Sunday, April 22, 2012

April 23rd-27th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is "Cool Jobs." We will be learning about pronouns and how to properly use commas in our writing. 

Spelling Words: retry, reuse, remake, unpack, unsafe, untie, saw, cause, goes, & build.

Sentence: It is unsafe to pet a sleeping bear!

Sight Words: build, goes, laugh, & only.

Vocabulary Words: duty, equipment, profession, satisfaction, thorough, interesting, & ordinary.

Math: We are working on adding and subtracting "tens". 

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation
Mrs. Barton: Rocks
Mrs. Anderson: Music 
Ms. Miller: Earth Day
Ms. Potter: Music 

Sunday, April 15, 2012

April 16th-20th

Language Arts: The theme for this week is "I Can Do It!" We will be talking about Pronouns, Capitalizing "I", and making Inferences.

Sight Words: along, early, instead, nothing, thought

Vocabulary Words: errand, suddenly, dare, humble, permit, predicament, solution.

Spelling Words: haul, because, saw, claw, paw, dawn, book, took, nothing, along.

Sentence: My dog is walking on our lawn.

Math: We are working on building subtraction and addition sentences and story problems.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Splatter Art
Mrs. Anderson: Music (Program Practice)
Mrs. Barton: Rocks
Ms. Potter: Music (Program Practice)
Ms. Miller: Math Remediation

* Remember to be on the lookout for a BLUE shirt for our program!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

March 25th-29th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Watching Animals Grow. We will be learning about summarizing a story and sequence of events.

Spelling Words: spoil, coin, join, joy, toy, boy, town, mouse, eyes, & enough.

Sentence: The boy can join the club.

Sight Words: air, enough, eyes, learn, open

Vocabulary: mature, newborn, process, remain, slender, cub, & wild.

Math: We are learning about how to add and distribute equal groups. We are also working with counting by 2's and 5's.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Butterfly Life Cycle
Mrs. Anderson: Music
Mrs. Barton: Math Camp
Ms. Miller: Plants
Ms. Potter: Music

Sunday, March 4, 2012

March 5th-9th

Language Arts: Our theme this week focuses on all kinds of weather. We will be reading and writing about different types of weather. We will also be learning about synonyms and antonyms and how to use a venn diagram.

Spelling: born, cork, horn, corn, fork, pork, barn, arm, know, & great.

Sentence: I tore my shirt on a branch!

Sight Words: great, know, sound, their, & warm.

Vocabulary Words: breeze, commotion, conditions, forecast, tranquil, predict, & extreme.

Math: We are finishing up Topic 10. We will be taking our math test on Thursday. Please work with your child at home naming coins and their amounts and counting up random amounts of coins up to 99 cents.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Pop Art
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Mrs. Barton: Math Camp
Ms. Potter: Changes in movement of non-living things
Ms. Miller: Plants


Saturday, February 25, 2012

February 27th-March 2nd

Language Arts: This week we our theme is all about what Scientists do. We will be reading and writing about a variety of different Scientists.

Spelling: cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, her, dirt, would, & house.

Sentence: How far is the park from here?

Sight Words: grew, house, knew & would.

Vocabulary Words: career, curious, fascinating, improve, & investigate.

Math: We are continuing to work on solving a variety of addition and subtraction problems.

* There will be no rotations this week due to SEP's.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

February 20th-24th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is all about outer space! We will be doing some really fun writing activities to go along with our space theme! We will also be learning about adjectives, cause and effect in stories and what a biography is.

Spelling: her, bird, fur, fern, dirt, burn, funny, penny, full, & through
Sentence: The girl got hurt when she fell.

Sight Words: another, climbed, full, poor, & through.

Vocabulary Words: discover, dusk, mysterious, pale, & scatter.

Math: We are learning about missing addends in addition and subtraction sentences.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Starry Night (ART)
Mrs. Barton: Insects
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Ms. Miller: Math Camp
Ms. Potter: Changes in the movement of non-living things.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

February 13th-17th

Language Arts: This is review week in Treasures. We are going over everything we have learned over the past 5 weeks and will be taking our Unit Assessment on Thursday.

Spelling (sight word review): walked, eight, give, write, move, better, never, should, night, because, & or. Sentence: You should be my friend.

Math: We are taking our Topic 8 math test on Monday. We will be starting our next math topic on Tuesday, which focuses on addition and subtraction, money, and ordering numbers from least to greatest.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Flower Art
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Mrs. Barton: Insects
Ms. Potter: Living and Non-Living Things
Ms. Miller: Math Camp

Reminders:
* Monday is an early out @ 2:00pm!
* Tuesday @ 2:30 is our Valentines Party!
* Thursday is Math Night! Dinner @ 5:00 and games from 5:30-7:00pm!
* No School on Monday the 20th!