No Spelling Tests this Week!

First and Second Grades will not have a spelling test this week. In Math Firsts are working with geometry, but keep working with them with time. Seconds are doing 3 digit subtraction and addition! 

We have 7 more weeks until our Firsts are Seconds, and until our Seconds are Thirds! WoW! Time flies when you are having fun!

Spring Break!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful break! I will have the blog updated by Sunday so that you can see what your scholar will be learning this week. Remember to click on the tabs above for Spelling lists. 

Be Well!

March 23rd-26th

Greetings from our classroom! Spring has arrived and First Grade has composed a poem to celebrate. They will also be crafting a nest with chicks to complement their poems. 

We will be finishing up our reading lessons and starting a new one mid -week. Both classes will be re-exploring the Biography genre. If you have any biographies at home please share them with your young scholar pointing out that they tell a person's life story usually from birth to their death focusing on their main contributions to mankind. 

In Math both grades will be testing next week and beginning a new Unit. 

First Grade will be learning about geometry and measurement while our Second Graders will be focusing on 3-digit addition and subtraction! 

Please note that I have added buttons below the header (above) that will take you to your child's Spelling Word Lists. 


Happy Dr. Seuss Month!

March 9th-March 12th

Greetings to you all! This week we will be finishing up our Reading lessons and taking the lesson tests. 1st Grad will begin a new lesson, genre informational text, about where food comes from. I challenge you to have discussions with you children where their food does come from. 2nd Graders will be diving into the Realistic Fiction genre and learning to Never Give Up!

Reading

1st Grade

Genre: Informational Text
Spelling Words                      High Frequency Words
play       rain                                  first           under
grain      way                                 food          these
sail         day                                  ground      your
mail       stay                                  right
may       pain                                  sometimes          

2nd Grade

Genre: Realistic Fiction
Spelling Words               Vocabulary Words             High Frequency Words
night        right                   practice     extra                     any             room
kind         high                    hurried      curb                      blue            studied
spy           wild                    position    cheered                 carry           sure
child         July                    roared       final                      doing          teacher
light          fry                                                                    else             turned
find           sigh

Math

1st Grade is working on data and comparison charts. 

2nd Grade will begin Lesson 2 in their new Unit regarding time! Help your scholar understand the concept of time by frequently asking him or her what time it is when they are doing something like eating breakfast or brushing their teeth. 

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Science

We are up and running with science on Monday. We will be exploring solutions and mixtures. Chemistry here we come!

Week of February 23rd

Hi All! 

This week we are starting new Reading Lessons and finishing up Math Lessons. Please review the Reading Home Letter with your child for more information and activities that you can do to help enhance their learning.

1st Grade_____________________________________________________________________

Reading

Genre: Fantasy

Story: The Big Trip

Essential Question: What are some different ways to travel?

Author: Valeri Gorbachev

Spelling Words                                     High Frequency Words

1.      me                                                          about
2.      be                                                           by
3.      read                                                        car
4.      feet                                                         could
5.      tree                                                         don't 
6.      keep                                                       maybe
7.      eat                                                          sure 
8.      mean                                                     there
9.      sea
10.      these

 First Graders have four more words added to their spelling list this week. They will also be focusing on compound sentences and reading with fluency regarding punctuation. 

 

Math Test Tuesday!

2nd Grade___________________________________________________________________

Reading
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Story: Mr Tanen's Tie Trouble
Essential Question: How can helping others make you feel good?
Author: Maryanne Cocca-Leffler

Spelling List                   HFW                 Vocabulary

1. running                  also                   received
2. clapped                  fly                      account
3. stopped                  gone                   budget
4. hopping                 have                   disappointed
5. batted                    horse                  chuckled
6. selling                   look                    staring
7. pinned                   river                   repeated
8. cutting                   said                    fund
9. sitting                    saw
10. rubbed                   something
11. missed 
12. grabbed

 

Projected Math Test Monday!

Post- Valentine's Day Weekend Week of School

Hi all. I do apologize for not posting last week. Life just got away from me. But I am back and happy to post the goings on in our classroom.

We will take a Reading test this Wednesday and finish up the week with awesome writing projects.
It looks like math tests will occur next week for both grades! We are cruising along.
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1st Grade
Genre: Fantasy
Spelling List
long a words

1. same
2. name
3. gate
4. mate
5. save
6. shave

High Frequency Word List

1. four
2. five
3. over
4. two
5. starts
6. watch
7. into
8. three


2nd Grade
Genre:  Biography

Spelling list        

1. globe
2. oak
3. coast
4. joke
5. below
6. ago
7. moat
8. nose
9. soak
10. cone
11. stove
12. slow

Vocabulary List

1. knowledge
2. curious
3. motion
4. silence
5. illness
6. imitated
7. darkness
8. behavior

Math_____________________________________________________________________________

1st

 We are working on Lessons 5-6 through 5-10 this week. Our focus is on making a ten to help our addition when dealing with adding three or more numbers. We are still working with decade numbers (10, 20, 30, etc.) and adding either ones or tens to those numbers. 

They took a quiz today and it was awesome! Way to go scholars!

2nd Grade

Seconds are working on Lessons 4-16-4-19 this week. They will have homework every night corresponding to the lesson number (i.e. 4-16, 4-17, etc.). 

The math focus is on word problems with unknown addends (50 + ____=123).

Coming up next week two step problems of fun! 

Most of our second graders need to be reminded to read the question thoroughly and understand what is being asked of them in these two step problems.  They just want to use the numbers give to solve the problem, but they must solve a part of the problem in order to solve the main question. 

For example:

Margie has 17 cars. Logan has 9 more cars than Margie. Bonnie has 12 fewer cars than Logan. How many cars does Bonnie have?

1st: Find out how many cars Logan has; 17+9=26 cars

2nd: Then use this info to find out how many cars Bonnie has: 26-12= 14 cars

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Social Studies

We are diving into exploration and trade during the 1400's! The world is getting bigger and bigger! 

We will finish up this chapter in a week and a half and take the big test! Check back for more info to help your student regarding this topic. 

First Week of February!

Hello Scholars and Families! February is upon us and we will celebrate with some fun Groundhog Day activities on Monday. If only we could watch Groundhog Day staring Bill Murray all day long....

We will also be finishing up our Reading Lessons; 1st grade At Home in the Ocean and 2nd Grade Click Clack Moo this week.

1st Grade
We will be transforming our room into an underwater sea adventure of awesomeness! 

Spelling Words
Diagraph th

1. thumb
2. fifth
3. birth
4. three
5. bathtub
6. threw

High Frequency Words:

• blue
• little
• water
• cold
• live
• where
• far
• their

Grammar
Proper Nouns

2nd Grade

Will be doing a fun writing activity and making the Duck to place it upon. 

Spelling 
same list as last week due to test not being given due to math needs.

Spelling List:

Base Words and Endings -s, -es

1. hens
2. eggs
3. ducks
4. bikes
5. boxes
6. wishes
7. dresses
8. names
9. bells
10. stamps
11. dishes 
12. grapes

High Frequency Words:

another       kind

far               light

grow           more

hard            some

heard          to

Vocabulary:

understand      believe

gathered          problem

impatient         demand

impossible       furious

Grammar:

Compound Sentences

Spelling tests will be given on Thursday as usual.

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In Math 1st Grade is starting a new unit involving decade numbers (10, 20, 30...) and hundreds. 2nd Grade is still plugging along adding and subtracting with hundreds.

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Science 

We will be finishing up our unit on sound with an amazing project https://videoscope.qrilab.com. 

Videos to follow. 

Social Studies will resume next Monday.