Changes to Spelling Homework

Guess what? Beginning Monday, you will not turn in daily spelling homework. You will have a contract and will turn in everything on Friday morning. Sounds cool? Here is what you have to do.


Directions

Choose from the activities below to make a total of 100 points. Do each choice on a separate piece of paper. You may use the fronts and backs of pages. Write the choice name at the top of the page. Attach ALL your work to this sheet. Assignments are due Friday morning. Incomplete assignments or missing assignments will be completed at Fun Friday. Please do not turn in work early.

10 points

* Write each word three times.

* Write each word one time using this code: vowels are blue, consonants are red.

* Write each word one time using a different color for each letter. (Rainbow Words)

* Have a helper give you a practice test on your words.

20 points

* Write a sentence with each word. Underline the word.

* Write all your words in ABC order.

* Find your words in a newspaper or magazine. Cut them out and glue them to a piece of paper.

30 points

* Write a joke or riddle for each spelling word. Include the answer!

* Write a silly story using all your spelling words.

* Find the value of each word if vowels are worth 10 cents and consonants are worth 5 cents.

Exciting Math Activities

We are going to be doing some interesting things in Math this week. First, we will learn about the properties of addition. You did some with this while I was gone. I hope you remember! I'll need your help to fill out a chart.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we'll use book orders to practice our addition. Then, on Thursday and Friday, we are going to read this book:

Then we are going to do a webquest from this website. We will learn about addition and problem solving. I think we will have lots of fun AND learn too.

What can be better?

Welcome!

Hello!

Welcome to our classroom blog. You will be able to post from home, with your parents' permission.

A blog is like an online journal. You've been writing in your personal journal for a few days now. This blog is like a journal for our whole class. We will post about what we do and what we learn.

On the left side <------ there are some GREAT websites for you to visit. Take some time to check them out. You'll be learning about them in class and playing with them on Fun Fridays.

I'm SO glad to be your teacher this year. We're going to have a GREAT year!!

Uppers are UP!

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Here is proof that we ARE re-doing our kitchen. And the upper cabinets are done! Hooray! Tomorrow we tackle prepping to floor to install the lower cabinets on Saturday.

Meet the author

Mrs. C and Mrs. S went with me to meet Jon Scieszka. He is so super funny. I had a chance to talk with him briefly and he signed a new book. I bought a copy of Baloney. It is really funny! I'll read it to you Friday. Enjoy these pictures of me and the other teachers. My face is funny because Mrs. C took the picture while I was still talking! That lady!