Weekly Preview...

This week...

We will continue to Read, Read, Read.  I have adjusted some reading groups because we are flying through books with great fluency and comprehension.  We will continue with word study and will work on compound words and words with oo.  We will do a fun lesson using Cookie Crisp cereal to do our oo lesson.  We will begin to write Narratives.  We will use the book Duck on a Bike this week as our literature model.

We will continue with math fast facts and begin to work on graphing and magnitude in math.  That means lots of interviewing our classmates.  This way we can work on collecting data, putting into graph form and then answering questions about the data we collected.  We will also work on magnitude which means lots of estimating and counting.

We will continue to work on our Animals unit.  We began last week with learning about the differences between living and nonliving and what a living thing needs to survive.  This week we will talk about habitats and the skin coverings of different animal groups.  We will cover birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians.

We are working through the new schedule changes.  I know the class is tired by the end of the day but they are doing great!  We will continue to work up to the 3:45 bell, so please be aware that if you pull your child out of class, they will be missing educational time, not extra recess.  Thank you all for being understanding as we push on and try to make it to Spring.

Things to remember:

March 28- end of the 3rd nine weeks
March 28- half day ( as of now---THIS MAY CHANGE after the Monday School Board Meeting ) be on the lookout for that outcome!!!

Thanks for all you do and have a great week!
Mrs. Beltz

Living Vs. Nonliving

Here are some pictures from our... 

Living Vs. Nonliving Lesson

Gummy Worms Vs. Real Earthworms

FUN STUFF!

Happy St. Patrick's Day and things to Practice @ Home!

   Happy St. Patrick's Day!  



I know the class must be feeling LUCKY this morning with yet another Snow Day!  Here are a few things we can be doing at home to keep moving forward.  

READ, READ, READ!

Go to starfall.com   

Practice math problems and concepts on MobyMax 

mobymax.com/signin

Go to http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp

This site allows a free trial that your child can use to listen to a variety of books being read to them!

Allow  your child to watch these short videos too!

Weekly Preview

OK....I am in total denial about the yucky precipitation already falling from the sky!  So, I will write this up pretending that we will be in school for the entire 5 days!

This week we will be reading lots and practicing our problem solving skills.  We will also begin the week with new word study sorts.  We will work on the vowel sounds of ow and oa.  Your child may not be working on this level however I am a firm believer in introducing all my students to this concept and then focusing more in it in reading groups if appropriate.

We will finish learning about fact families.  The class really took to this math concept and they ALL have a pretty firm understanding at this time.  We will then work on subtracting.  We will also continue with fast fact tests.  

We will begin our unit on Living and Nonliving things as well as different characteristics of animals.  This entire unit will last about 4 weeks.  

If anyone can send in gummy worms ASAP, that would be great.  We will be using them as a comparison to REAL worms.  Check back later this week for pictures on that!

Also, please send in a rock that fits in your child's palm.  They will need this for Friday or early next week, weather depending. 

 Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Weather depending we will be making Leprechaun Traps tomorrow! 

This week..

This week we will continue to learn and grow.  We will continue with the reading series and talk about making predictions and noting details.  We will look at words that have ee, ea as vowel pairs.  Your child will continue to practice word study on their level with their word study teacher.  We will also be writing How to pieces.  We will write about how to catch a leprechaun...getting ready for the big day.

In math our focus will be fact families.  We will work on addition and subtraction sentences for a group of numbers.  We will do this by learning about the boss of the house and the workers of the house.  We will also continue with math fast facts.

We will finish learning about Eleanor Roosevelt and learn more about Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.  We will then make a timeline and sort our pictures cards to go with each famous American.  We will then take our assessment on this Social Studies SOL.

Things to Remember:

Family Movie Night is Friday March 14.
March 28- is a half day

We are in need of a bag of gummy worms ( we need at least 22 ) for our unit starting next Monday.  If you are able to send this in please email to let me know.

We are working hard and need to continue to Read, Read, Read.  Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions.  Have a great week!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Beltz