Week of October 1st

We have parent teacher conferences on Tuesday and Thursday this week.  I look forward to visiting with you about your child. We will spend the week reviewing the Boys Town social skills we have covered so far this year.  In reading we will be reading The Strongest One, working on consonant digraphs, realism, and fantasy.  In Language Arts we will focus on commands and exclamations.  We will have some fun creating insect models from clay and do some experiments with Hissing Cockroaches.  Fire Prevention will also be discussed this week.  In math we will be working on place value, reading, and writing numbers.  It should be an exciting week.

Week of September 24th

Our Boys Town social skill of the week is How to get the teachers attention.  We will be practicing this along with the other skills we have already learned.  In reading we will be exploring the desert and reading A Walk in the Desert.  As we do this we will be learning about words with inflected endings, finding the main idea, and details.  In Language Arts we will be learning how to write a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Learning how to write questions and statements will also be addressed this week.  In math we continue to work on subtraction strategies.  In Social Studies and Science we will focus on Johnny Appleseed, and snails.  It should be a week full of new learning's!

Look at our Lady Liberty art inspired by Peter Max!

Family Literacy Night

Week of Sept. 17th

As we continue our exploration unit, we will be reading Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night.  Consonant blends, characters, and setting will be our focus.  In Language Arts we will be working on predicates of sentences.  We will be finishing up on addition strategies and starting subtraction strategies in Math.  Science will consist of learning about invertebrates focusing on insects.  I am excited to do an art project learning about the famous artist Peter Max.  I am hoping to post some of our students art work.  So keep watching!
Monday night is our K-2 Literacy night.  I hope to see you there!

Week of Sept. 10th

This week we will be exploring space in reading.  As we do that we will be learning about long vowels, main idea, and details.  In Language Arts we will be learning about subjects in sentences and the writing process.  In Science and Social Studies we will be finishing up our plant unit and learning more about communities.  Math time will be spent focusing on strategies that will help us learn our addition facts.  It will be a busy week!