January 27-31

Math: We will be finishing our unit on subtraction. We will take our end of unit test.

Spelling: Our spelling words this week are all r-controlled words.
third            early             world           certain          dirty
herself         earth             word            perfect         verb
nerve          worm             thirsty          workout        earn
determine    commercial    whirlwind      worthwhile     virtual

Language Arts: We will learn how to find the main idea in stories and use graphic sources. We will also learn about subject and object pronouns. Our vocabulary words this week are: waterfalls, peak, erupted, depth, tides, outrun, deserts, and average. You can listen to our grammar jammer about pronouns by clicking on this link: Grammar Jammer - Click on Language Arts

Reading: Our story of the week is Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest.

Writing: We will write fictional stories.

Social Studies: We will learn about continents and oceans.

Handwriting: We will learn uppercase cursive E and O.

Last Week of School...

We wrote about Martin Luther King Jr's dream, 

and then came up with a dream of our own.

We wrote stories about living in a snow globe
and made a craft to go along with them.

We solved math problems using many different strategies.

We had a character assembly and Emily won our class
award for always displaying responsibility.

January 20-24

Math: We will be comparing lengths and heights by finding their difference. We will also solve story problems to find how many are left. We will play our math game How Far From 100?

Spelling: Our spelling words this week are all irregular plural words.
wolves       knives       feet           men         children
women      sheep        heroes      scarves     mice
geese         wives       elves          banjos      halves
loaves       beliefs       tomatoes    potatoes   tornadoes

Language Arts: We will learn how to generalize and use graphic sources. We will also learn about singular and plural pronouns. Our vocabulary words this week are: terrible, study, sports, popular, guard, basketball, disease, and freeze. You can listen to our new grammar jammer about pronouns by clicking on this link: Grammar Jammer - Click on Language Arts

Reading: Our story of the week is The Man Who Invented Basketball.

Writing: We will finish our snow globe and Martin Luther King Jr. projects.

Social Studies: We will review map components. We will also learn about continents and oceans.

Handwriting: We will learn uppercase cursive A and C.

Last Week in School...

In Language Arts, we worked with a partner to find contractions in sentences.

In math, we played How Far From 100?

We wrote stories about living in a snow globe. Next week, we'll make a snow globe craft to go along with our stories.

In sign language, we reviewed sport signs, and then played a fun game.

January 13-17

Math: We will be finding the difference between two and three digit numbers. We will also solve story problems about distances. We will play our math game How Far From 100? On Wednesday, we will take a math test.

Spelling: Our spelling words this week all have consonant patterns.
assign       crumb       written        design        beautiful
quietly      suddenly    finally          judge          orange
kitten        jacket        misspell      disappear    disagree
unknown   haven't     should've      I'd               didn't

Language Arts: We will have a review week. We will be reviewing everything from the past five weeks.

can listen to our grammar jammer about verbs by clicking on this link: Grammar Jammer - click on Language Arts

Writing: We will finish our stories about living in a snow globe. We will also do a Marin Luther King Jr. writing project.

Social Studies: We will learn about various map components and Martin Luther King Jr.

Handwriting: We will learn lowercase cursive z and v.

Last Week in School...

We celebrated Homework Club last week. These students remembered all of their homework in December.

In math, we solved a story problem in many different ways. Here we are using an unmarked number line in four different ways to solve the problem.

We played How Far From 100? in math. All of the pieces of the game were sent home last week, so you can play there, too.

In sign language, we reviewed animals and colors, 

and then played a game with those signs.