Monday, March 22, 2010

Good Afternoon!

I hope we all had a great weekend and are ready for the week ahead.
The students will be focusing this week on sensory words - adjectives. We will also work on summarizing.

The spelling words are listed below:
1. playful 2. glued 3. blew 4. flavor 5. glad
6. flipped 7. flopped 8. flood 9. blink 10. clever
11. silver 12. fly 13. clipping 14. clue 15. please
16. sleeping 17. cookbook 18. waterproof 19. scooter 20. glamor

In math we are continuing our unit on division and multiplication - please make sure that your students are studying their multiplication facts nightly.

In science we are beginning our unit on the rain forest and ecosystems.

We have just received textbooks for social studies and the children will receive them by Wednesday - so, more work on communities and history of the United States.

Have a great week!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Good afternoon all!

Today the students continued to work with adding adjectives to their simple sentences in Literacy.

We are still working with multiplication and division in math - the students are learning fact extensions.
For example:
2 x 3 = 6
20 x 3 = 60
200 x 3 = 600


Homework
- Spelling - 5 times each
Study your spelling words and vocabulary words

- Math - Home links 7.6 - fact triangles

Monday, March 15, 2010

Good afternoon all.

Literacy
This week the students will be reading story entitled Coyote
Places the Stars - our focus will be on summarizing.
We will also continue to work on adjectives that tell ehat kind

Spelling words:
1. hear 2. one 3. won 4. way 5. heard
6. flower 7. our 8. flour 9. weigh 10. here
11. beat 12. herd 13. beet 14. hair 15. hare
16. canyon 17. bright 18. shiny 19. sparkle 20. horizon

Math
We will continue our unit on multiplication/division
Please make sure the students are memorizing their multiplication facts - this week our focus will be on the 4 times table

Science - we are still working on our unit with the Human Body

Social Studies - we are working on writing about famous women for Women's History Month

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I hope you all had a great day!

For homework today the students received:

Spelling - Write one complete sentence for each spelling word
Math - Solve the 4 word problems that they copied in class

Monday, March 8, 2010

Good Afternoon!

Homework:
Math - Home Link 4.10
Spelling - Papa Tells Chita a Story Word Search

Spelling words listed below
1. court 2. defend 3. drown 4. exciting 5. forest
6. forks 7. form 8. fourth 9. horse 10. important
11. marsh 12. morning 13. porch 14. port 15. poured
16. storm 17. trail 18. war 19. warn 20. worn