Hi Students and Parents,

Welcome to Mrs. Estrada's blog. This blog will help you keep up to date on homework, in-class work, and any school reminders. I will update this blog after school Monday through Friday. Please feel free to leave me a post if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. Don't forget to check orange folders and reading log every night!

~Mrs. Estrada
National Board Certified Teacher

Monday, April 29, 2013

Monday 04/29/13

Hi!

There are still many missing report cards. Please make sure to check your child's orange folder for a note addressed to those parents who haven't return report cards. If you didn't attend parent teacher conferences, please go to the office to pick up your child report card, review, sign and return to school.

Spelling: 4 times each
Blue: charm, harm, sharp, harp, shark, first, swirl, birth, girl, dirt, corn, porch, horn, north, fork, burst, hurt, curb, surf, curl

Green: farm, harm, yard, card, first, dirt, bird, girl, corn, fork, horn, torn, burn, curl, hurt, surf

Red: war, car, farm, yard, art, bark, dark, fort, corn, for, horn, jar, word, work, fork

Math: worksheet on symmetry

Reading: practice reading and practice sight-words (being, head, group, house, family, few, line, turn, way, page, way)

Phonics: worksheet

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tuesday04/23/13

Hi!

The students did awesome today during IDR reading workshop!!! They are growing so much as readers and writers.We also started our unit on plants in Science were students are participating in a shared research of different types of plants.


Homework:

Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: Worksheet on following directions for reading a grid

Phonics: worksheet

Reading: practice reading and practice sight-words

Monday, April 22, 2013

Monday 04/22/13

Hi!

Please send signed report cards tomorrow, if you haven't done so already.

Spelling: 4 times each
Red and Green: baby, babies, try, tries, fly, flies, sky, skies, cry, cries, pony, ponies, lady, ladies, dry, dries, candy, candies, penny, pennies

Blue: empty, empties, puppy, puppies, family, families, berry, berries, party, parties, pony, ponies, lady, ladies, story, stories, candy, candies, penny, pennies

Math: Worksheet on position words

Phonics: worksheet 247-248

Reading: practice reading and practice sight words (being, head, group, house, family, few, line, turn, page, way)

Friday, April 19, 2013

Friday! 04/19/13

Report Cards: Please sign and return report card on Monday

Test Folders: Please review test folders. Sign and return each test and the log on the folder

Year Book: order forms went home today, school wants cash only

Book Reports: please read their weekend book at least twice this weekend and complete book reports for Monday

Have a great weekend!!!!!!!

~Mrs. Estrada

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Tuesday 04/16/13

Hi! I was at a workshop yesterday, so we had a lot of catching up today.

Tomorrow Parent-Teacher conferences!!!! 100% parent attendance gets us a FREE pizza party! (Last time, we were just one parent short) 

See you all tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

Spelling: (Plurals) complete both 10 sentences and rainbow write by Thursday! 
Blue: wishes, speeches, kisses, places, crashes, peaches, gases, benches, scratches, lunches, passes, lashes, voices, splashes, dresses, ashes

Green: toes, eyes, fingers, lips, hands, boxes, mixes, axes, foxes, buses, gases, passes, dresses, dishes, benches, lashes, ashes

Red: hugs, boxes, buses, wigs, rugs, mixes, gases, pigs, bugs, axes, passes, gigs, jugs, foxes, dresses, digs

Math: worksheet on time

Phonics: worksheet

Reading: practice reading and practice sight words (bean, each, change, hand, found, home, leave, man, mean, list)

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Thursday 04/11/13

Hi!

Last day for book fair is tomorrow! Don't forget tomorrow is 1/2 Half Day, dismissal is at 11:30.

Homework: 
Spelling: practice test

Math: 2 worksheets

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Wednesday 04/10/13

Hi!

Reminder that Friday is a half day of school!!!!!!! Dismissal is at 11:30.

Homework:
Spelling: Rainbow write

Math: Worksheet on time

Phonics: worksheet

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading. 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Tuesday 04/09/13

Hi! Today students will be receiving Spring Pictures order form. If you are interested please return order form to school with payment as soon as possible. 

Spelling: 10 sentences (pictures are optional now)

Math: Workbook page

Reading: Practice sight words and practice reaidng

Monday, April 8, 2013

Monday 04/08/13

Hi!

Tomorrow the students will be visiting the book fair. Students with money will be able to visit and make purchases tomorrow.

Also, today we updated our Spelling notebooks and routine!!! In order, to keep raising the level of rigorous we made changes to homework. Please review the update routine inside your child's notebook. Spelling baggies our stapled at the back of the notebook to help with keeping words safe. Only students who brought in an extra notebook at the beginning of the year received a new notebook today.

Lastly, ask your child what's their new reading level? We all moved up a level today and got new books in our book boxes!!! Exciting!!!

Thanks
~Mrs. Estrada

Spelling:  (4 times each)
Green: few, fewer, fewest, new, newer, newest, fast faster, fastest, sweet, sweeter, sweetest, slow, cloder, slowest, small, smaller, smallest

Blue: cheap, cheaper, cheapest, youg, younger, youngest, smart, smarter, smartest, sweet, sweeter, sweetest, nice, nicer, nicest, small, smaller, smallest

Red: few, fewer, new, newer, fast, faster, sweet, sweeter, cold, colder, slow, slower, tall, taller, small, smaller

Math: Worksheet on facts families

Reading: practice reading and practice sight words (above, bring, high, light, might, back, land, men, next, follow)

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Thursday 04/04/13


IMPORTANT!
Saturday School CANCELED!

Dear Parents,

        I am writing to inform you that Saturday school is canceled. Unfortunately, we didn’t meet the 80% minimal enrollment for Saturday school. We will continue to have after school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for the month of April to prepare students for NWEA assessment. Dismissal will be at 4:15 for students staying after school.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Estrada, NBCT

Spelling: Practice test

Math: worksheet

Reading: Practice sight words and practice reading 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Wednesday 04/03/13

Spelling: Rainbow write

Phonics: worksheet

Math: Workbook page

Reading: Practice sight words and practice reading 


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Tuesday 04/02/13

Hi! There are a couple of forms that are being collected...

We need only 4 more dental forms to qualify us for the raffle that allows one student in our class to get a FREE IPad!!!!

Also if you are participating in the ComEd Challenge I need the pledge form by tomorrow.

Spelling Words for the Week:
Blue: hum, hummed, humming, skip, skipped, skipping, brag, bragged, bragging, hike, hiked, hiking, live, lived, living, skate, skated, skating

Green: fish, fished, fishing, help, helped, helping, ask, asked, asking, cook, cooked, cooking, melt, melted, melting, jump, jumped, jumping

Red: go, going, ask, asking, fish, fishing, help, helping, cook, cooking, eat, eating, jump, jumping

Math: Worksheet on part and whole subtraction

Phonics: Workbook page

Reading: practice sight-words(young, water, learn, hard, answer, form, better, later, start, car)  and practice reading