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: 

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

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’.”

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!

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

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.

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 ....

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.

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.”

Spelling List 18

List 18 contains two syllable words following the VCCV pattern. To spell a word with the VCCV pattern, divide the word between the two consonants.

Yellow List:

1.  invite
2. Monday
3. forget
4. order
5. mother
6. father
7. picture

Blue List:

1. invite
2. Monday
3. forget
4. napkin
5. garden
6. market
7. order
8. basket
9. mother
10. father
11. picture
12. sentence
13. distance
14. include

Green List:

1. distance
2. kitchen
3. sentence
4. include
5. danger
6. tremble
7. napkin
8. garden
9. picture
10. bargain
11. order
12. invite
13. mother
14. father

ATTENTION AWESOME AUSTIN!!

Today, January 30, 2013, Austin turns 9! Unfortunately he has been out sick all week. =[ We still had to wish you a happy birthday.....

We all hope you feel ONE MILLION times better Austin and that we get to see your awesome face tomorrow!

Spelling Bee

Congratulations to Amelia and Jacob for making it all the way to the Riverside Spelling Bee. You two did AMAZING! I am so proud of both of you. =] 

Friday's Magic Show

Mr. Kollross and Miss Jensen got to help Billy up on to his platform before they set him on fire.

Panoramic view of the school, taken by the magician

Spelling List 17

List 17 contains words that begin with be- and a-. In two-syllable words, the unstressed sound at the beginning of a word may be spelled with an a- or be-

Yellow List

1. ago
2. above
3. about
4. before
5. alive
6. across
7. behind

Blue List

1. above
2. about
3. ahead
4. ago
5. before
6. behind
7. between
8. alive
9. against
10. began 
11. across
12. afraid
13. belief
14. avoid

Green List

1. afraid 
2. belief
3. amusing
4. beneath
5. avoid
6. adapt
7. against
8. began
9. across
10. between
11. above
12. below
13. ahead
14. before

Fun Fun Fun

What a crazy week! We had no school on Monday AND a cold day on Tuesday! Even though it was such a short week, we still had a lot to do...

Amelia shouted, "We had an ice cream party for collecting the most box tops!"
Jonah yelled, "We started our quarter three AR goals!"
Makenna whispered, "Our SUMDOG competition is over."
Phing howled, "We had an orchestra/band visit yesterday."
MJ whispered, "Our AR reward for second quarter is a pizza party."
"We had a special guest on Friday." exclaimed Amelia.
"We had a Social Studies test on Wednesday." exclaimed Makenna.
Austin shouted, "WE STARTED RECORDERS IN MUSIC!!"
Jacob screamed, "IT'S SNOWING TODAY!"
Cody yelled, "We have a Magic Show assembly today."

 

We had our ice cream reward party on Friday for collecting the most box tops during first quarter. In November, we collected 652 for a total of 1,501 for the entire first quarter of the school year! That equals $1,129.80 for Riverside's PTO. Wow!

Spelling List 15

List 15 contains words with the "s" sounds (c, s, ss). The 's' sound can be spelled with the following patterns:

• s, as in someone
• ss, as in glass
• c, as in city

Yellow List-

1. special
2. nice
3. face
4. city
5. dress
6. glass
7. pencil
8. circle

Blue List-

1. nice
2. face
3. city
4. someone
5. dress
6. circle
7. pencil
8. glass
9. once
10. since
11. sentence
12. special
13. peace
14. center

Green List-

1. several
2. certain
3. special
4. center
5. cereal
6. peace
7. once
8. since
9. sentence
10. someone
11. pencil
12. circle
13. nice 

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful princess. Since her father ruled the city, she was certain that everyone adored her. "She has a very nice face!" exclaimed all of the subjects in her kingdom. She had the most fabulous sense of fashion; someone was always jealous of the way she dressed. The princess would never leave the castle without wearing her special glass slippers. She would often spin in a circle to show off her beautiful dresses (which is quite hard to do in glass footwear). Once she spun so fast, she almost tipped over! But she maintained her balance because, after all, she is the most graceful princess in all the land.

One day, several of her loyal subjects asked her for her autograph. Since she just happened to have a pencil in her pocket, she agreed. Above her signature she always wrote this sentence: You must love one another to have peace. She was such a wise and intelligent princess.

Even though she was the smartest princess of them all, her story does not have a happy ending. One morning, as she enjoyed a bowl of cereal, something tragic happened. She had stayed up late the night before reading and did not get enough sleep. The beautiful princess dozed off at the table. Her gorgeous face landed smack dab in the center of her cereal bowl (which happened to be full of milk because she always saved the milk for last.) She drowned that sunny morning in her milk.

Her subjects never quite recovered from their terrible loss. Everyone now only eats dry cereal for breakfast. Milk in cereal has been banned in order to avoid this tragedy from ever occurring again. Everyday at noon the church bell rings in honor of the beautiful princess. No one will ever be able to fill her shoes (especially because they were glass slippers custom made for her dainty feet).

This week went fast!

"We did a play!" yelled Genna
"We read 'The Crowded House." screamed Cody.
"We are learning division in Math," whispered Isaiah.
"We made Martin Luther King Jr. projects!" exclaimed Mari.
"We made 'peace' poems and doves to go with it." howled Phing.

"We started our SUMDOG challenge." exclaim
ed Amelia.
"We watched a movie about MLK Jr." cried Shane.
"We are starting Hockey in gym." yelled Austin.
"We are painting a landscape picture in Art." yelled MJ.
"We get a ice cream party next week for collecting the most box tops first quarter." yelled Aidren.
"This is the last day for our second quarter AR goals," exclaimed Reagan.
"We get to make suggestions for what our reward should be for meeting our AR goals." yelped Ella.
Bethany screeched, "We're starting recorders in Music soon!"
"The Spelling Bee is in two weeks." whispered Courtney.
"We are making hand necklaces with our Kinderbuddies." exclaimed Brett.
"We are finishing our realistic fiction stories," exclaimed Jonah.
"In science, we mixed food coloring, milk and dish soap together." exclaimed Kobe.
"In social studies, we are researching important people in American History." whispered Elijah.
"On Tuesday, we get to start working towards our 3rd quarter AR goals!" screamed Makenna.

We do not have school on Monday, January 21st. On Tuesday, January 22nd, we are having a school-wide assembly, so please wear your Riverside apparel to show your support!

Second quarter is officially over. Check out how many students reached their 2nd quarter AR goals! I am so proud of how much effort you put into this! I can't wait to see your success next quarter.

Math Competition

Dear Parent(s)-

We are having a Math competition at Riverside between all of the third grades! The competition will run from Thursday, January 17^th until Wednesday, January 23^rd. This is an online competition taking place at www.sumdog.com. I have placed a link to the login on our classroom website for easy access.

School code: riverside-elementary

Good luck and have fun!

Spelling List 14

List 14 contains words with the 'j' sound (j, g, dge). The j sound can be spelled with the following patterns:

• consonant j
• consonant g followed by e, i, or y
• with the letters dge.

Yellow List:

1. page
2. change
3. large
4. edge
5. june
6. stage
7. judge

Blue List:

1. judge
2. stage
3. gym
4. giant
5. edge
6. June
7. jeans
8. large
9. page 
10. change
11. subject
12. giraffe
13. imagine

Green List:

1. language
2. giraffe
3. orange
4. gentle
5. imagine
6. subject
7. page
8. change
9. judge
10. giant
11. June
12. large