December 12th-December 16th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Being Creative! We will be focusing on how to make and confirm predictions in our reading. Learning about how to properly use is and are, and writing descriptive sentences.

Sigh Words: after, done, find, new, old, & work.

Vocabulary Words: create, hobby, inspire, resourceful, & structure.

Spelling Words: hope, nose, note, rope, cute, cube, old, & new.

Math: We are continuing to learn about tens and ones and will be finishing up Topic 6 and taking our test next week.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation

Mrs. Anderson:

Mrs. Barton: Christmas Pointillism

Ms. Potter:

Ms. Miller:

* Just a reminder that it is cold outside during our 3 recess times. Please make sure you are sending your child with a jacket each day.

December 5th-9th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Making Art. We will be learning about different kinds or art and artists as well as creating many art projects ourselves. We will also be doing a couple different persuasive writing projects and continue learning about past and present tense verbs.

Spelling: whip, whale, catch, match, chin, chop, like, ride, your, & from.

Sight Words: every, from, into, people, soon, & your.

Vocabularty Words: complicated, original, talented, astonishing, & continue.

Math: We are starting Topic 6. This topic focuses on place value. We will be learning a lot about tens and ones and how to count and combine them together.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation

Mrs. Anderson: Christmas in France

Mrs. Barton: Christmas in Mexico

Ms. Potter:

Ms. Miller: Christmas in Italy

* Just a reminder that we will be assembling candy houses on Wednesday the 7th @ 3:30pm. I can use all the royal icing and help I can get!

* You are more than welcome to come and help your child decorate their candy house on Friday the 9th @ 10:45.

November 28th-December 2nd

Language Arts: The theme for this week is "Family Fun" We will be talking, reading, and writing about what we do for fun with our families.

Spelling: like, spike, ride, hide, bike, mine, make, came, how, & there.

Sight Words: call, funny, how, more, so, & there.

Oral Vocabulary Words: connections, possessions, relief, support, & typical.

Math: We are finishing up Topic 5, which focuses on addition and subtraction. This week we will be working with turn around facts and fact families. We will be having our Topic 5 math test on Friday!

Rotations: We are starting our Christmas around the world rotations. Each student will be making a scrapbook which will include everything they learn about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries.

Mrs. Bluemel: England

Mrs. Barton: United States

Mrs. Anderson: Holland

Ms. Miller: Italy

Ms. Potter: Math Remediation

November 14th-18th

Language Arts: Our theme for this week is "Let's Laugh!" We will be reading and writing silly stories all week. We are focuing on retelling stories, verbs, and exlimation points.

Spelling: make, take, came, game, gate, late, why & school.

Sight Words: away, school, today, way, & why.

Vocabulary Words: amused, delighted, humurous, mood, & ridiculous.

Math: We are learning about turn around addition facts and fact families.

Take Home Books: There will not be any take home books this week or next week. Please continue having your child read to you at home every night!

Rotations: Because of the early out days this whole week there are no rotations.

SEP Conferences: I look forward to meeting with each of you this week!

November 7th-11th

Language Arts: This week is testing week in Treasures. We will be reviewing important concepts that we have learned over the past five weeks and will be taking our Unit 2 Treasures Assessment on Thursday.

Spelling: Every 6 weeks will be a testing week. Therefore our spelling words will be sight word review. This weeks words are: no, let, many, one, they, our, could, all, want, & some.

Math: We just finished up Topic 4. We are now starting Topic 5, which focuses on building addition and subtraction.

Rotations: There are no rotations this week due to testing.

* I look forward to seeing you all at Literacy Night this Thursday @ 5:30pm and next week during SEP's!

October 31st-November 4th

Language Arts: Our theme this week focuses on neighborhoods and how the people within them work together. We will be working on vizualising and retelling stories as well as writing with detailed sentences.

Spelling: fish, shop, ship, with, thin, thank, run, bug, want, & all.

Sight Words: all, put, show, together, under, & want.

Vocabulary Words: audience, brilliant, enjoy, entertain, & perform.

