Thank you! (Teacher's Day)

Thank you to all students and parents for such wonderful cards and gifts, this is a great Teacher's Day, and I am so proud and blessed to be teaching this lovely group of kids! 

 

Thursday Sept. 24th 2015

Hello everyone, hope all is well, here is a recap of our day:

Math: Tally charts, bar graphs, reading and decoding data. Finished some coloring blocks to further practice basic addition and subtraction skills. 

Language Arts: Continued to write our Class story, reviewed our web of ideas and outlined the sequence of our story.

Reading: Began using the short o. Learned about its sound and rules when reading. We now have examples of long e, short a, short, i short u, and now short o. 

Science: Understanding the Design Process and its steps. (1. find a problem, 2. Plan and build, 3.Test and improve, 4. Redesign 5. Communicate) Completed exercises in our book for the lesson. 

Today I am only sending home the Social Studies review, there was a problem printing out Phonics so I will have it ready for tomorrow. 

Homework: Science Fusion pg. 57 and 58
Study for  Spelling Quiz!

Have a great day!
-Ms.L.

Wednesday Sept. 23rd 2015

Hello parents!

Since I gave the study guides (reviews for the exams) late yesterday, we went through them today and completed some exercises to help them better prepare for their exams.  Today they will be going back home with their reviews and they should stay at home to practice and read at home. I encourage you to study together or have them talk about or explain concepts in the reviews. 

Social Studies: We reviewed key words for the new unit including community, leaders, president, flag, government, mayor and countries. We read lesson 2 in the new unit titled: Who are our leaders? 

Science: Further discussed what are engineers and how they use the design process for creating new things and helping communities. We completed an interactive activity on the computer where we did come examples of the design process using a catapult. We also reviewed our study guide for the exam. More science terms will be sent home Friday to add to the review, based on Unit 2. 

Math: Completed our worksheets on tally charts and bar graphs.

Tomorrow I will be sending the last 2 reviews (Phonics and Social Studies) so they can review. I will have the students take home their Health books as well so it can stay at home to review. 

Homework for tonight: Read the science review guide with your parents or with someone who helps you do your homework. Complete Language Arts practice book pages 17, 18 and 20.

Exam Week schedule:

TUESDAY (9/29)	MATH
WEDNESDAY (9/30)	HEALTH/ CHINESE	LANGUAGE ARTS	PHONICS
THURSDAY (10/01)	CHRISTIAN LIVING	MUSIC	SOCIAL STUDIES
FRIDAY (10/02)	PHYSICAL EDUCATION	COMPUTER	SCIENCE
MONDAY (10/5)	ART