Money

Pilot math students are doing a great job learning about coins. Using literature, our math books, and a hands-on approach we are working towards properly recognizing each coin. We are also learning the appropriate value for the penny, nickel, dime and quarter.

Fantasy and Realism

7th Age readers did a great job using a graphic organizer to creat a fantasy and realism chart for our new story "Julius"

In groups, the students needed to go through the story and find situations that could really happen as well as ones that could not really happen.

Grat Work!

Job Well Done!

Today we finished working with the ee and ea vowel pairs! Take a look at your child's hard work in the pink books that will come home at the end of they day.

Due to the 6th Age play we will not have reading again until Thursday.

Good luck readers! Break a leg!

Telling Time

Today we started working with clocks to tell time.

We discussed that the shorter hand is the one that tells the hour and is called the hour hand.

The longer hand tells the minutes and is the minute hand.

After the hands-on experience we moved to our chapter to complete written work.

Long e Zoom Game

We played "Zoom" using long e words. You have to turn to the person next to you and say a word with the long e sound. Then you keep going all the way around the circle.

Great job readers!

Long e word web

6th Age readers did a great job creating a long e word web. Each person holds an end of the string, says a long e word, then passes the yarn to a new friend.

Our end result was a fantastic web of sounds!

Days of the week song

In our current chapter we are exploring time. This includes sequence of events, calendar, days of the week, months, and seasons. Soon we will move to basic time (hours, minutes) using real clocks to provide a hands on approach.

Below we sing one of our favorite songs about the days of the week.

Long e words with the ea vowel pair

We did a great job today as we read words that contained the ea vowel pair. All of these words made the long e sound. Each friend came up, read their word, then made a sentence using the word in the correct context. After we completed our turn the word went back in our ea vowel pair bag.

Below, we all had an opportunity to illustrate words with the ea vowel pair

Amazing work!

Vowel Pair ea

We have now introduced the ea vowel pair. Today we read "Queen Bee's Scream" by Liza Charlesworth. We played close attention to the long e words that contained either the ee or ea vowel pair. At the end of the story we completed riddles.

Try the activity at home with your reader

Word Box: queen, clean, sweet, scream, flea, leaves, bee, sweep, mean, & bean

1. This bug has black and yellow stripes. _____________
2. A princess grows up to be this. ______________
3. You do this with a broom. ________________
4. It is the opposite of dirty. ________________
5. These grow on the branches of trees. _____________
6. It is the opposite of sour _______________
7. It means almost the same thing as yell. ______________
8. This vegetable rhymes with mean. _______________
9. This bug sometimes makes dogs itch. _____________
10. It is the opposite of nice. ____________

7th Age readers have been hard at work preparing for their play. We will be back to our normal class schedule on Thursday!

Break a leg friends!

Vowel Pair ee

6th Age friends did a great job reading the short story "Beep Beep". After reading the story aloud, we went back and highlighted all of the words that contained the long e sound made by the vowel pair ee.

Great job!

7th Age TV Commercials

In our latest story "Dragon Gets by" by Dav Pilkey we read about a shopping trip to the food store. Dragon loved shopping and tried to buy items from the five basic food groups. But he just could not get it right! He bought catsup from the fruit and vegetables groups. He bought cheese curls from the dairy group, and doughnuts from the bread group. We discussed why Dragon did not have a good diet. We even made shopping lists to help Dragon make better choices for a balanced diet.

As a fun activity we made our very own commercials about the food from the story. We pretended that Dragon was making a commercial for his favorite foods. We used describing words and did a great job acting out each commercial for our class.

Number Signs

Today we reviewed the plus, minus, and equals signs. We played memory to help us recall each signs appropriate name. To earn a pair, we had to correctly identify each sign.

After our game, we reviewed how we can create each sign with our very own bodies!

+ sign

= sign

+ sign

= sign

- sign