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