9-11-16

Read 20 minutes: Our first RC quiz is due on Thursday of this week.  Make sure you are reading every night.  School minutes don't cancel out your reading at home.  This is HOMEWORK.

Monday: Vocabulary test over Eye of the Storm words. Study for your test HERE

Wednesday: Spelling test over Eye of the Storm words. Study for your test HERE. Click on the Eye of the Storm words

Our grade will be taking several tests this week to help us determine what reading level the kids are performing at.  FAST fluency, and FAST a reading tests, as well as SRI.  Each of these tests tell us something about how the kids are reading, and what we need to be teaching them in order to help their reading levels go up.  We'll go over these results and discuss them with you at our first set of conferences.  Our first conference is during the first week of October! You'll have a chance to visit with both Ms. Bram and myself at these conferences.

9-8-16

Homework:
Use each of your vocabulary words in a sentence. (Test Monday)
Read 20 minutes
Rewrite any missed spelling words (Test Wednesday)
Haugen's homeroom: Complete your graphic organizer for writing a news article

Friday

Friday is wear your favorite college team attire day!  If you have a favorite college team, wear its colors!  OR...wear your Bronco colors to show your Bronco Pride!

9-7-16

Homework:
Read 20 minutes
Our vocabulary test is being moved to Monday. We just don't have the words down yet.

9-6-16

Reminder...tomorrow is our first Wednesday Early out.  All students are dismissed at 1:00.

Homework:
Our first RC quiz is due on September 15th, so make sure you are reading each night.

Spelling pretest tomorrow over Eye of the Storm words.
Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley Spelling Words
speech claim strike stray 
fade sign leaf thigh 
thief height mild waist 
sway beast stain fleet 
stride praise slight niece 

Vocabulary test will be Friday.
Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley Vocabulary Definitions
1. collide - to come together with forceful impact.
2. funnel cloud - a storm that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
3. jagged - having a ragged or pointed edge or outline.
4. lightning - the flash of light when electricity builds up in storm clouds.
5. prairies - large areas of flat or open grasslands.
6. rotate - to turn around on a center or axis.
7. severe - serious or extreme in nature.
8. sizzling - crackling or hissing with intense heat.
9. tornadoes - violent, whirling winds in funnel-shaped clouds that can cause great
destruction.
10. occupation - a means of making a living, profession, or job.
11. updraft - current of air that flows upward.
12. conditions - situations that affect or influence an activity, event, etc.

Grades have now been entered on Parent Portal/Campus.  If you have any questions about grades, please feel free to contact me.  

9-2-16

We took our comprehension quiz over our first story today. The kids did FABULOUSLY!! I was really pleased.

Next week:
No school Monday
Early out Wednesday (teacher inservice day)

Homework:
Read 20 minutes (our first RC quiz is due September 15)
Tectonic plates nonfiction reading assignment
Late work and corrections

Check out these pictures from our science experiment today!  We learned about diffusion.  We're connecting what happens in this experiment to what happens inside our cells.  Molecules travel from areas of high concentration, to areas of low.

9-1-16

Homework:
Read 20 minutes
Several kids have corrections to make on their vocabulary test