This week we are spelling words that end in le. Don’t forget the spelling words are always listed in the pages on the left hand side of this page. Just click on Spelling words.

Valentine letters will be going home today. We will be having a cookie decorating party. So cookies and anything you can think to decorate them will be appreciated. Also they are to make their own valentine’s boxes at home and bring in on Tuesday. We will have a contest to see whose is the most creative.

We are working on Poems over the next two weeks. We are reading, writing and sharing our poems. I plan on putting some of the students’ poems on the blog, so check back frequently.

Ode to Chocolate
by Payton

Swirly
and
round

Smells like
chocolate

Feels so
smooth and cold,

It reminds me
of a birthday
all over again.

What I really like
about this food
is how cold it is.

It makes me
smile
like I am
getting anything I want!

What am I?
by Bradyn

I have red & white stripes
People use me
in a sport.

I get cracked
with a bat.
I am
a round sphere.

I am caught
with a glove.
I fly through the air
like a bird.

Ode to Chocolate Chips & Milk
by Patrick

My food looks
like a baby
with a curl
on top.

So creamy
with a little milk.

It smells
so sweet
you might even faint.

It reminds me
of the day
my sister was born
because that was
the way she looked.

I really like
this food because
it is so rich
and flavorful.

We created Snowmen using marshmallows as paintbrushes to create a different textured effect. Then we got to eat the marshmallows not used. YUM! We also wrote stories to go with our snowmen. Everyones first sentence goes something like this: If I were a snowman at night I would ……….  the students then had to finish the sentence and paragraph explaining what they would do. Another point of view activity. I’ve included a few pictures of our snowmen. To see all our snowmen and read our stories, come by the classroom. They are all hanging on our lockers.

Drew's snowboy

Payton's Snowgirl

Denise's Snowgirl

Ryley's snowman

Laurel's snowgirl

Over the next 2 weeks we will be studying poetry. Enjoy of my favorites.

“Sick” By Shel Silverstein

We have just finished reading Two Bad Ants, which is a story told from the point of view of the ant. The kids were asked to write their ow stories about the classroom from the point of view of an ant. Check out just a few of their awesome stories.

The Bad Ants
By Dylan

The scout led us to get crystals for the Ant Queen. We stopped and got away from the scout while he was not looking. They saw a big and new world outside. We found a bunch of beautiful food for the Queen but we didn’t take this wonderful food to the Ant Queen. “Let’s keep it for ourselves and live here forever and never go home. We have all the food we need. I’m staying here. If you don’t want to, go home to that greedy Queen.”

“I’m very lonely,” I said. “Wait, you were right. We should take the food to the queen.”

So we got the food and crystals for the queen and found the scout and followed him. We all got home safely. Then we gave our food and crystals to the queen. Best of all she shared her food and crystals with us, since we were the ones who got her the food.

The Ant in a Classroom
By Laurel

The classroom was so big and giant. I walked under giant skyscrapers, blinding bright lights and through many narrow holes. I was sitting in a desk when a giant hand reached out and grabbed the thing I was sitting on. They carried it to where it seemed to be a giant yellow figure. It sat down and opened whatever I was sitting on and I fell to the ground. Suddenly I found what seemed to be a box. Suddenly a white thing came towards me. I found what seemed to be a little narrow hole. Then a long yellow thing with a long point came towards me. Then it started to turn. Metal blades started turning. It felt like I was going to be cut in half, but it stopped in a second. I came out quickly. I got out of the hole. I finally found food for the queen. I got a big piece of food. Then a giant pointy thing came towards me. Quickly I got the food and ran off of it. While I was walking a giant finger came towards me. Then I climbed on what seemed to be a soft big bed. I sat down to rest but as soon as I lay down a giant hand came towards me and picked the soft bed up and threw me against a big white board. I thought I was going to be smashed but it finally stopped. I climbed into a corner and fell asleep. My ant friend came and carried me back to the ant hole. I woke up and crawled to the queen and said, “Here you go! I am never going back there again.” I was smashed, sharpened, flattened and poked!

The Magic Portal
By Hailey

I invented a magic transporter, and things went terribly wrong. When I walked into this magical world there were so many obstacles. I could see the portal on the other side of the room but the challenge was I had to get there. First, I had to dodge giant feet. Once I got past that, there were bigger things I had to worry about. It started raining giant orange sticks!! I climbed up a wall, there there….. was a giant white slippery surface. On the surface a big black monster was chasing me! I jumped up to the ceiling and saw blue things that I could climb that led right to the portal. I hopped in the portal and I was back at the ant colony. I was so lucky I survived.

Classroom Wonderland
By Tayvone

“Hi” I’m Tayvone the ant and I just found a a portal. I wonder what will happen if I walk though it? Wow! Where am I? I’ll guess I will go in and find out. Cool a mountain, I can’t even see it’s peak. Let’s see here there’s a…a…a bolder! Aah run! It’s Mrs. Partin, the giant. Run!
Wow! A tube what’s that a giant F-R-O-G! I got to get out of here. A canyon but I can’t see the top to know for sure. Oh well, I’ll just have to climb it. The wind it’s too strong! Wow! What’s that? The sun seems so bright. Oh the light it burns ouch, ouch, ouch, hot, hot! I need water. Oh good, there’s a lake! Oh! I can’t take it I’m out of here for good! So long classrooom!

Please continue to work on measurement with your child. We have discussed measuring length with inches. Next week we will discuss volume & weight. 

Two Bad Ants

The story we are reading for the next two week is Two Bad Ants.

Accustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. Further mishaps include a heated stay in the toaster, a hazardous swirl in the garbage disposal and a zap in an electrical outlet. When the ant troops return, the two bad ants gladly rejoin their friends and head for the safety of home.

Measurement

We are working on measuring to the nearest  fourth of an inch. Many of the students are having difficulty with this so we will be sending a great deal of time on it. Any help you can give them at home will go a long way in them learning it faster.

Thanks & have a great week.

DON"T FORGET NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, JANUARY 16.

I hope everyone had a great break and a restful one. I know I sure did.

This week we will be reading about the hottest, coldest, highest & deepest places on Earth. We will be comparing them to where we live. 

We will also be reviewing in Math. Please don't stop practicing those math facts, even though they have other homework. This week we will be multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. Ex. 62 X 3  Homework in math has also changed a bit. They will be given a math paper on Monday that needs to be completed by Friday that reviews 10 skills that we have covered this year. If we haven't covered it I will give them the answer on Monday. 

Everyone will have the same Spelling list now. They will receive a packet on Monday which will then be due on Friday also. We will usually do the 1st page together to show how the words are sorted and what they have in common. 

If you have any questions about the homework feel free to contact me. 

Boy did we have a creative day. We got our hands messy this morning making Christmas ornaments out of cinnamon and apple sauce. We will decorate them later in the week when they dry. We also did a sequencing activity with the recipe before getting to create the ornaments. This afternoon we used marshmallows & toothpicks to make 3-Dimensional shapes. We will use this information later in the week to write an informative piece. What a fun day!