Aug. 31, 2016

Happy sunny day!!

Our focus lessons in Language and Reading today included identifying the steps in the writing process, identify beginning and end sounds when reading, and finding ways to correct run-on sentences.

In Science, we described each step to the design process. The students were given a scenario where they had to try and plan a way to solve a problem. They helped with drawing the problem on the board and observed to find what materials might help get food across the river.



HOMEWORK:
1) Math interactive notebook worksheet
2) Eng. p. 13

NOTICES:
- Math quiz tomorrow - practice ordering, comparing, and rounding numbers, as well as reading a bar graph
- when your child brings home a quiz/test, I ask that one parent signs the test by your child's name, and then return the test to school. They will then stay in a portfolio in the classroom.
- Sports Day shirts - we wear our sports day shirts on Fridays, but some students may not have one. Please respond to the Dojo message if needed, and we will get those shirts ordered ASAP.

Thanks for your help.

Have a great evening.

Mr. Y

Aug. 30, 2016

Welcome to this marvelous Tuesday, students and parents. Our day looked like this:

• Language Arts/Reading - made our Daily 5 schedules for the week, worked on Word Work stamina, wrote a quiz on "A Fine, Fine School"

 

• Math - used bar graphs to solve problems, and completed a rounding activity in our interactive notebooks
• Social Studies - it was all group work for this one: students had to distinguish between rural, urban, and suburban communities. Each group had to brainstorm characteristics of their community, present it, and then discuss which ones will go on the class made Vehn diagram.
• Science - described the purpose and steps of the design process.

 

HOMEWORK:
1) Reading Logs - great job so far everybody, let's get into that habit of reading
2) Math p. 12
3) Eng. p. 12


NOTICES:
- if you want to access the BrainPop Jr. website, here is the log in information:
user name: frcsls    password: redsox123
- please return the Science quizzes from the other day
- Math quiz on Thursday. We will review tomorrow in ECA
- another friendly reminder that we need tissues for the classroom, as stated on the list of materials needed. Please bring in a bag of tissues (maybe 10-14 packages).

Thank you.

Have a nice evening.

Mr. Y

Aug. 29, 2016

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Today in Assembly we had the special Angel of the Week award go to one of our Talented Third Graders. Congratulations to Rei!!  He has been a great help in the classroom, especially helping our new students, and reading very nicely. Thanks for all the help Rei. The student council was also announced.





After Assembly, we reviewed for the Journeys quiz and played a game where the students had to answer vocabulary and comprehension questions.

For Math, we continued to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand. We did some work in our interactive notebooks, and played rounding games.

We reviewed last week's quiz in Science, and then began the new unit on the Design Process.

In Social Studies, we distinguished between rural, urban, and suburban communities. The students worked together to create a web of ideas for each community.

To end the day, we had our K2 reading buddies join us.



HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 11
2) Social Studies paragraph writing - please write a paragraph of at least 5 sentences telling about which community you would like to live in, and give reasons why.
3) Reading Log

NOTICES:
- Quiz on "A Fine, Fine School"
- Math quiz on Thursday
- Spelling test on Friday

Have a nice evening.

Mr. Yaremchuk

Aug. 26, 2016

Week 3 has now come and gone, and the school year is officially starting to fly by. Soon, it will be Christmas! Haha. I hope everybody had a good week.

After some quick sharing time about what everybody's weekend plans are, the spelling test was first on our agenda. Following the test, the students were introduced to choice in the Daily 5. They were able to choose either Read to Self or Work on Writing.

In Math,we rounded numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.



Science was a quick review of Unit 1, corrections on the quiz, and also the re-test. The re-test was better than the first one.

NEW SPELLING WORDS:
because, Tuesday, round, window, circle, August, weekend, months, fifty, location, twenty, fourteen


HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 10
2) Think Tac Toe - please choose one activity from each column
3) R.E.D. - Read Every Day - I have handed out folders to each student. These folders have the reading logs that we will begin this weekend. Read the directions and information inside the folder. I thank you again for your support at home, and just a reminder, please let your child choose what they want to read. It will keep them interested in reading. If the students start with 10 minutes for the first couple of weeks, I'll be happy with that, and then we can bump them up to 15 minutes once they get into the routine.

NOTICES:
- Library on Monday, please bring your books
- Reading and Phonics quiz on Tuesday, please review "A Fine, Fine School"
- Math quiz on Thursday

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!

Mr. Y

Aug. 25, 2016

Welcome to the last part of the week. The children have been working very hard and getting closer to becoming great independent workers in the Daily 5.

In the Daily 5 today, we practiced some different Word Work activities, used pictures to help us understand the texts, and found predicates of sentences.

We looked at the globe and several maps to understand the concepts of latitude and longitude.

In Math, we rounded numbers to the nearest ten or hundred. We have some games to help in practicing rounding numbers.



