Monday, February 10, 2014

Valentine's Cards

This is going to be great day for our students! Students are allowed to exchange Valentine's cards with each other. We have 27 great students in our classroom. I will send the list of names tomorrow.
 
 
With the homework tonight, I sent home two reading and one long worksheet.  I forgot to send the sight words home so you can keep the reading logs at home and turn them in on Friday or send them back daily. They will stay with them the whole week either way.
 
We have two students that have improved on the reading test --one student jumped up 15 words in two weeks and  the other jumped 8 words.
Way to go!!!! 


Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Reading is something that can never be taken!


Reading is something that can never be taken!

This is a true statement. Reading can never be taken from you. EVER. You can lose your house, become homeless, go broke, but reading is a skill you will have for the rest of your life. A parent told me this during parent teacher conferences and also this parent is getting her masters degree from the same college I received my Masters in Education.
This is a good book-- hope you can get a chance to read it. The child does a great job reading it, the dad does a great job with him, helping only when it was the right time to do so.




Sunday, February 2, 2014

Monday after the Super Bowl................



        I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a chamion".- Muhammad Ali



Goals for the week:
1. 100 % of homework back.
2. 100 % of students on time each day.
3. 100 % of students reading each night at home.

7:55- Morning meeting.
8:00- Orally Conversation
8:10-Small group-reading centers.
8:40-Objectives review and songs for the day.
8:50-line up
8:55-Music
9:40- Phonics.
10:10-ELA -reading.
10:40-Grammar
11:00-Writing.
11:35- Lunch time.
12:20- Math
1:30- Centers
2:10-Social Studies
2:30-Clean up
2:40-Re-read our reading and pass out homework
2:45-clean up.
2:55-Line up-See you tomorrow

Proper Nouns- In-Out-Burger-Best Buy-Last Chance- Oakland A's- Mr. Curley- Ms. Maggie.


Our focus will be on Proper Nouns. 








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Then we will be developing sentences with our Proper nouns.

Phonics for this week.- Short Ee Vowel Review-Plus "Wh" with short "E" emphasis



The focus for phonics will be short "E" and "Wh" with a emphasis on short "E".

Wh words with "Short E"




wheat


wheel 




wheelbarrow

where

when
Short "E" middle vowel 
Words that Start with the "Short E" Sound

Edmontosaurus

Edmontosaurus

Edmontosaurus was a duck-billed dinosaur.


egg

Many animals hatch from eggs. Dinosaurs hatched from eggs.


egg carton

An egg carton holds eggs and keep them from breaking.


eggplant

An eggplant is a purple vegetable.


elbow

The elbow is the joint in the middle of your arm.


elephant

The elephant is a big, gray animal with a trunk.


elephant seal

The elephant seal is a huge seal that lives in the Pacific Ocean.


elevator

An elevator carries people and things up and down a tall building.


elk

Elk have beautiful antlers.


elm

The elm is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree.


embryo

An embryo is a very young, unborn organism.


emerald

An emerald is a hard, shiny, deep green jewel.


emerald tree boa

The emerald tree boa is a tree-dwelling nocturnal snake from South American rain forests.


emperor

An emperor is an unelected ruler of a country.

emperor angelfish

The emperor angelfish is a brightly-colored, flattened fish that lives in shallow warm waters.


emperor penguin

The emperor penguin is the largest penguin; it lives on ice packs in Antarctica.


empty

When something is empty, it has nothing in it. The jug above is empty.


energy

Everything needs energy to work or act. Some types of energy include electrical energy, mechanical energy, and potential energy.


engine

The engine of a train pulls the railroad cars along the track.


entrance

You can go into an area through an entrance.


envelope

An envelope holds a letter.


estuary

An estuary is where a river meets the sea or ocean.


evergreen

An evergreen plant doesn't lose its leaves in the winter.


every

Every child has a balloon.


exam

An exam is a test.
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exclamation point

An exclamation point is a punctuation mark that is used to show strong feeling!


exercise

Exercise is very good for you.


exit

You can leave an area through an exit.


experiment

People do experiments to learn about the physical world or to test theories.


explorer

An explorer explores unknown places and discovers new things. For example, Magellan was an explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth.


extinct

When a group of animals or plants goes extinct, they are gone forever. Some extinct animals include dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and dodo birds.

Work sheets for Phonics.
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