Our last week of January was filled with Asian Lunar New Year activities. We learned more about Asia including foods, traditions and literacy. This week as we welcome February our focus is on friendship, families, pets and Presidents past and current. In science, birds and polar bears are studied in our informational texts. Our...
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I just got back from the 3rd grade play and I first want to congratulate them on their wonderful performance. All your hard work really payed off tonight. Things have been a little topsy-turvey around the music room this past week. I caught the stomach flue and was out of commission Thursday through Monday....
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Next Tuesday, February 3rd, our class will be having an Author’s Party.  This will be a celebration to share their successfully published winter, friendship books.  Please join us in the classroom at 2:15 for author readings and light refreshments.  As we move into February we’ll continue to learn about our new president and presidential...
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 We have been having a lot of fun this week learning about Chinese New Year this week. We learned that cleaning your house, wearing new clothes and getting hair cuts brings good luck in the new year. Today we made lucky Dragons, saw a Lion Dance, and read lots of stories about the lunar...
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Gung Hey Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! We have been learning a lot about this important Asian holiday and even got to see an incredible assembly featuring an amazing dragon and performance on Monday. We also learned about what we can do to Reuse! Reduce! and Recycle! and hopefully lesson our carbon footprint....
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Last week we continued our Fairy Tale unit with a few more classics and a focus on more versions of The Three Little Pigs including a slide show version of the flannel board and paper dolls we have been using. We have also drawn the characters on thumbs and houses on palms to practice...
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Congratulations to Ms. Tori Padelford and the third grade classes! The teachers and parents really enjoyed the Reader’s Theater performance. It was wonderful to see and hear the students rise to the occasion. The Scott Foresman Reading Assessments are completed, and Mrs. Jamesbarry, reading support teacher, and I are evaluating the results. The data...
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This week’s homework is as follows: Reading Log Spelling-short lists Math- 2 sheets
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Gung Hay Fat Choy! We started the week off by celebrating the Chinese New Year with a spectacular Lion Dance done by the Kung Fu Academy. The Lion Dance is a 2000 year-old tradition that is most often preformed during the Chinese Lunar New Year. The children that participate in Kung Fu Club did...
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Monday’s homework is Spelling with the focus on “ou/ow” words. The rest of the week can be spent focusing on the January Challenge Projects which are due 2-10-09. 1. Track Portland’s weather for two weeks. Create a graph to illustrate your findings. 2. Draw a picture of your favorite kind of weather. Include a...
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Kung Hsi Fah Tsai! Happy New Year! We are finishing our unit on asian culture this week. The students have had fun writing and counting numbers to 100 in Chinese as well as learning other characters. We have read some asian folk tales and compared them with the folk tales that are more familiar....
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***Ask your child about the incredible Lion Dance we saw today at an assembly in honor of Chinese New Year! Congratulations to our students who also performed in a piece: Aiden, Ashton, Elizabeth, Gabe and Niki. ***Another assembly brought home the important message of Reduce~Re-use~Recycle! Our class had many ideas of how we can...
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HOMEWORK Week 20 Name: ____________________ Jan. 26-29 Monday: 1. Reading: Read for 20-30 minutes. Summarize for, or discuss with, parent. Record what you read below. Book I Read:_____________________________________________ Read from page ____ to _____ 2. Math: Do worksheet assigned. 3. Library tomorrow. Bring back books you want to return. Parent Signature: _____________________ **************************************************************************************** Tuesday:...
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Monday we started our week with two very interesting assemblies. The first was presented by Metro and was a performance by Sky Orbison, visiting us from the 23rd century. He instructed students in ways to better reduce, reuse, and recycle so that our earth will remain lovely even into the 23rd century. (His experence...
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Hello again! On Monday, we joined the rest of the school for two great assemblies. The first one was about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle more effectively. The second assembly was The Lion Dance to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The students had a lot of fun and were very respectful during both...
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On Monday we learned more about Asian Lunar New year and were honored to see a traditional Lion Dance Performance to usher in the New Year of the Ox. This week we will be learning about this big celebration which takes place in many Asian communities through books and poems, samples of traditional celebratory...
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We will be celebrating Chinese New Year this week with a lot of different activities within the Literacy, Science, Math, Art and Social Studies kindergarten curriculums. On Monday, the children saw a Chinese Lion Dance in the afternoon and learned about the history and Traditions of Chinese New Year. Writing chinese numbers, creating New...
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January Challenge Projects Ms. Swan’s Second Grade Due 2-10-09 1. Track Portland’s weather for two weeks. Create a graph to illustrate your findings. 2. Draw a picture of your favorite kind of weather. Include a written explanation of why you chose this type. 3. Build a tool used to measure weather, such as a...
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***Thanks to Mr. Lauer for working his magic so that we could watch history taking place with the inauguration of our new president. He rigged up the large Smart Board in our classroom, so that we practically felt as if we were there, minus the bone chilling temperatures. My only nephew Quinn was chosen...
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We were so lucky that we got to view the swearing in of our new president yesterday! I may be many years before the children recognize the significance of that event. This has been a busy week for us. We are finishing up our worktime stations focusing on the story Little Quack and will...
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Hello to everyone! We are in our last week of the Variables unit in class. This week we are working with “flippers.” The students are having great fun launching small corks and testing the variable of the length of the flipper. Students should be continuing to work on their own experiments at home, this...
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HOMEWORK Week 19 Name: ____________________ Jan. 20-23 Tuesday: 1. Reading: Read for 20-30 minutes. Summarize for, or discuss with, parent. Book I Read:_____________________________________________ Read from page ____ to ____ 2. Math: Do worksheet assigned. Study basic facts. 3. Spelling: Study this week’s words. Parent Signature: _________________________ **************************************************************************************** Wednesday: 7:45-8:30 AM Homework Club for help...
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