Classroom News

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Break and is refreshed and ready to learn. After our short first week back, we have reviewed and gone over many things in class. One of those items is multiplication.

We began touching on multiplication before we left for the Holidays and are going to really begin working on it now. Ask your students tell explain how area and multiplication are alike. Or what their monster multiplication fact wheel looks like. We have begun making flash cards in class that students may be able to use in centers, on worksheets, etc.

Our Economics planner is coming to an end and we will be venturing into Space! We are very excited to begin learning about our galaxy. In fact we are getting ready for the planner by reading “My teacher is an Alien” in LDC and writing stories of our own about our teacher being an alien. BUT, don’t forget that with Economics, there is a final summative on Friday… think creating rules for a business, supply and demand, producers and consumers. AND remember the Million Dollar Project is due on Thursday!!!

We are really starting to work on our writing skills and have started a Recipe for Successful Writing. Ask your student about their monster alien story they are writing and how they are following an outline for writing.

Spelling Words. We did some of our spelling words last week in cursive. The students expressed interested in this and here is the web site where you can do it at home. You can use spelling words or any words you choose. *Writing words in cursive can be one of your 4 spelling activities for the week!
http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/general_content/free_resources/teachers_corner/handwriting/handwritingpractice.jsp?f=m

Also, Huckelberry Bask is coming soon! Don’t forget about classroom donations. And for those of you interested, a photo of our class projects (almost completed) is below!

Thanks, Mrs. Mackey!