Hello!
Just a reminder that our spelling and vocab words from last week will roll over to the test this Friday. On Friday, we will also have a geography test on labeling places on a map of North America and its surrounding oceans. A study guide will come home this week Thursday.
On Wednesday the Appaloosas will get to shop in the Scholastic Book Fair at Olson. It is a buy one get one free book fair. If you would like to send in money with your child please send it in a baggie or envelope marked with their name, teacher's name, and how much money is inside. Thank you. On Friday, the Clydesdales will be shopping. The Book Fair will not be open to other classes outside of their scheduled times so please send money on these days only if your child wishes to shop. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
The pizza party celebration was a huge success today! I am so proud of these two classes for their amazing efforts all year long. We celebrated with pizza and Popsicles today, and even went outside for a fun-filled and very challenging game of kickball with the Clydesdales vs. the Appaloosas. The game was very entertaining with a final finish of 7-7. :-)
We are still looking for Field Day volunteers and for volunteers to fill up water balloons. If you are interested and haven't already signed up, please contact Mrs. Etnyre at school and she will help you get that scheduled. Thank you so much for your time! We are hoping for beautiful weather to make this a great day of fun!
Thank you so much for a great year with your children. I have been so blessed to know such wonderful families and their children.
Have a great week!
:-) Mrs. Montes
Monday, May 6, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Weekly Updates
Wow, there are a lot of great things going on around here at Olson. I am so happy to see the sunshine! We are getting out there to enjoy it as much as possible, and I hope you are too!
We have started our Geography Unit for literacy. Our main focus is on North America. We will use these vocabulary and spelling words for the next two weeks. Our next and final unit is plants to connect to what we learned in science.
The Appaloosas began their demo training for GLAD this morning. I just know they are a great example of what real learning looks like in our classroom. The good thing is that they are already familiar with all of the strategies being taught because Ms. Salas and I have already gone through the training. However, the material they are being taught is new to them.
We are having a lot of fun learning about place value in the hundreds and thousands. This is our final unit of the year that leads into a review of 2 and 3 digit addition and begins 2, 3 and 4 digit subtraction. We have learned so much in math this year. I have enjoyed teaching this group of kids more than ever! They are such sponges so hungry and eager to learn! I love them all so much!
Field Day t-shirt orders are due tomorrow!
Have a marvelous day and week! Enjoy the family time and the sunshine!
Mrs. Montes
We have started our Geography Unit for literacy. Our main focus is on North America. We will use these vocabulary and spelling words for the next two weeks. Our next and final unit is plants to connect to what we learned in science.
The Appaloosas began their demo training for GLAD this morning. I just know they are a great example of what real learning looks like in our classroom. The good thing is that they are already familiar with all of the strategies being taught because Ms. Salas and I have already gone through the training. However, the material they are being taught is new to them.
We are having a lot of fun learning about place value in the hundreds and thousands. This is our final unit of the year that leads into a review of 2 and 3 digit addition and begins 2, 3 and 4 digit subtraction. We have learned so much in math this year. I have enjoyed teaching this group of kids more than ever! They are such sponges so hungry and eager to learn! I love them all so much!
Field Day t-shirt orders are due tomorrow!
Have a marvelous day and week! Enjoy the family time and the sunshine!
Mrs. Montes
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Math Websites
OOps!!! I forgot. The class wanted me to share some fun websites with you that we have been playing in class. www.ixl.com is a great one for practicing the math standards through games. Click "second grade" and then whatever skill you want (Telling Time). We are practicing the "Elapsed Time" one now and we love it! Also, http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/time/mathman_time_elapsed.htm is another one we love in the classroom. Enjoy!!!
Weekly Updates
Today our classes visited the Olson Mustang Big Give. What an amazing event this was. It is so fabulous to see these children working creatively and passionately about fundraising for a local charity. We really got some great stuff today! Thank you to all of you who participated in the giving!
Thursday's family journal will be your child's poetry book that we created from Literacy Night. We worked so hard to create these books that I really want them to have a chance to share them with you. Please have your child read their poems to you sometime before Monday and return them on Monday. Please take time to discuss their creativity and their work with them. Some of these poems really pour out of their hearts! I am so proud of their hard work! Parents please write them a note back about their poems. You can write in their family journals.You make keep the poems at home.
Friday we will finish MAP testing for both classes. We will also have our spelling and vocab test from the past two weeks. Our next few units are Geography (North America) and the Earth, and natural disasters (tornado, hurricane, earthquake). We will finish up the year with Plants. Next Monday we have a great opportunity at Olson where we will begin planting here at school and the children will get to take home the plant at the end of the year. We will finish up "Telling Time" in math this week and have a test on Monday next week. Our last units for math are reviewing two digit addition and learning two digit subtraction, and reviewing multiplication.
Have a fantastic week!
Mrs. Montes
Thursday's family journal will be your child's poetry book that we created from Literacy Night. We worked so hard to create these books that I really want them to have a chance to share them with you. Please have your child read their poems to you sometime before Monday and return them on Monday. Please take time to discuss their creativity and their work with them. Some of these poems really pour out of their hearts! I am so proud of their hard work! Parents please write them a note back about their poems. You can write in their family journals.You make keep the poems at home.
