Welcome back after what I hope was a good spring break for your family. Our students are excitedly rehearsing for next weeks performance on Thursday, April 8th. This is a wonderful theatrical experience for Lewis’ students, and I am sure that you will not want to miss seeing the fruit of their creativity. In...
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Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week off! I had a lovely time with my family AND I missed all the kids a lot! This week we begin our literacy focus on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In math, we are exploring geometry and making shape books. This...
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I was glad to see the childrens’ smiling faces on Monday! We took time to share our Spring Break adventures. Ella brought each one of us a shell from the Florida. Thank you Ella! Next week, we start a new Mathematics Unit called Putting Together and Taking it Apart. In this unit the students...
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April does not have a single color, instead we review all the colors we have studied so far by focusing on their lighter version — pastels. The shape of the month is oval. Here is our circle poem: Oval, oval, you’re so bright. Oval in the morning light. When the egg begins to crack….....
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MONDAY: Spelling- the vowel sound in ball, using either augh, ough, al or ou. TUESDAY: Measuring temperature at different times of the day. WEDNESDAY: Researching snakes. THURSDAY: Preparing for a party, using division.
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! Thankfully there was a nice bit of sunshine to get us all excited about summer, which is right around the corner. Two weeks ago, we had a wonderful time wrapping up the Read-a-thon. Remember to get the pledge money and forms turned in by March 31st!...
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On Monday, we welcomed everyone back and shared what we did over the Spring Break. We are starting a unit on World Cultures, beginning with Italy, then moving on to Brazil, India, and the United States. Mr. Lee led an Italian cookie-making activity, little crispy waffles called “pizzelle”. We will do a Google Earth...
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Homework for the week of March 29, 2010 is as follows: Reading log Fraction Interview Timeline of Your Life
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Welcome back from Spring Break! This is my first week of my solo teaching. I am really excited for the upcoming six weeks! This week we are starting all new projects. In writing, we will be working on an imaginative piece. In reading we will start looking at nonfiction books and working on developing...
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Wow! I think everyone has grown since spring break. We are back into our regular routine after being rested and are working on many projects this week. The new book for work time centers is “Goldilocks And The Three Bears”, by Valeri Gorbachev. Along with setting, characters in the story, making puppets for retelling,...
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Spring brings us signs of new beginnings.  Book Making and Messages will naturally take on signs of spring.  We have successfully completed geometry, and math will now focus on measurements: linear, time, and money.  We will also work on solving word problems.  In geography the globe and maps will become more meaningful and useful....
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Welcome back from spring break. I hope everyone got a little bit of rest and had a whole lot fun. I just want to say that the Lewis Drama Club’s production this year was outstanding. Congratulations to all students and teachers and parents for a job well done. I want to also remind students...
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It is great to be back with the kids after spring break. I hope you all had a nice restful time with your families.This week we are focusing on folktales and fairytales. We are reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are talking about character, setting, cause and effect and practicing retelling the story....
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***Welcome back! I hope everyone had a nice spring break. I am very excited to begin teaching full time in our classroom. This week we begin units on reading comprehension strategies, persuasive writing, and the Woodstock neighborhood. In addition to our homework due Friday, students will receive homework for our neighborhood unit. I encourage...
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Hope everyone had a relaxing spring break. We are back into our routine of daily homework and weekly projects. We are continuing our colonial unit in social studies. We tallied our wealth units and purchased cargo for our ships to sail to the New World. The weekly colonial projects are due every Friday. My...
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Welcome back families! We started the week with our new Rocks, Sand and Soil Science Unit and the children are really enjoying it. We will be going on a fantastic field trip to the Rice Rock Museum on April 7th and will need four Chaperones. Please let me know as soon as possible if...
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Spring Break is a time for families to renew and refresh.  Please remember to include a time in each day for reading for pleasure with your child.  Looking ahead, our trip to the theater to see Don’t Let the Pigeons Drive the Bus is April 1st.  I still need many permission slips.  I hope...
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This last week before Spring Break brings some changes to the after school music schedule. Due to the upcoming drama production there will be some cancellations this week. There will be no 4th grade strings nor 5th grade band. After spring break all groups will resume their normal scheduled practice times. These after school...
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This has been a very unusual week. We are not following our regular classroom routine with worktime due to a short week, followed by Spring Break. We will resume worktime on Tuesday after break. This week, our lead story is One Little Mouse. Our new word wall words are; because, one, two, three, four,...
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This week Room Thirteen students will finish the month of March by continuing our study of green. Green books we have been reading are: Green Eggs and Ham, and The Killer Brussell Sprouts. There are still a few students in room five who have not yet had their annual IEP. If you have not...
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This week we are wrapping up lots of projects in preparation for spring break and Ms. Miura’s solo teaching. Starting the Monday after spring break Sheree Miura, our student teacher, will be in charge of the classroom for six weeks. I will be out of the classroom during the first two weeks but will...
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Last week we wrapped up our Folk and Fairy Tales unit with several stories about princesses including Princess and the Pea, and Princess and the Frog. We also read some silly, mixed up tales from “The Stinky Cheese Man”. The letter of the week was “X”, so we brainstormed words that begin with “ex-”,...
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