Mrs. Horner's 'Second' Thoughts: May 2022

Friday, May 27, 2022

Update - May 27

We had a great week!

This week in Rooted in Reading we looked at Poetry - Our book was called Old Elm Speaks! We concentrated on Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Similies, Personification, and Repetition! We wrote poetry and listened to poetry. This was the last unit in Rooted in Reading. Next week we will look at and discuss the life cycle of a Bee :)

In Grammar, we reviewed nouns, verbs, and adjectives!

In Math, we are completing a Measurement Unit and in Handwriting we are continuing our upper case cursive letters!

Emily had the class in 'stitches' when she read the book Perfect to the class!

We began our end of the year balloon pop! For the last 10 days of school, we pop a balloon with a fun activity to enjoy -----

Day 10 - writing on our desks with shaving cream :)

Day 9 -- Playing board games!

Don't forget to either print and send in the Olympic Day Permission Form or sign it and send it to me online! (It was sent in a separate email earlier this week!)

FYI - Our class color for Spring Olympics is Purple - please look through your child's summer clothing and see if you can find a Purple shirt to wear to school on June 6th for Spring Olympics!!

Homework for the week of 5/31/22---

Monday - Memorial Day - No School

Tuesday - Fluency -Math SS L-133

Wednesday - Reading Log - Math SS L-134

Thursday - Study Spelling - Reading Log - Math SS L-135

Friday - Have a great weekend with family time!

Friday, May 20, 2022

Update - May 20

What a nice week!

We ended last week with a Popcorn/Movie day as our last prize from Boosterthon!

This week our story in Rooted in Reading was called Fireflies! We looked at the Author's Purpose as to why the story was written. We learned that PIE stands for Persuade, Inform, or Entertain. The three main reasons an author writes a story!

Playing a PIE game :)

We also reviewed Cause and Effect since there was a perfect example of this in our story. In Grammar, we spent the week with lots of Homophones! We are getting pretty good at recognizing them!

In Math, we are now looking at metric measurement with centimeters and meters. We are working hard to continue with our uppercase cursive letters in Handwriting and are reviewing the Mass in Religion.

We enjoyed a Faith Family activity on Friday to honor our 8th graders who are leaving to attend many High Schools!

We have really enjoyed watching our butterflies come out of their chrysalis this week but were sad to let them go!

Homework for the week of 5/23/22---

Monday - Reading Log - Math SS L-129

Tuesday - Fluency - xtra math (3 times)

Wednesday - Reading Log - Math SS L-130

Thursday - Study Spelling - Reading Log - Math SS L-131

Friday - Have a great weekend with family time!

Friday, May 13, 2022

Update - May 13

What a wonderful week!

Our story in our Rooted in Reading series was Koala Lou. A beautiful story about a mother's love :) Check it out on youtube.com! We worked on the skill of problem and solution as well as character motivation. In Grammar, we discussed 'Shades of Meaning' in verbs. This is very similar to Synonyms but we looked at how some verbs are stronger than others :)

In Math, we are having fun with our measurement unit. In Handwriting we are continuing the upper case cursive letters :)

Our First Communion was so nice - the weather came through with a beautiful sunshiny day!