Last Week's Recap

1^st Grade LA

Word Ladders, connecting letters and language: This week we finished up lesson 5 with Word Ladders. Word ladders help the students with word recognition, spelling and vocabulary. A word ladder works by starting with one word. For every step you can only change one letter, each step must make a real word, proper nouns are not allowed. The number of steps it takes to get from the beginning word to the last depends on the number of blank spaces. In this example, we will go from FLY to CRY in one step. Changing the “L” to an “R” creating the word FRY. Once we have FRY we change the “F” to “C” taking us to CRY. That is called a one step ladder. We also worked on two step ladders. Students were able to take a packet of word ladders home if they wished. If you would like to see a packet, I have extras.

1^st Grade MA

Chapter Check-up: At the beginning of the year I gave all the students a Unit Assessment. This ‘test’ was used to see what students knew about concepts we would be going over though out the year. Wednesday and Thursday were spent taking the Chapter Check-up. This test will show me how well the students understood the concepts we’ve learned so far. This weekend I graded the chapter checkups. I will compare these to the Unit Assessments, and hopefully get them back to you next week.

2^nd Grade LA

Edward Tulane: All but the last chapter!!! We are so close. The homework this week is to read chapters 23-26 and fill out a reading analyzer over one chapter. They students are NOT to read the last chapter; we will do that together on Thursday. This week we reviewed the chapters we’ve read and broke into small groups to discuss settings and character traits. We learned about metaphors last week using the poem at the beginning of the book. As we talked about the different characters and settings we were able to see the connection between Edward’s heart breaking and being able finding a deeper love.

2^nd Grade MA

Prototypes: Monday and Tuesday we were busy creating and sharing car seat prototypes. Each group needed to share and explain their prototype drawing. Our job as a class was to give each group feedback on their prototypes. If we were concerned about strength, safety, or stability we brought it to their attention. The class was extremely polite while they helped critique each other’s design. The students were then given a chance to make any last minute adjustments.

3^rd Grade LA

Fables: This week we began our unit on fables. We discussed how fables have animal characters, the setting is usually outside, there is a hero/villain and of course a moral. I loved how the students applied some of the 7 habits to the fable’s main idea. Our first fable we read was "The Ant and the Grasshopper". We filled out a reading analyzer then discussed our answers. It was interesting to hear everyone's opinion of the main idea. Their insights of the moral were all slightly different. 

3^rd Grade MA

Chapter Check-up: At the beginning of the year I gave all the students a Unit Assessment. This ‘test’ was used to see what students knew about concepts we would be going over though out the year. Wednesday and Thursday were spent taking the Chapter Check-up. This test will show me how well the students understood the concepts we’ve learned so far. This weekend I graded the chapter checkups. I will compare these to the Unit Assessments, and hopefully get them back to you next week.

4^th Grade LA

Finishing up the time lines!! Make sure you child is collecting pictures for their time line. I can print them here but it is time consuming to open everyone’s folder to collect them and print.

4^th Grade MA

Chapter Check-up: At the beginning of the year I gave all the students a Unit Assessment. This ‘test’ was used to see what students  knew about concepts we would be going over though out the year. Wednesday and Thursday were spent taking the Chapter Check-up. This test will show me how well the students understood the concepts we’ve learned so far. This weekend I graded the chapter checkups. I will compare these to the Unit Assessments, and hopefully get them back to you next week.