Math: We are still focusing on numbers to 20, even and odd numbers, and growing patterns.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Types of Weather

Mrs. Barton: Math Camp

Mrs. Anderson: Rythm & Movement

Ms. Miller: Native Americans

Ms. Potter: Music

October 24th-28th

Language Arts: Our theme for this week is "At Home" We are learning about the different kinds of homes that families and animals can live in. We will also be discussing how to visualize parts of stories and learning how to determine the plot.

Spelling: run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug, grass, spin, could, & one.

Sight Words: again, could, make, one, then, three.

Vocabulary Words: company, construct, collapses, entire, material.

Math: We are continuing to work on patterns, and numbers to 20. For an extra challenge have your child write his/her numbers from 1-20 without any reversals.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Seasonal Weather Changes

Mrs. Barton: Math Camp

Mrs. Anderson: Music

Ms. Miller: Native Americans

Ms. Potter: Halloween Songs

* Wednesday, October 26th is Red Robin night! Please come show your support for our school by having dinner with your family and see your teacher while you are there. I will be there from 7-8pm.

October 17th-21st

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Our Neighborhood. We will be reading the story Me On The Map and making our own cool map books! Other content we are covering includes: summarizing, finding the main idea and details of a story, and plural nouns.

Spelling: spill, spin, grab, grass, trap, trip, men, let, out, & many.

Sigh Words: live, many, out, & place.

Vocabulary Words: amazed, frequently, service, useful, & variety.

Math: We finished up Topic 3 last week. Everyone did great on their math test! We are now starting Topic 4, which focuses on numbers to 20 and number patterns. This week we are learning about teen numbers and comparing and ordering numbers.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Pumpkin Art

Mrs. Barton: Financial Literacy

Mrs. Anderson: Music

Ms. Potter: Halloween Songs

Ms. Miller: Math Camp

* Just a reminder about take home books....

Please make sure your child reads his/her take home book to you EVERY night! Those children who have consistently read their take home books will be rewarded with a free kids meal to Brick Oven at the end of October!

October 10th-14th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Helping Out! We are learning how we can be helpful at school and when we are at home.

Spelling: Our spelling words this week are: leg, beg, men, hen, let, get, top, lot, no, & some. We will not be having a spelling test, due to the short week. Please still have your child work with these words at home for extra practice!

Math: We are finishing up Topic 3 in math. Our test will be on Wednesday! To help prepare your child for the test continue having them work with money at home. (penny, nickel, & dime)

Rotations: Due to the short week there will be no rotations. We will be doing some writing projects in our classroom instead!

October 3rd-7th

Apple Day: We celebrated Johnny Appleseed day last Monday. We had a fun filled day making applesauce, making an apple graph, weighing and measuring our apples, making hats, and doing apple tree art! I got some cute pictures of them eating their applesauce with their apple hats on that I will be putting in their end of the year scrapbooks!

Language Arts: Our theme for this week is Animal Families. This week in Treasures we are studying short O. We are working on summarizing stories. We are also learning how to find the main idea and supporting details of a story.

Spelling: We have started differentiated spelling lists based on previous assessments. For the blog I will only be posting the on grade level spelling list each week. No matter what list your child is on these are words they should all still know. The approaching and beyond lists are just tweaked a little for children's individual needs.

Spelling Words: hop, top, log, hog, hot, lot, fast, wink, our, they.

Vocabulary Words: Protect, Provide, Guide, Seperate, & Wild.

Math: We finished Topic 2 last week and started on Topic 3. This math topic focuses on telling time to the hour and half hour, knowing coin names, (penny, nickel, dime) their amounts, and being able to add up various coin amounts, as well as basic measurement skills. Please work on counting money with your child at home. It will help them greatly for this math topic!

Reading Challenge: I told the students that if they bring their take home book back to school every day (they can miss one time, being absent does not count against them) for the month of October they will recieve a certificate for a free kids meal at Brick Oven Pizza. Please help assist them in reading their take home book each night and making sure it gets into their backpack each day.

Reminder: Please also make sure that your child is returning his/her homework folder EVERY Friday with their completed homework inside.

