November 14, 2012

Happy Birthday, Chloe!  Thanks, too, for the delicious treats you shared with us!

Our reading selection for today is another "magic e" book: The Cake.

Our spelling list this week has "ar" words: arm, car, etc.  The students helped choose the words and even came up with the tricky choice "heart" as a challenge. 

A note/permission form regarding the school's swim program went home today.  Please sign and return the permission form ASAP.  Thanks.

A second note/permission form went home today regarding a Remembrance Day art competition.  If you wouldn't mind your child's art project being entered in a contest, please sign and return the form.  (We made pictures of poppies - they turned out beautifully!)  Thanks.

November 13, 2012

Tonight's reading selection is "The Joke".  It concentrates, again, on the "magic e" concept.

The class wrote "Oowwee!" stories today, detailing previous injuries or accidents.  Drop in to read the bulletin board outside our classroom tomorrow - the writing should be completed and up on display by then.  (It will be largely unedited by me, so you'll get a pretty good idea of where your child's writing abilities stand at this point.  I'm quite impressed with the products so far!)

The guitars are now finished and on display in the classroom.  They look mmmmmmmarvelous!  Thanks again to Logan's mom and Hana's mom for all the work they did cutting out the guitars.  You rock, Mrs. D and Mrs. R!

November 8, 2012

Reminders for tomorrow:

Read "The Big Game" - another "magic e" book.

Study for the spelling test on "ow" words.

Book orders are due.

November 6, 2012

Today's home reading book is "Tab and Mac".  It concentrates on the "magic e" concept, where an "e" jumps to the left over the letter beside it and makes the vowel it lands on say its own name.  (For example, "hop" becomes "hope" and "bit" becomes "bite".)  The book also reinforces use of quotation marks, and reviews the sight word "said". 

Notes went home today regarding some upcoming testing and a mistake on the pink phone lists that went home earlier this year.  (The phone lists showed there was an early dismissal this Friday when, in fact, there is not.

Remember that the book fair is on until 7:00 pm.  The sale is upstairs in the library.

Class book orders are due this Friday.

November 5, 2012

Our spelling list this week has words that show two different pronounciations of "ow": the letters as they sound in how, now, cow, wow, owl, howl, etc. and as they sound in grow, blow, slow, below, snow, etc. 

Tonight's reading selection is "Ted" - enjoy!

Just a quick thank you to everyone who has taken off winter/wet footwear at the entrances to the hallways.  It helps keep the floors clean and dry and sets a good example for the students.  We appreciate the respect and concern you show for our students and our floors!

November 2, 2012

Spelling test results are in the agenda pockets.

Here are some photos from our Hallowe'en celebration:

Unfortunately, the dance video didn't turn out - sorry about that.

November 1, 2012

Tonight's reading selection is entitled "Meg".   Many of the students are finding the phonetic/decoding skills and, consequently, the reading itself, to be easier every day.  A good target for reading now is to have them work for smooth, fluent expression.  This may mean that they will repeat some sentences - sometimes more than once.  In school, we talk about how the reading should sound like you're talking to someone, not being robotic.

Thanks to everyone who sent treats for our Hallowe'en party.  What a nice feast we had!  The students' costumes were great - and so was their dancing.  (I'll see if I can find time tomorrow to post a video of their Arthur Murray moves.   Hold your breath everyone...)

Our spelling test tomorrow is on the "ook" family.

I've added a link at the side to  another website: www.funbrain.com.  Just click on Funbrain, listed under the links on the right hand side.  (I've changed the format of the blog so that it's easier to find the links.... no scrolling down required any more.)