Classification videos and Arbor Day!

Hello families!

We have been working on animal classifications as part of our science unit.  The students have been working in groups to make iMovie trailers.  Here is our first attempt at our trailers!  (Just click on the link below.)

In celebration of Arbor Day tomorrow, Lauren's uncle, Mr. Webb, came in and planted a tree with us.  Also, his company donated small Colorado Blue Spruce trees to each of the students in class.  (They can easily be planted in a pot for now!)  Thank you, Mr. Webb, for the trees!

We are still looking for at least 5 helpers for Field Day.  You can sign up to help by going to:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4FACA822A6F58-field and let us know you can help!

We are still missing several of the permission slips/$5 for the Rendezvous field trip.  These were due today.  If your child has not returned theirs (They know if they are missing it!), please send it in with your student tomorrow.

As always, spelling homework is due in the morning.  Find 15 spelling words that fit your skill.  List 1 skill this week:  words ending in -ed (classify by ending sound /d/, /id/, and /t/).  List 2 skill this week:  prefixes in-, un-, dis-, and mis-.

Have a great night!

Mrs. Spenner

Last week of April

Hello families!

I hope you had a great weekend!  We are getting ready to start off a new week and we have a lot going on at school. 

First off, we said good-bye to Mrs. Rutter on Friday.  We had a party for her at the end of the day.  The kids (and you) were so generous to bring in books to start a library for Mrs. Rutter.  We filled a crate with around 100 books!  She wanted to make sure you knew how grateful she was.  One of her greatest concerns was how she was going to start up a library of her own and we got her well on her way.  Thank you!

We have the week off from testing.  (Yea!)  We will begin MAP testing next week and test one morning each week for 3 weeks (Reading, Math, and Language).  I will let you know the days as soon as they are finalized.

I have updated the "Looking Ahead" page with this week's spelling skill, etc.  Let me know if you have any questions.  We are going to be finishing up our classification iMovie trailers this week.  I hope to get those uploaded next week to share with everyone.  They were a fun group activity that the students worked on this past week.  I have uploaded a few pictures from the fish release as well.  Check them out under the "Trout in the Classroom" link.

We will be taking a break from science now and getting back to Idaho history.  We are starting on state symbols.  Your student should know most of them by the end of the week!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Spenner

Mrs. Rutter's last week

Hello families!  (There is a lot of info in this post...make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom!)

We had a busy week last week!  On Wednesday, Mrs. Worthington came in and taught a "Cookie Mining" lesson to go along with our weekly story, The Gold Rush.  Here are some pictures from the activity.

 

 

 

Thursday, we released our rainbow trout. We had 46 fish survive and get released into McDevitt pond. We had a great turnout with 17 of our students able to come and fish with us! The pond was stocked and many kids caught fish! Did any of you see the osprey dive and catch a fish too?  I took a few pictures on my phone that I will upload to the "Trout in the Classroom" link soon.  Did anyone else take pictures?  If you did and would like to share them on the blog, just e-mail them to me and I will add them too!

 

Finally, this is Mrs. Rutter's last week.  The kids are pretty bummed about this (me too!) as she has been a great addition to our room!  On Friday we will be having a good-bye party for her...shhh...it's a surprise!  As a way to help her start her own classroom, if you have any old books that you would like to donate to start a class library for her (any school-aged books) please send them in this week.  I would like to have a crate of books for her on Friday to send her off with!

 

Have a great week!

 

Mrs. Spenner

Fish!

Hello families! 

Check out pictures of today's fish dissection under the "Trout in the Classroom" link on the right side of this blog.  We learned a lot today with Mr. Lamansky.  Hopefully our room will air out over the weekend because it is pretty fishy smelling right now!

Our little fishies we hatched are growing up and are about ready to be released!  We will be meeting after school on Thursday, April 10th, at McDevitt Pond to release our rainbow trout.  All are welcome to come!  The Idaho Fish and Game fishing trailer will be at the pond as well with fishing gear to borrow and all can fish free, without a permit, during that time.  If you or your child have not tried fishing before, I would encourage you to join us!  This is not a required activity, but a great educational experience outside of the classroom.  If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me.

SBAC testing is underway.  We took our first 2 tests this week.  We will have another test this upcoming Wednesday.  Thank you to the students to doing their best during testing!

Next Friday is "Dads and Doughnuts."  I hope we can pack the cafeteria before school with all our dads (or dad figures!) for breakfast.

Have a wonderful (and hopefully sunny) weekend!

Mrs. Spenner