February 24-28

REMINDER- NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY FOR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES!

Math: We will continue working on finding area. We will begin learning about triangles.

Spelling: Our spelling words this week are all review words.
knives       women        elves      geese         certain
dirty         nerve         thirsty     prepaid     outfield
midpoint   overgrown   actress   swimmer    organist
chemist    surprise       inspect   explode      substance

Language Arts: We will have an interactive review week where we will review everything we've learned over the last five weeks.

Reading: We will review all of our stories from the past five weeks.

Writing: We will finish writing our autobiographies.

Social Studies: We will finish learning how to use a grid map.

Handwriting: We will learn uppercase cursive M and U.

Last Week in School...

We had a character assembly. Anjali won the character trait of respect. The class earned the golden award for art class.

In math, we made shape posters. Each shape has to have an area of 4 square units.

In math, we used colored tiles to help us find the area of shapes.

We partner read our story of the week, Fly, Eagle, Fly.

In sign language, we practiced the signs we know in sentences.

February 17-21

REMINDER- NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY AND FRIDAY!

Math: We will continue working on finding area. We discover shapes that have the same perimeter but different areas.

Spelling: Our spelling words this week all have three consonants in the middle.
monster     surprise     hundred      complete      control
sample       instant       inspect       pilgrim         contrast
explode      district      address       substance    children
merchant   embrace    purchase     curtsy          contract

Language Arts: We will learn how to find cause and effect and how to draw conclustions. We will also learn about prepositions. Our vocabulary words this week are: clutched, gully, scrambled, valley, echoed, reeds, and thatch. You can listen to our grammar jammer about prepositions by clicking on this link: Grammar Jammer - click on language arts

Reading: Our story of the week is Fly, Eagle, Fly.

Writing: We will finish writing our autobiographies.

Social Studies: We will finish learning how to use a grid map.

Handwriting: We will learn uppercase cursive M.

We will have another character assembly on Tuesday. We'll find out which classmate earned the award of always showing respect.

Last Week in School...

We drew many different shapes with a perimeter of 100 units. 

We worked with partners to build tetronimoes.

We worked with small groups to discover which tetronimoes perfectly fit on a 8x10 array.

We worked with partners to find places on a grid map.

We made Valentine's Day boxes.

We listened to our grammar jammer, and these boys wanted to get up and dance!

We celebrated Valentine's Day with our Kindergarten buddies. We had treats and played tic-tac-toe.