Hooray for the U.S.A! We're back to work!

We're so excited to get back to work!

Our new theme is in full swing, Hooray for the U.S.A!

As always, we practice spelling in a variety of ways

Watercolor spelling

Starfall is a great web site!

Practicing long vowel sounds

Map puzzles help us learn about America

It takes a lot of patience!

I did it!

We are also learning about our national symbols

Studying the American Flag

We are continuing our theme in our language arts centers as well

Writing about our country

Snowman grid

Continuing work in our grammar and phonics books

We mixed up our reading small groups this week too

Working on the super bossy "E"

Using the SmartBoard

Adding to the theme notebooks

Using boggle cubes to make new words

In math we started studying money and coins

We're still practicing addition, subtraction, and fact families, too

Experimenting with coin values

How much do I have?

Reviewing doubles plus one

We were so excited to find out who our famous Americans would be!

Charles Lindbergh? COOL!

We can't wait to tell you all about our research!

In hands on science we used our textbooks

We learned about sunlight and shadows

We cut out shadow puppets

We found pictures of zoo animals

Experimenting with flashlights

How do the shadows change?

Shining on the ceiling



In computer lab we studied states on the iPads



Learning lots!

Spelling Words- Week #11  January 11-15, 2016

Phonics Skills: long vowel e and i with silent e

1.       like

2.       twice

3.       kite

4.       nine

5.       time

6.       side

7.       theme

8.       eve

9.       these

10.   here

Challenge Words

11. country

12. stripes

13. colonies

14. scene

“Surprise the Teacher Word”

15. ??? (This is your choice)

Reminders!

Monday, January 18th- M.L.K. Day, no school

Wednesday, January 20th- Paper dolls due

Thursday, February 4th- 9:15 a.m., Hooray for the U.S.A program!

Thanks to parents and students, we had a great first week back at school!