HOMEWORK:
1) Eng. p. 11
2) Science quiz corrections
3) Study for the spelling test
*Math homework is not assigned for tonight

NOTICES:
- tomorrow is Friday, so please bring your PE clothes.
- Spelling test and Science quiz tomorrow

Have a wonderful evening!

Mr. Yaremchuk

Aug. 24, 2016

It was another beautiful day outside, and our Talented Third Graders enjoyed their time during recess and PE.

In the homeroom we had a busy start to the day as we continued to learn more Daily 5 routines. They are almost ready to begin doing the Daily 5 on their own, we just need a few more days of practice. Our focus lessons in Language and Reading today were: tune into interesting words, subjects of sentences, and reviewing how to Read to Someone.

In Science, we reviewed yesterday's quiz, and prepared for a re-quiz that will happen on Thursday. Please read your Dojo message that explains a little more.

During ECA, the students were in the gym with Sister Heart for Campus Ministry as the teachers had a Professional Development (PD) meeting. Congrats on the Blue Team for winning the activity.

HOMEWORK:
1) English p. 9
2) Journeys worksheet - please fill in the main characters, setting, and use at least 4 sentences when re-telling the plot of "A Fine, Fine, School"


NOTICES:
- Science quiz and Spelling test on Friday
- Tissues! Tissues! Please. The students are using tissues, and we still haven't received a pack of tissues from each student. As a reminder, a pack includes anywhere from 10-16 tissues. If you bring a pack of 10, that would be great, and we would have plenty for the rest of the year. Thanks for your help.

Have a splendid evening!

Mr. Y

Aug. 23, 2016

Happy sunny Tuesday parents and students.

Today was busy from start to finish. Here's what happened:

Language Arts/Reading - Used prior knowledge to connect with a text, built Read to Someone stamina, and distinguished between statements, questions, commands and exclamations

Math - Reviewed the quiz from last week (please return quiz tomorrow), reviewed how to compare numbers and practiced showing which numbers are greater than, less than, or equal to, and began making our Interactive Notebooks. We also rounded numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.



Social Studies - used a map scale to tell distance between two places, and found ways that maps can be different from each other



Science - had a quiz on Unit 1


NEW SPELLING WORDS: (I'm sorry I forgot to include them on Friday's blog)
rural, urban, region, evidence, direction, temperature, principal, proud, eight, Monday

HOMEWORK:
1) Eng. p. 5 and 7
2) Language Arts - 5 spelling sentences - please choose the other 5 spelling words to make a sentence

NOTICES:
- PE tomorrow, wear your casual uniforms
- Thank you to all the parents that came on Saturday, it was nice to meet you all. Once again, if you ever have any questions, please let me know, or we can schedule a time to meet.

Have a great night.

Mr.Y

Aug. 22, 2016

Good evening, I hope you all had a good weekend.

In my absence from school today, this was still the agenda:
- Reading and Phonics - finish reading "A Fine, Fine School" and understand the parts of the story.
- Math - use number lines and place value to compare and order numbers.
- Social Studies - use a map to describe locations and features.
- Science - review Unit 1 to prepare for tomorrow's quiz.

HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 9
2) Language Arts - please choose 5 new spelling words and write a sentence for each word. Each sentence must be at least 5 words long.

NOTICES:
- Science quiz tomorrow, please study: steps to an investigation, scientific tools, using a model, how to make observations and inferences, knowing how scientists record and display data.

Hope you had a good Monday!

Mr. Y

Aug. 19, 2016

The second week of back to school has come to an end. The students are getting used to their routines, and still learning new ones, but our Talented Third Graders are doing a fantastic job. I'm so happy to be their teacher this year.

A Spelling Test was the first thing we did today. Following the test was Show and Tell. We had a great variety of object brought in to show, and they came from different countries!  They included: Canada, Japan, Korea, USA, France.

      

The math quiz was after PE, followed by some minor housekeeping.

After lunch, the students continued to work on their charts and bar graphs from the data they collected from their surveys. Fine work, kids! Great teamwork!

  






NEW SPELLING WORDS:
rural, urban, region, evidence, direction, temperature, principal, proud, eight, Monday

HOMEWORK:
1) Journeys p. 5
2) LA - paragraph writing - please write 5-8 sentences about your first 2 weeks at school. You can write about anything you liked, didn't like, your favorite things, or something you look forward to learning this quarter.

NOTICES:
- TOMORROW - parent/teacher meeting. Reminder that there is a book fair tomorrow that is available for viewing at 8:00am.
- the schedule:  8:00am - 9:00am arrive and meet in the gym
                          9:00am - 10:00am parents go to the teacher homerooms
                         10:15am - 10:45am - meet with specialty teachers in the Library
                         10:45am - 11:15am - all teachers and parents meet in gym for announcements
- reminder again that the students will be able to wait in the office lobby and watch a movie
- also, please bring the last page of the Student/Parent Handbook with your signatures

NEXT WEEK:
- Library on Monday, please return your books
- Science quiz on Tuesday - Unit 1
- Spelling test on Friday

Have a wonderful evening and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Mr. Y