May 29, 2015

Reading Next week we will be reading The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. Students will focus on the concept of point of view.

Reading Logs  May logs are due Monday, June 1st. 

Language Arts    

Spelling There will be an assessment given on Friday. Students should complete a different activity each night (M-TH). Please encourage your child to practice their words!

Math  Next week students will review time. Our focus will be on quarter to, quarter past and elapsed time.

Math Facts Math facts should be reviewed daily. 

Click on the following link to print copies of the math practice worksheets:

http://www.ccsd66.org/wp-content/uploads/Teacher_Pages/Schultz/Math/

Science Next week in our nutrition unit, we will take a closer look at the the Fruit and Grain food groups. Students will identify foods that belong to each of these groups. We will discuss the health benefits of eating food from these groups.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

June Dates to Remember

 1 - May Reading Log Due & Team Spirit Day
 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview

 5 - All School Picnic

 9 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @12pm

May 23, 2015

Reading Next week we will be reading The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone, and The Three Little Javalinas by Susan Lowell. Students will retell the stories, and compare the points of view of different characters in the stories.

Reading Logs  Continue to read for 20 minutes each night and record books read in the May log. May logs are due Monday, June 1st. 

Language Arts    

Spelling There was an assessment given today.  New word sorts will go home on Tuesday. This will be the last sort for the year. YAY! Students should complete a different activity each night (M-TH). Please encourage your child to practice their words!

Math  We are working through the topic:  Step Up to 3rd Grade. Next week students will learn how to recognize a polygon and describe it by its number of sides, and solve addition and subtraction problems that use geometry and measurement.

Math Facts Math facts should be reviewed daily. 

Click on the following link to print copies of the math practice worksheets:

http://www.ccsd66.org/wp-content/uploads/Teacher_Pages/Schultz/Math/

Science Next week in our nutrition unit, we will look at the Vegetable Group. Students will identify foods that belong to this group. We will discuss the health benefits of eating food from the Vegetable Group.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Thank you to the Literacy Committee for bringing children's author, Aaron Renolds, to Elizabeth Ide! What a wonderful assembly!

Don't forget to send in a book for our Little Free Library before Wednesday! 

May Dates to Remember

25 - No School - Memorial Day
27 - Permission Slip due for Pen Pal Visit to PV
29 - All School Reading Rewards Day - Wear your sunglasses!


June Dates to Remember

 1 - May Reading Log Due
 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview

 5 - All School Picnic

 9 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @12pm

May 15, 2015

Reading/Language Arts Next week we will read aloud Toney Baloney Pen Pal by Pam Munoz and Edwin Fotherwingham. Students will learn about the 5 parts of a friendly letter. Mrs. Mandru's class at Prairieview wrote us letters telling us all about 3rd grade. We will be writing a letter back to our new 3rd grade pen pals. 

Reading Logs  Continue to read for 20 minutes each night and record books read in the May Log. 

Spelling New word sorts went home on Monday. Students should complete a different activity each night (M-TH). An assessment will be given on Friday.

Math  We are working through the topic:  Step Up to 3rd Grade. Today we learned how to name and write fractions. Next week we will learn how to identify and name other fractions, identify fractions of a set of objects, and color to show fractions that name parts of a set.

Math Facts Math facts should be reviewed daily. 

Click on the following link to print copies of the math practice worksheets:

http://www.ccsd66.org/wp-content/uploads/Teacher_Pages/Schultz/Math/

Science Next week in our nutrition unit, we will look at the Meat Group. Students will identify foods that belong to this group. We will discuss the health benefits of eating food from the Meat Group.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  THANK YOU Ms. Gogol, Mrs. Kobylarczyk, Mrs. Metherd and Mrs. Scatena for chaperoning our field trip to Brookfield Zoo. We attended the Animal Bites class where we looked at an animal's teeth and learned how to identify whether they were carnivores, omnivores or herbivores.

