Week of October 24, 2016

       This will be another busy week as we prepare for our Fall Harvest fun day on Friday.  The children will be doing fun activities throughout the day.  The children will have some special treats at 1:45.  Parents are invited to come help and join in on the fun.

       This week the children will learn and review the following skills:

• The children will continue to work on learning sight words, reading for fluency, and comprehension skills.
• The children will review the short vowel sounds
• The children will learn how to identify words with one, two, and three syllables.
• The children will learn their double number facts
• The children will learn to add 3 or more addends with sums less than twenty.
• The children will learn to measure my using an inch ruler and tape measure
• The children will continue to work addition and subtraction word problems.
• The children will read the story "Where the Wild Things Are" and do several activities associated with the story.
• The children will learn about the duties of a president
• The children  will write a narrative about if they were President of the United State 
• The students will learn about Jacob having a Dream (Genesis 27:41-45; 28:10-22)

Weekly Spelling words:  pumpkin, patch, seed, fall, candy, trick, tree, mask, orange, green 

                                        Bonus Words:  harvest - costume

                                               WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

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Week of October 17-21

This week we will be covering the following:

Fiction and Informational texts

Reading for Fluency and Comprehension

Topics, Main Ideas, and Details of a story

Adding -es to a noun to form a plural

Irregular Verbs

Writing with Capital Letters and Periods

Compound Words

Consonant Diagraphs-Words with -ch, tch, wh, -ph

Addition and Subtraction and Fact Families
Fire Safety
Writing a Narrative

Bible Story: Jacob Tricks Isaac
Memory Verse: Genesis 25:34 "Jacob gave Esau some bread and stew."

Spelling Words: whip, whale, catch, match, chin, graph, shop, with, many, around
Bonus: October, scarecrow

Don't forget Book Character Pumpkins for the Pumpkin Patch in the Eagle's Nest can be brought in beginning Monday, October 24th. Judging will be on the 28th. 

   

 This will be another busy and fun week as we prepare for our field trip on Friday to the fire station.  We will be working on the following skills this week:
Week of October 10, 2016

• Reading for fluency and comprehension
• The children will continue to learn new vocabulary and review sight words.
• The children will learn greater than, less than, and equal to. <,>,=
• The children will continue to work addition and subtraction word problems
• The children will continue to work with learning addition and subtraction facts
• They will learn to decode words with /sh/, /th/, and /ng/
• The children will be introduced to closed syllables
• The children will write several narratives about fire safety and firefighters
• The children will learn about fire safety.
• The children will read and discuss the weekly Bible story " Genesis 26:12-33

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

fish, shop, ship, with, thing, sang, want, call, flash, shell

Bonus Words:  firefighter, safety

REMINDERS:

• All children should be reading AR books daily at home. Please remind your child to return their book daily.  
• The children will go to the fire station on Friday, October 14th.  We will leave the school at 8:15.  Parents are welcome to attend.
• Children should continue to study sight words and math facts at home as much as possible.

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Week of September 26-30

What a busy week we have just finished!  We had a great time at our Vocabulary Parade today. We learned lots of new words and enjoyed seeing the creative costumes everyone was wearing. It was nice to meet with so many of you this week and talk about your students's progress on Conference day. Next week we are going on our first field trip to Walden Farm.

We will be working on the following:

• decoding and identifying words  with end blends
•  possessive words
• sequencing
• reading comprehension
• main ideas and details
• writing complete sentences
• using correct capitalization and punctuation
• fall words
• identifying nouns and verbs
• mixed addition and subtraction
• solving word problems
• graphing 
• writing about information on a graph
• handwriting-neatness and letter formation
• pumpkins\how plants grow
• the story of Moses sending his servant to find a wife for Issac

Spelling words:lend, send, fast, past, sink, wink, tent, run, of, who

Bonus words: pumpkin, autumn

Field trip on Thursday! Wear red EH uniform shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. Bring a SACK lunch. We will be leaving around 8:15 after chapel. We will eat lunch at the farm and be back around 12:30 pm.

