Week of Sept. 29th

Thank you to those who came to parent teacher conferences.  I enjoyed visiting with you about your child.  This week we will be reading a story called Tara and Tiree Fearless Friends.  We will be working on sequencing, predicting, and r controlled vowels.  In Language Arts we will be focusing on nouns.  We will continue to work on the writing process and learning how to use transition words in our writing.  In Science we will be learning about spiders.  In math we will continue to work on place value and numbers to 100.  In art we are going to make some cool pumpkins learning about positive and negative space as well as symmetry.  Look for these at Dairy Queen during the month of October.

Week of Sept. 22nd

I hope to see all of you at parent teacher conferences next week.  They will be on Monday and Thursday evenings.  Please come at your scheduled time.  This week we will be reading the story The Strongest One.  We will be working on realism and fantasy as well as consonant digraphs.  In Language Arts we will be learning about commands and exclamations.  Our Science time will be spent learning about snails, slugs, and earthworms.  In Math we will be working on place value.

Fun with Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

Fun with Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

Week of Sept. 15th

This week we will be reading the story A Walk in the Desert and focusing on main idea and details.  We will also be working on inflected endings (words ending in ed and ing).  Those words will be the focus for our spelling words as well.  In Language Arts we will be learning about writing a story with a beginning, middle, and end as well as statements and questions.  In Social Studies we will be learning about Constitution Day and Johnny Appleseed.  We will be doing an art project about Johnny Appleseed too.  In Science Nicole Stoner, an extension educator will be bringing her Madagascar hissing cockroaches.  We will get to do som experiments with them.  We will also be comparing butterflies and moths.  In math we will continue to work on subtraction strategies.

Week of Sept. 8th

This week our Boystown skill is accepting no for an answer.  In Reading we will be reading the story Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night.  We will be working on consonant blends and character and setting.  In Language Arts we will be learning what the predicate of a sentence is.  We will also be learning about a famous artist named Peter Max and painting a picture of the Statue of Liberty.  In Science we will start our unit on invertebrates.  This week we will focus on insects!  In math we will be learning strategies to subtract.  It should be a fun week!