Feb. 29th

5th Grade Math: Students are going to be doing a review of what we have been learning for the next couple of weeks. We will really be focusing in on division and making sure that every student knows how to divide with their eyes closed! :) Homework tonight is a division worksheet and page 120 in their workbooks.

4th Grade REWARDS: This week's lesson we reviewed the different vowel sounds, prefixes, and suffixes that we have been learning this year. We are then using that knowledge to sound out words that we don't know and reading them in sentences as well. We also do a spelling portion of the lesson that has students sounding out words and trying to spell them. I am noticing that all of the students are doing very well at this. They even amaze themselves at what big words they can spell!

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Two students earned books to take home today. Cierra finished her 24th story and Joe completed his 36th! Congratulations to the both of you!!!

Feb. 28th

5th Grade Math: 5th Graders did a little bit of review this morning. We talked about different types of triangles, angle measures, and prime factorization. I was very pleased that many of them remembered most of this! :) Their homework for tonight is to complete pages 116 & 117 in their workbooks.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Ramsy finished his 30th story and earned a piece of candy! Congratulations Ramsy!!!

Feb. 27th

5th Grade Math: Today we reviewed place value and talked a little bit about fractions and decimals. Most students find this topic very confusing, but we haven't gotten into that Unit yet. The problems on their homework that deals with these are a review for the students. However, don't panic if they aren't understanding it very well because we will go much more in depth with it shortly. :) The homework for tonight is pages 113 and 114 in their workbooks.

Feb. 23rd

5th Grade Math: Lately I have noticed that some students are not doing their homework. In order to make the students more responsible, I sent home a letter and a list of missing work with each child today. I expect the students to show them to their parents and return the bottom part signed, so I know that their parents have seen it. Tonight's homework is pages 111 and 112 in their workbooks. It is over using division in story problems and how to look at the remainder. Sometimes we need to round up to the nearest whole number and sometimes we need to ignore it.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congrats to Xander who completed his 24th story today, earning him a book to take home! Keep up the great reading!

Feb. 22nd

5th Grade Math: Today we reviewed partial quotient division, and students learned how to multiply to check their answers. For tonight's homework, I expect the students to multiply each of the problems to check their answers. Homework is pages 106 & 107 in their workbooks.

4th Grade Rewards: This past couple of weeks we have been reviewing the vowel combinations, prefixes, and suffixes that we have been learning this year. Students are using that knowledge to sound out longer words and also using them in sentences. I can tell that they are starting to see how they can use the strategies that we are learning in class and using them while reading! :)

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Kendal earned candy today after finishing her 30th book! Way to go Kendal!

Feb. 17th

5th Grade Math: We continued to go over how to divide using decimals. The main mistake the students seem to make is forgetting to estimate what the quotient will be and then forgetting to put the decimal back into their answer. Homework for tonight is Study Link 4-5 and workbook page 110.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: We had two students earn candy or a book today. Chase earned a piece of candy when he finished his 30th book and Cassie earned a book after she completed her 12th story. Congratulations to the two of you!

Feb. 16th

5th Grade Math: Today we learned how to divide decimals. Students are to make an estimate of what place value the answer will be and then divide ignoring the decimal. Using their estimate, they then put the decimal in the answer. Tonight's homework is pages 108 & 109 in their workbooks. I am also collecting their workbooks tomorrow to grade them, so if they have any pages that they want to redo or complete for a late grade, make sure that it is done tomorrow.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congratulations to Skylie and Terrick who each earned candy today! Skylie finished her 30th story and Terrick finished his 18th! Way to go!

Feb. 15th

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day yesterday and enjoyed all of the festivities going on in all of the classrooms!

5th Grade Math: We did not meet this morning, so everyone has an extra night to get their homework completed. :)

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congrats to Emily who finished her 24th story today and earned a book to take home! Keep up the great work!

