February 29

Happy Leap Day! Please remember, our Social Studies project about our families is due this Friday, March 2. We will have a spelling test on Unit 4's Word Wall words on Monday, March 5. Make sure you are studying the words at home! If you are interested in ordering from the March Scholastic, orders are due Monday, March 5.

For homework tonight, students should read their Phonics Reader and complete Home Link 8.5.

Reading Logs are due tomorrow!

Have a great night!

February 27

Good evening! This week we are introducing spelling multisyllabic words. In class we practiced clapping words into syllables, and then spelling each individual syllable. Students should remember that each clap needs to have a vowel when they write it out.

We took the reading part of our Unit 4 Benchmark Test today, and we will take the writing portion tomorrow. Family Projects for Social Studies are due on Friday, March 2. On Monday, March 5 we will have a spelling test on Unit 4's Word Wall words. Make sure you are studying your words! On Wednesday, March 7 we will have our Unit 8 Math Test. A study guide will be sent home on Monday, March 5.

For homework tonight, students should complete Home Link 8.3 and write their spelling words 3 times each.

Have a great night!

February 22

Good afternoon! I can't wait to see everyone's family projects on March 2! Keep working on them!

For homework tonight, students should complete Home Link 8.1 and write their spelling words in ABC order.

Have a great night!

February 21

Welcome back! We will be starting Unit 8 in Math tomorrow. In this unit, we will be focusing on fractions. We will be finishing our last story in Unit 4 in Language Arts this week. Our Benchmark Test will be on Monday, February 27. Our Unit 4 Word Wall spelling test will be on Monday, March 5. Finally, My Family's History Social Studies project is due on Friday, March 2.

For homework tonight, students should write their words three times each.

Have a great night!

February 15

Good evening! The following are a few important dates that will be coming up:

*We will be in school for a half day on Friday, February 17!

*We will have our Unit 7 Math test on Tuesday, February 21. A study guide will go home tomorrow.

*We will have our Unit 4 Benchmark test for Language Arts on Monday February 27.

*We will have a Word Wall test on Monday, March 5. The students must know how to spell the words. A list of words was sent home today.

For homework tonight, students should read their Phonics Reader and complete Home Link 7.8.

Have a great night!

February 13

Good evening! We are quickly approaching the end on Unit 7 in Math! We will be reviewing Thursday and Friday in class and the test will be on Tuesday, February 21. The study guide will be sent home on Thursday.

Tomorrow is the last day for our 100th Day of School Service Project. Thank you for all of the soup that was donated!

For homework tonight, students should complete Home Link 7.6 and write their spelling words three times each.

Have a great night!

February 9

Happy 100th Day! We have started Unit 3 in Social Studies this week. The theme is history. I will be sending home a note tomorrow that contains information about a project the students will be completing. For the project, students will need to interview family members to learn about their family's history.

For homework tonight, students should complete Home Link 7.4 and use each spelling word in a sentence.

Have a great night!

February 7

Good evening! There is no homework tonight since we took our Math test. For Spelling, students should write their words in ABC order. Each word should be numbered, and a line should be skipped between words.

Have a great night!

February 3

Good evening! We are still collecting canned soup and bars of soap for the food pantry. We appreciate all that has been sent in so far!

Next week we will be working on words with the short e sound. The words will contain the vowels ea (ex: bread, breath, head, etc.). In Math, we will be working on complements of ten, doubles and halves, weights, and collecting data. We will also start Unit 3 in Social Studies. We will learn about history.

Have a great weekend!

February 2

Happy Groundhog Day! Today we discussed the body temperature of a mammal compared to that of a mammal that is hibernating. The normal temperature of a mammal is about 99 degrees. One that is hibernating is only 43 degrees! We then put ice into water until it was 43 degrees and wrote about if we would be comfortable sleeping in that temperature. The kids had a blast! Tomorrow we will continue talking about chemical reactions and how things change when introduced to the cold or heat. We will be doing a science experiment using pudding!

Pizza Hut reading certificates went out today. Please send your child's reading log in tomorrow if you have not do so already. On that note, I am sorry to say the Phillipsburg Pizza Hut has closed. Though you cannot eat-in at the one in Hackettstown, they will honor your certificate.

For homework tonight, students should use each spelling word in sentence.

Keep practicing those -oi- and -oy words!

Our mid-year math test is on Tuesday, February 7.

Have a great night!