Okay, please excuse the way I posted these pictures! You'll need to start at the bottom and and work your way to the top! Sorry! Enjoy! More to come tomorrow!

Science pictures

Here are some great pictures of cooperative learning during Science. I lOVE how these kids work together!

Happy Friday!



We had such a great time yesterday at the Weinberg Center! The kids really enjoyed the performance and were a very respectful audience. Thanks to the parents who got to come with us... I hope you enjoyed yourselves!



Now we're looking forward to our Fall Festival Celebration - the day will start our with our Pumpkin Math. I have three parents so far - the more help, the better! The rest of the day will be spent reading and writing about Fall and pumpkins. At 2:30 our celebration will begin! Thanks to all who have helped - especially Tina Nguyenkhoa for putting it all together.



I need to do another call out for donations for our Silent Auction basket. Please be sure to read the reminder! Thanks to Stephanie Tucker for handling this for us!



Here's what we'll be doing this week:



Language Arts: We'll be discussing folktales. This unit is so fun - lots of great, old stories to read and share! Our focus during these stories will be character development and sequencing.



Math: My math class will be finishing up line plots, measuring, and graphing and will start some probability.



Science: Next week will be our last week of working with our "mystery" powders. Hopefully, by Friday, the kids will have discovered what all five are. Try back later if there are no pictures with this post - I'm trying to get some on here from Science!



Writing: Our focus is still Ideas and Organization. I'm really trying to get some grammar in there, too. Please be sure to check your child's homework for good sentences!



Word Study: We will be working with different silent letters.



Have a wonderful weekend!

Faith Humerick

Happy Friday - oh that's right, it's only Thursday! We were really confused all day today! With that being said, I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing, long weekend!

Here's what we've done and what we will be doing:

Language Arts: We read some Fables this week. I think they really enjoyed how animals were the characters that taught the lessons! Next week we'll be reading Fairy Tales. Do you know what elements Fairy Tales have? I'm hoping your child will be able to tell you next week!

Math: We'll be continuing with Measurement.

Writing: We'll be doing some capitalization and punctuation practice this week. We're also going to start with the trait "Organization". This is where beginning, middle, and endings come into play. Each written piece needs to have all three parts. Bold Beginnings will be our focus first.

Science: Hopefully you've been hearing about our "mystery powders"! We'll continue mixing our chemicals with other liquids. We'll also be filtering some of our mixtures to form crystals. Your child will be bringing home two different ways to create crystals. This is not a requirement - just a fun activity you can do at home. I did ask them to bring in the crystals if they made them so we can share.

Word Study: Silent letters will be our focus for the next two weeks.

Thanks to everyone for getting in the permission slips and money so quickly! I can't wait to see the show! I have to apologize to the parents who didn't get chosen. I've never had so many responses to go along! Please remember we'll be going on two more that you're welcome to come to.

Thanks to Tina N. for planning our Fall Festival party. Please don't forget to send in $3 with your child for the food and craft. There have been 2 reminders sent home about costumes. Please be sure you have read them and understand what is acceptable.

Also, thanks to Stephanie T. for taking on our Silent Auction basket. Please consider donating something to go in it - the money raised for the PTA benefits us in the classroom!

I'll end this for now - I've had no voice this week, so I'm just rambling now...
Mrs. Humerick

Sorry this is so late, I usually like to post on Thursdays before the weekend.
I'm sitting at home with a sinus infection and bronchitis. Lovely, huh?... Anyway, this will be a short one:

Language Arts: We're starting a different type of short story - fables. This is a little difficult for the kids to understand - lots of the morals in the stories are way over their heads. We've found some they'll be able to connect with, so we'll be reading those this week and talking about character traits.

Math: In my class, we're starting to work with some measurement.

Writing: I'm really going to start integrating grammar into our writing. Sentence structure, punctuation, etc....

Science: We're continuing with our "mystery powder" investigations. The kids LOVE Science!

Thanks to all parents who offered to chaperone our field trip to the Weinberg. I had to pull names - anyone who was chosen should have gotten a note from me. Please remember we'll have 2 more that you can go on if you didn't get chosen this time.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Humerick

Happy 2-hour early dismissal Friday!!

The kids have really been wound up this week - I think it's all the rain and not being able to go outside... hopefully this weekend will be beautiful and they can get outside!

Here's what we'll be doing next week:

Language Arts: We're starting a new unit called "Characteristics of Short Stories". This is definitely one of my favorites. We'll be discussing Fables, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, Folk Tales, and Legends. Our class will be starting with Tall Tales. We'll be enjoying tales such as Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and John Henry. We'll be using our "Before Reading", "During Reading", and "After Reading" strategies that we've been learning about.

Math: My math class will be starting a unit on graphing. Don't be surprised if your child comes home with homework to gather data to graph.

Word Study: This week we'll be working with ch/tch sounds in words.

Science: Next week will be our first week with Science. We'll be doing a unit called, "Chemical Tests". The students will be doing experiments with different chemicals (safe ones of course!). At the end of the unit, they should be able to tell what the chemicals are.

Speaking of Science, the Science Fair forms just went home for your child to complete if he/she is interested in entering.

Starting next week I'll be posting pictures on the blog. I feel so bad I haven't done that for you yet!

Have a wonderful, relaxing weekend.

Until next week,
Mrs. Humerick