Monday, October 26, 2009



Reading with our 5th grade buddies!

Friday, October 23, 2009

October 26-30

Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween! Students wear your costumes on Friday for our Halloween parade! Parents you are more than welcome to come watch; our parade will be Friday morning.

This week is also Red Ribbon Week. Students will be writing about what they will do instead of doing drugs. They will also be making a pledge to not do drugs.

On Thursday night, October 29th, is our Math Night. Come have dinner and learn fun math games to play with your family.

I attached the Media Release Form to the homework last Friday. I figured that would be a better place for you to see it. Please turn those into me this week.

Science: Rocks

Language Arts: -ed endings

Reading: Students are creating non-fiction posters from books in their reading group.

Math: Our math camp on Geometry starts this week.

This week's math focus:
- Connect words and numerals for multiples of 100.
- Count by hundreds.
- Add multiples of 100.
- Identify a number as hundreds, tens, and ones.

Monday, October 19, 2009

October 19-23

Parents I will be sending home a Media Release Form on Tuesday. This gives me permission from you to include student pictures from activities we have done to put on the class blog. I did this last year and the parents loved it. I even had grandparents checking the class blog each week to see pictures! Sometimes I will include first names but never last names with student photos. Please sign and return this form by Friday. I already have pictures to include for next week's post!

Language Arts: Contractions and Abbreviations

Science: Rocks

Writing: Descriptive Paragraph

Math: We finished our unit on Measurement and Geometry. I was surprised by how well the students understood Geometry! We will be starting Minute Math. This is to help challenge students to get math facts quick.

This week's math focus:
- Develop understanding of the position of whole numbers (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands).
- Represent a number as different combinations of tens and ones.
- Trade 1 ten for 10 ones.
- Trade 10 ones for 1 ten.

Monday, October 12, 2009

October 12-16

Happy Columbus Day! We are going to have a great short week this week. Just a reminder- there is no school on Friday, October 16th and Monday, October 19th, so enjoy your four day weekend for fall break. This week we have two SUU students coming to observe our class, so I will be using them for extra one on one help for the students! On Wednesday, Ballet West is coming to our school and will be performing Sleeping Beauty. We don't get this often so it will be a nice treat for students to watch other forms of art! Gracie is our Big Kahuna this week! Her birthday was October 4th- Happy Birthday Gracie!

Language Arts: We will be reviewing Homophones and learning more about Contractions.

Writing: Descriptive paragraph

Math: Our Math Camp on graphing will be ending this week. The students have done very well in this area.

This week's math focus:
- Recognize and name 3-D shapes.
- Recognize and name 2-D faces of 3-D shapes.
- Recognize and name faces, edges, and vertices of 3-D shapes.
- Review and test.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

October 5-9

It's October already! I hope you're enjoying the nice fall weather like I am. This week the Huntsman World Senior Games are starting. Every year they have a big Opening Ceremonies for the athletes at the Hansen Stadium. I am inviting you guys to come to the Opening Ceremonies Tuesday night, October 6th, at 7:00. I teach dance at Diamond Talent and will be performing; a couple of students from Coral Cliffs will also be performing. This is such an amazing experience! This year there will be 49,000 athletes from 60 different countries. Feel free to come, bring blankets or chairs because you get to sit right on the field and watch the show! Their will be a sky diver, singing, dancing, and fireworks!!

Thursday, October 8th- Turn in your Spelling Fundraiser envelope to class so we can take our spelling test on Friday, October 9th which we will take right on the envelope. On Friday I will correct these 10 words and send envelopes home. Then students will collect money for words spelled correctly. Checks can be made to Coral Cliffs Elementary PTA. Students will return envelopes and money by October 16th. Everyone who returns the envelope will win a prize. 100% of all money raised will go directly to Coral Cliffs! The students are really excited about this, so if you have any questions please call Becky VanLehn at #435-862-5931.

Friday, October 9th, will be Picture Retakes.

Writing: We will be learning what a paragraph needs. We will also begin Descriptive writing.

Art: Students will create a fall picture using tear art.

Language Arts: Homophones

Science: Nutrition