The fairy houses are finished and awaiting fairies, which are starting to appear.  Ella’s new fairy friend is Alice and Elf Man is ready to move into Alex’s house.  This week we will first be making a character map about our fairies and then a story map including characters, setting, problem, events, and solution....
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Homework sent home on April 7, 2009. 1.  April Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long i (ie, igh), n(kn) and r(wr), realism and fantasy 4.  Math: counting by 5’s
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George Seurat was a French painter who liked to use dots to make his paintings.  We looked at A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and were amazed about the number of dots.  We also read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds to help us learn the importance of the dot.  Our dot paintings are...
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, March 31st. 1.  April Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long o, (oa,ow), three letter blends, author’s purpose 4.  Math: addition, sums to 14
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Spring has arrived in Portland!  In preparation for the Art Show on May 7th, we will be making Fairy Houses, a little house made mostly from nature.  This activity follows along with literacy and our study of rocks, and later in the spring insects.  If your child has not brought in a collection of...
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Homework for March 17th-30th. READ, READ, READ. Two weeks of a reading log went home.  Enjoy the break.
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The presidents of the United States have been very popular this past month, but sadly they must go back to history.  Mattias and Zack (with a little help from friends) finished our graph on the pets of  presidents.  For awhile it looked like more presidents had birds than any other animal.  Ask your child...
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, March 10th. 1.  March Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long e (ea), changing y to i before adding an ending, theme 4.  Math: Geometry
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The presidents of the United States have been very popular this past month, but sadly they must go back to history.  Mattias and Zachary (with a little help from friends) finished our graph on the pets of presidents.  For awhile it looked like more presidents had birds than any other animal.  Ask your child...
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Sent home Tuesday, March 3rd. 1.  March Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long a(ai, ay), drawing conclusions, posessives(s’ or ’s) 4. Math: geometry
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Yesterday we had a health lesson on “Being Good to Your Nose”.  Each student received their own packet of tissues provided by Procter and Gamble.  The steps that were emphasized for the proper way to blow your nose were 1. Get a clean tissue. 2. Hold the tissue with both hands.  3. Blow. 4....
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Sent home on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1.  February Calendar of Activities 2.  Weekly Reading Log 3.  Literacy: er and est, dge sounding as j, sequence of events 4.  Math: Addition with missing addends (9+___= 16)
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In art we are taking another look at the color wheel, this time using cyan, magenta, and yellow.  First we mixed the secondary colors orange, green, and violet, then went on to mix many different colors.  It was fun to name some of our new colors like Hailey’s turtle green and Xavier’s swamp brown....
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, February 17th. 1.  February Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3.  Literacy: er,ir,ur, contractions ’s,’ve,’re, drawing conclusions 4.  Math: solid shapes
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Our auction project is completed and will be in the classroom this week for you to tempt yourself.  The umbrella has been filled with beautiful, bright sunflowers.  We’ve heard the question, “Is it a real umbrella?”  Yes, it’s very real and ready for a rainy day.  This umbrella can only be purchased at the...
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As we continue to learn about our families, we have used a Venn Diagram to analyze information about brothers and sisters and having cats and dogs for pets.  We have learned more of us have cats than dogs.  This week we will begin a horizontal bar graph using the pets of the presidents.  Graphing...
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, February 10th 1.  February Calendar of Activities  2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: ed,ing, ar, beginning, middle, and end of a story 4.  Math: less than, greater than
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Homework sent home on February 3, 2009 1.  January Calendar Activities 2.  Home Reading Log 3.  Literacy: ending-es,plural-es,or and ore, Theme 4.  Math: addition to fourteen
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Valentine’s Day reminds us of friendships.  On Friday February 13th, we will gather together and share valentines.  A class list went home this week in the homework envelope.  Please include everyone when you put together the valentines.  There are a few children in our class who would benefit greatly with a little help each...
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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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January 20, 2009 1.  January Calendar of Activities 2.  Nightly Reading: Reading Log 3.  Literacy: vowel sounds of y, long vowels, compare and contrast, alphabetical order 4.  Math: money, names of each(penny,nickel,dime,quarter), and adding together coins
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Yesterday, January 20, 2009 was a historical day for our class, our country, and the world.  I was impressed with the high interest given by the children as we watched the Inaugural Events off and on all day.  The first hour was amazing, ending with the president’s oath.  The class really seemed to understand...
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