Happy Holidays! We wish you a wonderful WInter Break!!

JUST A FEW OF OUR GREAT STUDENTS!!

By the way.....did you know how much we LOVE our class?

We have bright kids!

We have students who get their work done all the time!

We have SOOO many students with a perfect Homework and Reading Log Record!!

We have kids who love to reach their AR goal!

All of our students have reached their AR goal for the past two 6-week grading periods!!

We have well-behaved students!

We have wonderful volunteers!

We are so lucky to have such a GREAT GROUP of KIDS!!

WE LOVE YOU!!

House Keeping:

Monday, December 19, 2011: Early Release PLC

Wednesday, December 21, 2011: Holiday Polar Express Party, Awards Assembly

Language Arts:

This week we are going to review Mountain Language, Take a test on "Dogzilla", and do some writing. We will not have a story study this week due to the shortened Holiday Schedule.

Math:

To start things off, we are gong to make some great geometric snowflake ornaments for your Christmas Tree.

We continue to work on Math addition and subtraction problems with more than one step.

Science:

Wrap of of Unit C: Matter, Mass, Heat, and Energy.

Question of the Week:

How did the mice in Mouseopolis do to scare Dogzilla away?

What word in the above sentence is a special plural?

What words in the above sentence are proper nouns?

Comparisons:

Tomato: Red Carrot:__________

Hippopotamus: Herbivore Alligator: _______________

We started our PowerPoint Presentations!

Congratulations to the first two students to reach their AR goal.

Jae'Lei Tendoy--first girl

Kaleb Demuzio--first boy

They will both be inducted into the Order of the Phoenix at the end of this week.

Remember to bring a warm hat, gloves, and coat to school every day. It is very cold outside.

Housekeeping:

Monday, December 12, 2011: Early Release, PLC

Thursday, December 15, 2011: "Dad's and Donuts"--8:00 AM with your Dad in the school cafeteria.

Friday, December 16, 2011: Magic Show

Reading:

We loved reading Trickster Tales and finding out how the main characters played tricks on each other. This week we re starting a new Theme. It is usually the favorite reading Unit. It is a unit of Incredible Stories.

Our first story is Dogzilla. The spelling words concentrate on the vowel sound /ow/ and /aw/

lawn

clown

talk

sound

cloth

would

also

mouth

crown

soft

count

law

We are going to have fun writing a sequel to the story and working on a good Beginning, Middle and End

Math:

Today we will start to use tables and graphs to locate information. We will use our addition and subtraction skills to fill in any information on the tables and graphs.

Science:

Get ready for a fun experiment to learn how heat travels through certain materials: wood, metal, and plastic. Come ready to make some predictions on an outcome. We continue to learn about matter and energy.

Question of the Day:

Look at the following sentences. Which part is the Subject?? Which part is the Predicate?

Aly wore a fluffy white bow in her hair.

Easton wants to start reading The Sorcerer's Stone today.

ABC Order...Keep at It!

animal

answer

antler

anteater

apple

Aaron

Our clickers are finally working!!

Housekeeping:

Monday, December 5, 2011: Rehearsal for Christmas Program.
Monday, December 5, 2011: Room #1 starts serving for lunch.
Monday, December 5, 2011: Early Release PLC
Tuesday, December 6, 2011: Christmas Program: 9:30 and 1:30 (Eat lunch in room)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011: Christmas Program: 9:30



Congratulations Kaleb Demuzio.....first boy to reach his AR goal. That kid can't stop reading!!!!

Language Arts:

The clickers are finally working the right way, which allows our classroom to use them to take quick quizzes in any subject. We are really happy they are working right. So make sure when you take a quick quiz you are really sure of your answer before you send it!!

The story this week is a Genre Study. The students in Room #1 will be reading some Trickster Tales. These are much like Fables. Animals are the main characters and a moral is given at the end of each story. There are three Trickster Tales we will read this week. The spelling list concentrates on the /oi/sound found in join:

join

joy

boil

noise

spoil

choice

soil

point

foil

voice

coil

broil

Math:

Hooray! We have completed Unit 3 and started Unit 4. The students are learning how to Round to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100. We will practice for a few more days before we begin to read and interpret charts. Nice job on Unit 3!!

Science:

We wrapped up our Native American Unit. Some students are still finishing up their weaving. We should be able to pick up our clay pots by the end of the week. The students brough a packet of extra sheets home if they want to complete at home. We were not able to get through all of the material. Last week we started our new Science Unit. It is about Matter, Mass, and Energy.

Question of the Week:

Round these numbers to the nearest 10:

56, 89, 118, 447

Round these numbers to the nearest 100

78, 129, 456, 987