Friday we will finish MAP testing for both classes. We will also have our spelling and vocab test from the past two weeks. Our next few units are Geography (North America) and the Earth, and natural disasters (tornado, hurricane, earthquake). We will finish up the year with Plants. Next Monday we have a great opportunity at Olson where we will begin planting here at school and the children will get to take home the plant at the end of the year. We will finish up "Telling Time" in math this week and have a test on Monday next week. Our last units for math are reviewing two digit addition and learning two digit subtraction, and reviewing multiplication.
Have a fantastic week!
Mrs. Montes
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Updates
I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break. I had a relaxing and restful break. My husband and I went to San Diego for a little getaway and had a fabulous time. Break is always too short!
We are closing up our Ingenious Inventors unit this week. On Friday, we will have a test on the vocabulary words and the pictures that go with them. They will identify the word, meaning, and connect the inventor and his invention. A study sheet will go home Thursday.
Next week we begin MAP testing on the computers for the Clydesdales from 12:30-1:30. The following week the Appaloosas will be testing. If you volunteer in the afternoon and want to switch to the morning those weeks that would be fine. Otherwise, Ms. Salas could always use some volunteers to listen to the children read in Spanish to practice fluency. We will not have a spelling and vocab test next week, but the following Friday, April 19 we will.
I will be gone next week Tuesday-Friday at a math training in New Mexico. I will have a fantastic substitute here taking care of your children. She was Mrs. Pawelko's maternity leave substitute. Volunteers please still come in to give her a hand. We will need extra hands here Tuesday -Thursday for a special project the connects to Art class. There is a lot of creativity and writing with this activity so any help Mrs. Lowrey can get is always appreciated!
The year is winding down to our last 7 weeks. I love these classes and every minute we have together.
Have a fantastic week. Hopefully we will start to see signs of Spring soon!
Mrs. Montes
We are closing up our Ingenious Inventors unit this week. On Friday, we will have a test on the vocabulary words and the pictures that go with them. They will identify the word, meaning, and connect the inventor and his invention. A study sheet will go home Thursday.
Next week we begin MAP testing on the computers for the Clydesdales from 12:30-1:30. The following week the Appaloosas will be testing. If you volunteer in the afternoon and want to switch to the morning those weeks that would be fine. Otherwise, Ms. Salas could always use some volunteers to listen to the children read in Spanish to practice fluency. We will not have a spelling and vocab test next week, but the following Friday, April 19 we will.
I will be gone next week Tuesday-Friday at a math training in New Mexico. I will have a fantastic substitute here taking care of your children. She was Mrs. Pawelko's maternity leave substitute. Volunteers please still come in to give her a hand. We will need extra hands here Tuesday -Thursday for a special project the connects to Art class. There is a lot of creativity and writing with this activity so any help Mrs. Lowrey can get is always appreciated!
The year is winding down to our last 7 weeks. I love these classes and every minute we have together.
Have a fantastic week. Hopefully we will start to see signs of Spring soon!
Mrs. Montes
Monday, March 18, 2013
Weekly Updates
We are enjoying our unit about Ingenious Inventions. We are learning a lot of interesting facts about the inventors and their ingenious ideas that helped change our world. This will continue for one more week after spring break. I hope the children are coming home and sharing the interesting facts with you at home.
Tomorrow we have a math test on geometry-rectangles, squares, triangles, perimeter, parallelograms, quadrilaterals, and parallel lines. We are enjoying this fun, hands-on unit. We will begin fractions next. To conclude the year, we will learn about "telling time" and "two-digit subtraction."
We are half way through learning cursive. The children are really enjoying this writing activity! We will finish up the letters this week. Once we have learned all of the letters, the children may begin using it in their daily work.
Report cards go home Friday! Wow, the 3rd quarter flew by! Please continue to practice math basic facts at home through flash cards or XtraMath. While we are learning about measurement, geometry, time, and fractions, I hope the children are still practicing their facts.
Thank you for all that you do!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Montes
Tomorrow we have a math test on geometry-rectangles, squares, triangles, perimeter, parallelograms, quadrilaterals, and parallel lines. We are enjoying this fun, hands-on unit. We will begin fractions next. To conclude the year, we will learn about "telling time" and "two-digit subtraction."
We are half way through learning cursive. The children are really enjoying this writing activity! We will finish up the letters this week. Once we have learned all of the letters, the children may begin using it in their daily work.
Report cards go home Friday! Wow, the 3rd quarter flew by! Please continue to practice math basic facts at home through flash cards or XtraMath. While we are learning about measurement, geometry, time, and fractions, I hope the children are still practicing their facts.
Thank you for all that you do!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Montes
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Updates
Tomorrow we will have our Whales Test to conclude the unit. A review is coming home tonight to practice. It will be about everything whales that we have covered. Some things to know: The difference between a toothed whale and a baleen whale and what they eat/how their diet is different. Whales are mammals and they breathe with lungs. They cannot breathe underwater. Label the parts of the whale. Blue Whales are the largest whales. Whales do not sleep. They take in air while they are "half sleeping."
Our spelling and vocab test will also be tomorrow.
We start Inventions next week. We will do this for 2-3 weeks as we learn about different inventors and what they are known for by changing our world.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Montes
Our spelling and vocab test will also be tomorrow.
We start Inventions next week. We will do this for 2-3 weeks as we learn about different inventors and what they are known for by changing our world.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Montes
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