Author Archives: Susan Markham

Reading:  We are reading a nonfiction story on bees and how they are part of a community.  Our word skills this week are long e (CVCe pattern, ee), review long vowels (CVCe pattern), and blends. Writing will focus on lists and contributions. Math: … Continue reading →

Reading:  We are reading stories that deal with making predictions and ask/answer questions.  Our word skills this week are long u (CVCe pattern), blends, and verbs. Writing will focus on describing words and other skills such as complete sentences, punctuation and capitalization, … Continue reading →

Remember:   No school Monday, January 16  for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Reading:  We are still working with stories on character/setting and retelling.  Writing still focuses on complete sentences, punctuation/capitalization, and the use of describing words (adjectives). Math:  Review all skills; … Continue reading →

Welcome Back and Happy 2017! Reading:  We are working on beginning, middle, end of stories and character/setting.  Our word skills this week are reviewing digraphs and verbs (action words) and -ed endings. Writing is a simple topic but still focusing on complete sentences, punctuation and … Continue reading →

**Progress Reports go home Wednesday, December 14. Reading:  We are working with holiday stories and doing word work, reading skills, and writing with the stories. We are also using our reading series for the story of the week as well as the skills. … Continue reading →

**READING BENCHMARK IS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 IN THE MORNING Reading:  We are reading books on sequence and character/setting. We will take a comprehension test on Friday. Our word skills are digraphs and blends. In writing we are working on focusing … Continue reading →

REPORT CARDS GO HOME TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. **Upcoming in the classroom**  December 12-20, we will have the “7 Days Before Winter Break” themed activities. Each day will be a different theme of winter symbols, traditions, and countries that celebrate holidays … Continue reading →

REMEMBER:  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 IS EARLY DISMISSAL AT 1:20PM.  BREAKFAST AND LUNCH WILL BE SERVED. OUR LUNCH TIME WILL BE 11:00-11:25 THAT DAY. THERE IS NO SCHOOL NEITHER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 NOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 DUE TO THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY. … Continue reading →

Timeline projects are due today. Students will present this afternoon during Science and Social Studies. Reading:  We will be working on sequence/beginning middle end of stories as well as character and setting. Our word skills will be focusing on short o. … Continue reading →

Reading:  We are reading several stories in class, including Pig In A Wig from our reading series. We will take a comprehension test on Friday.  We are working on capitalization and punctuation in writing. Look in the red folder for the new homework menu. … Continue reading →

Reading:  We are reading several stories from our reading series, focusing on short u patterns and sequence. We will take a comprehension test on Friday. Our word skills this week are ending sounds,  short vowels, and titles and pictures. We are working … Continue reading →

Reading:  We are working through our reading series, Reading Street.  Our word skills this week are short a families (-at, -an), beginning and ending sounds.  We are working on capitalization and punctuation in writing, as well as writing complete sentences. A rubric … Continue reading →