Attention!!!

The first 2 parents that leave a comment on this post will receive a gift certificate for a FREE kids meal at Brick Oven Pizza!!

September 25th-30th

* Monday is Johnny Appleseed Day! We will be having a fun filled day involving lots of different apple activities including making homemade applesauce!

* Please remember to have your child read his/her take home book to you every night. Please also remember to return their homework folder with them each Friday!

Language Arts: This weeks theme is "Playing Together." We will learn how to analyze text structure, find the author's purpose, work on our fluency, and learn how to write great sentences using details.

Spelling: land, sand, fast, past, sink, wink, flip, black, very, & use.

Vocabulary Words: admire, offer, charity, challenging, & focus.

Math: We will be finishing up topic 2 this week, which focuses on addition and subtraction.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Bullying

Mrs. Barton: Financial Literacy

Mrs. Anderson: Johnny Appleseed

Ms. Potter: Music

Ms. Miller: Math Camp

September 19th-23rd

* Take Home Books: Books will start coming home this week for the remainder of the school year. Please make sure your child reads their book to someone at home each night and that their slip gets signed off, so they are able to get a new book the next day.

Language Arts: Our theme for this week is: Pets!

* We will be working on our reading comprehension skills, reading with expression, and how to correctly use question marks and exclamation points.

Spelling: clip, flip, slip, flag, black, plan, come, & good.

Vocabulary Words: adorable, dear, needs, sensible, train.

Math: We are introducing subtraction and will be working on subtraction problems and strategies all week.

Rotations:

Mrs. Anderson: Math Camp

Mrs. Bluemel: Social Skills

Mrs. Barton: Maps

Ms. Miller: Community & Neighborhood Cultures

Ms. Potter: Personal Hygiene

* Next week is Johnny Appleseed week. We will be doing some fun activites in our classroom such as; making homemade applesauce and doing various apple activites. The homework note says to bring one apple per child (color doesn't matter) if you are able to donate more than one apple that would be great! Thank you for being such amazing parents to work with!

* Have a great week!

September 12th-16th

Language Arts: Our theme this week is Growing Up!

* We will be reading several stories about animals growing up.

* We will learn that a statement is a sentence that tells something.

* In our reading we will work on fluency and comprehension.

Spelling: pin, win, hit, sit, miss, kiss, sad, nap, be, & run.

* Each week we also learn several new vocabulary words. These are not words that they are expected to know how to spell, but we use them daily throughout the week to enforce their meaning.

Vocabulary words: change, learn, adult, imitate, practice.

* We are starting guided reading and centers for real this week! If you have signed up to volunteer I am excited to have you start being a part of our classroom. You will be greatly appreciated! (Monday-Thursday 9:45-11:00)

Math: We are continuing to learn about addition. We will learn how to count on to add, as well as learn how to record and interpret data.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Conflict Resolution

Mrs. Anderson: Math Camp

Mrs. Barton: Maps

Ms. Miller: School and Neighborhood Cultures

Ms. Potter: Personal Hygiene

* Take Home Books should start coming home next Monday. They have been able to purchase many news books and are working on getting them all organized and inventoried.

* If you would like an extra homework challenge for your child have them practice writing their ABC's (Upper & Lower Case) and their #'s as high as they can go. If they have any reversals have them practice more of that letter or number.

September 6th-9th

Language Arts: This week's theme is Ready, Set, Move!

* We are learning about characters, setting and the sequence of events in a story.

* Our high frequency words are: it, over, & too.

* We will learn about using correct punctuation in our writing.

*Spelling words: dad, sad, nap, tap, sack, back, it, & too.

Math: We are starting topic 2 in math. We will be focusing on addition this whole week!

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Manners at School

Mrs. Barton: Maps

Mrs. Anderson: Math Remediation for Topic 1

Ms. Miller: School and Neighborhood Cultures

Ms. Potter: Personal Hygiene

August 29th-September 2nd

We have had a great first 2 weeks of school! Please remember that this Wednesday and Thrusday are SEP Conferences. I look forward to meeting with each of you. (Your child should come with you!)

