Since we have a few tests coming up next week, I left the weekend to mostly study for those tests, as well as begin working on the Rome project. Due to a surprise fire drill today we did not have a chance to go through the Rome study guide, but we finished reading everything and they have learned everything to answer all the questions on their study guides. If they do not know the answer to any questions, I have uploaded an answer key to the "Study Guide" album on Bloomz. We were able to make it through the science study guide today, and I have a key up in the "Study Guide" album on Bloomz for that as well, just as a reference.
We also began talking today about making outlines for our Rome projects so that writing the report will be easier. I handed out a single page outline to get them thinking about how they wanted to organize and begin writing their paper.
The parents also have some homework this weekend. I mentioned early in the week that I was sending home a form for the parents to fill out so we could have a better conversation during conferences in January. I have had a few parents who have already returned those forms, and I thank you for your feedback. However I have a lot of parents who have not yet filled those out or have not sent them in with their students. The form says they are due on Monday, December 12, and I will begin checking in earnest whether they have been turned in at that point. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes to fill out that form so we can have better conversations during conferences. Also, please sign up for a conference slot on January 3 or 4, or let me know of another time that works for you. I would like to make sure that is all planned before we go away for Winter break.
Dates to keep in mind: we will begin reciting poems and take our Rome test on Tuesday, December 13; we will be taking our science test on Wednesday, December 14. I am hoping to have Little House on the Prairie finished next week and we might be taking a quiz on the book next Thursday, December 15. It would not be a large quiz but just something to let me know they have understood some of the events of the book.
Have a wonderful weekend. If you have any questions, email or send me a Bloomz message.
~Miss Carnahan
Friday, December 9, 2016
Monday, November 28, 2016
Welcome Back
I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable break. The students are definitely energized to be back in school. We had a great day learning about the Roman army, muscles, and began reading Little House on the Prairie
Since we did not have Spalding homework last week, many of the students forgot that I have begun sending home the week's worth of spelling words on Monday, so be on the lookout for that and keep it for the rest of the week.
We began reading Little House on the Prairie today, and will be reading it for the next few weeks. Please send in your child's copy of the book starting tomorrow so they can participate. Also, we did not finish reading chapter 1 in class, so part of their homework will be to finish the chapter. They can include that in their 20 minutes of reading for the evening. We ended on page 13, so there are only a few pages left for them to read.
I am sending home two different papers for science, one that will be due tomorrow and one that will be due on December 16. The paper that is due tomorrow has the title "Name That Muscle" and requires your student to do as many push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and jumping jacks they can. The back of that page has another activity that they are not required to do. The other paper, which will be due on December 16 is called "Work Out Your Heart" and is just a calendar to keep track of how often a week your student exercises for 20 minutes or more.
The last worksheet for homework today is a reading on the Roman Army. We talked a lot about them in class today so the reading should just be a re-enforcement of what we have already discussed, as well as a few questions that should be in the reading.
I announced to the class today that the poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night" will need to be ready to be presented on December 13. They received a copy of the poem at the beginning of November on a bright green piece of paper. So just add that to your calendar as well.
We have another due date coming up for the Roman Project Week project. They will need to be turning in three details that they will be focusing on in their project soon. This is to ensure that they are learning time management as well as alleviate the stress of leaving it all until the end.
Have a wonderful evening!
~Miss Carnahan
Since we did not have Spalding homework last week, many of the students forgot that I have begun sending home the week's worth of spelling words on Monday, so be on the lookout for that and keep it for the rest of the week.
We began reading Little House on the Prairie today, and will be reading it for the next few weeks. Please send in your child's copy of the book starting tomorrow so they can participate. Also, we did not finish reading chapter 1 in class, so part of their homework will be to finish the chapter. They can include that in their 20 minutes of reading for the evening. We ended on page 13, so there are only a few pages left for them to read.
I am sending home two different papers for science, one that will be due tomorrow and one that will be due on December 16. The paper that is due tomorrow has the title "Name That Muscle" and requires your student to do as many push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and jumping jacks they can. The back of that page has another activity that they are not required to do. The other paper, which will be due on December 16 is called "Work Out Your Heart" and is just a calendar to keep track of how often a week your student exercises for 20 minutes or more.
