Thrusday, September 29, 2011

Reminder...Tomorrow is Picture Day!
If your child does not have NEW gym shoes, they will be necessary for them to go in the new gym. 


Spelling - finished in class word sort
Math - lesson 1.9 place value in the millions
Social Studies Test
Daily Geography

The only homework tonight is to study for a spelling test tomorrow.

Mrs. Barich

Wednesday,September 28, 2011

Tomorrow we will have a social studies test on Chapter 1. The only other homework today is WAD.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011

We had a better today than the day before, but have a way to go until things run more smoothly on class. I have started to assign sentences as a consequence for behaviors that don't fit under the motto "Work hard. Be nice." They will be stapled to your child's Friday folder, so you will know if they were assigned sentences during the week.

ASSIGNMENTS
Math- rounding ws
Reading -comprehension ws and journal writing
Spelling- word word sort in notebook
Grammar- fixed run-on sentences
Daily Geography
Social Studies-ws page 8

HOMEWORK
WAD
Mastery Check Point 2

Remember picture day is Friday.
Have a great night.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Thanks for returning all the folders. The students work hard all week long, they are proud to show off their work from their Friday Folders.

Assignments
Math - page 1.8 rounding- we worked on this together
Reading - comprehension ws and following directions ws, read to self and commuter work time
Spelling- word sort
Grammar- page 26 predicates
Daily geography
Social Studies - test review

Homework
WAD
Math rounding ws
Spelling sort

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011

There is no homework tonight. Please remember to bring an apple tomorrow. It will be a fun day.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Thank you for returning the Friday folders, if you have not returned the folder, send them back to school as soon as possible, so I can be ready for next Friday.

Remember that on Tuesday we will eat an early lunch and then be going over to the Tower school to see a play. We will be back by 3:00.

Math - place value review lesson1.7
Reading - Rhyming WS
Spelling - a new word sort
Grammar - sentences WS
Daily Geography


HOMEWORK:
WAD
Independent Word Study, due any day up until Friday.

Have a nice night!
Mrs. Barich

Thursday,Sept.15,2011

Today I sent home the permission slip for the field trip to Tower for the play we will see on Tuesday. I forgot it yesterday, your child did not forget it.

Assignments
Spelling -wrote sentences for our at words
Reading- read to self and completed a following directions ws in class
Math - Lesson 1.6, we are working on place value to 100,000
Social studies- Daily geography and read text pages 17-21


There is not any homework tonight.
Spelling test tomorrow. Watch for Friday folders tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Today I am sending home a permission slip for next Tuesday, the whole elementary is traveling to the Tower-Soudan Elementary  School to see a play.  Please sign and return the permission slip tomorrow. We will leave school at about 12:20  and return by 3:00.
I could take a parent chaperon or two along.  Let me know if you are interested in riding the bus with us.

Today I tried to get students on the computer to use the Compass reading/language arts programs, we had some trouble with the sound, but everyone was able to use it a little.  We are making positive progress in following routines in class.


Math  - review ws
Reading - Rhyming
Spelling - at rhyming book
Grammar  - Command/Exclamation WS


Homework tonight...Word a Day and Social studies - map worksheet, do  Tuesday and Wednesday.

Monday, September 12, 2011

I apologize if my directions to the students for homework were unclear on Monday night. Students were supposed to cut apart their spelling words and then sort them or in the case of this list match up the words with the picture. This part of the spelling program is called "sort". Next student were to write the words from the list however they sorted them. This week all the words were "at" or "short a" words. Then each night they should sort and take a pretest on the words. One of the pretests should be done on the back of the Independent Word Study. Originally I told the students that the Independent Word Study was due on Wednesday. I think I will take it any day up to Friday morning of each week. This spelling sort and Independent Word Study will be a part of homework every week. As we get more into the spelling program, your child may have a list of words that begin with "st" or "ch" and then they would sort those words into two columns of "st" and "ch" words. Maybe this list was confusing because there was not anything to sort. My purpose for this list was that the words were easy and I wanted the students to succeed this week, as we start the spelling program.

I also assigned word a day last night for the first WAD homework.
A few students also had math homework, work they did not finish in class today during math class.

Hope this explanation help clear up some confusion from Monday night's homework.

Mrs. Barich