Math: This week in math we are already wrapping up Unit 1. We will continue to work on number recognition, patterns, tallies, counting on from 5, etc. Please help your child with their math homework this week, as this will help prepare them for our math test on Friday.

Spelling Words: man, ran, can, cat, hat, mat, not, & up.

Language Arts: We are done with Kindergarten review, Yay! Now on to 1st grade content. There is a theme for each week in our Reading program. This weeks theme is: What Makes You Special? Also this week we are diving right into centers (all 16 of them). It will be our first week of the real thing! Centers are usually the kids favorite part of the day so I am hoping that they enjoy starting them.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: The Color Wheel

Mrs. Anderson: Rythm & Movement

Ms. Potter: Color Songs

Ms. Miller: Playground Safety

August 22nd-26th

Our 1st week of 1st grade was fantastic! I am so excited about my amazing group of kids! Here is what we are doing in our classroom this week:

* Spelling: are, my, the, see, he

* Math: We are continuing to work with numbers from 0-10. We are counting, writing, and showing groups of numbers every day. Have your child practice writing their numbers for you at home. Make sure they don't have any reversals!

* Language Arts: This will be our last week of Kindergarten review. We will continue to review the sight words that are also posted on the back of the homework folder. We are also working on writing our letters and naming their sounds.

* We start our 1st week of rotations this week. Rotations are core content such as science, social studies, art, etc. that are taught by all the 1st grade teachers. Each week the teachers rotate to all the 1st grade classrooms and teach their lesson to each class. This weeks rotations are as follows:

Mrs. Bluemel: Character Education
Mrs. Anderson: Rhythm & Movement
Ms. Potter: Music
Ms. Miller: Playground Rules

* Please remember to help your child with their homework each night and to return their homework folder with them to school on Friday!

Have a great week! :)

A New School Year!

I can't believe that a new school year is already upon us. I am so excited for a great year with your child! Please check out our classroom blog weekly in order to stay up to date on what we are doing.

* This week we are learning all about how our new classroom works. We are reviewing what we learned in Literacy in Kindergarten as well as working with basic counting skills and writing our numbers 1-10.

* Thursday from 6:00-8:00pm is back to school night. We will discuss classroom expectations as well as homework and volunteering!

May 16th-20th

Language Arts: Our theme this week focuses on Special Days in our lives.

Spelling: words ending with le & sight words (apple, table, purple, circle, turtle, title, comfortable, possible, happen, begin, certain, minutes) Sentence: The rabbit hopped outside in the sunshine.

Math: We are finishing up our last math unit which focuses on measurement and geometry. A take home test will come home on Thursday and our last math test of the year will be on Friday!

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Paper Cut Bug Art
Mrs. Barton: Movie
Mrs. Bennett: Square Dancing
Mrs. Anderson: Pentominoes
Mrs. Nielsen: Cooperation
Mrs. Mace: BINGO

* Our swimming field trip is on Tuesday! Please make sure that your child comes to school with their swimsuit underneath of their clothes.

* There are no more take home books for the rest of the year. This is the last week of spelling.

* There are only 8 days of school left! I can't believe how fast this year has gone. I have to say that I am actually a bit more sad than excited for summer to come because of how much I have enjoyed these kids this year. They will all be missed! :)

May 9th-13th

Language Arts: This week we are learning all about BUGS!

Spelling: Words with double letters & sight words ( )

Math: We are learning about all kinds of shapes and their sides, angles, etc... This is a really fun math unit to end the year on.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Straight Line Design
Mrs. Nielsen:
Mrs. Barton: Rock excavation with chocolate chip cookies!
Mrs. Mace: Giant parachute out on the field
Mrs. Bennett: Dancing

* Please return your child's field trip note by the end of this week so they will be allowed to go on the swimming field trip with us next Tuesday.

May 2nd-6th

Language Arts: The theme for this week is "At Work" We will be learning that there are many different kinds of jobs we could have when we grow up.

Spelling: Prefixes re-, un-, and sight words. (retry, reuse, remake, unpack, unsafe, unlike, saw, cause, goes, build.)
Sentence: It is unsafe to pet a sleeping bear!

