Spelling-Week 19

Regular List
1. year
2. care
3. large
4. start
5. before
6. order
7. party
8, fork
9. cheer
10. chair
11. garden
12. morning
13. compare
14. clear
15. appear
16. court
17. course
18. pour
19. prepare
20. fearless

Challenge List
1. a lot
2. all right
3. already
4. among
5. certain
6. chosen
7. familiar
8. necessary
9. probably
10. receive
11. remainder
12. similar
13. success
14. until
15. weird

Bucket Fillers

Our latest bucket filler is Spencer!

He was nominated by Mrs. Wetzel for his act of service. Spencer saw that there was a bucket tipped over in the hallway. He went over to take care of it. Thank you for keeping our school clean!

Way to go Spencer!

Geometry

We are in the midst of a geometry unit! WOW!! We are sooooo smart.

We are learning all sorts of things like:
*line segments, rays, and lines
*parallel line segments, rays, and lines
*angles and turns
*triangles
*quadrangles
*polygons
*symmetry


This is a picture of some students working with a string to create a shape with 4 right angles. We have used many manipulatives to demonstrate the skills we are working on.

Mystery Reader

Our Mystery Reader this week was Mrs. Evoy!

Spencer knew it was her mom when she heard the clue.... I work in a place where kids LOVE to shop.

Mrs. Evoy read a book called- Hooray for You! We really enjoyed this book. Thank you for reading to our class!!

Spelling- Week #17

Challenge

1. business
2. committee
3. community
4. constitution
5. environment
6. foreign
7. geography
8. government
9. legend
10. national
11. officer
12. population
13. president
14. soldier
15. treasurer
    

Spelling- Week #17

List Words

1. splash
2. spring
3. patch
4. strong
5. thrills
6. spray
7. scream
8. throw
9. string
10. struck
11. screen
12. itch
13. pitch
14. spread
15. strawberry
16. stream
17. split
18. scratch
19. ditch
20. thread

Martin's Big Words

As we finish our studies looking at local, state, and national government, we will take a few days to embrace Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work. The students will be exposed to picture books about his life.

Some books we will enjoy:
1. Martin's Big Words
2. My Brother, Martin

It is refreshing each year to see how these young minds cannot wrap their heads around the injustices of our past. It gives me great comfort in the future of our country when eight-year-olds just can't understand why people were treated this way.

iExpress

We are journeying into a REALLY COOL writing project called iExpress. It is based off of the iPod commercials we are all so familiar with. We watched this short commercial, just to introduce the project.

We looked at other iPod ads and created iExpressions from the still photos.

Next, we looked at a list of iExpressions and acted them out. We did activities (iPlay, iDraw, iBoogie, iDive), character descriptions (iPlayFair, iRecycle, iMtrustworthy, iListen), and personality items (iMfullofenergy, iLaugh, iMstrong, iEntertain, iWorkhard)

Tomorrow we will plan what our own iExpressions will be.

We will keep you posted on our progress!!

Trickster Tales

In our shared reading time together we have been reading Trickster Tales. We talked about the words GREEDY, BOASTFUL, and TRICKY before our reading began.

We learned that a Trickster Tale....
-a clever animal or person plays a trick on other characters
-the trickster character has one or two main qualities, such as greediness or boastfulness
-the language sounds as if someone were telling the tale out loud.

The stories we are enjoying together are:
1. Hungry Spider
2. Rabbit Races with Turtle
3. Aunt Fox and the Fried Fish

Bucket Fillers

Our next bucket filler is.... Cassidy!

She was nominated by her friend Morgan. Morgan wrote, "When she asked if I had studied my words and I said no, she said the words for me and it helped."

Thank you Cassidy for being a bucket filler!

Spelling- Week #16

Regular List
1. school
2. wrote
3. phone
4. knew
5. sign
6. knots
7. wrong
8. knee
9. knife
10. wreck
11. wrap
12. knock
13. rough
14. laugh
15. elephant
16. cough
17. wren
18. writer
19. graph
20. track

Challenge List
1. angle
2. average
3. billion
4. century
5. decade
6. decimal
7. double
8. hundred
9. information
10. intercept
11. million
12. museum
13. resource
14. temperature
15. thousand