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.