Friday, March 25, 2011

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!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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!

Friday, March 4, 2011

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! :)