Video

Learning how to Link

Poptropica

Friv4School

Wacko's 50 States and Capitals

Fifty Nifty

October 6, 2014 - October 10, 2014

Home Grown Butterflies

We're reading Home-Grown Butterflies in class this week.  It's a real story about how people raise butterflies in Costa Rica.  In this one village, there were fewer and fewer fish to eat and sell for money.  Soon they would have to cut down trees from the rain forest in order to farm the land.  A scientist taught the school kids how to start a butterfly farm!  They now sell the pupae, or eggs, to zoos.  My conclusion is that those kids are serious about protecting their environment.

Citizen of the Week

ALEX!

Spelling Practice

Vocabulary Practice

September 29, 2014 - October 2, 2014

We're reading the story Boom Town, which tells a story

about a young girl and her family who moved west. 

Amanda is bored, so she bakes a pie. After people 

begin buying her pies, Amanda starts a bakery. Things 

happen one after another. We keep track of the things 

that happen and the order, or sequence, in which they 

happen. When we finish reading, we’ll know which events 

are really important. I guess they’ll lead us to know 

how Boom Town came to be.

Citizen of the Week

Sergio Sanchez!

Sequencing Boom Town

Sequencing Boom Town by Sonia Levinton

September 22, 2014 - September 26, 2014

In My Very Own Room, a young girl is sharing a 

room with five brothers. What she wants more than anything is to have her own room. Because of the title, we think the girl will get her room in the end. We keep making predictions as we read. They are good guesses about what will happen next, and they’re based on clues the author has given. Making predictions are fun!  It’s like solving little mysteries. The predictions also keep us get involved in the story.

Author - Amada Irma Pérez

Illustrator - Maya Christina Gonzalez

Citizen of the Week

Matthew!

This week we learned the acronym BOAS. The word BOAS stand for but, or, and, & so!  

We use these conjunctions

to combine sentences.  

We got to wear BOAS as we worked with our writing buddies!  It was a lot of fun!

Mrs. Ochoa and I are getting our "BOAS" on!  We're making "fancy" combined sentences with the kids!

SMARTIE FRACTIONS

Week 5:

Comprehension

• Compare and Contrast (not accessible from home)
• Make and Confirm Predictions
• Self-Selected Strategies
• Genre:  Expository Nonfiction, Fiction,
• Let's Talk About it!

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Practice (not accessible from home)
• separate, determination, storage, exact, ruined, luckiest
• Word Parts:  Suffixes -er -est
• Vocabulary Game

Spelling

• Long Ii, Multisyllabic Words - mild, sky, pie, might, find, fight, tied, right, fry, tight, hild, flight, bright, buy, die
• Long Ii Sound (not accessible from home)
• Spelling Game 1

Grammar

• Compound Sentences - BOAS
• Capitalization and Punctuation in Sentences

Fluency

• Phrasing

Writing

• Develop a Setting

Math

• Fractions

Technology

• Draw

September 15, 2014 - September 19,2014

WOLF!

This week our class is reading a story titled Wolf! 

The story’s about a wolf that sees other animals 

reading books and wants to read, too. We can tell how 

the characters are alike  and how they are different. 

They are alike because they are all talking animals. The pig, duck, and cow can read, but the wolf can’t. That’s a way the characters are different. It’s fun to compare and contrast the characters as we read.

Citizen of the Week!

Ayden

We're reading  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

We know words have multiple meanings.

Week 4:

Comprehension

• Compare and Contrast (not accessible from home)
• Main Idea and Details (not accessible from home)
• Self Selected Strategies
• Genre:  Nonfiction, Fiction, Persuasive

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Practice
• passion, bothering, admire, concentrate, ached, splendid
• Context Clues:  Multiple meaning words

Spelling

• Long O, Multisyllabic Words - gold, bowl, soak, sold, snow, loaf, roast, coast, scold, coal, slow, grows, show, float, blow, snail, gray, plain
• Long O Sound (not accessible from home)
• Spelling Game 1

Grammar

• Complete Predicate
• Capitalization and Punctuation in Sentences

Fluency

• Expression

Writing

• Describe a Single Object

Social Studies

• Freedom Week!
• Benjamin Banneker

September 8, 2014 - September 12, 2014

Our class will be reading about people that help the 

environment. In Earth Smart, the main idea is that

Goodwillie Environment School is a green school. A 

green school is friendly to the environment. The details 

tell more about the main idea. We will read about the  school’s 

walls and floors.  They were built with recycled materials. As 

we keep reading, there will be other details that tell me 

more about this green school.

We went to see Dinosaur George on Wednesday, September 10th.  We had a lot of fun, and we learned about dinosaurs that lived a long time ago!  

Click on the picture above to go to Dinosaur George's web page.

Week 3:

Comprehension

• Cause and Effect 
• Main Idea and Details (not accessible from home)
• Self Selected Strategies
• Poetry, Fiction, and Persuasive

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Practice
• Vocabulary Cards
• donate, unaware, members, contribute, solar power, recycled, nature, compost, product, quotient, sum, difference
• Affixes

Spelling

• Long A, and Multisyllabic Words - fail, bay, pail, ray, plain, tray, trail, may, braid, sway, gray, plays, paint, snail, great, safe, rice, globe, lady, afraid
• Long A Sound (not accessible from home)
• Spelling Game 1
• Spelling Game 2

Grammar

• Fragments (Subject and Predicate)
• Capitalization and Punctuation in Sentences

Fluency

• Rate

Writing

• Pets - Personal Narrative
• Plan/Prewrite