Week of January 11, 2010- GOLD Math Book

Happy New Year!

Just a reminder from my previous blog entries:

• Math homework is assigned every evening. A specific goal may be written in the student's assignment notebook or 30 minutes of math homework may be indicated. IF an entry is not assigned or if there is any confusion about your nightly assignment, please complete the 30 minutes of math homework requirement. If a section is too difficult or challenging, please feel free to complete review exercises in the back of the book or print out review sheets from a math website. The bottom line is that math homework is always required unless otherwise noted!
• In addition to completing the assignment, the work/calculations and answers must always be written in the math graph notebook. Although you may provide the answers in the Gold math book, the actual calculations are equally important and must be clearly identifiable in the notebook with the date, page numbers, problem numbers, a work column and an answer column.
• Lastly, if for some reason you are unable to complete an assignment, please inform me prior to class via e-mail or visit me before class begins (before 8:30am) and provide me with this information.

Thank you!

Regards,

LouAnn

Week of November 16

It was a very short week but we managed to accomplish alot!

'Tis the season to be thankful and I am VERY thankful for my wonderful Group 2 students!

We are looking forward to our Thanksgiving Extravaganza on this Friday. Thank you for your very generous contributions!

We had the pleasure of a guest student on Thursday and thoroughly enjoyed Peter's visit.

We accomplished the following learning activities this week:

• Progressed in our Phonics packet.
• Reviewed the Northeastern States.
• Conferenced on Book Reports.
• Implemented the writing process as we wrote in our Writing Journals.
• Completed another section of our Reading Comprehension books.
• Reviewed for our Historical Figures quiz on Sharon Clark and the founding of Clark School and scored successfully on our quizzes!
• Completed Word List 6 and performed well on the weekly Wordly Wise test.
• Continued reading Charlotte's' Web.
• Received a Flat Stanley back from the west coast, Hollywood, California, with great photos of the Walk of Fame, Universal Studios and the Hollywood Hills sign! Thanks to friends of the Cirones!
• Received "Take-Home-Hootie" reports and learned more about "owls" such as the Snowy Owl and the Elf Owl.

Monday 11/16/09

• Reading: 20 minutes/Book Reports/Reading Journal Responses
• Geography: Globe Puzzle Handout
• WW: please review and plan the completion of the spelling exercises. WW words: cavity, defeat, destroy, fade, false, guest, hive, honest, paddle, plentiful, salary, stoop. Dolch words: tell, their, these, those, upon.
• A.M. work ( from last week): please complete!

Tuesday 11/17/09

• Reading: 20 minutes/reports/responses

Wednesday 11/18/09

• Library Visit
• Button Day
• Reading: Reading Comprehension Books, next section is due

Thursday 11/19/09

• Reading: 20 minutes
• WW: Pre-test
• WW: List 7, exercises on pages 28 - 31

Friday 11/20/09

• WW: Test
• Thanksgiving Extravaganza: Please wear your finest holiday attire and bring your best manners and a BIG appetite!
• Enjoy your Thanksgiving break- gobble, gobble gobble!

Week of November 9 - Homework

This is a short week and Thanksgiving is right around the corner...


Monday 11/09/09

• Read 20 - 30 minutes/Reading Journal Response/Book Report
• WW Words: acre, converse,damage, decorate, delay, direct, escape, expensive, hint, humid, rescue, resemble, stunt, wrinkle
• Dolch Words: read, right, sing, sit, sleep
• Vocabulary Packet: Page 19, Homonyms, Synonyms, Antonyms
• "A.M./Morning Work": Complete any unfinished papers from last week.

Tuesday 11/10/09

• DAY-OFF: ENJOY!
• However, plan ahead for end- of- the- week due dates!

Wednesday 11/11/09

• DAY-OFF: ENJOY!

Thursday 11/12/09

• Reading Comprehension books- next section, check your books for comments.
• WW: Pre-test
• Historic Figures: Quiz on Sharon Clark and the founding of Clark School- see Study Guide.

Friday 11/13/09

• A very LUCKY day!
• Read 20 - minutes/Reading Journals/Book Reports
• WW: Test
• WW: Word List 6 exercises pages 22- 26