Learning in Room 11 -- February 1-5

This week we will be learning the following skills:

Reading:  Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text, compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic

Math:  Add and subtract 3 digit numbers

Language:  adjectives and adverbs, simple and compound sentences

Spelling:  Kiss the Cat rule

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Spelling words:

scan, crept, skit, cuff, skill, kiss, cat, cast, club, skiff, tract, cent, cinch, scram, kit, con, scuff, kept, kid, Kenny

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Homework:

Daily:  study spelling words and read "Clem and the Duck"

Monday:  math, reading

Tuesday:  math, get test papers signed and return Wednesday

Wednesday:  math, language

Thursday:  math, write spelling words 4 times each

Learning in Room 11 -January 4-8, 2016

This week we are learning the following skills:

Reading:  Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text

Spelling:  r-controlled o

Math:   place value

Language:  collective nouns and reflexive nouns
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Spelling Words:  score, fort, horn, shore, short, thorn, before, forest, hornet

High-Frequency Words:  began, don't, here, never, next, second, went
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Homework:

Daily:  study spelling words and read "Who Snored?"

Monday:  math

Tuesday:  math, reading

Wednesday:  math, language

Thursday:  math, write spelling words 4 times each

MyON website

I want to encourage everyone to use the new resource that is available.  If you have access to the internet your child can read and listen to many books. MyON is available for online reading anywhere and anytime.  Your children can read online using any Internet-enabled device.  They can read offline using free mobile apps for iPad, Android, Chrome and Kindle Fire HD.  You can learn more at http://thefutureinreading.myon.com/overview/myon-reader-goes-mobile 

Before the Christmas break I sent home each student's login information.  Please let me know if you need it again.

You may login at:  www.myON.com

This is a great resource.  Many of these books have Accelerated Reading (AR) quizzes.  These books can also be used on the Book-It reading log.  I hope you will login and enjoy reading books anywhere and anytime!

December Catch Up

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and have enjoyed the holidays.

I wanted to share some of the activities we did between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  When we came back after Thanksgiving we had a new bulletin board in the hall.  They have been painting our school and put up new boards for everyone.  We made ornaments to put on our new board.

In math we have been working on place value.  First, we drew stars for one minute.  We counted them by drawing a circle around tens, then fives, and then twos.  We all enjoyed this activity.

Later we did a lesson called "Button Place Value".  The class was divided into groups.  Each group had a bowl of buttons.  The buttons were put in cups of ten.  If a group had ten cups they would put the buttons in a ziplock bag to make one hundred.  Finally, each group shared how many buttons they had.  We repeated the process with each group's buttons to find the class total. 

We also used base ten blocks to learn about place value.  

On Wednesday, December 9, we had a special visitor come to our classroom.  Rebecca Bledsoe is the children's librarian at the West Memphis Public Library. She came and talked to us about the different things the students can do when they visit the library.  She also read us a story.  We really enjoyed her visit.

I hope you enjoyed getting caught up on what we have been doing in class.