Week of March 25

This week, the students have finished reading Strider and are working on in-class projects.  They are creating new covers for the book based on their favorite section and are rewriting the ending.  So far, the covers look great!

There will be a spelling list on Thursday of this week.  The list is a little shorter than usual, concentrating on double consonant words.

1.  tomorrow
2.  borrow
3.  different
4.  supper
5.  matter
6.  written
7.  bottle
8.  ridden
9.  odd
10. bubble
11. offer
12. suffer
13. slipper
14. grasshopper
15. worry
16. current
17. lettuce
18. paddle
19. shudder
20. hobby

*As we continue to work with division, please encourage your child to study math facts at home for a few minutes a night! :)

Tricky Tray Class Basket

As many of you know, our very own OCS PTA puts together an amazing Tricky Tray every year!  The PTA does so many great things for our school, so it is so important that we help them out with our class basket.
This year's basket is "Hot to the Touch," which includes a lovely fire pit!

Mrs. Frasca has kindly offered to put together our class basket.  Many of you have sent in the money to cover the fire pit, however, we could still use some more items to include with it. 

Some ideas may include: marshmallows, skewers, blankets, music, plastic tumblers, hot chocolate mix, graham crackers, chocolates (smore fixings)-possiblities are endless and so much fun!

Please send in what you can, it can make a great difference in our class' basket!  Also, classrooms with baskets that have a high amount of tickets also get prizes, so our children benefit not only in the long run, but also in the classroom!

Thank you!

Partial Quotient Video

In Math, we are working with a different method of division.  The students were introduced to the "partial-quotients" algorithm in class.  Take a look at this quick video, to see the method being used to solve a problem.  It is a great video and shows how to use partial-quotients, step by step.
Enjoy!

Partial Quotient

The week of March 18

Happy Monday!

This week in Language Arts we continue to work in our literature circles.  The students and I are reading Strider.

There will a spelling test on Friday of this week.  We are studying words that have the suffixdes: -ful, -ly, -ion.

Spelling list:

1.  powerful
2.  peaceful
3.  beautiful
4.  cheerful
5.  painful
6.  thoughtful
7.  slowly
8.  safely
9.  daily
10. suddenly
11. carefully
12. weekly
13. lately
14. truthfully
15. hopefully
16. action
17. location
18. invention
19. correction
20. pollution
21. dangerous
22. principal
23. suspected
24. chanting
25. cautious

Have a great week!

Oxford's Got Talent....

and I am happy to say that we have several talented performers right here in our own class!

If you can, support your classmates and school by coming to tonight's talent show!

The Rock Family

In Science, we have been learning and talking about different rocks.  The students listened to this song today.  It's a great reminder of how the rocks are formed!
Rock Song

March 4, 2013

Happy Monday!

This week we will be reading about baseball great, Lou Gehrig, in Language Arts. While doing so, we will also be studying text structure and learning new vocabulary.
Spelling will focus on easily confused words.

This week's spelling words:
1. convinced
2. courageous
3. engineer
4. gradually
5. immigrants
6. set
7. sit
8. off
9. of
10. when
11. win
12. our
13. are
14. than
15. then
16. lose
17. loose
18. were
19. whose
20. who's
21. we're
22. where
23. quiet
24. quite
25. quit