Thursday, December 16, 2010

Holiday Celebration and Dirty Santa Game

Hey Parents,

You're all watching the skys and the bottom of the News so you know that winter weather is here. Just wanted to let you know that if we are going to school tomorrow (even with a delay) we will still have our celebration and dirty santa game.
Whatever you put on the permission slip to bring in is fine with me. I know that we already have plenty of chips and some drinks, so Cupcakes, brownies, Cookies, candy canes, etc, are greatly accepted...and devoured. :-)

If you're child does not plan on participating (which is totally fine) then I will send them to the media center or computer lab to have some fun on their own.

Please be safe while you're out and about. If you don't need to leave the house....STAY INDOORS.
All my best,
Mr. Gordon

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Homework for 12-15-10

Reading: 20 Minutes
Spelling: Drawing two meanings for your one spelling word.
Math: Page 131 Set A, Set B and Set D

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Homework for 12-14-10

Reading: 20 Minutes
Language Arts: Pg. 117 & 118--Vocabulary Review
Math: Order of Operation Worksheet
Social Studies: Finish Pages 50 - 53 Textworks 1-7

Dirty Santa Game is Thursday
Holiday Celebration (food) is Friday

Monday, December 13, 2010

Homework for 12-13-10

Reading: 20 Minutes
Spelling: Pg: 125 and 126. (Homographs: words that are spelled the same way, but they have different meanings. They may also be pronounced differently)
Math: pg: 86 numbers 10-18; Solve and name property for each problem.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Homework for 12-9-10

Here is the homework for today:

Reading: 20 Mins

Math: pg 121 Quick Check numbers 1-10

Spelling: TEST TOMORROW

Social Studies: pg 50 & 51 Textwork 1, 2, 3, and 4

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Dirty Santa and Holiday Celebration

Parents,
Some of you have seen the letter that went home about our Dirty Santa party. We will be doing the Dirty Santa game on Thursday and Friday will be our Holiday Snack. The snacks will be after our lunch period and we will be viewing "The Best Christmas Pagent Ever" during that time.

We are looking forward to a great holiday celebreation.

Homework for 12-8-10

Homework for Wednesday 12-08-10

Reading: 20 minutes

Math: page 111 numbers 5 - 16

Spelling: Create a sentence on the sentence strip. Be prepared to show it tomorrow.
Try to use at least 1 or 2 words in your sentence.

Social Studies: Draw Native Americ. Symbols for sentence.

Happenings this week 12-6-10

Hey there parents!

Our school year is moving fast and we are having to move just as quick. Here are somethings that we will be working on this week:

Reading: Our theme continues with "Rot." I think the kids will enjoy this cause it's about gross stuff and things becoming moldy and rotten. We are reading this to apply it to our theme of "Nature's Delicate Balance." We are also working on antonyms for our vocablulary and spelling. Antonyms are opposites!

Math: Our class is working on Order of Operations. It seems that the students are understanding this concept but we will continue to work on it throughout the week.

Writing: Our writing for the next couple of days, takes us into the world of Mad Libs. I have posted a link to the side that has TONS of online Mad Libs that your child can work with at home. Mad Libs are great for showing students Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs (among others). We will be doing a Holiday Mad Lib and then creating a final copy for posting in the hallway.

Social Studies: We are working on Natvie Americans in NC. We have reviewed the first lesson and are now looking at Native American symbols and how they were used to tell stories. We will be making buffalo hides out of paper bags and using them to draw our Native American symbols.

Spelling List for this week: Insult, compliment, silent, noisy, proud, ashamed, positive, negative, friend, enemy, predator, prey, build, destroy, divide, untie, inside, outside, comedy, tragedy, **brittle, **flexible