Mrs. Mitchell's Tribes

The students all have their regional Native American tribe assigned to them.  They will be using shoe boxes to display their villages.  They will need to show what they ate, what kind of house they lived in, and also the environment for the region.  They will have a couple of weeks to work on this.  Can't wait to see them and display them out in the hallway.

If your child didn't complete their lesson 3 Social Studies sheet today, they will need to finish that for Monday. 

Hope you enjoy your weekend!

We took our math acuity test today.  You might want to ask your child what their score out of 30 was.  We are working SOOOOOOOOOOOO hard to master our math skills.  I am confident that by the time we take our test, we will be where we want to be.  Please hang in there with us and keep going over the CHALLENGING homework/calendar math, the computation practice in Saxon, and those pesky multiplication facts. 

Coming Soon:  Native American Shoebox Village
We will become experts in the Northwestern Tlingit tribe, the Northeastern Woodlands Iroquois, the Southwest Hopi tribe, and the Plains Cheyenne.  Our shoeboxes will depict a typical village in each of the regions.  I will be assigning which region your child will be creating.  If some students want to work together, they may, but I will be limited as to how much in class time they will have to put it together.  They would need to either go to each others' houses, or use their recess time at school.  I will see if we can assign those tribes tomorrow to give you extra time to work on it.  I am hoping to have the exhibit finished two weeks from tomorrow for our hallway.

Today's Assignments:
social studies lesson 2 sheeet
math homework/calendar page/ Saxon #23 (7-20)
KEEP READING

Four More Monarchs Off to Mexico!

Today:  math homework sheet/ calendar/ Saxon #22 (5-22)
              Social Studies lesson 1 sheet
               READ 20 minutes nightly

Today's homework:

spelling workbook/ test tomorrow
math spiral homework/ calendar back/ no Saxon

Congratulations Math Royalty

Queen Kendra

Prince Ethan

Princess Kelsie

Two Monarchs Head for Mexico

Addy and Auggi had two of their monarchs fly off for Mexico today.  Lucky Noah found a caterpillar out in the flower/milkweed patch at school! 
Today:  math Saxon #21 (6-23)/ fact sheet if student missed 10 or more/ homework & calendar math
Reading:  Sign of Beaver voc sheet (voc words and voc sentences only)
Practice spelling test tonight/ parent sign and student corrects 2X

We took our first Language Arts Acuity test today.  I'm not sure if parents are sent any results.  I'll try to check on that.  You may ask me, and I can relay the results I wrote down.  I'll be going online to see where the problem areas were for our class.  You can begin practicing Acuity at home.  Your child will need to take their password home if they don't know it.  The site is called acuityathome.com
I will be loading the program with areas that need to be practiced.

Have a Great Weekend

Next week begins our Acuity practice tests.  Monday is our first language arts test at 10:00.  We take our math practice on Thursday at 9:30.

Does Anyne Know Where I Can Buy Some Extra Time!!

Goodness!  Our days just fly by, and it's so hard to get everything in that we need to do!  Here is our look at today:

Reading:  read ch11 and ch12 in Sign of the Beaver  (Kids really seem to be liking this book.  You might ask them to tell you about it.  That would give them some good practice in summarizing.)

Read a book on Adverbs.  Can your child tell you how to find an adverb??

State Folders:  Due tomorrow through Georgia.  I'll be giving them a checklist to be sure they have all the details included.

State test through Georgia tomorrow.  (Also an atlas test for states...using it as a resource in locating information.)

Math 3B test today/ math homework sheet/ calendar back

Monarch sweatshirts and extra t-shirts arrived today.  First come/first serve.  $7 t-shirt, $13 sweatshirt

Be Practicing Your States

We are ready to begin Hawaii tomorrow.  Should be ready for next test over all the states covered on Friday.  I want to create another test for using the atlas as well because we are using part of our reading time for studying about each state.  They will be able to use their atlas for that portion of the test.

Today:  read ch11 Sign of Beaver
spelling test
math practice test/ homework sheet

Be sure to get your experiment in by sometime next week.

Class Earns Scrambled Eggs State Game

Today:

Sign of Beaver ch 9-10

Scrambled Eggs - states (added Florida today)

math homework: Saxon #20 (7-23)  Homework sheet/ Calendar

Root Word Review Quiz

Welcome to Student Council

Congratulations Kendra and Ethan R.

Also like to congratulate this week's math royalty:  Queen Kelsie, Princess Joni, and Duke Ethan.

Today: 

• Morning Message
• Parts of Speech review
• Root Words review
• Read ch 7 & 8 Sign of Beaver/ sheets
• science lesson 1 crossword/ review
• added Delaware

 

      





Congratulations Kendra and Ethan R.!

The Monarchs have overwhelmingly elected  Ethan R. and Kendra to represent them this year on the student council.  The Monarchs know how to look for peers who are responsible, respectful, and reliable.  Good for them on doing such a great job, and congratulations to Kendra and Ethan for having such awesome reputations. 