The last worksheet for homework today is a reading on the Roman Army. We talked a lot about them in class today so the reading should just be a re-enforcement of what we have already discussed, as well as a few questions that should be in the reading.
I announced to the class today that the poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night" will need to be ready to be presented on December 13. They received a copy of the poem at the beginning of November on a bright green piece of paper. So just add that to your calendar as well.
We have another due date coming up for the Roman Project Week project. They will need to be turning in three details that they will be focusing on in their project soon. This is to ensure that they are learning time management as well as alleviate the stress of leaving it all until the end.
Have a wonderful evening!
~Miss Carnahan
Monday, October 24, 2016
Quarter 2
Hey, as I mentioned in parent teacher conferences, we are transitioning to Bloomz this quarter.
Please email me if you have any questions or are struggling to log on and we will work to fix the problem.
~Miss Carnahan
Please email me if you have any questions or are struggling to log on and we will work to fix the problem.
~Miss Carnahan
Monday, September 19, 2016
Quarter 1 Week 7
I apologize for falling off the blog wagon for the past week.
Last week was a fun week: we began learning about Canada last week, as well as began wrapping up our unit on animal classification. We worked on addition with regrouping and subtraction with borrowing and had a great discussion in Touchpebbles on Friday. This upcoming week will be full of tests that wrap up a few units we have been studying
Spalding:
act, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December, dozen, there, tax, number, October, reason, fifth, baking, bake, bowl, cheap, cheerful, chicken, driving, drive, echoes, echo, fairy, knock, leather
Science
We finish our study guide on Monday and then have a classification test on Wednesday. On Thursday we begin Ecology by talking about what it is and what it means
Math
We finish up regrouping and borrowing multiple times and have a test on Thursday. We have started trying to do Rocket Math daily as a warm up to math
Grammar
We will be practicing classifying sentences with prepositional phrases in them and begin learning a list of the prepositions.
Literature
We will talk about sequencing events, begin reading groups this week, and continue our discussion of what poetry is and how to understand and analyse it.
History
We continue to learn more about Canada and will talk about the earliest explorers to discover Canada.
There are quite a few tests this week, but I am confident that the students will do great on them. Have a wonderful afternoon.
~Miss Carnahan
Last week was a fun week: we began learning about Canada last week, as well as began wrapping up our unit on animal classification. We worked on addition with regrouping and subtraction with borrowing and had a great discussion in Touchpebbles on Friday. This upcoming week will be full of tests that wrap up a few units we have been studying
Spalding:
act, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December, dozen, there, tax, number, October, reason, fifth, baking, bake, bowl, cheap, cheerful, chicken, driving, drive, echoes, echo, fairy, knock, leather
Science
We finish our study guide on Monday and then have a classification test on Wednesday. On Thursday we begin Ecology by talking about what it is and what it means
Math
We finish up regrouping and borrowing multiple times and have a test on Thursday. We have started trying to do Rocket Math daily as a warm up to math
Grammar
We will be practicing classifying sentences with prepositional phrases in them and begin learning a list of the prepositions.
Literature
We will talk about sequencing events, begin reading groups this week, and continue our discussion of what poetry is and how to understand and analyse it.
History
We continue to learn more about Canada and will talk about the earliest explorers to discover Canada.
There are quite a few tests this week, but I am confident that the students will do great on them. Have a wonderful afternoon.
~Miss Carnahan
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Quarter 1 Week 5
We made it through another great week of class, learning all sorts of new things. We even started touchpebbles this week, talking about revenge and whether revenge is ever ok.
Next week we won't have school on Monday (Happy Labor Day!) but other than that we will have a pretty normal week. I am hoping to start reading groups in the next little bit, so be on the look out for a signup genius being sent out.
Spalding
Because we don't have school Monday, we will only have 21 words this week: learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check, prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus, woman, women, young, fair, fare
History
We have been talking about geographical features in class, and this week the students will be making their own islands with different geographical features. I will send home a list of all the geographical features we have talked about as a reference. We will also have a little quiz on some of the newer features on Thursday.
Grammar
We begin talking about different ways of expressing ourselves, both in formal and informal language. We will begin a creative writing project this week as we learn what a rough draft is and how to use a rough draft in writing.