May Dates to Remember

22 - Children's author - Aaron Renolds' Visit
25 - No School - Memorial Day
27 - Permission Slip due for Pen Pal Visit to PV
29 - All School Reading Rewards Day - Wear your sunglasses!


June Dates to Remember

 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview

 5 - All School Picnic

 9 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @12pm

May 8, 2015

Reading To get ready for Aaron Renold's visit, students will be reading his book Carnivores. They will ask and answer the 5 W's and write a summary using the information they gathered. Students will also listen to Stray by Cynthia Rylant. They will be introduced to debating by deciding if the character Doris is strong or weak by listing reasons to support their opinion.

Reading Logs  Continue to read for 20 minutes each night and record books read in the May Log. 

Language Arts    

Spelling An assessment was given today. New word sorts will go home on Monday. Students should complete a different activity each night (M-TH).

Math  We began a new topic:  Step Up to 3rd Grade. The lessons in this topic will help prepare students for 3rd grade. Today we drew pictures and wrote multiplication stories. Next week we will preview division and relate multiplication and division. 

Math Facts Math facts should be reviewed daily. 

Click on the following link to print copies of the math practice worksheets:

http://www.ccsd66.org/wp-content/uploads/Teacher_Pages/Schultz/Math/

Science Next week in our nutrition unit, we will look at the Milk Group. Students will identify foods that belong to this group. We will discuss the health benefits of eating food from the Milk Group.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  Mrs. Minarik, Miss Szynal and I would like to say THANK YOU for a wonderful week full of notes, card, pictures, sweets, and flowers. Also, I would like to thank our PTO for providing a delicious week of lunches. As much as we love and appreciate the "things", it's your children that make our job rewarding. Thanks for sharing them with us. 

May Dates to Remember

Don't forget:  Our field trip to Brookfield Zoo is Wednesday. Please pack a sack lunch with a drink. Make sure you dress your child for the weather (gym shoes, jacket) and apply sunscreen before they come to school. Buses will be leaving by 9:15, so please make sure your child is on time.

13 - 2nd Grade Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo
15 - Early Dismissal @12pm - SIP Day
22 - Children's author - Aaron Renolds' Visit
25 - No School - Memorial Day


June Dates to Remember

 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview

 5 - All School Picnic

 9 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @12pm

May 1, 2015

Reading Students will be reading Two Ants, a fiction tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture into a kitchen. They will use the words and the pictures in the story to identify the settings of the story and then determine the theme. They will also be reading Ants, a nonfiction passage. Students will use the visualization strategy to illustrate a scene. They will compare and contrast the two selections.

Reading Logs  May reading logs went home today. Continue to read for 20 minutes each night and record books read in the May Log. 

We had our April READING CELEBRATION today. We celebrated with lunch in the classroom, a Magic School Bus Video, about butterflies, and freeze pops.  Way to go readers!

Language Arts    

Spelling New word sorts went home on Monday. Students should be completing a spelling activity each night (M-Th). An assessment will be given on Friday.

Math  We began a new topic:  Working With Equal Groups. Students will model repeated addition to write number sentences, build arrays to model repeated addition situations, and use repeated addition to solve problems.

Math Facts Math facts should be reviewed daily. 

Click on the following link to print copies of the math practice worksheets:

http://www.ccsd66.org/wp-content/uploads/Teacher_Pages/Schultz/Math/

Science Our butterflies are here! All ten caterpillars came out of their chrysalises over the weekend. We let them go today since the weather was warm.

We wrapped up our owl unit by dissecting an owl pellet. Ask you child all about it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  

May Dates to Remember

  1 - Progress Reports sent home on as needed basis
  1 - Gym Night @6:30
  6- Aimsweb Benchmarking
13 - 2nd Grade Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo
15 - Early Dismissal @12pm - SIP Day
22 - Children's author - Aaron Renolds' Visit
25 - No School - Memorial Day


June Dates to Remember

 3 - Pen Pal visit to Prairieview

 5 - All School Picnic

 9 - Last Day of School - Dismissal @12pm