Ahhhh!!! The spelling lists are still sitting here on my desk, which means you can't study them at home tonight. I'm so sorry! If you happen to check the blog, they're listed below. Have a great week and study hard, these are a little bit difficult this week.
1. leadership
2. impossibly
3. gracefully
4. refreshment
5. uncomfortable
6. overdoing
7. remarkable
8. carefully
9. unbearably
10. ownership
11. unacceptable
12. reappeared
13. unprepared
14. oncoming
15. misbehaving
Bonus Words
16. outrageous
17. incomprehensible
18. undoubtedly
19. independence
20. disadvantage
Monday, May 2, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Author Night @ Logan Library/New Spelling Words
I wanted to let you know about author night tonight at the Logan Library. The details I received follow:
We are excited to announce that Logan Library will be hosting five popular and renowned authors on Friday April 22 at 6:00 pm.
Ally Condie: Author of the recently released Matched along with several LDS titles for teens including Yearbook and Being Sixteen.
James Dashner: Author of popular series for children and teens including The 13th Reality, The Maze Runner, and the Jimmy Fincher saga.
Jessica Day George: Author of Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), the Dragon Slippers series, and Princess of the Midnight Ball.
Shannon Hale: Author of The Goose Girl and others in the Books of Bayern series, the Newbery Honor winning Princess Academy, Austenland, and others.
Brandon Mull: Author of the extremely popular Fablehaven series, the recently released A World Without Heroes, and the Candy Shop Wars.
Beginning at 6:00 pm each author will speak for about 10 minutes followed by a 20 minute question and answer period. After this the authors will be available to sign books. You may bring your own book, or books will be available for purchase that evening.
We are extremely lucky to have so many talented and nationally known authors living in such close proximity, and we look forward to hosting them at Logan Library.
Also, here is our list of spelling words for April 25-29. Thanks!
1. question
2. creature
3. furniture
4. division
5. collision
6. action
7. direction
8. culture
9. vacation
10. mansion
11.fiction
12. feature
13. sculpture
14. vision
15. celebration
16. fascination
17. legislature
18. manufacture
19. possession
20. declaration
We are excited to announce that Logan Library will be hosting five popular and renowned authors on Friday April 22 at 6:00 pm.
Ally Condie: Author of the recently released Matched along with several LDS titles for teens including Yearbook and Being Sixteen.
James Dashner: Author of popular series for children and teens including The 13th Reality, The Maze Runner, and the Jimmy Fincher saga.
Jessica Day George: Author of Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), the Dragon Slippers series, and Princess of the Midnight Ball.
Shannon Hale: Author of The Goose Girl and others in the Books of Bayern series, the Newbery Honor winning Princess Academy, Austenland, and others.
Brandon Mull: Author of the extremely popular Fablehaven series, the recently released A World Without Heroes, and the Candy Shop Wars.
Beginning at 6:00 pm each author will speak for about 10 minutes followed by a 20 minute question and answer period. After this the authors will be available to sign books. You may bring your own book, or books will be available for purchase that evening.
We are extremely lucky to have so many talented and nationally known authors living in such close proximity, and we look forward to hosting them at Logan Library.
Also, here is our list of spelling words for April 25-29. Thanks!
1. question
2. creature
3. furniture
4. division
5. collision
6. action
7. direction
8. culture
9. vacation
10. mansion
11.fiction
12. feature
13. sculpture
14. vision
15. celebration
16. fascination
17. legislature
18. manufacture
19. possession
20. declaration
Monday, March 28, 2011
Just an FYI:
If your child would like to practice some math skills on instructional architect, (a site we use at school) I am posting a link to our ikeep bookmarks site. The kids should be able to find their way around from here. Thanks!
