Mrs. Spencer's Classroom Blog

Weekly Spelling Words – pattern oi, oy

Pattern words – oil, soil, moist,hoist, toy, joy, loyal, royal, coin, join

Sight words – work, upon, our, black, pick

Bonus words (optional) narrative, fantasy, giant, fairy, magical

February Reading logs are due on Wednesday, March 1. Please return Winter Break reading logs by Tuesday, February 28.

March is Reading Month

I would like to invite parents to come in and read a favorite children’s book to the class. I will send home a note soon so you can sign up. The kids love it!

Literacy Night is Thursday, March 2 from 5:00 – 6:30. It is a fun night of reading and writing activities! Visit our classroom, room 211, for Dr. Seuss Reader’s Theater.

Our next Late Start is Wednesday, March 15. School begins at 9:40.

Midwinter break is here from February 20 -February 24. 

Hopefully, the weather will be nice and the children will be able to get outside and play.

Please remind your child to read every day. The local library is a great place for the children to pick out books that interest them. The books should be “good fit” books. Students should be able to read most of the words.

Practice your basic math facts. Our goal is to know from memory basic facts with sums to 20.

Homework – Students neatly fill out the All About Me page. These will be hung in the hallway so please have them think about their answers before they write so they are neat and make sense.

Scholastic News – Read and answer the questions on the back. Please put your name on the front.

Have fun! Go outside and play!

Weekly Spelling Words   – ou, ow

Pattern – clown, brown, growl, howl, found, sound, mouse, house, cloud, loud

Sight – been, seven, together, once, time

Bonus – artifacts, people, photographs, Henry Ford, Dearborn

LATE START – Wednesday, February 15th  School begins at 9:40.

Family Engineering Night (Science Night) at Henry Ford Elementary is Wednesday, February 15th from 5:00 – 7:00.  Hope to see you there! 

Winter Break – Monday, February 20 – Friday, February 24. Please help your child remember to read every day. If your child has a computer available to them, they can go to Clever to get on Myon or Moby Max.   Frontrowed.com is also available to them (class code is in their planner).

Thank you for the Kleenex donations!

There is a slight change on the bonus words. I have replaced the word Earth with the word island. Thank you.

Spelling – au, aw

Pattern Words – pause, cause, fault, launch, law, draw, claw, yawn, lawn,  crawl

Sight Words – drink, only, warm, done, round

Introducing bonus spelling words. These are optional words and will not be counted against a student if they get them wrong. They will be extra credit points.

The words will usually be vocabulary words from our current classwork.

Bonus – mountain, plain, plateau, volcano, island

VALENTINE’S DAY  is Tuesday, February 14th

Students may bring in store bought Valentine’s or make their own Valentine cards. We will pass out the cards in the afternoon starting at 2:00. We have 15 girls and 12 boys.

LATE START Wednesday, February 15 School begins at 9:40.

Weekly Spelling Words – oo, ue, ew, oe, ui

Pattern – root, boot, drew, flew, clue, glue, canoe, shoe, fruit, suit

Sight words – always, put, every, think, again

Science – we will begin our land form unit this week. Each student will choose a land form to research and learn more about and we will make models as well.

Math – we will be relating  addition and subtraction to length, use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract, and work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication (arrays) .

Social Studies – we will be learning how  communities change over time. Please have conversations with your child about how things used to be and how they are now. This can be about how Dearborn has changed such as how city hall has moved and is in a different building now.

Reading – we continue to work on various strategies to help improve our reading skills.

Family Engineering Night (Science Night) at Henry Ford Elementary is Wednesday, February 15th.

Weekly Spelling Words – oo, ou

Pattern words – good, hood, took, look, cookie, rookie, stood, wood, could, would

Sight words – because, many, long, full, pull

We have a busy testing week.

We will have our math test on Wednesday. The students are bringing home homework to practice for the test.

Our Social Studies test is Thursday. A study guide was sent home last week.

We will begin NWEA today and finish on Friday. We will be testing Reading and Math. Please make sure your child gets a good nights rest and a good breakfast. 🙂

Friday is a half day so teachers can work on report cards which will come home next week. The students will be dismissed at 11:45.

Weekly Spelling Words

R controlled vowels er, ir, ur

Pattern words – thirst,first,girl, bird, burn, turn, purse, nurse, her, paper

Sight words – goes, about, these, never, keep

Late Start – Wednesday, January 18, school will begin at 9:40.

NWEA testing – Students will be tested in reading and math the week of January 23rd . Please be sure your child  gets a good nights rest and  a good breakfast. Students are encouraged to take their time and do their best. 🙂

Social Studies Unit 3 test – Thursday, January 26th. The study guide will come home this week. Please read it over with your child several times before the 26th. We will also be reviewing the material in class.

Half Day – Friday, January 27th. Dismissal is at 11:45.

Thank you for all your support. This class is doing a terrific job of being responsible and returning homework. They are also very hard workers in the classroom.

Please help your child remember to color their reading log when they read each day.

If you can send in  a box of Kleenex it would be greatly appreciated.

I hope everyone had a safe and healthy break! 

Weekly Spelling Words – r controlled vowels, ar, or

Pattern – start, dark, short, part, park, sort, fort, born, jar, far

Sight – before, those, gave, give, put

Some dates to remember – 

Monday, January 16 – NO SCHOOL in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Wednesday, January 18 – Late Start, school will start at 9:40

Friday, January 27 – 1/2 day, dismissal is at 11:45, afternoon duty day for teachers

Our NWEA  reading and math tests will be given the week of January 23rd. Please be sure your child gets a good night’s rest and eats a good breakfast. 

In the next couple of weeks, we will be finishing up our current social studies unit. The test will be Thursday, January 26th. I will send home the study guide soon.

Have a great week!

Thank you to all our volunteer parents who helped pass out supplies and encouraging words today!

Here are a few pictures to show the fun we had.

This is how some of the kids spend their time at indoor recess.

Thank you again for all the donations for our Gingerbread Houses! It will be fun to see the children get creative!

We will decorate our gingerbread houses on Wednesday, December 21st starting at 1:15.

Weekly Spelling Words

Pattern – three letter blends – scr, spr, str

spray, spring, sprint, street, string, strap, scrap, scrub, scream, scram

Sight words – today, walk, talk, from, going

Wednesday is a late start. School will begin at 9:40. 

Friday is pajama day! Students may wear their pajamas and bring their slippers to wear. Students may also bring a small stuffed animal, pillow, and blanket (students must be able to carry everything on their own).      🙂

HOMEWORK

I will be sending home homework for the break. The math homework will concentrate on basic facts and fact families and pattern counting (counting by 10’s and 100’s). Many students are struggling in both areas. These skills need to become automatic. Practice doesn’t need to be tedious, just a few minutes a day. Students can practice math facts with flash cards, on the computer(math flashcard sites), or with card games (addition top it).

Have a safe and happy break!!