Feb. 13th

5th Grade Math: Some students still need a little bit more practice on dividing using partial quotients, so they have another worksheet to complete using them. I also noticed that many of the kids did not finish their homework over the weekend, so I made sure to give each of them an extra copy, and I expect them to have it done on Wednesday. We also talked about how to use map scales to find distances. They were assigned workbook page 103 which has them figuring out distances using a map. Since tomorrow is Healthy Heart day (Valentine's Day) students will not be meeting for Math, so they have an extra night to do their homework.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: This week we have welcomed some new students into our classroom! Welcome Norah, Savannah, Riley, Gavin, & Jasmine! We hope that they are enjoying our class, learning, and becoming better readers! :)

Feb. 10th

5th Grade Math: We continued to go over how to divide using partial quotients. I spent the entire class period going over how to use the method and doing problems together as a class. Students can use the weekend to fix any mistakes that they made on the workbook pages and they also need to complete Study Links 4-2.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congratulations to Zach who finished his 36th story today! He earned a book! Keep up the excellent reading! Also, some of our students have been working really hard this year at their reading, and they are right where they should be. This means that they are exited from the Read Naturally program. I am very happy for these students, but I will miss seeing them everyday in my classroom. I guess I will have to see them in the hall! :)

Feb. 9th

5th Grade Math: Day 2 of Division. Today we reviewed partial products for division. They were first introduced to this method in 4th grade. I warned the students that parents might not be the best help for this because we were not taught this way when we were in school (Me included)! :) I did tell them that if they are really struggling with the concept that they could learn how to do the problems with their parents. Their SRB shows them exactly how to do the problems on page 22. Homework for tonight is to complete pages 101 and 102 in their workbook.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Evan earned a prize today after finishing his 30th story and Kyrsten earned a book after completing her 24th story! Congratulations to the both of you!

Feb. 8th

5th Grade Math: 5th Graders started learning about division today. We talked about fact families, and how if you know your multiplication facts, then you can divide! This should be a review for the students, and they seemed to pick up on it quickly. Homework for tonight is page 99 and 100 in their workbooks.

4th Grade REWARDS: This week we started different kinds of lessons. In these lessons, we review a vowel sound and some prefixes and suffixes that we learned earlier this year. Then, we read sentences with big words in them, so students can use the strategies that we have been talking about. This way, when they are reading a book at school or at home, they will break up the word into small parts in order to figure out what the word is.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Sara completed her 24th book today and earned a book to take home! Way to go!

Feb. 7th

5th Grade Math: We took the Unit 3 test today, so no homework tonight! :) Tomorrow we start Unit 4, Division.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congratulations to Zach who finished his 30th story today! He earned himself a prize!

Feb. 6th

5th Grade Math: Test is tomorrow! We played a Jeopardy review game today in class and some of the students seemed like they needed to look over the problems for the test again and practice using their protractors. I did give them an extra credit worksheet to take home that has them measuring angles using their protractor. I encourage all of the students to complete this and to look over their study guide for the test. They will turn in their study guide with their test.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Joe finished his thirtieth story today earning him a piece of candy! Also, Josh finished his twenty-fourth story earning him a book to take home. Congratulations to the both of you!

Feb. 3rd

5th Grade Math: Today we went over the study guide for the Unit 3 test. The homework for this weekend is to go over the study guide and study for the test. We will play a review game on Monday and have the test on Tuesday.

4th Grade Rewards: This week we talked about the /ea/ sound and the two ways it can be said. The first way is like meat, and the second way is like thread. We also reviewed different prefixes and suffixes that we have learned this year. At the end of the lesson, students practice spelling some of the challenging words that we went over that week. They did really well this week and most got them all correct! :)

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Congratulations to Ramsy who finished his 24th story today and earned a book to take home!

Feb. 2nd

5th Grade Math: Students were given their study guides tonight as their homework. It is due tomorrow. I made the study guide from the test, so if they understand how to do all of the problems without help from a parent or their SRB, then they will do great on the test. We will go over all of the answers to the study guide tomorrow to make sure that all students know what to expect for the test.

2nd & 3rd Grade Read Naturally: Abbey finished her twelfth story today earning her a book to take home. This is the first book that she has earned and she was very excited to pick one out.

Feb. 1st

Can you believe that it is February already? Although I am getting ready for Spring with all of the nice weather we have been having! :)

5th Grade Math: Today we reviewed how to find a missing angle in a triangle. Some students noticed that there was a pattern between a straight line measure and a triangle. They are both equal to 180 degrees. The homework tonight is to complete the missing angle in a triangle worksheet. Tomorrow we will review everything that we have been learning in this unit and I will make sure to go over some of the problems that they are struggling with.