Thursday, September 30

Good Morning!

I'm going to post the assignments early today because I've had a lot of things going on in the afternoon lately...

Here are the assignments:
Spelling: We are playing spelling baseball in class today (study for the post-test tomorrow!)
Reading: Read the "Time for Kids" Magazine and complete the reading worksheet
Math: Correct multiplication tests
Science: LAB on first class levers

We are testing with MAPS today and then again next week we will have two more tests.  I will let you know what days the tests will be on.

Tomorrow is PICTURE DAY!  Please bring your picture order forms.

Book orders are due on October 11 if you wish to order.

Have a great day!
Mrs. Engman

Week 3 Spelling Words

These words focus on the long a sound

1. afraid
2. explain
3. payment
4. sleigh
5. laid
6. raise
7. straight
8. freight
9. height
10. they
11. favorite
12. April
13. able
14. radio
15. station
16. relation
17. daybreak
18. trace

bonus words
19. engrossed
20. awesome

Monday, September 27

I apologise that I have not blogged recently.  Last week seemed crazy!

A few notices:

Picture Day is on Friday.  If you wish you may send the student's picture order forms early and I will collect them daily or you may just have them bring them with on Friday.

We have MAPS testing on Thursday, September 30.  Please make sure that your child gets a good night's sleep the night before and has a good breakfast that day.  MAPS testing is important to help me know how to better teach the students individually.  We can also measure growth through the school year and previous years.  It is an excellent tool!

We started guided reading today.  I think it is going to work great.  Students may have independent reading assignments throughout the week.

Assignments for today:
Spelling: Week 3 Words WS   (The bonus words are engrossing and awesome)
Reading: Guided Reading Assignments for "Feeding Ookie" and the Babysitter Story
Math: WB p. 12 and hardcover book p. 55 (1-22)
Science: Pulley Lab

I will post the spelling words today so you can practice for the pre-test tomorrow. 

Have a wonderful evening!
Mrs. E.

Monday, September 20

Hello! I hope you all had a great weekend! We got through another Monday. :)
Here are the assignments for today:
Spelling: week 2 worksheet (bonus words monotone and trespassing)
Please check your list--change the spelling of trespassing! (oops!)
Reading: typing our two paragraphs (in school)
Math: checkpoint quiz 1
Language: four types of sentences and sentence fragments
Science: lab safety posters

Hope you have a good evening!
Mrs. E.

Spelling List for week of 9-20

1. rough
2. grudge
3. stunt
4. thumb
5. once
6. another
7. does
8. trouble
9. cousin
10. began
11. oxygen
12. copy
13. very
14. until
15. umpire
16. sudden
17. which
18. city
19. monotone
20. tresspassing

Friday, September 17, 2010

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend.  Hopefully it should be a good one!  I am almost finished with assessing for reading.  I'm excited to be working with small groups in reading.  I think that we are becoming better readers every day!

In the folders is the newest Student Handbook.  Please take the time to review it and sign the slip located in the front of the book.  Please return it on Monday in your folder. 

Book orders are due Monday.

Here are the assignments for today:
Reading: We worked on Compass Learning in the Lab
Math: WB p. 9
Science: Lab Safety poster (will finish in class on Monday)
Spelling: Test

Please read over the weekend.  I recommend at least 20 minutes a day.  We talked about how practicing reading is just as important as practicing any skill.  The more you read the better you will become!

Our poet of the week this week was Emily Dickenson. We enjoyed many of her poems about nature and talked about personification. 

Hope you have a great weekend!  See you Monday!
Mrs. E.

Today's Assignments

Hello!

We've had quite a busy week.  There are a few assignments that I gave out yesterday that are due tomorrow as well as ones that were given today. 

Here they are--
Spelling: Word find and paragraphs using 10 of the spelling words
Reading: Finish writing the two paragraphs on lined paper.  They should be turned in with the ouline planning sheet you used to plan your writing.
Math: book p. 27-28, 1-10 and 19-31
Science: Finish the simple machines worksheet from the computer lab yesterday (you don't need a computer to do this) and finish reading pages 1-6 in the "Levers and Pulleys" book. 

Have a good night!
Mrs. E.

Today's Assignments

Hello!
Here are today's assignments:

Spelling: ws page 11-12
Math: hardcover book p. 23 (1-34)
Reading: work on two paragraphs for abc book (due Friday)
Geography: globe lines map skills packet

Have a good night!
Mrs. E.

Spelling List Week 1

1. hour
2. our
3. air
4. heir
5. aisle
6. I'll
7. isle
8. knead
9. need
10. new
11. knew
12. gnu
13. ring
14. wring
15. plum
16. plumb
17. him
18. hymn
19. wrapped
20. rapt

Monday, September 13

I just wanted to take a minute to say what a wonderful class I have this year!  I am excited for all the different concepts we are going to learn. 

Recently we used data to create graphs on Microsoft Excel.  It was great!  We made three kinds of graphs and were able to analyze our data by looking at them.

Here are today's assignments:
Spelling: WS p. 9-10
Language: Work on the planning sheets for the ABC book paragraphs
Math: WB p. 3
Science: Constructing Simple Machines (done in class)

Hope you have a great Monday night!
Mrs. E.

Friday, September 10

Today's Assignments:

Reading: Reading a graph worksheet
Spelling: Synonyms Lesson 2 p. 10-11
Language: Pre-writing activity (in class)
Math: WB p. 2 (do not do questions 1-2)
Science: Simple Machines quiz (in class)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  We survived the first week of school--yay!
I am really looking forward to the rest of the school year.  This class is great!

Mrs. E.

Back To School!

Hello everyone!  Today was a great day.  I hope that all of you enjoyed it as much as I have! :)

Today's assignments are as follows:

Spelling: Synonyms worksheet 6-7
Math: chapter 1 pre-test (done in class)
Reading: Shared Reading "Books for Oliver" (in class)

Please remember to turn in the following forms ASAP please:
Parent Reading Survey
School Nurse Form (it is the one with the card and orange sheet)
Waive the insurance form
Mrs. Engman's class rules sheet

Also if you would like to order books from the book order, you may do so until Monday, September 20. 

I forgot to mention yesterday that the kids may bring a snack to school.  We will have snack every day around 10:15. 

Have a wonderful evening!
Mrs. E.