Texas Regions Posters

There are four fabulous regions in Texas. Each group did research on their region and made a poster to show what their regions had to offer Texas.

October

What we are learning in October:

Math- we are finishing up multiplication of 2x2 digit numbers this week. Next week we will dive into perimeter and area. Then we will be starting division and continuing that until Thanksgiving.

Science- Weather is where is it at! We will be looking at the difference between weather and climate, but also learning about weather patterns, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and weather mapping.

Reading- We are still fine tuning our reading comprehension skills (sequencing, main idea, summarizing, context clues, character traits, etc). We will start a whole class book club shortly to teach them about how a book club should look and sound (discussions). I'm so excited to announce... we will be starting Wordly Wise vocabulary next week, yea!!! I will alternate Spelling and Wordly Wise each week. The only Wordly Wise homework they will be bringing home is Wordly Wise D. It is a reading passage (which helps with reading comprehension, deeper thinking, and teaching them to look back into the passage for answers) with 15 questions to be answered using a wordly wise vocabulary word in each sentence. I will place a sticker on the front of the book to remind students of the expectations when answering the questions. Parts A-D will be done in class.

Writing- We are about to finish up our personal narratives, and then will dive into some poetry. I love teaching poetry! A noun is a person, place, or thing as School House Rock taught us. In grammar the focus is on nouns and then on to verbs.

Texas History- We are presenting our regions posters today, so look for pictures to be posted soon! Then we start to learn about the explorers that came to Texas and native Americans that our great state.

1st Post of 2013-14 School Year!

Yea! We are up and running. I will post monthly news notes here along with anything exciting we have been doing in class. The year has started off on a fabulous note and I look forward to the rest of the year.

January News Note

Here is the January news note!

Super Science- We are coming to a close in our study of natural resources. We will finish up with how to reuse, reduce, and recycle this week. Then we will take on the topic of matter- the 3 states of matter, density, conductors and insulators.

Marvelous Math- Decimals are where it's at! We are learning how to relate decimals to fractions, including mixed numbers, adding and subtracting decimals, and ordering and comparing decimals.

Terrific Texas History- Finally, we are hearing some familiar names! Texas is being settled and the Old Three Hundred are moving in. We will continue to study the early beginnings of Texas.

Language Arts- In reading, we are continuing to apply our reading comprehension skills to non-fiction and fiction stories within our Storyworks magazine. In writing, the focus in on expository writing and being able to write a response to a given prompt. Spelling and Wordly Wise are still alternating.

Upcoming Events:
Jan 21st        Student Holiday
Jan 25th        Fine Arts Museum Field Trip

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful break. I wanted to thank you so very much for my wonderful Christmas gift. You are all so thoughtful and sweet. We are back in full swing and the past two days have been great. My next post will update you on the what we are learning and upcoming events.

Thank You!!!!

I just wanted to thank each everyone of you for the beautiful flowers children brought me for my birthday! The class made it a wonderful birthday, thank you!

Christmas Program

What a way to bring some Christmas cheer! They class did a wonderful job at the program Thursday night!