Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Fabulous Fable Reader's Theater

We have spent the last few weeks learning about fables. After reading lots of examples and writing our own fable stories, we acted some out in our Reader's Theater!

Here are the groups designing their background: 


Monday, February 25, 2013

Spelling List 21

Prefixes are added to the beginning of a base word. It adds meaning to the base word.
· dis-, meaning “not”
· pre-, meaning “before”
· non-, meaning “not”
· over-, meaning “above or beyond”

Yellow List:
  1. nonstop
  2. disagree
  3. preheat
  4. nonslip
  5. overbake
  6. done
  7. live
  8. head

Blue List:
  1. nonstop
  2. preheat
  3. prewash
  4. nonslip
  5. disagree
  6. disown
  7. overbake
  8. overdo
  9. head
  10. done
  11. live
  12. nonfiction
  13. disobey
  14. oversized
Green List:
  1. nonfiction
  2. disobey
  3. disbelief
  4. premeasure
  5. prearrange
  6. oversized
  7. disagree
  8. overdo
  9. done

Friday, February 22, 2013

It was a coooooool week!

Jonah screamed,”We played mat ball in gym and I won a candy bar!”
                                 
Kobe exclaimed, “I finally started my second quiz in AR.”
Reagan yelled, “I broke the record in Mat Ball by running two times in a row, nonstop.”
Genna yelled, “We had a hard lock down drill.”
MJ  whispered, “We are working on a new art project in Art class.”
Mari exclaimed, “We had our spelling test!”
Cody screamed, “Our Kinderbuddies came to our room this week.”
Jacob announced, “I shared at presentations today. I shared my awards.”
“We got to play with a parachute in gym on Tuesday!” exclaimed Amelia. “We  had a room search with our Kinderbuddies for their site words.”
Bethany announced, “We are doing a book report on VoiceThread.”
Shane yelled, “We did our fable plays.”

Courtney exclaimed, “We played a card game in math and it helped us with our multiplication facts!”

Austin yelled, “We get to vote on the next read aloud book!”

Isaiah announced, “We played mat ball in gym.”

Phing roared, “I earned my orange belt in Recorder Karate.”

Makenna whispered, “We are almost finished reading ‘Humphrey’.”

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Friday update!

Jonah screamed, “We got our suckers from the sucker sale!”
Ella screeched, “we are making hearts on a string in art.”
Reagan cheered, “we’re learning parentheses in math!”

Genna yelled, “we watch a valentine movie.”

Cody yelled, “we had gym today!”

Amelia exclaimed, “we had Jacob’s birthday.”

Courtney cried, “we had our spelling test today!”

Austin said, “we did gymnastics in gym.”
Phing shouted, “We had valentine day party this week.”
Makenna exclaimed, “we had our timed math test.’’




March dates to remember-
March 1st: No school
March 8th: Science Fair
March 25-29th: No school, Spring Break!

Friday, February 15, 2013

Spelling List 20

List 20 contains words that end with -er or -le. In words with more than one syllable,
                • The final /r/ sound is often spelled-er
                •The final /l/ is often spelled -le

Yellow List
  1. little
  2. summer
  3. chapter
  4. example
  5. paper
  6. later
  7. able
  8. November
Blue List
  1. little
  2. summer
  3. later
  4. purple
  5. ever
  6. chapter
  7. able
  8. November
  9. example
  10. paper
  11. country
  12. color
  13. travel
  14. mumble

Green List
  1. icicle
  2. thermometer
  3. barrel
  4. mumble
  5. travel
  6. color
  7. chapter
  8. November
  9. country
  10. example

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

January Awards

Today was the 100th day of school! The whole school participated in 'Pajama Day' to celebrate!
 
Wow, 15 out of 20 students met their reading goal for last month! I'm so proud of you!


 Reagan*, Amelia*, Courtney, Phing* and Makenna* all received awards for having NO late work during the month of January.


 Ella, Aidren, Reagan*, Genna, MJ, Jacob, Shane, Courtney*, Phing*, Elijah, and Makenna* all received Above The Line awards for NO warnings during the month of January. 
And our students of the month were Phing and Courtney!!!! Congratulations! Keep up the good work.



Monday, February 11, 2013

How to properly use an IPAD

Hey guys! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I got to hang out with this cool kid. I thought you would like to know how to properly use an IPAD. Aaron showed me how to use one ....

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Spelling List 19

 List 19 contains words with the VCCV (vowel-constant-consanant-vowel) patterns with double consonants.

Yellow List:
  1. middle
  2. lesson
  3. pretty
  4. letter
  5. dollar
  6. button
  7. butter
Blue List:
  1. middle 
  2. lesson
  3. pretty
  4. matter
  5. butter
  6. dollar
  7. rabbit
  8. button
  9. different
  10. letter
  11. possible
  12. opposite
  13. dessert
Green List:
  1. shallow
  2. opposite
  3. valley
  4. possible
  5. dessert
  6. million
  7. different
  8. letter 
  9. pretty
  10. dollar
  11. middle
  12. matter

The week is ALREADY over?!?

This week we did our second and final round of the SRI testing. Parent-Teacher conferences continue for the rest of the week!

 
Jonah yelled,”We get Friday off!”         
Ella screeched, ”Austin’s finally better and back!!!”                                           
Aidren said, “We made maps in art.”
Reagan shouted, “Wednesday was digital learning day.”
Genna yelled, “We did a new thing in art.”
MJ yelled, ”We get Friday off!”
Mari giggled, ”We had a spelling test.”
Cody YELLED, “WE HAVE A 3 DAY WEEKEND!”
Jacob announced, ’’We’re learning new songs and new keys in music for recorders’’.
Amelia screamed, ”We had a ‘one day art’!”
Bethany wailed, “we are making bags for our valentine party!”
Shane announced, “My birthday was on Monday!”
Courtney shouted,’’We did a two tests in reading!”
Austin yelled, “It was a short week for me.”
Phing yelled, “We have a sucker sale for Valentine’s Day.”
Elijah exclaimed, “We made a scavenger map in art.”
Makenna screamed, ”We had a math test on Wednesday.’’
“We are making camping art in art,’’ yelled Brett.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Finally February!

We hauled in the Macbook Airs and tried out Googledocs today. This meant that EVERYONE was typing on the same document at once! We did it to share what we did this week....

Jonah yelled,”We had conferences!!!”
Ella whined, “We finished our art projects!”                                            
Kobe yelped, “We made paper heart owls today!”
Aidren said, “We made owls.”
Reagan exclaimed, “I came back this week from being sick YAY!”
Brett squealed, “We are making farms art in art class. yipee! We made owls in kinder buddies today!!”
Genna yelled, “We had a pizza party for AR. It was good.”
Mj whispered, “We are staring gymnastics.”
Mari whispered, “We worked on macbooks airs!”
Jacob squeaked,”We are starting gymnastics in gym!”
Amelia screamed, “It was Austin’s birthday!”
Bethany whispered, “We had our timed math test!”
Shane yelled, “The day before this was Awesome Austin birthday, yay!”
Courtney exclaimed, “We are learning a lot of new things in music class!”  
Phing yelled, “WE GOT PIZZA!”
Elijah whispered, “We finished our landscape project.”
Makenna exclaimed, “Brett brought in shells.”