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!

Week of April 10th and Week of April 17th

The kids did a great job at the music program!  It's always fun to see what they have been working on.

We will be splitting our reading chapter between this week and the following week.  So we will not have our spelling test until Friday, April 21st.

Reading - fluency, phonemic awareness, capitalization, punctuation, drawing conclusions

Vocabulary - blend, feature, dull, flutter, swift, searching, clues, invisible

Spelling - See week 26
Bonus:  flutter

Writing - personal narrative, opinions, informational

Math - Finishing chapter on graphing and interpreting data and beginning chapter on two digit addition

Science - Day and Night

Monday - Art, I will be gone to a leadership meeting all day so there will be a sub
Tuesday - Music, Guidance, Making Words
Wednesday - P.E.
Thursday - Art, Early Out
Friday - No School

Monday - No School
Tuesday - No School
Wednesday - Music, Library
Thursday - P.E., Making Words
Friday - Art, Spelling Test

Star Student - Nolan Stitz











Thanks and enjoy the break!

Week of April 3 - 7

I am very proud of the student's and the effort they put into the Iowa Assessments!  It is not easy but they persevered and tried their best!  We were able to get all the tests done but math computation.  We will be doing this portion on Monday morning.  We will be back on schedule the rest of the week!

On Tuesday evening, the students will have their music program.  It begins at 6:30 but students need to be there by 6:15.  They will come to my classroom and I will line them up for the program.

Reading - phonemic awareness, fluency, synonyms/antonyms, context clues

Vocabulary - nutritious, cultivate, blossom, plentiful, stubborn, crowded, part, tiny

Writing - Reviewing personal narrative, opinion, informational

Spelling - See Week 25
Bonus - plentiful

Math - Graphing

Monday - Music, Guidance
Tuesday - P.E., Making Words, Music Program at 6:30
Wednesday - Art
Thursday - Music, Library, Making Words
Friday - P.E., Spelling Test

Star Student - Sophie Hoevelkamp











Thanks and have a great week!