Week of October 19th

This week's spelling paragraph is:
Unusual Flying Creatures
Bats are unique creatures. They use sound waves to capture insects while they are flying. This is called echolocation. Bats are the only mammals who can fly. They soar through the night sky. These animals sleep hanging upside down in caves, barns, under bridges, or high up in trees. Definitely, bats are unusual wild animals.

In reading we are reading the story "Make Way For Ducklings". The focus this week is animals in the city and how they adapt. An informative site for students about animals and their habitats is:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/?source=pincl
Don't forget you can go online to:
http://www.sraimagineit.com/g_login.html
To read the story at home or if your student forgets their decodable Thursday night.

In math, we are continuing to work on subtraction with regrouping. A fun subtraction game site is:
http://www.weeklyreader.com/kids/games/subtraction.asp

Weekly Reporter is Angela K.:
We had a wonderful week. We did Food is Elementary. We learned about cutting apples right and knife safety. We have ladybugs. It is how many points you have. I have 23.5. We read "One Small Place In a Tree". It is about how it became a home for lots of animals. We had a wonderful week at school.

October 12th

Welcome to another fun filled week! We start Food is Elementary today. If you have not returned your child's permission slip, they are unable to participate until that is returned. We are still needing $8 for serveral students. If you have not sent in $8 for your students, please do so as soon as possible. We need home support to sustain this very educational, interesting program.

The spelling paragraph this week is:
Amazing Buzzing Bees
Bees are small, flying insects. Their homes, or habitats, are buzzing, busy hives. Their bodies have different parts like two honey baskets, a proboscis, and a fierce stinger. Worker bees, drones, and a queen all reside in the hive. Bees are truly interesting bugs!

We begin our new reading unit - Animal Habitats. If you have any habitats or animal mounts you would let us borrow, we would love to have real items to view.

We finish unit 2 in math -adding 3 digit numbers - on Tuesday. Wednesday we will be starting subtracting with regrouping.

Your child may have told you I broke my foot. Yes this is true.

Weekly Reporter is Parker:
This week I did many things. One example is I took AR tests on the computer. I have 13.3. My goal is 30.0 points. I am 44.3% there! Another example is my teacher is reading to us Charlotte's Web. Charlotte just wrote "Some Pig" in her web above the pig pen. Finally I measured my plants for science and drew a picture of our plant. As you can see I had a great week!