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?account=153103&t=10%2F19%2F2006+2%3A16%3A44+PM
If your child would like to practice some math skills on instructional architect, (a site we use at school) I am posting a link to our ikeep bookmarks site. The kids should be able to find their way around from here. Thanks!
http://ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?account=153103&t=10%2F19%2F2006+2%3A16%3A44+PM
Friday, March 25, 2011
Spelling words for the week of March 28-April 1.
Suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, and -ment
1. rocky
2. foolish
3. rainy
4. childhood
5. selfish
6. treatment
7. movement
8. neighborhood
9. childish
10. parenthood
11. crunchy
12. bumpy
13. payment
14. sleepy
15. shipment
16. assignment
17. livelihood
18. stylish
19. environment
20. guilty
Suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, and -ment
1. rocky
2. foolish
3. rainy
4. childhood
5. selfish
6. treatment
7. movement
8. neighborhood
9. childish
10. parenthood
11. crunchy
12. bumpy
13. payment
14. sleepy
15. shipment
16. assignment
17. livelihood
18. stylish
19. environment
20. guilty
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
We just finished reading the story Jalapeno Bagels in our Reading Street book. At the end of the story there is a recipe for these bagels. Some students wanted to make them at home, so I'm adding the recipe here.
Jalapeno Bagels
1 3/4 cups lukewarm water
1/2 teaspoon dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
5 to 6 cups flour
1/3 cup jalapenos, chopped
1/4 cup dried red peppers
Mix water, yeast, salt, and sugar. Add flour and jalapenos and mix into a ball. Knead for 10 to 12 minutes, adding more flour if necessary, until dough is stiff. Add red peppers and knead for 3 minutes. Let dough rest 10 minutes, then cut into 12 pieces with a knife.
Roll each piece of dough on a table to form long, cigarlike shapes. Then, for each of the twelve pieces, connect the two ends by overlapping them about 3/4 of an inch and rolling the ends together to make a ring shape. Make sure each joint is secure, or it will come apart while boiling.
Cover with a damp towel and let rise 1 to 1 1/2 hours in a warm spot. In a large pot, bring 1 to 2 gallons of water to a rolling boil. Place bagels in boiling water and boil until they float (15 to 30 seconds). Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees fro 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Note: A bakery uses dry malt instead of sugar, and high-gluten flour, which you may be able to get at a bakery or pizza parlor. For a milder bagel, reduce the quantities of the peppers.
Happy eating!
Jalapeno Bagels
1 3/4 cups lukewarm water
1/2 teaspoon dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
5 to 6 cups flour
1/3 cup jalapenos, chopped
1/4 cup dried red peppers
Mix water, yeast, salt, and sugar. Add flour and jalapenos and mix into a ball. Knead for 10 to 12 minutes, adding more flour if necessary, until dough is stiff. Add red peppers and knead for 3 minutes. Let dough rest 10 minutes, then cut into 12 pieces with a knife.
Roll each piece of dough on a table to form long, cigarlike shapes. Then, for each of the twelve pieces, connect the two ends by overlapping them about 3/4 of an inch and rolling the ends together to make a ring shape. Make sure each joint is secure, or it will come apart while boiling.
Cover with a damp towel and let rise 1 to 1 1/2 hours in a warm spot. In a large pot, bring 1 to 2 gallons of water to a rolling boil. Place bagels in boiling water and boil until they float (15 to 30 seconds). Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees fro 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Note: A bakery uses dry malt instead of sugar, and high-gluten flour, which you may be able to get at a bakery or pizza parlor. For a milder bagel, reduce the quantities of the peppers.
Happy eating!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
3rd Grade Update
Is it really November? How did that happen?! My great plans for updating the blog every week have not worked out--sorry about that! Hopefully we're in the swing of things, and I can update a little more frequently now.
Our new reading program has kept us very busy learning nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, and now possesive nouns. Verbs, action verbs, subjects, predicates, conjunctions, and more. (Oh my!) We've also been learning how to write different types of passages, why authors choose to write what they write, reading for a purpose and predicting what will happen. Weekly vocabulary, amazing and spelling words are definitely increasing our language, and the question of the week gets us thinking and discussing some great topics. It's a good program that keeps us going 100 miles an hour.
