Mrs. Pogachnik's Classroom Notes
November 21, 2008
THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL:
Math - This week we worked on 3 digit addition, completed POW #8, and also Study Island. Keep practicing those addition and subtraction facts.
Reading - We read a story called, The Gardener, and learned about cause & effect. We also focused on contractions. During Guided Reading we read our group books, and group novels. The students are enjoying these new novels.
Science/ SS - Our class learned about Consumers and Producers this week. We talked about many examples that we could see just looking out our classroom window.
Cursive - We learned the letter "r" this week.
Writing - We finished the rough draft of our 1st paper. All students have completed their 5 paragraphs. We will now move into the next step of our writing process; editing.
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September 12, 2008
THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL:
MATH: We continued to work with place value, and completed our first POW. On Monday, we will switch to our new math groups.
VOCABULARY/ SPELLING: We decided not to start our 1st unit. I promise we will be starting on Monday 9/15. The homework packet will be due on Friday, along with a spelling and vocabulary test.
READING: This week we read, "What About Me?" The students practiced sequencing events, and writing plural nouns. Next week, we will begin our new reading groups.
SCIENCE: We continued to make observations of our caterpillars. I expect that when we return to school on Monday, all of our caterpillars will be in their chrysalis stage. We also make a graphic organizer about the life cycle, and created life cycle mobiles of the butterfly.
September 5, 2008
THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL:
MATH: We started a review unit of place value, and practiced writing numbers in expanded, standard, and word form.
VOCABULARY/ SPELLING: This week we took a pretest, and will begin our 1st unit next week. Remember that homework and weekly test will be on Fridays.
READING: We read a story about a :"Boom Town." We also discussed realism, and fantasy. Students also discovered how they can use our prior knowledge to help figure out the meaning of new words. We also talked about short vowels and homophones.
SCIENCE: We talked about our caterpillars. We read some books and talked about the life cycle. Then students learned a song to help them remember the parts of a butterfly.
CURSIVE: Students practiced the basic downcurve and overcurve.
August 29, 2008
Welcome back to school. I can't believe that our first week of school is officially over! We spent a lot of our week getting to know each other and learning our new schedules and routine. We made class rules, a time capsule of ourselves, learned the undercurve for cursive, and shared our dioramas. We also went on an ABC scavenger hunt today around Aspen school. I am also happy to say that as of today, everyone in our class can successfully open their lockers. They were all very nervous about lockers on Monday, but are pros as of today. Yeah! We will be starting Math, Reading, and Science next week. On Thursday we will be taking our Reading MAP test.
I hope to see everyone on Tuesday night for "Back to School Night!" HAVE A GREAT 3 DAY WEEKEND!
June 2008
Wow, I can't believe it is already June! We have had a lot happening in our classroom.
Last week flew by with a lot of exciting events.
On Tuesday we made our trip downtown, where we got to experience the "Windy City" in full force! It was cold and windy, but the students had a blast on the boat. We got to see many architectural landmarks. We even saw the Adler Planetarium (our first field trip ) from the boat. It was great to make that connection. Even though we were cold, we had fun together.
We made class t-shirts with our class picture, and we all signed the back. The students loved this activity, and couldn't wait to wear these shirts for Olympic Day.
Thursday was Olympic Day, and I was impressed with my class. The students had fun playing the games and worked together as a team. They sure demonstrated sportsmanship! We finished Olympic Day with a picnic on the front lawn, with our class together.