Fall Break-October 3-8

Week of  September 19, 2016


       This week the children will be very busy as they learn about the legend of Johnny Appleseed.  The children will be tasting things made of apples on Friday,  Therefore, we are asking each child to bring something special made of apples on Friday.  Below are some examples:
apple butter, apple chips, apple bread, apple cookies, apple sauce, and apple candy.  These are just examples.  Your child may bring anything made of apples.

The following skills will be taught this week:

• The children will read identify, decode, and read words with short /u/.
• The children will be introduce to contractions
• Students will continue to work on sight words and learning new vocabulary.
• Students will continue to work on identifying the main idea and details within a story.
• The children will continue to work with writing simple sentence.
• The children will work mixed addition and subtraction problems using different strategies.
• The children will interpret data from a apple graph.
• The children will continue to work on writing narratives using a class bubble map.

HOMEWORK:

Monday:  Write each spelling word in a complete sentence/Read AR book/ study sight words

Tuesday:  Read words and sentences with short /u/ to an adult at home/study sight words/read AR     book

Wednesday:  Read for fun/ Read AR Book/ Study sight words

Thursday: Mixed addition/subtraction worksheet

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

bug, cut, fun, lunch, nut, rug, run, skunk, three, could
Bonus Words:  Appleseed      orchard

CLASSROOM REMINDER:

• Remember to read at least 3 AR books throughout the week
• Vocabulary Parade September 23rd 8:30-10:00 Middle School Gym (Parents are Welcome)
• Parent-Teacher's Conferences September 22nd from 3:00-7:00
• Apple tasting Friday September 23rd 1:45

Week of September 12-16

This week:

• Students will be reading realistic fiction stories.
• We will discuss jobs in our communities.
• We will identify and discuss characters, settings, and events.
• Students will learn, decode, and identify words with short e.
• We will learn to use words with the inflectional ending -ed and discuss past tense.
• We will begin identifying and writing contractions.
• Students will continue to write complete sentences.
• We will study the story of Abram leaving his home.
• Students will be retelling the Bible story,
• We will continue to solve subtraction problems and word problems.
• We will begin a study of Magnets and do some simple experiments.

This week's Spelling Words: leg, beg, men, hen, head, bread, grass, spin, there, again

Bonus Words. magnet, attract

Please continue to check and sign your child's planner everyday.

Encourage your child to read his/her AR book to you several times before taking an AR test.

Keep practicing sight words as often as you can. Even if your child has mastered these it is a good idea to review.

Open House is this Tuesday, September 13 from 5-7 pm. Please plan to visit the classroom to see what your child has been doing. There will be sign up sheets for Parent-Teacher Conferences at Open House. Conferences will be on September 22nd.

The 3rd annual Vocabulary Parade will be on September 23rd. Please check your emails for information on this from the office. It is a very exciting day!

Our first field trip will be on September 29th. We will be traveling to Walden Farms. Be looking for more information to come about this trip.

Week of September 5, 2016

        I hope everyone had a great break.  This will be a busy week since it's a four day week.  Below are some of the skills and topics we will be working on this week:

• Identifying and reading words with the /s/ and /r/ blend
• Identifying details within the story
• Reading for good comprehension and fluency
• We will continue to work on learning new vocabulary in all subjects
• Subtract with difference less than 10
• Work and explain addition and subtraction word problems
• Identifying the characteristic of living and non-living things
• The children will be reading and the Bible story "God's Promise"
• The children will continue to work on writing using good letter formation and spacing.
• Review color words and colors of a rainbow

Weekly spelling words:
spill, drop, spin, drip, grab, two, grass, move, jump, two
Bonus words:  rainbow  -  promise


CLASSROOM REMINDERS:

• Remember to read and return library book to school daily
• Study sight words daily