Most of the kids are excited to be getting some pen pals in the next week or so. My sister-in-law teaches 2nd grade in Tremonton, and we will be writing to her class. It will be exciting to use some of the skills we've learned in writing in a real-life setting.
We are working on subtraction in math. We've talked about why and when we subtract, and have been practicing setting up story problems. Learning to regroup (or borrow) has been pretty smooth for almost everyone. Yesterday we talked about subtracting when there are zeroes in the top number. (500-321=) When you have a few extra minutes :) it would be great to give your child a couple of problems for practice. Even better would be to give them a real-life example and have them set-up the problem to solve. (If we want to buy a game that costs $14.00, and we have $12.50, how much more money do we need?)
We will be wrapping up our unit on skeletal and muscular systems before Thanksgiving. The class is a little worried about memorizing the names of the bones. (I keep reminding them that there are 206 bones, and I'm only asking them to memorized about 15!) We'll keep practicing the names in class, and they should bring home a sheet that you can help them memorize at home.
Thanks for all of your support at home. I'm very impressed that my students are right on top of things. They're getting their math facts done every night, their spelling lists and reading calendars are coming back each Friday, and I can count on them to finish work at home when they need to. I know that life gets really busy, and I'm grateful that parents and students have made schoolwork a priority. Keep up the good work!
Reading Street Information for the week of November 15-19
Question of the week: "How have plants and animals adapted to solve problems?"
Reading Selection: "Amazing Bird Nests" (Can be accessed on the successnet.com website)
Spelling words:
1. father
2. chapter
3. other
4. alphabet
5. watch
6. English
7. weather
8. catch
9. fashion
10. shrink
11. pitcher
12. flash
13. athlete
14. trophy
15. nephew
16. northern
17. establish
18. emphasis
19. hyphen
20. challenge
Vocabulary words:
1. bill (body part of a bird)
2. goo (sticky substance)
3. hunters
4. platform
5. twigs
6. material (ex: wood is a common material used to make homes)
7. tons
Our new reading program has kept us very busy learning nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, and now possesive nouns. Verbs, action verbs, subjects, predicates, conjunctions, and more. (Oh my!) We've also been learning how to write different types of passages, why authors choose to write what they write, reading for a purpose and predicting what will happen. Weekly vocabulary, amazing and spelling words are definitely increasing our language, and the question of the week gets us thinking and discussing some great topics. It's a good program that keeps us going 100 miles an hour.
Most of the kids are excited to be getting some pen pals in the next week or so. My sister-in-law teaches 2nd grade in Tremonton, and we will be writing to her class. It will be exciting to use some of the skills we've learned in writing in a real-life setting.
We are working on subtraction in math. We've talked about why and when we subtract, and have been practicing setting up story problems. Learning to regroup (or borrow) has been pretty smooth for almost everyone. Yesterday we talked about subtracting when there are zeroes in the top number. (500-321=) When you have a few extra minutes :) it would be great to give your child a couple of problems for practice. Even better would be to give them a real-life example and have them set-up the problem to solve. (If we want to buy a game that costs $14.00, and we have $12.50, how much more money do we need?)
We will be wrapping up our unit on skeletal and muscular systems before Thanksgiving. The class is a little worried about memorizing the names of the bones. (I keep reminding them that there are 206 bones, and I'm only asking them to memorized about 15!) We'll keep practicing the names in class, and they should bring home a sheet that you can help them memorize at home.
Thanks for all of your support at home. I'm very impressed that my students are right on top of things. They're getting their math facts done every night, their spelling lists and reading calendars are coming back each Friday, and I can count on them to finish work at home when they need to. I know that life gets really busy, and I'm grateful that parents and students have made schoolwork a priority. Keep up the good work!
Reading Street Information for the week of November 15-19
Question of the week: "How have plants and animals adapted to solve problems?"