Math: This week we will be working on adding and subtracting two digit numbers. A practice math test will come home Tuesday night. We will be having our math test on Wednesday.

Rotations: We will be practicing for our 1st grade program a all week so there will be no rotations.

1st Grade Program: Your child needs to come to school with a MOSTLY yellow shirt on Thursday and Friday. We will be preforming our program for parents on Thursday at 2:30pm. We will preform it again for the school on Friday at 9:30am.

April 26th-29th

Language Arts: This weeks theme is "WE CAN DO IT!" We are discussing the many things we have learned how to do in our lives and the people who have helped us learn it!

Spelling: Words with -au, -aw, & sight words. (haul, cause, saw, claw, paw, dawn, fault, awful, book, took, nothing, and along.) Sentence: My dog is walking on our lawn.

Math: In math we are learning how to add and subtract multiples of ten on the hundreds chart.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Mondrian (Straight Line Design)
Mrs. Bennett & Mrs. Mace: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Program Songs
Mrs. Barton: Rocks
Mrs. Nielsen: I've Decided (Good Choices)

Current Happenings:

* The whole 1st grade will be practicing a couple times a day throughout the week next week to prepare for our program. Please make sure that your child has good attendance next week so they will be prepared to preform on Thursday!

* Ask your child about a fun math card game they have learned at school and have them teach you how to play it with them!

* Notices about our Sand Hollow Field Trip are coming home tonight. Please sign it and return it with your child by Friday!

April 18th-21st

Language Arts: The theme for this week is "Let's Go Out!" We will be talking about how there are many interesting things to see and do in our daily lives.

Spelling: Words with oo & sight words. (book, look, cook, took, hood, wood, toy, coin, mother, love) Sentence: My dog is chewing on an old boot.

Math: This week in math we are continuing to work with money amounts up to 99 cents. We will also be learning how to group data, and add multiples of ten.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bennett & Mrs. Mace: Math Remediation

Mrs. Anderson: 1st Grade Program Practice.

Mrs. Bluemel: Picasso

Mrs. Barton: Rocks

Mrs. Nielsen: Character Education

Reminder: There will be no school on Friday, April 22nd or Monday, April 25th due to Easter Break!

April 11th-15th

Language Arts: This week we are reviewing everthing we have learned over the past 5 weeks and will be taking our Unit 5 Treasures Assessment. There will be no Spelling this week!

Math: This week in math we are working on solving addition and subtraction story problems.

Rotations: Because of Treasures testing and the Zion Field trip we will not be having rotations this week.

Zion: Our class will be going to Zion on Wednesday. Please send your child to school that day with the proper clothing for a hiking trip. It is supposed to be in the mid 60's so a jacket is reccommended.

Easter Egg Hunt: The hunt has been changed to Friday after lunch. Please send your child with a bag of eggs by Friday!

Classroom Happenings: Our butterflies have started to emerge! We will be releasing them outside sometime this week.

April 4th-8th

Language Arts: The theme this week is Watching Animals Grow! We will be learning about how baby animals change and develop as they grow older.

Spelling: Words with oi, oy, & sight words. (spoil, coin, join, voice, enjoy, joy, toy, boy, town, mouse, eyes, enough) Sentence: The boy can join the club.

Math: This week in math we are learning about telling time to the hour and half-hour. Our Topic 11 Math test will be on Thursday. A take home practice test will be coming home on Wednesday night.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel & Mrs. Bennett: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Music
Mrs. Barton: Financial Literacy
Mrs. Mace: Plants
Mrs. Nielsen: Character Education

* All of our caterpillars are now in their chrysalides. We are excited to see them start turning into butterflies within the next 2 weeks!
* Each student has also planted their own sunflower seed and they have already started sprouting. We are keeping track of their growth each day!

March 28th-April 1st

Language Arts: This weeks theme is all about the Seasons of the year!

Spelling: Words with ow, ou & sight words. (cow, town, mouse, how, out, mouth, brown, cloud, born, fork, fall, sure) Sentence: I found ten cents on the ground!

