmest.

Art:  We started an art project that looks like an optical illusion.  We worked on drawing straight lines and becoming familiar with different shapes.

January 6

This week our reading groups worked on nonfiction text.  We looked at the content and index pages, as well as chapter headings and titles.  In our nonfiction book we cut or drew a diagram and wrote about how diagrams helps us understand what we are reading.


In math we are working on money.

 In Social Studies & Science we started our unit on Asia.  We took different books with countries from Asia and pretended we were visiting there.  We made a postcard from that country.  We also looked at the temperatures of the different countries and drew pictures of what they would wear there according to the weather.

If your child is working on Fry Phrases-- they will need extra help at home.

January 3

Welcome back!


 I had a wonderful Christmas Break and I hope all of you did too.

We are ready to get back to work.  In math we are working with money.  Any practice with real coins at home will really help.

Dec. 9th

It is hard to believe that we have only one week left of school before break.  The children have been on their best behavior trying to earn money to buy at the class store.  We started to pay more attention on getting classroom chores done because the students are getting checks for how hard they work.  Many children are sharpening pencils, keeping their desk extra clean and the floor  picked up.



 We have not had much turned in to sale and could really use some more items.
  Reading:  Many of the students have passed off all of their Fry Phrases.  This is allowing more time for the parents helpers to work with children who need more help.  Thank You parent helpers.  I try to test the children each Friday on how fast they read.  Every child has improved and most of them have doubled their words per minute.  The children who passed off their Fry Phrases have made the most progress.  Please parents help them with these list.  They can be found on my web site and some children have been bringing them home.

Math:  We finished our base 10 unit and have started on money.  This is a hard unit for many children and any extra help working with real coins at home would benefit the children.

Social Studies:  We are working on the continent Europe.

Dec. 2nd

We are going to have our Christmas store in 2 weeks.  If every child could bring somethings that you would give to the DI to sale at our Christmas store we would really appreciate it.  You can start to bring these items to school.

Reading:  We started our new December Reader Theaters and refined our summaries.  We wrote about something we would see at Santa's house.  We are singing lots of Christmas songs to help with fluency. Our word chunks we were on this week were "at. ake. ame, ail, ain, and ate".

Math:  We worked on place value to the 10's.  I felt like we still need some practice so we have not taken the test yet.   Hopefully this week we will be ready.

Social Studies:  We are starting our unit on Europe.  We did a map study and took the temerpatures of different cities in the world.

Science: We wrote about our favorite moon phase.