Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Wednesday Homework and Helpful Homework Information


Wednesday's Homework




Tuesday Homework and Canned Food Drive

Please remember to send in your non-perishable foods! If every student brings at least one item that's 30 donations! Check your cupboard and pantry. 


Here is tonight's homework. As always, you can click the picture to download and print if you need to. 


Happy Tuesday and remember to do your snow dance!



Monday, December 9, 2013

Monday Homework

It is my goal to post homework here one day ahead of time. 
I do my best to remind everyone to check and make sure that they have their homework journal on the way out, but now and then we still forget. If your student forgets homework at school you will still be able to find it here. I hope that this helps. 

Here is tonight's homework and this week's spelling list!

You can click either picture to download and print. 



The flip book stocking is just to make thing more fun and interactive! If it was lost feel free to simply write the multiples of each number. Example: The multiples of 2 are 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 etc. 

Thank you for all of your hard work!

As always remember to read 20 minutes each night :) 



Monday, December 2, 2013

Monday Homework: The Word Eater

We had a great first day! 

For tonight's homework students are to write 
2 paragraphs (3-5 sentences each) and tell what word they would have Fip eat and why. What do you think would happen? What would be the positives and negatives?


Today we began The Word Eater!
Fip is a magical worm. When Lerner Chase a young girl discovers that any word she feeds Fip causes that very thing to disappear she soon realizes that this power may be more than she ever anticipated. What if she were to have him eat the word potholes? Yes, those terrible bumps in the road would disappear but so would many jobs of the people who fix them. What if you wanted Fip to eat the word spiders and spiders were to disappear. Would the world soon be swarmed with fruit flies? Choose carefully! 


Saturday, November 30, 2013

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a fabulous break and enjoyed some much needed time with family!
I know we made many memories this Thanksgiving and I can't wait to share them with the class. 
Come to school Monday ready to share :) 

This week we will begin our Gingerbread unit. 
During this time we will compare and contrast many different versions of the classic, The Gingerbread Man. Later, we will write our own versions!

Here are some of my favorites: 



Visit the Gresham library to check them out. Remember, if you visit the library bring me a receipt for the books you checked out. Your visit to the library and the books you read earns you  the night with no homework! 


Every two weeks I will send home a class newsletter. You will get a copy in your OWL folder, but you can always view and download from our classroom website, too. Click either picture below to download/view. 






Sunday, November 10, 2013

Spread the word and help fund an iPad for our classroom!

I hope you are all enjoying this long weekend with your families!
Thank you to all of the Veteran's who have served our country.
We are so blessed to live in the land of the free and home of the brave.

If you have a chance tomorrow you might consider having your child write a letter thanking a verteran for all that they have done. Take your letter to a nearby Applebees. They are serving a free meal to all verteran's tomorrow. Last year we did this as a class and even had some letter written back to us. Our words really meant a lot to the men and women.


I have created a project at Donors Choose


Through this project I hope to raise funds to add an iPad to our classroom. This technology will be a powerful addition to our classroom. This year we are going to learn about Native Americans, ocean animals, space and Earth. Those are just out thematic units! Ther iPad is going to be an amazing resource for math, reading and writing too. I can't wait to get kids making movies and typing out their final drafts!

Please help us by simply sharing the link to our project page with friends and family. Encourage them to share it with others too! Plus, for the next 7 days an anonymous donor has agreed to match any donations 100% if you use the code CHEER. I am so excited about this project. Thank you for your help!!

Click the picture below to visit our project page and start sharing. You can easily share the page to your facebook page too!



REMINDER: See you at the Gresham library on Thursday at 6:00!




Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Meet the Teacher Library Night: DATE CHANGE

I hope you all received my note that went home yesterday!

If not, this is a reminder that the date for the meet the teacher night at the Gresham Library has changed. 

I will see you at the library on: 

Thursday
November 14th 
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

The original date was Title 1 night at Hollydale. I hope you will be able to attend both of these nights!