It's Labor Day Weekend!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.  Don't forget to bring your practice spelling test in on Tuesdays.  Workbook pages will be due on Wednesday. 

My plan is to take some basic geography quizzes daily next week.  On Tuesday we will quiz over the west and southwest regions and the cardinal directions.  On Wednesday, we will quiz over the midwest region and hemispheres.  Thursday will cover the northeast region, latitudes (parallels),  and longitudes (meridians.)  Friday will cover the southeast region and locating specific locations on a map.

We have been focusing on ordering and writing decimals in math.  We will continue reviewing and working on that standard next week.

We have finished our health ch 10 and its connections to Kid in the Red Jacket.  I will be quizzing over that at the end of next week.  All vocabulary words and definitions should be in the back of the green science folder.  (Connection sentences to Kid are bonus points.)

We will finish The Hundred Dresses and another short picture book that go along well with our health focus unit.  I will be checking to see who met their short term goal (lesson 2 ?) for hours read for the super bowl.  That goal is written in their agendas.

Hope everyone finds time to do some awesome reading for enjoyment over the weekend!

Finally, congratulations to King Ethan R., Princess Lauryn, and Duchess Attika for our math royalty today.  (My apologies to Queen Kendra...we miscommunicated, but we'll be seeing more of her soon on our royalty court.)

AGAIN, HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

Ethan T Wins Last Man Standing Today in Grammar

Hmm...I don't see last night's post on the blog.  I will try to watch and see that they are saved and are appearing where they should be from now on.  Hear is a glimpse into today:

• Morning Message
• Shurley (prepositions and possessive pronoun adjective added)
• Personal narratives for tomorrow
• finished reading Kid in Red Jacket/ test tomorrow
• played Around the World reviewing Red Hot Root Words/ quiz tomorrow (turn in p 34 if not already)
• finished health chapter/ turn in lessons 1-5 voc words with definitions/ quiz connecting to Kid in Red Jacket
• Social Studies- reviewed northeastern states/ will finish with southeast tomorrow
• math- passed back 2A tests/ continued working on decimal sheets/ homework sheet/ calendar math

Congratulations to Ethan T for winning our first Last Man Standing in grammar.  The game included knowing kinds of sentences and parts of speech.  His winning answer was knowing that yours is a pronoun...(technically a possessive pronoun because you own something.)

Monarchs Welcome New Tilapia Fish to Classroom

If you look closely, you can see the students using their ruler to estimate how many millimeters our new baby fish are today.  Hopefully, by this time next week, we will see growth.  We had several students earn bonus money today by sharing some of their research about the tilapia. 

Frodo, our chubby caterpillar, is in its chrysalis now!  We will be watching like scientists to see how many days before it goes into the adult stage...our monarch butterfly!!  We'll see some pretty awesome changes right before that happens. LOVE LOVE LOVE the monarch butterfly!

Don't forget tomorrow is the spelling test and workbook sheets are due.

Read 20 minutes

math homework sheet and decimal sheet

social studies Merry Meridians sheet if not already turned in today

Ethans Win Weekend Reading Contest

Congratulations to Ethan R and Ethan T for reading the most hours over the weekend.  Way to help our team!!
A peek at today's work:

Morning Message:  added quotation marks in dialogue

Shurley sentence:  reviewed prepositions in sentence

Writing:  students chose a personal narrative topic for this week/ began writing their hamburger pattern paragraph

Reading:  finished ch8 in Kid in the Red Jacket/ completed ch5 voc sheet/ choose one "thin" question from first group and one "thick" question on bottom/ played scrambled eggs to review for Friday's test

Red Hot Words:  Super, supr,sur  (above, over, more) and hyper (above, over, more)

Health lesson 4 voc words/ write definition and sentence making connection to Kid in Red Jacket

Social Studies:  sheet for latitude and longitude/ reviewed southwest, west, and midwest regions

Math:  focus on decimals this week/ decimal skill sheet and homework sheet

I have replaced our lost fish with tilapia sp???  instead.  Bonus money available if you can find interesting information by doing a little research on this kind of fish.  I think it is going to be an interesting experiment this year.

Don't forget to read 20 minutes at least tonight.

PRACTICE SPELLING TESTS EVERY MONDAY NIGHT ON OWN PAPER

Weekend Reading Challenge

We are having our own weekend reading challenge for our reading super bowl.  The student reading the most hours this weekend will have their choice of 3 rewards on Monday.  (They still only need 2 sentences from their composition book.)
  WHO WILL IT BE??

Monarchs Have 77 Reading Points

Thank you for encouraging your child to make reading every evening a good life habit. We only have three monarchs now who need to get off the bench and join our team.

We have a very difficult math homework sheet tonight.  We did several together on the board.  Please review these sheets with your child.  One of the homework sheets being sent home tonight was actually graded yesterday by the students themselves grading their own paper.  Goodness!  That didn't work out well when I collected them and looked them over.  Our first math test was yesterday.  Today they had the privilege of reviewing what they missed and then taking a form B of that test and doing only those missed problems.  They will receive half a point for each corrected answer.

