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