The Week of February 26th through March 2nd, 2018

Spelling: List #11 /s/ and /z/:

daisy     vase     plastic     zipper     reuse     sense    does     license 

closet    season    bicycle    distance    service    classes    yesterday    

Review Words:  fashion     photograph     enough

Challenge Words:  sincerely     citizen

**The spelling words are a part of homework to practice writing and spelling them aloud.

Test for List #11 will be on Thursday, March 8th.

Reading and Language Arts:

•  Article of the Day using Readworks reading program.  
• Continuing our next class novel, Ralph S. Mouse and completing comprehension packet that accompanies the book.  There will be an open packet test at the end of the book.
• Focusing on Main Idea.  

Math:

• Lesson 5:  Form rectangles by tiling with unit squares to make arrays.
• 1 page of homework on Monday.
• Lesson 6:  Counting Square Units
• 1 page of homework on Tuesday.
• Lesson 7:  Interpret area models to form rectangular arrays.
• 1 page of homework on Wednesday.
• Lesson 8:  Counting Groups of Unit Squares.
• 1 page of homework on Thursday.

Science:  Invisible Forces:  Forces and Motion, Magnetism.

Art:  Experiencing the art form of pointillism and artist, George Seurat.

Character Trait:  Fairness

Homework:

• Math homework:  1 page of homework each day this week- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Practice Spelling words from List #11 /s/ and /z/.
• Flashcards: practice multiplication facts using flashcards or writing down all of the facts from the 1's family through the 12's for practice.
• 20 minutes of reading.

Dates to Remember: 

• Tuesday, February 27th:  Field trip to NNU to watch the Boise Philharmonic Children's Concert.
• Friday, March 2nd:  Dr Seuss's birthday! Dress up as your favorite Dr Seuss character or wear pajamas!  Remember we don't allow mask so we can see everyone's beautiful faces! We will have a Read In in our classroom and enjoy some wonderful books! 

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.

The Week of February 20th through 23rd, 2018

Spelling: List #10 Double Consonants

spill     berry     happy     really     messy     lettuce     carrot     puzzle

traffic     pizza     errand     litter     address     collect     happen

Review Words:  however     about     flower 

Challenge Words:  successful     necessary  

·      **We are going to stay on list #10 this week because it turned out to be a difficult list for a majority of the class.  We will study the words this week and retest on Friday for those who scored below 70%.  We will start list #11 on Monday, February 26th.

Reading and Language Arts:

•  Article of the Day using Readworks reading program.  
• Continuing our next class novel, Ralph S. Mouse and completing comprehension packet that accompanies the book.
• Focusing on Main Idea.  

Math:

• Wrapping up our focus on equivalent fractions.


• Starting a new math focus on multiplication and area.
• Lesson 1:  Understand area as an attribute of plane figures.  

• Homework on Tuesday.
• Lesson 2:  Decompose and recompose shapes to compare areas.
• Homework on Thursday.

• We are really working alot on quick recall of multiplication facts. We will be testing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on our multiplication facts.  As soon as a child finishes the 2's, for example, they move on to 3's and so forth.  This is not for a grade but is so important for using multiplication in all areas of math.  Practicing flashcards at home will help get those facts into long term memory.

Science:  Invisible Forces:  Forces and Motion, Magnetism.

Art:  Experiencing the art form of pointillism and artist, George Seurat.

Character Trait:  Fairness

Homework:

• Math homework:  Tuesday, Lesson 1 and Thursday, Lesson 2.  Due the following school day.
• Practice Spelling words from List #10 (double consonants) 
• Flashcards: practice multiplication facts using flashcards or writing down all of the facts from the 1's family through the 12's for practice.

Dates to Remember: 

• Friday, February 23rd:  Signed permission slips due for next week's field trip to the Boise Philharmonic in Nampa.
• Tuesday, February 27th:  Field trip to NNU to watch the Boise Philharmonic Children's Concert.
• Friday, March 2nd:  Dr Seuss's birthday! Dress up as your favorite Dr Seuss character!  Remember we don't allow mask so we can see everyone's beautiful faces!

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 p

The Week of February 12th through 15th, 2018

Spelling: List #10 Double Consonants

spill     berry     happy     really     messy     lettuce     carrot     puzzle

traffic     pizza     errand     litter     address     collect     happen

Review Words:  however     about     flower 

Challenge Words:  successful     necessary  

·         Spelling Test will be this Thursday, February 15th, 2018.