Math: This week we will be learning about basic fractions and simple probability.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel & Mrs. Bennett: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Music
Mrs. Mace: Where do plants grow?
Mrs. Barton: Financial Literacy
Mrs. Nielsen: Community Culture

*Walk-A-Thon*
Monday the 28th @ 10:00am our class will be out on the track participating the the walk-a-thon. Please feel free to come join in and watch your child walk around the track for Coral Canyon Elementary!

March 22nd-25th

Language Arts: This weeks theme is "What's the Weather?" We will be learning that there are many different kinds of weather.

Spelling: Words with -ork, -orn, & sight words. (born, cork, horn, corn, fork, pork, thorn, sport, barn, arm, know, great) Sentence: I tore my shirt on a branch!

Math: This week in math we are learning how to describe, add, and share equal groups.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel & Mrs. Bennett: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Music
Mrs. Mace: Seeds & Plants
Mrs. Nielsen: Group Work
Mrs. Barton: Financial Literacy

*Literacy Night*
Thursday the 24th is Literacy night. Corn dogs and chips will be served in the gym for dinner at 5:30pm. Games will be in classrooms throughout the entire school and will be from 6:00 pm-7:30pm. Please come and join in on the fun!!!

*Caterpillars*
Today students were excited to see that they each had their own caterpillar waiting for them when they returned to school. Each student is keeping a diary of their very own caterpillar and tracking its growth over the next two weeks. Once the caterpillars become butterflies we will release them outside our school and watch them fly away!

March 7th-11th

Language Arts: Our Theme for this week is titled "What Scientists Do." We will be learning how Scientists find out about the world around them in many different ways.

Spelling: Words with -arm, -arn, -art, & sight words. (cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, chart, smart, her, dirt, would, house)
Sentence: How far is the park from here?

Math: On Monday your child will come home with a practice math test. Please do it with them so they will be prepared for the actual test on Tuesday.
The test we will be taking focuses on knowing how to count different groups of coins. Please practice doing this with your child with real coins from home.

Rotations: Because we have one week before Spring Break we are doing some "Spring Fever Rotations."
Mrs. Bluemel: Van Gogh/Starry Night
Mrs. Bennett: Hopscotch
Mrs. Anderson: Music Games
Mrs. Nielsen: St. Patrick's Day
Mrs. Mace: Kickball
Mrs. Barton: Playground Games

Have an AWESOME Spring Break! :)

February 28th-March 4th

Reminder: It is SEP week, school will be released at 1:15pm every day!

Language Arts: This weeks theme is titled "In the Sky." We will be learning about how the sky can teach us many things.

Spelling: Words with R-Controlled Vowels (her, bird, fur, fern, dirt, burn, germ, third, & review & sight words, funny, penny, fall, through.)

Sentence: The girl got hurt when she fell.

Math: This week we will be working on solving problems involving money. We will also be introducing the Quarter!

Rotations: Because it is a short week there are no rotations this week!

Dr. Seuss Week: This week is also Dr. Seuss week. On Wednesday & Thursday students are allowed to wear a hat to school. The office will be selling Cat in the Hat hats for $3.00. Friday is CRAZY day. Students are allowed to wear wacky hair and clothes!

February 21st-25th

Language Arts: This week we are taking our Unit 4 Treasures Assessment. We will be reviewing what we have learned over the past 5 weeks and will be testing Wednesday-Friday.

Spelling: There is no spelling on the week of testing.

Math: This week in math we are continuing to work with fact families and focusing on different ways to work with subtraction and addition.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Water Cycle

Mrs. Bennett: Zion National Park

Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols

Mrs. Mace: Writing

Mrs. Barton & Mrs. Nielsen: Math Remediation

*** This Friday we are having our trimester "BEST" activity. Students are welcome to bring blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, and all the books they want to our reading celebration.***

February 7th-11th

*Reminder: Monday, February 7th school is released at 2:00pm!

Math: This week in math we are learning how to count on with dimes and pennies. We will also be learning how to compare and order two-digit numbers. A practice math test will come home on Wednesday night. We will have our Topic 8 math test on Thursday!

