Our 1st chick has arrived!!!

We skyped with our pen pals!

We had fun skyping our pen pals at Stoddard Elementary!

Week of April 23rd

This week we will be reading the story Jingle Dancer and working on character, setting, and plot.  We will be focusing on the prefixes mid and mis.  It will be fun to share our dinosaur reports and dioramas. I hope to post some pictures of their projects.  The students were so creative.  We will continue to work on 3 digit addition and subtraction with regrouping. This week we enjoyed skyping with our pen pals from Stoddard Elementary.    

Week of April 16th

* Please bring a shoe box by Monday so we can make dinosaur dioramas.  This week we will be reading Cowboys.  We will be working on the suffixes less and ness, and cause and effect.  In Language Arts we will be focusing on using commas in compound sentences and writing dinosaur reports.  Science and Social Studies will be spent learning about where dinosaurs lived in the world, creating a dinosaur out of clay, and making a home for our dinosaur.  It should be fun!!  In math we will start working on subtracting 3 digit numbers.

Week of April 9th

We are off to a busy week.  In reading and language arts we will be reading A Birthday Basket for Tia.  The skills we are working on  include drawing conclusions, commas, and the syllables tion and ture.  Be ready to do 3 digit addition in math.  On Tuesday Jane Esau will be coming to start our embryology unit.  21 days until the chicks are suppose to hatch.  I hope we can be good mother hens.  We will continue learning more about dinosaurs.  Please bring a shoe box to school so we can create dioramas.