Our story this week is fictional story Mama’s Birthday Present. We will be learning about long a spelled ai, ay . We will also learn about possessives.

We will review er and est endings. Students struggled last week remembering when to use these comparative endings. We will also review dge /j/ endings.

Our vocabulary words this week are about, would, enjoy, gives, surprise, surprised, worry.

We will be taking our first English/Language Arts (ELA) Common Assessment.

Spelling words this week are: (bold words above are bonus words)

1. afraid
2. day
3. gray
4. mail
5. may
6. play
7. rain
8. tail
9. train
10. way

In Language we will continue to work on knowing 4 types of sentences and how to write sentences correctly using correct punctuation and capitalization. We will also continue to work on parts of speech including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

In Math we will continue to work on place value and adding two two-digit numbers. We will work on how fact families help us with subtraction facts. Students have been doing well using comparative symbols, but we will continue to review them.

Please continue to work with your child on adding quizzes. Students should know them automatically. We are taking quizzes a couple of times each week and students receive a sticker when they get 100% of each quiz. Also please continue to have your child skip count by 2, 5, 10 out loud and and writing. Students should be about to start at any number less then 120 and count up to 120.

We will be taking our 5th Math Common Assessment this week.

Happy 100th Day of School!! We will be enjoying some activities that involve 100! Be sure to ask your child about it.

Our story this week is the play Where Are Our Animal Friends? We will be working on understanding comparative endings /er/, /est/. We will be learning about the dge /j/ ending also.

We will review -er, -ir, -ur and contractions ‘s, ‘ve, ‘re.

Our vocabulary words are before, good-bye, does, oh, right, won’t.

Our spelling words are: Bold words above are bonus words.

1. bigger
2. biggest
3. faster
4. fastest
5. sadder
6. saddest
7. shorter
8. shortest
9. slower
10. slowest

In Language we will continue to work on types of sentences: Telling (declarative), Asking (interrogative), Command (imperative) and Exclamation (exclamatory). We are also working on parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives). We are writing sentences that have correct capitalization and punctuation and use the parts of speech we are learning.

In math we will review place value, telling time, measuring using non-standard units, and shapes. We will continue to work on < and > symbols, fact families, adding two digit numbers. We will begin to explore subtraction more in-depth.

Our story this week is animal fantasy story Frog and Toad Together. We will be working on “ed” and “ing” endings. We will also be working on r-Controlled “ar”.

Vocabulary words are: ground, head, rain, shouted, shouting

High-frequency words are: again, soon, afraid, few, how, read

Spelling words are: Bold words above are bonus words

1. ask 6. helped

2. asked 7. jog

3. call 8. jogged

4. called 9. plan

5. help 10. planned

In math we will continue to work on using the < , > symbols. We will also work on counting to 120 by ones, tens, fives. We will review telling time to the hour and half hour.

This week we will be reading the narrative non-fiction story I’m a Caterpillar. We will be working on -er, -ir, and -ur. We will also review contractions ‘s, ‘ve, ‘re as well as -ed and -ing endings.

Vocabulary words this week are caterpillar, chrysalis, crawl, pupa, shiver.

High-frequency words are: done, visit, know, push, wait.

Spelling words this week are: Bold words above are bonus words

1. bird 6. burn
2. first 7. fur
3. girl 8. shirt
4. sir 9. were
5. her 10. hurt

In math we will continue working on < and > symbols, adding two-digit numbers, telling time and graphing. We will take the Discovery Ed. Math test this week.

Welcome back!

This week our story will be the realistic fiction story Jan's New Home. We will be working on the "es" ending, plural es, r-controlled or, ore.

Vocabulary words for the week are: move, toys, window.

High-frequency words are: away, car, friends, house, our, school, very.  

Spelling words are:  Bold words above are bonus words.

1. bus                              6. fixes

2. buses                           7. kiss

3. class                            8. kisses

4. classes                         9. wish

5. fix                               10. wishes

In Math we will continue to tell time to the hour and half-hour on a face clock as well as a digital clock.
We will also continue to count to 120 starting at any number.

We will begin using the <, > symbols to compare numbers.

Please remember that our Christmas party will be on Thursday, December 15 from 1:45 until the end of the day. We will be having a book exchange. Please have your child bring in a wrapped book costing $3.00-$5.00 he/she would enjoy reading to exchange with a classmate. You may mark the card “To a Boy” or “To a Girl”. Please have these in by Wednesday, December 14.

We do have a parent sending in juice boxes and two parents sending in treats. If you would like to send in goodies, that would be great.

Because we are winding down the semester and finishing up assessments, we will not be having homework this week. However, please have your child continue to read as much as possible over the holiday so that skills will not be lost.

Thank you for all your help and support this semester.

Have a safe and happy holiday!

Merry Christmas

This week we will read the realistic fiction story An Egg is an Egg. We will learn about the vowel sounds of y and long vowels spelled CV. We will review long vowel sounds spelled VCe and will continue to review digraphs, contractions and hard and soft c and g sounds.

Vocabulary words include boy, grew, night, sunset, tower. High-frequency words not tested are: become(s), day, everything, nothing, stays

In math we will continue to work on addition using the term number bonding. We will work on telling time to the hour and half hour, counting to 120, adding within 100 including adding a two-digit number to a single digit number and review place value.

Our spelling words for this week are:

1. any

2. body

3. by

4. cry

5, fly

6. lucky

7. my

8. puppy

9. silly

10. try 

Remember Literacy Night is this Thursday. Hope you make plans to attend.

There is no school on Monday, December 5. This is a scheduled teacher work day.

This week we will be reading the expository non-fiction story Honey Bees. We will work on the long e sound spelled e and ee. We will review long vowel sounds spelled VCe as well as digraphs wh, ch, tch. We will also review hard and soft c and g sounds and also contractions.

Vocabulary words include: cold, flower, honey, nectar, worker, family, also, knew, other, some, their.

In math we will begin a new program called Math in Focus. This is in the Singapore Math approach. We will talk about number bonding (adding numbers) and will work on counting on from a given number and using the commutative property (addends can change places, but sum will be the same) of addition to help us learn our facts.

Our spelling words this week are:

1. be

2. feet

3. green

4. he

5. me

6. see

7. she

8. tree

9. we

10. week

High-frequency words

11. family

12. some

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Enjoy your turkey diner!

Please remember that midterms will come home on Wednesday, November 16.

There are just 22 more school days until Christmas Break! We have lots to do between now and then. Please continue to work with your child at home.

Our reading story this week is Life in the Forest This is a non-fiction/science story. We will be working on the long e and long u sound spelled CVCe. We will also learn about the ending ed.

We will review digraphs wh, ch, tch. We will also review hard and soft c and g sounds. 

Contractions were hard for us last week so we will continue to work on those including n’t, ‘m, and ‘ll

In math we will continue to work on place value up to hundreds place. We will also work on telling time to the hour and half hour. We will add within 100, including adding two-digit numbers. We will also use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems.

Our spelling list this week has long u words.

1. cube

2. cute

3. flute

4. huge

5. June

6. mule

7. rude

8. rule

9. tube

10. use

High-Frequency Words

11. under

12. water