Week of March 28- April 1st

***Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Father Daughter Dance...deadline is Friday!***

Reading:
story: Moses Goes to a Concert
comprehension focus: main idea and details
vocabulary words: percussion, instrument, vibration, signs, deaf, and hearing

Language:
adjectives
friendly letter writing

Math:
multiplication

This week's Spelling Words:
1. sky
2. find
3. night
4. high
5. fly
6. try
7. light
8. dry
9. right
10. mind
11. tiny
12. tiger
13. July
14. wild
15. eye
16. buy
Challenge Words:
17. firefly
18. flight
19. siren
20. tightrope

Here are the tests your child will take on Friday:
Daily language
Daily math
Spelling test
Grammar test
Moses Goes to a Concert test

Week of March 21-25th

Reading:
story: The Art Lesson
comprehension focus: author's viewpoint
vocabulary words: powders, practice, chalk, crayons, smock, copy

Language:
irregular past-tense verbs
friendly letter writing

Math:
telling time, reading a calendar, and elapsed time

Social Studies:
The Land Around Us

This week's spelling words:
1.zoo
2. tooth
3. hook
4. moon
5. book
6. soon
7. took
8. good
9. room
10. cartoon
11. rooster
12. crook
13. look
14. who
15. you
16. hoof
Challenge Words:
17. choose
18. moose
19. cookbook
20. balloon

Tests your child will take this Friday:
Daily language test
Daily Math test
The Art Lesson test
Chapter 19 math test
Grammar test - irregular verbs
Spelling test

***Don't forget...Friday is the deadline for Rockin' Ram Reader!***

Week of March 14-18th

Well, Room 1 has been hit with the flu...in a BIG way! I am glad that most of the students are feeling better and are back in class ready to wrap up the quarter.

Just a reminder that Family Tree projects are due on FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH!

I also apologize about not posting last week...and the delay this week...the district server wouldn't let me access our page...yikes!

Here we go:

Reading:
story: Thunder Cake
comprehension focus: author's message
vocabulary words: weather, bolt, thunder, rumbled, horizon, and lightning

Language:
descriptive writing
-ed and -ing endings

Math
telling time
elapsed time
 reading a calendar

Social Studies
Map skills and the land around us

This week's spelling words:
1. batted
2. running
3. clapped
4. stopped
5. getting
6. shopping
7. stepped
8. hugging
9. pinned
10. sitting
11. telling
12. missed
13. jogging
14. cutting
15. rubbed
16. dipped
Challenge Words:
17. snapped
18. strapped
19. skipping
20. wrapping

Other tid-bits:

• The quarter ends on FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH!
• Deadline for Rockin' Ram Reader is MARCH 25TH...your child needs to have 10 AR points!
• Thank you to those of you that have sent in Kleenex...we go through it fast and can always use some...thank you!