Reading Selection: "Amazing Bird Nests" (Can be accessed on the successnet.com website)
Spelling words:
1. father
2. chapter
3. other
4. alphabet
5. watch
6. English
7. weather
8. catch
9. fashion
10. shrink
11. pitcher
12. flash
13. athlete
14. trophy
15. nephew
16. northern
17. establish
18. emphasis
19. hyphen
20. challenge
Vocabulary words:
1. bill (body part of a bird)
2. goo (sticky substance)
3. hunters
4. platform
5. twigs
6. material (ex: wood is a common material used to make homes)
7. tons
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Great First Week!
Wow! I can't believe how time flies. We've already made it through our first full week of school. We've also learned quite a few things in those first few days.
In math we've been working on place value, and writing numbers in three different formats. These formats are:
Standard form: or the regular way we write digits, such as: 451,756
Expanded form: 400,000 + 50,000 + 1,000 + 700 + 50 + 6.
Word form: four hundred fifty-one thousand, seven hundred fifty-six.
Place value to the ten or hundred thousands is pretty new to most third-graders, so hopefully your child hasn't been too frustrated. We will keep working on these topics for a few days. If you can look over the returned class work with your child that would also help. (It might even be fun to look at the real-estate ads and have your child read the asking prices to you.)
In language arts and reading we have been learning about homonyms, (words that sound the same, but have different meanings) writing complete sentences, and many new vocabulary words. We also studied the vowel/consonant/consonant/vowel spelling pattern last week. Hopefully you've been helping your child practice spelling words each night. A new spelling list went home today. These words are all plural; ending in -s, -es, or -ies. Please review them each night and sign the spelling paper on Friday.
Week 2 Spelling Words:
pennies
inches
plants
families
bodies
glasses
wishes
pockets
lists
copies
parties
bunches
crashes
supplies
pencils
Challenge Words:
accidents
libraries
mysteries
carpenters
merchants
Thanks for all of your support! I've had great letters from parents, and I can tell that my students are getting the help they need at home. Keep up the great work helping your child with their math facts, practicing spelling, reading 20 minutes, and finishing up any other homework they have each night. I really appreciate your commitment to your child's education!
P.S. I will have book orders ready to go home on Wednesday. If you would like to order, please do so by Monday, September 13. Thanks!
In math we've been working on place value, and writing numbers in three different formats. These formats are:
Standard form: or the regular way we write digits, such as: 451,756
Expanded form: 400,000 + 50,000 + 1,000 + 700 + 50 + 6.
Word form: four hundred fifty-one thousand, seven hundred fifty-six.
Place value to the ten or hundred thousands is pretty new to most third-graders, so hopefully your child hasn't been too frustrated. We will keep working on these topics for a few days. If you can look over the returned class work with your child that would also help. (It might even be fun to look at the real-estate ads and have your child read the asking prices to you.)
In language arts and reading we have been learning about homonyms, (words that sound the same, but have different meanings) writing complete sentences, and many new vocabulary words. We also studied the vowel/consonant/consonant/vowel spelling pattern last week. Hopefully you've been helping your child practice spelling words each night. A new spelling list went home today. These words are all plural; ending in -s, -es, or -ies. Please review them each night and sign the spelling paper on Friday.
Week 2 Spelling Words:
pennies
inches
plants
families
bodies
glasses
wishes
pockets
lists
copies
parties
bunches
crashes
supplies
pencils
Challenge Words:
accidents
libraries
mysteries
carpenters
merchants
Thanks for all of your support! I've had great letters from parents, and I can tell that my students are getting the help they need at home. Keep up the great work helping your child with their math facts, practicing spelling, reading 20 minutes, and finishing up any other homework they have each night. I really appreciate your commitment to your child's education!
P.S. I will have book orders ready to go home on Wednesday. If you would like to order, please do so by Monday, September 13. Thanks!
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