Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Important Dates . . .

The kids have their Animal Habitat project due this Friday!!

February 29th is the last day that I will be collecting Reading Logs and totaling points . . . each kid needs to have 500 pages read by that date!! Thanks for your help!!

Spelling Words for Short Week . . .

Hi everyone . . .
Here are the spelling words for this week . . . there are NO SENTENCES!! Yeah!!

Spelling
Animal Habitats Reading-Writing Workshop


1. girl
2. they
3. want
4. was
5. into
6. who
7. our
8. new
9. would
10. could
11. a lot
12. buy
13. wouldn’t*
14. world*
15. through*
16. while*

Group 2 Challenge Words
Animal Habitats

1. about
2. algebra
3. quiet
4. other
5. weapon
6. thousand
7. happen
8. different
9. along
10. equator
11. hospital
12. animal
13. second
14. region
15. quarter
16. lecture
17. puncture
18. again

Homework for the Week:

Wednesday: Spelling & FINISH ANIMAL HABITAT!!
Thrusday: Math, Spelling, & FINISH ANIMAL HABITAT!!
Friday: Biography Interview Worksheet {Handout will be coming home and is due on Friday!}

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Read Across America Update . . .

The kids have read a total of:

14, 039 pages . . .

I have read a total of 1, 945 pages!!

Keep up the great work!!

There are two girls who have read over 2,000 pages already:

Kimberly and Amber!!

Way to go, girls!!

Again . . . keep reading . . . the party is on March 3!!

Spelling Words for Feb. 4-8

Group 1
Spelling
Seal Surfer
1. cared
2. babies
3. chopped
4. saving
5. carried
6. fixing
7. hurried
8. joking
9. grinning
10. smiled
11. wrapped
12. parties
13. moving*
14. libraries*
15. Was he joking when he said his dog can talk?
16. I hurried to the car while I carried the books.

Group 2
Challenge Spelling
Endings

1. surrounded
2. skiing
3. swimming
4. loving
5. studied
6. traveling
7. carried
8. trading
9. bragged
10. worried
11. beginning
12. exciting
13. finished
14. laughed
15. quickest
16. weaker
17. tiniest
18. lonelier
19. They were excited about the skiing trip.
20. Did both boys laugh while they studied their trading cards?

Our class Valentine Party will be on Feb. 14 at 2:00 p.m. Here is a list of kids in our class:

Estee Stella Jose
Orin Cameron Kapen
Tommy Ryan Austin
Gage Dalton Nash
Guillermo Sam Michael
Arielle Kimberly Kylee
Katelyn Allycia Riley Amber Mrs. T

There is a total of 23 kids in our class.