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Spelling: Today we had a preview of coming spelling words, we reviewed what a homograph is, and we looked at the prefixes: auto, bio, and graph.

Cursive: Cursive worksheets pp. 14-17 were reviewed and students completed a Cursive Quiz for their first cursive grade.

Reading: Today we discussed in small groups the open-ended questions from our reading of Esperanza Rising yesterday.

Writing: Students started a map to “dig up buried stories.” This map might have been of their home, a grandparent’s house, a former home, or anywhere where there are plenty of memories and stories.

Math: Today was math skills and students completed a 100-Fact Addition Test.  

Science Inquiry: We began looking at ways to create testable questions. Today, we looked at these questions:

In the future during Science Inquiry, students will create their own testable questions and then do tests and make discoveries.

Nana Puddin’: No, not what I had for lunch! This was the name of a character education assembly put on at our school today. Students learned to make good choices, stop bad choices, ask for help, and care about people for who they are on the inside.

Special thanks to Mt. Hope Church for sponsoring this assembly and bringing it all the way from Texas to McGrath!

There will also be special performances of the Nana Puddin’ production at Mt. Hope Church this weekend:

• Saturday, 6:00 pm
• Sunday, 10:00 am, 12:00 noon

Click here for driving directions, or visit Mt. Hope Church at their online home.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: two magnets
• Oranges: none
• Reds: none

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• Spirit Week is next week. Click here for a calendar of theme days. 
• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!
• There is still some space left on our Room 130 Pride board. Let’s fill that thing up! If your student hasn’t yet brought in three unique “objects” about themselves, then please send them so that they can be put on display for all to see. We are looking for things like photos, postcards, papers, medals, or little trickets that can be put in bags and hung on the board. The only limitation is size, and being able to be attached somehow to a bulletin board. These objects can remain with us the whole year, or rotated out whenever the student wants.

Next week is Homecoming Spirit Week. Here are the days and the ways to show your spirit! 

Monday:  McGrath Eagles Day (wear your McGrath gear)
Tuesday:  Slipper Day
Wednesday:  Hat Day
Thursday:  Fun Sock Day
Friday:  Red and Black Day

***I was not in the classroom today due to an assessment and science meeting. The below activities are as planned and actual class activities may have varied from this post.***

Spelling: Students practiced making groups of word with long and short vowel sounds; this will be the skill tested tomorrow on the spelling test. Spelling worksheets are due tomorrow.

Cursive: Students are continuing to work on cursive pp. 14-17, due this Friday.

Reading: Students shared their illustrations from yesterday, then had Partner WEB, in which students took turns reading to each other.

Writing: Students continued to brainstorm ideas that they might like to write about this year and write them in their newly-assembled writer’s folder during this version of Writer’s Workshop that was shortened due to our library visit.

Math: Students discussed parallel lines and parallelograms. Homework is to complete Math Boxes 1.4 and the preceeding journal page, if not finished in class.

Science: Students finished the experiment, “Pulling Through.” Homework is to finish the Analyze and Conclude questions, if not done during class.

Social Studies: Students read about the Appalachians Mountains, rivers, waterfalls, forests and factories in the Northeast, and finished the WordSort from yesterday. See Tuesday’s post for the worksheet. Homework is to finish the WordSort, including the “brains on parade” section at the bottom instructing students to write what they learned about one of their word groupings.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: unknown
• Oranges: unknown
• Reds: unknown

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give!
• There is still some space left on our Room 130 Pride board. Let’s fill that thing up! If your student hasn’t yet brought in three unique “objects” about themselves, then please send them so that they can be put on display for all to see. We are looking for things like photos, postcards, papers, medals, or little trickets that can be put in bags and hung on the board. The only limitation is size, and being able to be attached somehow to a bulletin board. These objects can remain with us the whole year, or rotated out whenever the student wants.

Spelling: We reviewed common spelling patterns for the short “o” sound (/o/). Spelling worksheets are due on Thursday, at the time of our next spelling test.

Cursive: Students are continuing to work on cursive pp. 14-17, due this Friday.

Reading: Today we continued to practice the “Illustrator” Literature Circles role, using Esperanza Rising. Today was also WEB.

Math: Students completed math journal p. 4 in class, and it is homework if not finished.  

Science: We started an experiment called “Pulling Through” and will finish it tomorrow.

Social Studies: We added notes about the Southeast to our Regions Mini-book, and then we started a WordSort for the Northeast. Students will finish the WordSort tomorrow.

Behavior Update:

• Yellows: 2 magnets
• Oranges: 1 magnet
• Reds: none

Ask your student what kind of choices they made.

Notes:

• We are looking for donations of cardboard tubes (toilet tissue, paper towel, wrapping paper) for class projects. The tubes can be sent in any time during the year; this project will be on-going. Thanks for any help you can give! 
• There is still some space left on our Room 130 Pride board.  Let’s fill that thing up! If your student hasn’t yet brought in three unique “objects” about themselves, then please send them so that they can be put on display for all to see. We are looking for things like photos, postcards, papers, medals, or little trickets that can be put in bags and hung on the board. The only limitation is size, and being able to be attached somehow to a bulletin board. These objects can remain with us the whole year, or rotated out whenever the student wants.