Basketball Season Update

I am very fortunate to have an opportunity to not only teach, but coach in the Billings School District.  Our season is quickly coming to an end, but our last set of games are in Great Falls.  I wanted to give you and your child a heads up that I will not be here next Friday, February 28 as we are traveling to Great Falls.  That will be the last set of games for my freshman girls.  They are currently 13-3 so it has been a fun season, with a talented group of girls. I will then help with varsity for the week of our playoff game, and hopefully state!! The season will come to an end by mid-March. :)

class supplies

Thank you for all of your generous donations for our classroom this year.  We really appreciate it!!
Our snack and glue stick supply is still low. If you have not had the chance to donate, and have an opportunity to, we would greatly appreciate it.  If you just sent in snack/glue sticks, do not feel like you need to do it again.

Thank you so much for your support and all you do to make this a wonderful year for everyone in our class!

Have a safe weekend!

Love to Read Month

February is filled with the excitement of reading!  Today, we looked at the website Seussville.  This is a fun site filled with reading activities, educational games and a variety of fun facts!  We explored this site today, and it would be fun to let your child explore it at home.

To go along with Love to Read month, if you or anyone you know would like to be a guest reader in our class, please let me know.  We would love to have more volunteers in to read.  All they need to do is pick a favorite book or two, set up a time, and come in and read!

Secret sack

We will not have secret sack this week because of the early out on Thursday and no school on Friday. 

Secret Sack will be coming to an end and we will begin a social studies focus called "daily news." I will be sending more information home regarding daily news. 

Thank you for all of the time you put in to help with secret sack. The kids loved it, and it was a great visual for our phonics skills!

100th Day of School!! All smiles :)

science fair info

Arrowheads Science Fair will be March 27.  Please set up before school in the cafeteria.  March 28 is the Billings Clinic Expo.  You can look into this online if you/your child would like participate in this out of school project as well.

If you did not receive info on how to create a science fair project in the Tuesday folder and would like more info, please contact me.  I only sent pages home to students who were interested in creating a science fair project.

Valentines Party

Please contact Kary Thome to let her know what you are able to provide for our classroom Valentines Day party.  We are still in need of a few things for our ice cream sundaes!  A letter was sent home in yesterdays Tuesday folder with info regarding this.  This letter also has Kary's contact info.

Thank you! :)

Next week

Next week is our reading benchmark week. Therefore, we will review skills from the last 8 weeks and complete the Lead 21 benchmark exam. 

We will have a spelling test next Friday. These words are words that model more than one by adding s or es to the end of a word. Example words. Box, boxes, cat, cats, toy, toys, etc.

We will continue with long o words the following week. 

Next weeks secret sack topic is something that contains a homophone. This is challenging so be creative. Homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. 

Ex. Eight

Clues: number word, homophone to when you are eating, less than nine.

Ex. Here

Homophone to something you do with your ears, location, begins with the letter h. 

We with be wrapping up secret sack in a couple of weeks. We will begin a new activity called daily news. Kids will share, local and national events that are if interest to them. :)