Today:

• read ch6 in Sign of the Beaver
• practiced parts of speech
• states tests (open book atlas and one from packet)
• math test/ reviewed place value/ IXL in computer lab for decimal practice

 Picture forms sent home in agenda today.  Also an envelope from office.  I am assuming that it has something to do with ISTEP.  Only those students taking the test here last spring received one.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Announce Student Council Representatives Tomorrow

Today:

read 2 more chapters in Sign of the Beaver

practiced parts of speech

new morning message/ response

math homework sheet/ did calendar togethr/ Saxon lesson 18 (5-20)

states test tomorrow/ open book atlas test and separate test over packet (know location, capital, trivia, recognize people and why they are famous)

Welcome Bailey!

We're happy to add Bailey as our newest monarch to our class.  Bailey comes to us from Riley.

Today:
wrote letters recommending student council nominees
read ch 3 Sign of Beaver
added Colorado for states book (test Friday using both books)
reviewed red hot root words
math homework sheet/ decimal review/ #18 (5-20)



#2 in Pupa Stage!

We are so excited!  We now have over 20 caterpillars to use for our science investigation!.  We will be rcording how many days it took each chrysalis (pupa) to go into its adult (butterfly) stage. 

Today's assignments:
added California to Social Studies red folder - I planned on a quiz tomorrow through California, but  I think I will postpone that test for a couple of days.  So plan on a test Friday with states through Colorado.  Know the packet information and also be ready to use our atlas books to find information for open book test.

math homework sheet/ Saxon computation lesson#17 (5-18)

reading 20 minutes

STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS FRIDAY  (Students will be writing me a letter tomorrow explaining who they think would be good candidates for student council.  We'll take the top names and have an election on Friday.)

Midterms should be signed and returned tomorrow. 

Here's a quick look at today:

Morning Message/ we'll be writing to someone (their choice) so that I can check their letter form and puntuation

parts of speech/ I'll give list of words to identify each week with spelling test

practice spelling test tonight/ return signed

reading Sign of Beaver voc sheet

red hot root words sheet

making connections sheet for hallway

added Arkansas for our board review/ red folder book

started science textbook/ thinking like a scientist/ no homework

math Saxon #16 (8-19)/ homework sheet

Don't forget to bring in science experiment any day this month.

Congratulations to Jared and Augusta for Winning the Willlingness to Learn Character Trait

Alisha is sharing her experiment of "Ocean in a Bottle."

Today: 

• Read Stephanie's Ponytail to connect with our peer pressure theme of Kid in Red Jacket and Hundred Dresses.
• practiced parts of speech
• added Arizona to our state folder/ it includes the shape of state, capital, latitude and longitude, most intersesting trivia from Atlas book, any rivers or landforms, and how it got its name (also in atlas.)
• computer labs:  finishing last week's paragraph, practicing IXL decimals for math
• NEW MATH ROYALTY FOR THIS WEEK:

 KING ETHAN R.      PRINCESS KENDRA    DUCHESS KELSIE

(sorry couldn't get my camera to cooperate to bring up picture)

Have a great weekend....AND KEEP READING!!

Kendra Demonstrates Lava in a Jar

Thank you, Kendra, for the very cool science experiment today.  Hopefully, we will have several each week through September.

Colt's Camp all morning before going to lunch and then PE!!

Tomorrow:  health test over ch 10 vocabulary and making connections to our class books

                      simple regions test:  recognize where each region is on sheet/ label states known

                       math:  Saxon p95 #7-20, homework sheet front and back, subtraction sheet practice

I am sending home an extra subtraction sheet so that you can help your child at home in addition to our daily one minute speed drill.  Our goal is to improve each individual score daily.  Your child should be able to explain how it works at school.  You can practice however you wish, but please initial the agenda next to this assignment so that I know it was done.

READ for at least 20 minutes, writing the two sentence summary in composition book.

Frodo Is a BEAUTIFUL Butterfly Today!

Our chrysalis hatched today.  EXCITING!  We'll try to post a picture of her tomorrow.

If you can, wear a Colt's shirt (or blue shirt) and old tennis shoes for the camp tomorrow. 

Our day:

• spelling test/ sentences on back labeling kind of sentence/ 7 words to label parts of speech
• we will finish our Hundred Dresses tomorrow
• health test is delayed till Friday
• regions test delayed till Friday
• will finish our social studies latitude/longitude sheet tomorrow/ started our states unit with Alabama and Alaska
• try to do one minute subtraction sheet practice with math homework each evening (should have in bag)  Let me know what you think about our spiral math homework sheets/skills sheet as opposed to our math book homework with 30 problems each night.

Girls vs. Boys

We have formed new seating groups in class.  There are six groups with five in each group, except one with four.)  Today our X-TRAORDINARY ORDERS group won with flying colors.  Each group is named after the classification system.  Congratulations to Attika, Lexi, Lauryn, Kelsie, and Alizabeth.  Tomorrow the kids were to try bringing in a phrase for us to remember the order of classification terms.  S for species, G for genus, F for family, O for order, c for class, p for phylum, and k for kingdom.

On tap for tomorrow:

• spelling test (bring practice test and workbook pages)
• Thursday hopefully ready for health quiz/connecting to the books we are reading together
• begin states unit/ using atlas and packet we'll begin with Alabama and hopefully Alaska
• want to plot some cities on a map using latitude and longitude
• quiz over midwest region/ naming continents and oceans labeled on eastern and western hemispheres
• math focus continues to be on ordering/ writing decimals

Who Can Earn the Most Yards over Labor Day?

Stay tuned to our blog next week to see which students are pictured on our All-Star preview picture.

Math Royalty