A Great Conclusion to a fantastic book!

I do believe it is the BFG and Sophie!

On Friday, October 18, we celebrated the conclusion of reading the BFG, by Roald Dahl. We had toast and jam, we drank frobscottle and we made phizzwizards (dreams). We had a guest appearance of the two main characters: The BFG and Sophie, and we watched the animated version of the book so we could contrast and compare. We are just finishing up another book by Roald Dahl; it is called George's Marvelous Medicine. We will be assembling our own batch of marvelous medicine as part of the Halloween party this coming Friday. Feel free to contribute any yummy dry food goods to our concoction (chocolate chips, nuts, chex mix, pretzels, raisins, craisins, etc...).

Our Spelling words for this week are:

• spring
• knee
• throw
• patch
• strong
• wrap
• three
• watch
• street
• know
• spread
• write
• catch
• two
• strength (challenge)
• kitchen (challenge)

We are starting a new chapter in Math counting and comparing money. So break open your piggy banks and start to practice.

Have a super week of learning: Mrs. Shore (Sophie) and Mrs. Graham (BFG), just in case you didn't know.

Check Out This Super Apple!!

WOW! This is the largest apple I have ever seen!! Brought to you by Miss Lindsey. Her mom and dad picked it up in Oregon. It barely fit in the suitcase. Pretty amazing Lindsey!

Our classroom "Bengal" Quilt

We just completed the first story in our new Literature series. The story was "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Polacco. This was actually a true story about the woman who wrote it. It talked about a family quilt that was passed down from one generation to the next.

This coming week our literature selection is called "Grandma's Records" by Eric Valasquez. The spelling words concentrate on the long O sound:

• coach


• blow


• float


• hold


• sew


• though


• sold


• soap


• row


• own


• both


• most


• cold


• snow


• tomorrow (challenge)


• program (challenge)


• can (high frequency)


• an (high frequency)


• your (high frequency)


• there (high frequency)

We are continuing to work on rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousands in math. We are discussing communities and how they started in our Social Studies Unit.

Keep reading every evening and don't forget to bring in your reading log.

Questions of the week:

What is the fifth high frequency on the spelling list? I missed one!

What are the order of the planets from the sun?

McDonald's Night with Ellis Elementary

Thank you for all of your support. We appreciate all you do for your children.

Congratulations Top Readers!!

This week we had an awards ceremony. We recognized students with perfect attendance and we also recognized our top readers. Drew Perry came in first place with 97 points, and Colton Mowrey came in second place with 21.4 points. Keep up the good work pirates!!

We are starting Reading Theme #2--Celebrating Traditions. Our first story is The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. Our spelling words for this week are as follows:

• paint


• clay


• feel


• leave


• neighbor


• eight


• seem


• speak


• paid


• lay


• need


• weigh


• clean


• play


• needle (challenge)


• crayon (challenge)


• we (sight words)


• were


• what


• all


• when

Question of the day: What is the acronym for the colors of the rainbow?

Drew reached his goal

Parent Teacher Conference is coming this Wednesday and Thursday

Congratulations to Mr. Drew in our class. He tested on the 6th Harry Potter book and received a 100%!! That book is worth 44 points. Incredible! Now he is working on Harry Potter number #7. It is just too good to put down. Trust me, I know!!

Look for new spelling words to be posted this weekend.

Another short week Pirates!

October 6th - October 8th (2009)
This week is another short one. We will be learning about the following:
Literature Genre: Poetry
Creative Writing: Edit and Publish our Personal Narratives
Begin our new Accelerated Reading Goals!!: Yo Ho Mates, You can do it!
Math: Rounding Numbers to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100
Social Studies: Continue learing about communities and how they work
Second Step Lesson #5