January 26-30

Hello. 

What a great week we have had. We have been busy learning about the life cycle of the butterfly and sketching our caterpillars everyday. We love to see how much they have grown in such a short time. Isn't mother nature amazing! Have a Wonderful week!

Important Information:

Each child should have a book or printed information from the internet about their animal for their animal report. If they do not have it please have them do it tonight! :) 

Parent Teacher Conferences are February 4. I will be sending out a sign up via Volunteer Spot. We can also phone conference if you are unable to make it in. (Here is the link to sign up) 

We're using VolunteerSpot (the leading online signup and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming signups.

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see our Sign-Up on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/5Dotcn

2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on VolunteerSpot.

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

Please check IC for grades so there are no surprises. Some subjects have only a few grades and will be changing as the quarter progresses. Please just keep in mind there are only about two weeks of grades in there. So if your student is missing one assignment it will greatly affect the grade. 

If you have a teacher request for next year it must be submitted to the office. Each teacher is given 10-14 spots for requests only. So if you have a preference I would make your request soon. 

Mis-Match Day is Wednesday. Students must wear their uniforms as usual but may mismatch socks, shoes and hair accessories. 

Spelling Words: 

1. tomorrow
2. consider
3. against
4. again
5. complete
6. search 
7. treasure
8. popular
9. Christmas
10. Christ
11. interest
12. advice
13. advise
14. American 
15. America
16. bargain
17. beneath
18. beyond
19. broken
20. broke
21. break
22. cocoa
23. collar
24. comparison
25. compare
26. controlled
27. control
28. debts
29. disaster
30. eager

January 19-23

Isn't that the truth?!?!??

Hello Wonderful Families,

We have live butterflies! We will be learning about life cycles in conjunction with our Science unit. The class is very excited. 

Our new WIG goal for this quarter is 100% mastery on math facts. I can see that many of the kids need to really work on their facts. Please practice them at home. They will be quizzed periodically through the week. 

Congratulations to Rustin who was a finalist in the School Spelling Bee and will be competing in the District Spelling Bee this week. We are all cheering for you! 

Each student has been assigned a desert animal for our next writing project. The class will be writing a report on an desert animal. Most of the work will be done in class. They may need to do a few finishing touches at home but the bulk will be completed here. I need each child to have a book or two about their animal so they can complete the research for the project. Each child needs their books by Friday. I will print one source from the Internet for each of them to use and they will have some access to the class computer. (Thank you!!!) 

Important Dates:

Monday 1/19- Martin Luther King Day*** No School***

Thursday 1/22- District Spelling Bee

Friday 1/23- Book Due for desert animal report

The kids are learning and growing. I love each and every one of them. 

Have a lovely week, 

Ms. T

Spelling Words: (Short List due to Monday off)

1. provision
2. provide
3. according
4. already
5. attention
6. education
7. director
8. direct
9. purpose
10. common
11. diamond
12. together
13. convention
14. increase
15. manner
16. feature
17. article
18. service
19. serve
20. injury
21. injure

January 12-16

Hello!

Congratulations to Rustin for winning the class spelling bee and Lucas for being our runner up! We had a lot of fun learning new words last week. We are enjoying science, learning about animal adaptations. One of my favorite stories in our Jr. Great Books series is Beauty and the Beast. It is so fun to read the original version and compare it to the Disney version we all know and love. We are focusing on Math facts and the children are being quizzed on 7's and 8's. There are a lot of fun apps to quiz math facts on! It is a great thing to pass the time in the car. I make my kids do it all the time! I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Love,

Ms. T

Important:

Wednesday, Jan 14- Half Day
Thursday, Jan 15-School Spelling Bee details TBA
Monday, January 19- MLK Day No School

The students are expected to read for 20 minutes every day. There will be Math homework as usual unless they finish it in class. We have a regular spelling list this week.

Spelling:

1. combination
2. combine
3. avenue
4. neighbor
5. weight
6. weigh
7. wear
8. entertain
9. salary
10. visitor
11. visit
12. publication
13. machine
14. toward
15. success
16. drown
17. adopt
18. secure
19. honor
20. promise
21. wreck
22. prepare
23. vessel
24. busy
25. preference
26. prefer
27. illustration
28. illustrate
29. different
30. differ

Happy New Year January 5-9

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful break! I missed my darling class and am happy to be back in a regular routine. This week we will be doing a lot of review. We will be getting back into the swing of things. There is not the usual spelling homework this week. There is still spelling however. We will be focusing on the Spelling Bee list. Our class Spelling Bee will be held Thursday and the winner will go on to the school Spelling Bee. I will have the class defining words this week and focusing on vocabulary skills. There will be math and reading homework as usual.

Report Cards will be sent home this week. I require the class to have them reviewed by a parent, signed and sent back the next day. A note in the agenda that you have seen the report card is also sufficient.


Thank you!

Have a wonderful week!

Ms. T