Literature
We continue to read Trumpet of the Swan and have a fun activity with tongue twisters for this week.
Science
We continue with classification this week, learning about both reptiles and amphibians, and the differences and similarities between the two types of animals.
Enjoy your Monday off celebrating Labor Day
~Miss Carnahan
Next week we won't have school on Monday (Happy Labor Day!) but other than that we will have a pretty normal week. I am hoping to start reading groups in the next little bit, so be on the look out for a signup genius being sent out.
Spalding
Because we don't have school Monday, we will only have 21 words this week: learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check, prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus, woman, women, young, fair, fare
History
We have been talking about geographical features in class, and this week the students will be making their own islands with different geographical features. I will send home a list of all the geographical features we have talked about as a reference. We will also have a little quiz on some of the newer features on Thursday.
Grammar
We begin talking about different ways of expressing ourselves, both in formal and informal language. We will begin a creative writing project this week as we learn what a rough draft is and how to use a rough draft in writing.
Literature
We continue to read Trumpet of the Swan and have a fun activity with tongue twisters for this week.
Science
We continue with classification this week, learning about both reptiles and amphibians, and the differences and similarities between the two types of animals.
Enjoy your Monday off celebrating Labor Day
~Miss Carnahan
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Quarter 1 Week 4
We had a fun, full week of activities last week, from Map testing, to school pictures, to a messy but enlightening lab on bird beaks. We learned a couple new Shurley English jingles this week that helped us figure out what adverbs and adjectives are and had fun reading Trumpet of the Swan. Next week will have just as many fun, exciting things to learn. We will also begin reciting poems on Wednesday, so help your student be ready for that.
Spalding
We continue learning new spelling words with a little bit more challenging words this week. Last week there was a little confusion on Thursday's practice spelling test homework. I am planning on sending home a complete list of spelling words every Thursday so they can practice them.
Science
We continue classification this week by looking at fish and how they differ from birds.
Math
We continue to work on mental math strategies for adding and subtracting math up to four digit numbers
Grammar
We will begin making up our own sentences using the different parts of speech we have learned about and we will have a test on Friday.
Literature
We continue to read Trumpet of the Swan this week, as well as look at a few other literary devices.
History
We are learning about different geographical features and near the end of the week the students will be creating their own islands with different geographical features on them.
Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!
~Miss Carnahan
Spalding
We continue learning new spelling words with a little bit more challenging words this week. Last week there was a little confusion on Thursday's practice spelling test homework. I am planning on sending home a complete list of spelling words every Thursday so they can practice them.
Science
We continue classification this week by looking at fish and how they differ from birds.
Math
We continue to work on mental math strategies for adding and subtracting math up to four digit numbers
Grammar
We will begin making up our own sentences using the different parts of speech we have learned about and we will have a test on Friday.
Literature
We continue to read Trumpet of the Swan this week, as well as look at a few other literary devices.
History
We are learning about different geographical features and near the end of the week the students will be creating their own islands with different geographical features on them.
Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!
~Miss Carnahan
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Quarter 1 Week 3
Another week has come and gone and I was so glad to see so many of you at Curriculum Night! I will be uploading my power-point to my blog sometime later this afternoon, but if you have any additional questions please send me an email and I'll be happy to answer them. I'll also be looking into the subscription function on my blog to try and get it fixed.
A few notes:
A few notes:
- This week I sent home a poem that the students should be memorizing. The recitations will be on August 31
- This week we begin cursive in earnest--everything but math will be completed in cursive.
Spalding
We begin spelling words this week! Their homework will include writing their spelling words (with markings) each evening and the spelling test on Friday.
Science
We are using the classification information we have been learning to begin classifying birds this week.
Math
We begin working on mental math strategies for both addition and subtraction for 1, 2, and 3 digit numbers
Grammar
We are working on parts of speech and sentence structure. We will be adding another jingle about adjectives sometime during the week.
Literature
We continue reading Trumpet of the Swan.
History
We will be solidifying our understanding of latitude and longitude as well as begin talking about different types of land forms found in the world.
Have a wonderful weekend!
~Miss Carnahan
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