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Today we did our last warm up!  Monday we do the writing section of the exam. Students have the period to write and they are allowed the use of a traditional dictionary. Exempt students will do this as an assignment for their six weeks average. I went over the writing prompts again. These are on my blog [...]

We are working hard on our class play, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom.  Please help your child learn his/her lines. You may send money next Friday for Second Grade Market Day.  We are going shopping!!! :) I will not assign spelling words next week due to working on the play and end of the year [...]

This next week we will be reviewing for our Final Exam in Texas History.  Monday -Wednesday we will be working on our review packet.  Thursday and Friday we will be reviewing orally and playing a couple of review games.  All students will take the Texas History Final Exam-there are no exemptions for it.  Final Exam [...]

Art 1 will be finishing their Multi-character cartoon drawing. It will be due on Wednesday at the end of class. Their Final exam will be a drawing of their shoe. Thursday they will get the one back that they drew at the start of the school year. They should be able to see how much [...]

We are getting very excited as we prepare for Market Day.  Mark your calendars for Friday, May 25 from 1:00 to 2:30.  Look for some important information coming home today in the blue folder.  There is a Worksheet that needs to be completed and returned by Friday before the start of “business”.

The next week will be very busy and fun!!  Here are some very important dates that you need to remember. Wed – 5/23 – Rachel’s Challenge Rally – 9:00 – track complex Wed – 5/23 – 4th Grade Awards Ceremony in the gym – 1:30 Thurs – 5/24 – Splash Day at Hawaiian Falls – [...]

Our class won first place in the Box Tops for Education and Campbells Soup label contest.  They will get to celebrate with a party for each of these things!   Thanks to all who took time to collect these.   Our class collected 3121 Box Tops    (which turns into over $300 for our school!) . The school collected [...]

Resource Reading:    Review of trigraphs    Review of spelling rules    Fluency Resource Language Arts:    Common errors with adjectives    Parts of a book    Antonyms Resource Math:    Doubling a number    Dividing into equal sets    Reading information on a graph    Probability Remedial Reading:    Review spelling rules    Sight [...]

Major Rivers TEST  Tomorrow
We have been reviewing since last week for the
test.

Parents, Can you believe the school year is almost over?  It has flown by, and I want to thank you for all your support.  We are still reading The Ghost of Fossil Glen and the kids are enjoying it.  We should finish it this week.  The week of May 21-25 we will be preparing for finals.  I have posted information [...]

Begin the movie Glory

We worked with Reflexive verbs some more. The students are doing very well with these. Then I touched on direct object pronouns. These are easy and have a consistent pattern in Spanish. We will work with these mainly as a foundation for Spanish II.

Sorry for such a long dry spell. We’ve been doing lots of great music and art, but I was having trouble getting videos uploaded…turns out I had piles of media files that needed deleting to make room for new ones! So be checking often, as I will be catching up during the next two days.

There will be a test over spreadsheets on Friday, May 18. Study the following to be ready:

Spreadsheet Worksheets 31-34 and any of the following spreadsheet related lessons in learning.com:

Parts and Navigation

Basic Formatting

Charts and Graphs

All extra credit supplied must be turned in my Friday 5-25 to receive a free daily 100. Physics:  Students can bring in a package or spiral of graph paper for a free daily 100. PT: 2nd and 8th periods:  Students can bring in an unopened bar of soap for a free daily 100. 4th and [...]