Wed - Fri 8/27-8/29

We had a special guest in our classroom this week. Alex can tell you all about it :) A tarantula decided to spend Tuesday night in his mail can. SO... on Wednesday morning Alex was a little surprised when he went to turn in his homework. It was a good thing Ryanna's mom was there because she took the can out to the desert and let little Hairy go.

Item Needed!!!! - Every student needs to bring in an EMPTY tissue box for a project on September 8th.

Thank you to all the parent helpers who have been in the classroom. Your help is so appreciated. I am a better teacher because I have each one of you to help!

Morning Work: In the Write 4 Today assignments we continued working on capitalizing proper nouns, making end marks and most important using there, their and they're correctly. In the Read 4 Today we finished reading the story The Foolish Coyote. Sadly, the coyote was tricked by the blackbirds. *** What is another word for bravery? ***

Reading: We spent this week reading the story The Fruit and Vegetable Man. Students listened to the story on Tuesday and came up with questions they had about the story and its pictures. Some of those questions we were able to answer as we continued reading and others we never figured out the answers to. We also spent time evaluating what we were reading. Finally, today we discussed all the parts to the story. The students completed an assessment on the characters, setting, problem, events, and ending. *** Who were the main characters in the story? *** What happened in the end? ***

Math: We are almost to the end of chapter 1. The test will be next Friday. This week we worked with our calculators and learned how to skip out forward and backwards using a calculator. We also worked on place value and counting money. Here is a problem to try. Also this long weekend, try to use the money skills your practiced in class when you are at a store.
*** Enter 572 Change to 372 How? ***

Spelling: Students were pretested on 5 words. Their spelling list is made from any of those 5 words they missed plus words they have been misspelling in their writing. If your child still did not have 10 words after those 2 options they got to pick the rest of their words. They should have brought home a spelling test of 10 words on Thursday. The test is Wednesday.

Science: This week students finished their cactus life cycle books. They turned out so beautiful. Unfortunately our bean seeds grew mold so we are unable to plant them. However, next week we will look at what would have happened if we were able to.
*** What happens when a cactus turns 50? ***

Today was also an exciting day because we met our kinder buddies for the 1st time. We helped them make apple puppets for "a week". Mrs. Bennett's class is so much fun. We will be back to see them again in a couple of weeks. *** What is your buddies name? ***

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend everyone.

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