May 15 - 19

We have had a great time on our last two field trips!  This week we do not have any so we will have a pretty normal week. :)

Reading - phonemic awareness, summarize, cause and effect, fluency, phrasing

Vocabulary - construct, material, collapse, company, entire, toppled, wreck, welcoming

Spelling - See week 30 (It's our last test!!)
Bonus:  construct

Writing - reviewing informative, narrative, opinion

Math - Finishing Addition and Subtraction of Two Digit Numbers



****There will be no more reading bag homework.  We are going to get books in and take an inventory of what we are missing.  If you have any books at home that were sent home as homework, please return them.  We will still have reading groups but just not bring the books home.

****The students have "graduated" from Making Words Homework!  They completed all of the lessons.


Monday - Music, Library
Tuesday - P.E.
Wednesday - Art
Thursday - Music, Guidance
Friday - P.E., Library, Spelling Test

Star Student - Alyssa Licht










Thanks and have a great week!

May 8-12

This week will be a busy, busy week!!!  Just a couple of housekeeping items before we reach the end of the year....

1.  Please check book bags and clean out any papers, etc.

2.  Have your child check around the house for books that belong to me that they may have left at home from their reading bag.  I have quite a few missing.

On Tuesday afternoon, we will be going to Swan Lake for a field trip.

On Friday afternoon, we will be going to Toyne's in Breda for another field trip.

We have talked about what it looks like to go on a field trip.  We will represent ourselves as Carroll Tigers and be Respectful, Responsible and Safe.  Please remind your child to be a great listener because they will learn a lot of very cool things.! :)

The students have officially graduated from Making Words Homework!!!  I am sure they will be thrilled with that news!  So there will be no Making Words Homework anymore!  It will be hit and miss for reading bag homework next week because of the early out and field trips.

Reading - summarize, compare and contrast, phonemic awareness, fluency, classify/categorize

Vocabulary - newborn, mature, process, remain, slender

Spelling - Week 29
Bonus:  newborn

Math - Review and finishing up double digit addition and subtraction

Science - plants

Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - Art, Swan Lake Field Trip
Wednesday - Music, Guidance, Early Out
Thursday - P.E.
Friday - Art, Spelling Test, Toyne's Field Trip

Star Student WesLee Onken!










Have a great week!

May 1 - 5

This is a partial update. :)  I forgot my reading manual this weekend to do the reading portion.  I'll update that tomorrow.  Please see last week's post about field trip days and times.

Your child's report from the Iowa Assessments will be coming home this week as well as their FAST Benchmarking scores.  The kids worked SO HARD and I am VERY proud of them!  We will keep working hard for the rest of the year!

Reading - fluency, comprehension, pronouns, classify and categorize, commas, phonemic awareness

Spelling - Week 28
Bonus: equipment

Vocabulary - profession, equipment, duty, satisfaction, thorough, interesting, ordinary

Writing - review opinion, informative, narrative

Math - two digit addition and subtraction

Monday - Art
Tuesday - Music, Guidance, Making Words Homework
Wednesday - P.E.
Thursday - Art, Making Words Homework
Friday - Music, Library

Star Student - Willis Overmohle












Thanks and have a great week!

Week of April 24-28

I hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break!  The countdown has begun and we are hoping for nice weather from here on out!  In May, we will be taking quite a few field trips.  Here are the dates for those:

Tuesday, May 9th - Swan Lake - We leave at 12:30 and return at 2:30.  Matt will be taking us on a hike and teaching us about different animals that live in the park.

Friday, May 12th - Toyne's in Breda - We will leave at 12:45 and return at 2:25.  We will tour the factory and see how fire trucks are made.

Tuesday, May 23rd - Quandt's and the Recycling Center - We leave at 8:45 and return at 10:15.  We will take a bus ride through Quandt's and watch the different machines and learn about how they recycle different parts of cars, trucks, etc.  They even smash a bus or camper for us.  (Best part!!) We then will tour the Recycling Center.

Thursday, May 25th - Northwest Park Class Picnic - We tentatively have this scheduled.  The school board is supposed to vote on what the last day of school will be so this may change.  More info. on this later....

If you would like to meet us at any of these field trips, just let me know!

This week:

Reading - fluency, predictions, phonemic awareness, pausing for punctuation, context clues, retell, proper nouns

Spelling - See Week 27
Bonus: discover

Writing - review opinion, narrative and informational writing

Vocabulary - discover, mysterious, dusk, pale, scatter, helmet, space, guess, fooling

Math - Two digit addition ( I am also working with small groups on specific skills that are not mastered yet).

Monday - Music, Guidance
Tuesday - P.E., Making Words
Wednesday - Art, Early Out
Thursday - Music, Library, Making Words, I will have a sub because I will be administering the spring FAST reading assessment.  I will get those final scores to you soon after.
Friday - P.E, Matt from Swan Lake visits.

Lauren Becker










Thanks and have a great week!