Sunday, April 29, 2012

Week of April 30

I sent home another permission slip with the kids Monday. We have a field trip, next Monday, May 7th. We are going to the Annett Nature Center. Please try to have it back before Friday!

This is our last week of our reading program. Can you believe it! Your child should be able to read ALL words from the list now! WOW! This weeks' high frequency words are: answered, brothers, carry, different, and poor. In phonics we will learn about prefixes un- and re- and long vowels i and o (with no bossy e at end).

In math we will be continuing with fraction work.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Our chicks have hatched!! We got five cute little chicks and have really enjoyed them this week! (see pictures below)

This coming week our high frequency words are built, early, learn, science, and through. Our phonics skills are the vowel sound of aw/au and short e:ea.

In math, we are finally starting unit 9! We have been distracted this week with those chicks! We will be working with our number grid (hundreds chart) to find patterns, do puzzles, and make rules.

Our field trip is on Thursday to City State Bank. Banana Buck Sale and Popcorn Day is on Friday.

It's a busy, but fun week!
































Friday, April 13, 2012

Week of April 16

This week, Wednesday is an early out day and we hope that our chicks will hatch! Cross your fingers that they survived!

In reading we will be working with the oi, oy sound and suffixes-er and -or. The high frequency words are against, goes, heavy, kinds, and today. We are also reading fictional stories about simple machines.

In math, we are finishing up unit 8. We will be reviewing fractions, money, time, fact families, place value. We will take our test and start unit 9.

In social studies we will continue to learn about families. In science we will continue to learn about chicks.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Week of April 9

This week we have our field trip AND spring pictures on Thursday, April 12.

In reading the high frequency words are among, another, instead, and none.

We will be working on compare and contrast, the oo sound as in book and inflected endings like -ed, -ing, -s, and -es.

In math we are learning about fractions and more practice with money.

In Social Studies we are starting our family and Earth Day unit. In Science we are watching our chicks develop.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Week of April 2

Happy April!

We have 30 chick eggs in our room and are hoping to see them hatch in approximately 18 days! The kids are so excited and are loving to play "mother hen" and turn the eggs three times a day. :)

April is also National Poetry Month so we will be reading lots of poems and our author of the month is Shel Silverstein.


This week in reading the phonics skills are the ou sound as in loud. We will also work on syllables. The high frequency words are door, loved, should, and wood. We are going to work on exclamation points as well.

In math we are working on story problems, making change, and beginning concepts of fractions dealing with equal shares.

Please remember to send back your permission slip to the Des Moines Playhouse that will be on April 12.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Week of March 26

I hope everyone had a great spring break (even with all this rainy weather!).

This week we are starting a new math and reading unit!

I can't believe we are already on the last reading unit of the year! The high frequency words are along, behind, eyes, never, pulling, and toward. The phonics skills are ow/ou sounds and syllables consonant+le like turtle.

In math we are going to review money, place value, and time. We will also add dollars into our money counting.

In science we will soon be starting chicks and watching them change from eggs into baby chickens!

In social studies we will finish our unit on needs, wants, goods, and services.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Week of March 12

Monday is the music program! Please meet me in the Eastview cafeteria at 6:30 for the 6:45 program. I hope you all can make it.

In Reading, we are finishing up unit 4 (can you believe there is only one more unit to go!). Your child should now be able to read all of the sight words for first grade through unit four. This week's words are across, because, ,dance, only, opened, shoes, and told. The phonics skills are the suffixes -ly and-ful. We also will talk about the 00 sound, as in moon. We will continue to talk about adjectives, nouns, and verbs.

In social studies, we will continue talking about needs and wants, as well as introducing goods vs. services.

In Science, they will be finishing up the plant unit.

In Math we are finishing up Unit 7 with review about geometry and taking the test before Friday.

Don't forget that spring break is next week! Enjoy the long vacation! :)