GRANT WON

I participated in, and  won $500 and 500 Bonus Points to spend on my classroom library! My application was chosen from more than 82,000 entries in the 2017 Scholastic Book Clubs and James Patterson Partnership Giveaway. I will be able to chose from any of the Scholastic Book Club books to spend the $500. I will post a picture when the actual books come in!  I'm so excited!

9-7-17

9-7-17We finally got to get our new computers out today. We learned how to log in. We spent a lot of time troubleshooting. The number of exciting opportunities these computers will give to us is amazing! I I'm not sure who is more excited, the students or the teachers. We use the computers to take our spelling pretest today.

Tomorrow is Iowa Iowa State day. If the kids want to wear something for whichever team they support, they can. The Iowa /Iowa State game is  Saturday at Ames!

Cursive packet is due tomorrow

9-6-17

Today was a BUSY early out.  On early out days, I split the room into different learning stations.  With the help of Mr. Eide and Mrs. Smith, we spread ourselves out among the stations to work with students on various science, language, and reading skills that we've been working on.

Homework:
Read 20 minutes

Study for tomorrow's pretest:

1. speech
2. claim
3. strike
4. stray
5. fade
6. sign
7. leaf
8. thigh
9. thief
10. height
11. mild
12. waist
13. sway
14. beast
15. stain
16. fleet
17. stride
18. praise
19. slight
20. niece

Cursive packet due Friday

9-1-17

Homework for the weekend:
Read 20 minutes
Study for Tuesday's vocabulary test: Study link here
Work on the cursive packet

Mark your calendar:
No school Monday
Wednesday early out
Thursday pictures

8-30-17

Homework: Read 20 minutes
Spelling: Study for Friday's test Click here to study
Vocabulary: Study for Tuesday's test
Writing: Cursive packet (due next week)

Next week:
No school Monday
Wednesday is an early out

8-29-17

Homework:
Read 20 minutes- remember that 2 RC quizzes in your lexile are due by the end of September.  3 if they are below your lexile.

Study your spelling words- Friday is our test

Study your vocabulary words- Test will be next week

Cursive packet- Due September 8

Science- make sure your marshmallow lab sheet is finished and your Fred lab sheet

8-28-17

Read 20 minutes

Students have been given their new spelling words!  Our pretest is tomorrow, with the test on Friday.  

Also, remember to keep working on the cursive review packet.  It is not due until September 8th!

Save Fred:  Today we did a thinking activity where the kids had to problem solve and figure out how to save a "worm" that was trapped on a boat.  They had a great time working together to solve Fred's problem!