Hope to see a packed house tonight at 6:00!  Be ready to ask me any helpful questions.

Open House Tomorrow Night

Science Experiment due October 1st  (Students are choosing their favorite experiment from their science book in their blue bag.  They are free to choose another book or an experiment online if they prefer.  They may share their resulst with the class or perform the practiced experiment for us in class.)

Homework for tonight:  math sheet/ no back lesson tonight
Reading 20 minutes/ 2 sentences
Reading ch 4 words if not finished at school

Monarch Math Royalty

Congratulations to the winners of our first Math Royalty Speed Competition in Addition:

                                                                     Queen Kendra
                                                                     Princess Kelsie
                                                                       Duke Ethan

Last day to order books is tomorrow.  Also, if you wanted to order a hoodie, please let me know by Friday so that I can get that one time only order in to A+ Printing.

Please take a look at the Morning Message papers I sent home today.  The students write my "Morning Message" from the white board, correcting any mistakes they find.  Then we go over together as a whole group.  They are allowed to correct any mistakes that they missed (in red pen).  These mistakes are not counted in their grade.  If they correct all their mistakes, they receive the full ten points for that letter.  The response back letter is also worth ten points.  I am checking for the skills we just reviewed...not spelling, etc...  I will be taking up the notebooks again on Friday.  That will include Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday's letters.  We discussed today the possibility of alternating with the older version of Daily Language sheets.  (Their suggestion...not mine.)  I like the fact that this is applying what they are learning in a connected, real-life situation.  We'll see how it goes.  If you have an opinion, you are more than welcome to join in on the conversation.

Also, some confusion on spelling practice tests.  They are not to be written on the spelling workbook pages (even though that is how the workbook pages were designed.)  Instead, please just use your regular lined paper, give the test as I will on Wednesday, check it, and correct any mistakes two times each.  Tomorrow is when the workbook pages are due.  If you used the front paper for practice test, just write them again one time each either on that paper or your own.

Math sheet homework/ has lesson 10 from Saxon's practice on the back.

Most students finished their Red Hot Words (SUB / TRANS root word sheet).  If not, please finish and return tomorrow.

We are putting up our self-portraits for Thursday night.  If your child did not finish, please do so and return tomorrow.

Only 4 Monarchs left on the bench on our reading Super Bowl challenge.  ALL readers should have a minimum of one hour already/ two by next Monday.  Please encourage at least 20 minutes per night.

Monarch Shirt Monday

Your child earned $10 bonus money today if they wore their shirt for the class picture. 

Homework:  read 20 minutes/ 2 sentence summary in composition book

math practice for lessons 8 & 9 on back of calendar math homework week 1 Monday

Practice spelling test at home tonight/ correct any missed words 2X each/ parent signature

It's Friday!!

What a busy week!  Hope eveyone enjoys a restful weekend with no homework.  Please try to wear your monarch shirt on Monday for your first picture.  See you then.

Monarchs Taking the Field

We have 13 monarchs that have reached the Super Bowl football field.  Good for you!  Hopefully, we get everyone on the board tomorrow. 

Math sheet homework/ addition practice A-H on lesson 6 from Saxon book.

Thank you to those Monarchs who are working to follow directions. I SO APPRECIATE your respectful, responsible behavior.

Back to School Night Next Thursday

Hope to see you next Thursday, August 23rd for our Back to School Night from 6:00-7:00.

Homework tonight: 
READ at least 20 minutes.  Write 2 summary sentences in your COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK.  Parent signature is required with amount of time read tonight.

Math:  calendar math worksheet

Book orders sent home today.  They are due next Wednesday.  If ordering online, Scholastic will reward us with free books.  Our code is HV6KG. 

Don't forget to send in order for t-shirts.

Hello, My Awesome Monarchs!

Wow!  The day just flew by today.  So much to talk about...we needed more time!  Hopefully, tomorrow can begin looking more like a typical day.  I was really impressed with so many of my new monarchs.  I'm looking for good listeners and eager learners.
We are hoping to get off to a great start in our reading super bowl tonight.  It takes an hour of reading at home to earn the monarch football player for out in the hallway field.  Everyone needs to read at least for 20 minutes tonight and write a 2 sentence summary of what they read in their composition notebook.  Looking forward to seeing those tomorrow.
That's it for homework for tonight, but please try to return your information card and checklist from parent's orange paper in the morning. 
SEE YOU TOMORROW!

Earn Your Early Monarch $'s

Earn monarch bucks by signing up to follow our blog.  I'll be watching to see how many followers we can get before school starts.  Also, want to earn even more cash??  Start looking for these awesome monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants. We'll have a comfy home waiting for them on the first day of school if you're successful. :)