Language Arts: This weeks theme is "Better Together" We will continue to discuss how when we work together, we can accomplish difficult things.

Spelling: Words with -ind, -ight, -y, & sight words. (find, night, by, kind, right, my, boat, no, never, should) Sentence: Can I find her kite?

Rotations:
Mrs. Barton & Mrs. Nielsen: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Mrs. Bluemel: Seasonal Weather Changes
Mrs. Mace: Writing
Mrs. Bennett: Life Cycles

January 31st-February 4th

Language Arts: This weeks theme is all about Helping the Community.
We will be learning about how when we work together, we can accomplish difficult things.

Spelling: Words with long O: (-0, -oa, -oe, & -ow) low, boat, no, row, coat, go, we, keep, move, better. Sentence: Do you know if it will snow?

Math: This week we will be learning lot's of different ways to solve various subtraction problems.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Kinds of Weather
Mrs. Anderson: Patriotic Symbols
Mrs. Bennett: Life Cycles
Mrs. Mace: America Writing
Mrs. Barton & Mrs. Nielsen: Math Remediation

January 24th-28th

On Friday we celebrated our 100th day of school! Each of us brought in 100 edible items and mixed them together in a giant bowl. We each got a cupful of our delicious 100's day mix!

Here is what we will be doing this week:

Language Arts: This weeks theme is all about Family Time. We will be discussing how families can work together to help each other.

Spelling: Words with Long e (e, ea, ee) me, feed, seat, we, keep, beak, play, rain, give, write. Sentence: We like to eat lunch!

Math: In math we are learning about fact families and adding doubles. We will also focus on adding double + 1 and double +2 facts.

Rotations:

Mrs. Bluemel: Weather (Clouds)

Mrs. Anderson: All about Utah

Mrs. Barton & Mrs. Nielsen: Math Remidiation

Mrs. Mace: Writing

Mrs. Bennett:Life Cycles

January 17th-21st

Language Arts: We are starting Unit 4 in Language Arts this week. Our theme for the week focuses on Teammates.

Spelling: Words with Long a (ai, ay), and sight words.

mail, chain, rain, way, day, play, string, split, walked, eight.

Math: This week we are finishing up our Unit on Measurement and Geometry. A take home practice test will come home on Tuesday and the math test will be given on Wednesday. We will also be taking a mid-year assessment in math on Thursday.

Rotations:

Mrs. Anderson & Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation

Mrs. Neilsen: Fairy Tales

Mrs. Barton: Healthy Eating

Mrs. Bennett: Dental Health

Mrs. Mace: Writing

* On Friday we will be celebrating our 100th day of 1st grade! (I can't believe how fast it has gone by!) We will be doing some fun 100's day activities with a few of the other 1st grade classes.

January 10th-14th

Language Arts: This is our review week of everything we have learned in Unit 3. We will be taking our Unit 3 Language Arts assessment on Wednesday and Thursday.

Spelling: Because this is a review week in Language Arts there is not a spelling list that will be coming home this week.

Math: This week in math we are learning about capacity and weight. Math Challenge: See if your child can find different household items that resemble 3D shapes and have them tell you the shapes name.

Rotations:

Mrs. Anderson & Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation

Mrs. Barton: Nutrition

Mrs. Nielsen: Fairy Tales

Mrs. Mace: Writing a Paragraph

Mrs. Bennett: Dental Health

January 4th-7th

Welcome Back!

Language Arts: This weeks theme focuses on children around the world!

Spelling: Words with scr-, spl-, str-, & sight words (strike, string, splash, split, scrub, scrap, nose, cute, does, girl)

Math: We are starting a new math unit which focuses on measurement and geometry. This week we will be learning all about 2-D & 3-D shapes.

Rotations:
Mrs. Bluemel: Math Remediation
Mrs. Anderson: Math Remediation
Mrs. Barton: Nutrition
Mrs. Bennett: Dental Health
Mrs. Mace: Writing
Mrs. Nielsen: Fairy Tales