Reading and Language Arts:

•  Article of the Day using Readworks reading program.  
• Starting our next class novel, Ralph S. Mouse and completing comprehension packet that accompanies the book.
• Reading books on the high end of their reading level and completing a book journal and doing a poster of their book. This will be ongoing for the next few weeks.  Due dates for posters and presenting will be set once students start finishing their chapter book.

Math:

• Lesson 20:  Recognize and show that equivalent fractions have the same size, though not necessarily the same shape.  
• Lesson 20 Homework on Monday.
• Lesson 21:  Recognize and show that equivalent fractions refer to the same point on the number line.

• Lesson 21 Homework on Wednesday.
  
• We are really working alot on quick recall of multiplication facts. We will be testing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on our multiplication facts.  As soon as a child finishes the 2's, for example, they move on to 3's and so forth.  This is not for a grade but is so important for using multiplication in all areas of math.  Practicing flashcards at home will help get those facts into long term memory.

Science:  Weather, Climate and Water Cycle.

Art:  Experiencing the art form of pointillism and artist, George Seurat.

Character Trait:  Fairness

Homework:

• Math homework:  Monday Lesson 20 and Wednesday Lesson 21.  Due the following school day.
• Practice Spelling words from List #10 (double consonants) 
• Practice Spelling words for test on Thursday.  List is at the top of this blog post.
• Flashcards: practice multiplication facts using flashcards or writing down all of the facts from the 1's family through the 12's for practice.

Dates to Remember: 

• Valentine's Day party on Wednesday, Feb. 14th.  Students will need to make or buy a container for their valentines and treats with their name clearly displayed.  Students can address their cards with a child's name or they can just write "To my friend," and then sign their name.  Whatever they would like to do is fine.  We will celebrate at the end of the day (after Technology class 2:20 pm) and it will be very simple.  Students will pass out Valentines and then enjoy going through their goodies.  If anyone wants to send in any treats that would be great also.  
• No School on Friday, February 16th for teacher grading/inservice work.  
• No School on Monday, February 19th for President's Day.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.

The Week of February 5th through 9th, 2018

** We will take our Spelling Test on List #9 on Monday as well as our Math 4 Today Week 16 test that we missed on Friday.

Spelling: List #10 Double Consonants

spill     berry     happy     really     messy     lettuce     carrot     puzzle

traffic     pizza     errand     litter     address     collect     happen

Review Words:  however     about     flower 

Challenge Words:  successful     necessary  

·         Spelling Test will be Thursday, February 15th, 2018.

Reading and Language Arts:

• We will finish up our Runaway Ralph packet and take our test.
• We are starting our Article of the Day using Readworks reading program.  
• Grammar Rule #13:  The verb in a sentence must agree with the subject of the sentence.  For example:  If the subject is singular then the verb must be singular.  Our apple tree blooms in April.
• Grammar Rule #14:  The tense of a verb tells when an action occurs~Past, Present or Past.  For example:  am eating in the present tense, ate in the past tense and will eat in the future tense.
• Starting our next class novel, Ralph S. Mouse and completing comprehension packet that accompanies the book.

Math:

• Fractions-Parts of a whole and Fractions on the Number Line.
• Homework on Monday and Wednesday

• We are really working alot on quick recall of multiplication facts. We will be testing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on our multiplication facts.  As soon as a child finishes the 2's, for example, they move on to 3's and so forth.  This is not for a grade but is so important for using multiplication in all areas of math.  Practicing flashcards at home will help get those facts into long term memory.

Science:  Weather, Climate and Water Cycle.

Art:  Experiencing the art form of pointillism and artist, George Seurat.

Character Trait:  Fairness

Homework:

• Math homework:  Monday- Parts of a Whole part 1, page 57.  Wednesday-Part of a Whole part 2, page 60.
• Practice Spelling words from List #10 (double consonants) 
• Flashcards: practice multiplication facts using flashcards or writing down all of the facts from the 1's family through the 12's for practice.

Dates to Remember: 

• Valentine's Day party on Wednesday, Feb. 14th.  Students will need to make or buy a container for their valentines and treats with their name clearly displayed.  Students can address their cards with a child's name or they can just write "To my friend," and then sign their name.  Whatever they would like to do is fine.  We will celebrate at the end of the day (after Technology class 2:20 pm) and it will be very simple.  Students will pass out Valentines and then enjoy going through their goodies.  If anyone wants to send in any treats that would be great also.  
• No School on Friday, February 16th for teacher grading/inservice work.  
• No School on Monday, February 19th for President's Day.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.