September 9, 2008

This week we will be talking about explorers in language arts. I will list the spelling words at the bottom of this post. I understand that many of the students are having a hard time finding the right time to copy them into their planners. Please check here every Monday and I will post them here as well. I am almost finished with all of the beginning of the year assessments and we are beginning to move at a little faster pace in the classroom. For the remainder of the week your children should bring home a sheet of paper with a math game to practice for homework. Please play these games with your children, they will help to reinforce basic math concepts. One last thing, please remember to send in snacks with your children. By lunch they are very hungry.

Mr. Smith

tune
page
nose
space
size
fine
mice
late
cube
blaze
home
vote

Challenge
erase
spice
confuse

September 5, 2008

We had a great week this week. Considering the heat, I feel like we've accomplished a lot. We mad it mostly through the first unit of Language arts, even though we only had a 4 day week. Next week, we will begin a new story and a new unit. We did not have a spelling test this week due to the short week. We were also getting used to working at a good pace. Next week, small group reading will take place as well as DIBELS testing and finishing baseline testing for our new language arts books. Most of the children played subtraction war today and a few played war with coin cards. They had to add the money together on the card and decide who had the highest amount of money. Have a great weekend. The only homework this weekend is to read 10 minutes each night.

Mr. Smith