Week of November 28th

I hope everyone has had a restful holiday! This week we will have a couple of Christmas projects. We will be making our countdown chains and some Santa's to hang around the room.  I am thinking Fred the Elf will be arriving soon to visit our classroom as well!

Reading - compare and contrast, text structure, present tense verbs, phonemic awareness, fluency, main idea and details, syllables

Vocabulary - culture, custom, language, skill, similar

Spelling - See Week 12
Bonus:  custom

Writing - Research Project (Reindeer),  Journaling

Math - Subtraction (Now that we have completed addition and are starting subtraction, I am going to start giving a leveled timed test on Fridays.  It will start with addition facts and then progressively get harder.  Each time they receive a 100%, they can move on to the next level.)

Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - Art, Making Words
Wednesday - Music, Library (I will be gone)
Thursday - P.E., Making Words
Friday - Art, Spelling Test, leveled timed test

Star Student - Willis









Thanks and have a great week!

Week of November 21st

It will be a short week this week!  No spelling test and we will resume the reading series after Thanksgiving Break.  That leaves us some time to do some things we don't always have time for! Mrs. Schultz will be coming Monday to teach the students how to code.  They always love learning how to do this.

We will have reading groups but I won't be sending books home because they have a tendency to get lost over long breaks.  I also won't send the next list of spelling words home until next week.  You can still see the Week 12 spelling words on the blog by clicking on "Spelling."

For math we will continue our chapter on subtraction.  If you haven't already checked out Xtra Math and set your child up using the Xtra Math information sheet I sent home, take a look at it.  It is great practice for math facts.  Now that we have our addition unit under our belt, I will be giving a timed test each Friday.  There are different levels and when a student gets a 100% they get to move to the next level.

Monday - Art, Coding
Tuesday - Music, Guidance

No Star Student during this short week.  :)

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and enjoy all of your family and friends!!

Week of November 14th

Students did a great job making cards for Adam Espenhover,  a Veteran who came to speak to the first graders on Friday.

We also learned a new math game called Addition War.  All you need is a deck of cards to play.  Aces are worth 1 and all face cards and the Joker are worth 10.  The rest of the cards are worth face value. Pass out the full deck between two players.  Each player flips over two cards and adds them together. Whoever has the greater sum wins the cards that were turned over.  If the players get the same sums, there is addition war.  Each player turns over two more cards.  Whoever has the greater sum then gets all of the cards.  The kids really enjoyed playing this once they caught on!


Reading - phonemic awareness, summarizing, fluency, predictions, sequence of events, -ed/-ing, long vowels

Vocabulary - friendship, relationship, encourage, rely, suggest

Writing - Informational

Spelling - See Week 11
Bonus: friendship

Math - Subtraction Concepts

Mrs. Schultz will be coming on Monday, November 21st to teach the students how to code.  They love learning how to do this!

Monday - Music, Guidance
Tuesday - P.E., Making Words
Wednesday - Art, Hearing and Vision Screenings
Thursday - Music, Library, Making Words, Author Visit
Friday - P.E., Spelling Test, Matt from Swan Lake visits

Star Student Avary O'Connor










Thanks and have a great week!

Week of November 7th

This week is the big election.  I have been decorating an area in front of the old office so the students can go and vote on Tuesday!  It is always neat to see how Fairview votes and if it aligns with how the real election turns out.  We will be doing a writing project and craft for the election as well.

The students have been enjoying our fluency practice with songs the past couple of weeks.  Last week we learned, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."  We studied it closely, sang it many times, read it with partners, and performed it at the end of the week.  This week we will learn the lyrics to the song, "Go Cubs Go."  We enjoyed dancing to that song last week.

I am sending home flyers tomorrow that will have your child's information on how to log on to Xtra Math.  They learned how to use this website on Friday and really enjoyed it.  They may log on at home and continue practicing!  I will be able to monitor their progress they make at home and at school.

Thank you to everyone who sent party supplies to our Fall Party!

Reading - Sequence of events, visualizing, phonemic awareness, exclamations, retell, capitalization,

Vocabulary - humorous, amuse, delighted, mood, ridiculous

Spelling - See Week 10
Bonus:  amuse

Math - Addition Concepts

Writing - Informational Writing, Election Writing

Star Student - Harley Harms











Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - Art, Making Words, Report Cards go home
Wednesday - Music, Library, Early Out
Thursday - P.E., Making Words
Friday - Art, Spelling Test

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Thanks and have a great week!