Eighty-Fifth Day of School

Many (not all) students are using their independent time wisely to finish class projects over the past 6 days of school. Today we are bringing home the last stanza of the vowel poem. Five should now be at home for practicing aloud. We combined our knowledge of line, color, and shape to create turtle pictures for our family. Additionally, we have discussed the art element of value as well.

Fluency scores have been posted in the classroom on the fluency chart (above the Star Chart). A fluency score of 45 WPM with comprehension is required for this reporting period.

District Math test scores will be available soon.

Unit 3 Week 4 Preview

We will be discussing how we can be creative and resourceful and likewise how the characters in our selections exhibit these characteristics and what it is that inspires them. Our vocabulary words for this week are create, hobby, inspire, resourceful, structure. Among our selections this week is a fantasy by Harry Horse called A Friend for Little Bear, in which a resourceful toy bear learns the importance of friends over collecting possessions. Another selection is Karen Lynn Williams' story Galimoto about a resourceful child in Africa who has to make his own toys from found objects.

Our comprehension strategy will be making inferences in order to draw conclusions, our comprehension skill. Our sight words will be after done, find, old, new, work.

We will continue with final silent 'e' long vowel spellings for the remaining vowels along with open syllable long vowels as well as the remaining stanza of our vowel poem.
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In Visual Arts we will learn 3 new fundamental elements for a total of now 4 of 7.

Unit 3 Week 1 Preview

In our new unit we will be exploring fun and laughter. In the first week we ask what makes us laugh and how do we make other people laugh. Our oral vocabulary is amuse, delighted, humorous, mood, ridiculous. Our reading sight words are away, school, today, way, and why. For spelling we will focus on 'long-a' spellings. We will memorize the first stanza of our vowel poem. We will listen to and generate rhyme. We will use a Flow Map to generate a retell. We will incorporate time-order cues and words into our retell.

In Social Science we will discuss good sportsmanship and rules (HSS 1.1.2) We will also learn the basic components of a simple map.

In Visual Art we will discuss line as the first basic element.