Character trait video

We began working on character traits.  After we went over what character traits were, we applied them to the story in Ridgy we were reading to infer traits about each main character.  Finally, students were paired between my class and Miss Keith's to figure out an action for a character trait they were given.  The two classes then had to infer what their trait was. The kids did a great job!

Happy Chinese Year!!!

We had a Chinese New Year celebration on Monday, welcoming the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

John Team Leggett MVP

John is very, very funny.  He is fun to play with and is a great student.  John is very smart because he studies a lot. He is a nice kid and a GREAT friend!

By Team Leggett Publicists: Brady & Dace

Curriculum Update January 30-February 3

I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend. Thank you for going over the study packets with your child at night or allowing them to play the games on the computer to review for the state test. In playing the kinesthetic games in class, I can really tell that they have been studying.

For the upcoming PTA auction, our class is in charge of bringing things in for going on a road trip. Some sample items are snacks, crossword puzzles, and hand-held games.

The 5th grade is sponsoring another spirit day on February 24.  It will be pajama day.

enVision Math
We completed our unit on probability and statistics. We will be going back to enVision this week beginning division. Our topics this week will be division as sharing, division as repeated subtraction, finding missing numbers in a multiplication table, problem solving-choose and appropriate equation, and writing division stories.

Rigby Reading
We will continue with Theme 2, Week 2 in Rigby. We will continue to focus on determining importance (we will identify the main idea and details) and reviewing fix-up strategies.  We will begin to focus on character traits (personality, physical and actions of a character)


Spelling
The word study focus this week is word endings -ed, -ing, and -s. The Rigby list is blue, close, fall, girl, buzzes, grabbed, jumped, pages, roasted, and addresses. The extension list is inter (between, among). The words are interactive, interfere, interject, intermission, international, Internet, interpersonal, interpreter, interrupt, and interstate.


Social Studies/Writing
We will continue our study of celebrations of cultures looking at traditions, holidays, education, foods, sports, and languages. We are ahead of schedule. Please assist your child in editing/revising their rough draft week. Many of the students are now on typing. I would like all of the kids to be working on this stage of their research paper.


We will complete our title page at school. I also am going to go over with them the format for the bibliography. We will be using this citation website to complete our bibliography.
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?Grd=Elem


We began our pen pal partnership with Derrick Thomas Academy this week. Our hopes are that the children will be able to meet in the Spring.


Thank you and have a wonderful week!

Documentary Project on NBC 41

Curriculum Update January 23-27

I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend.  Please remember that the literacy playbook or games should be played each night in review for the Kansas Reading State Assessment. This should be studied as part of homework each night and brought back to school each day to look over.  Just a reminder, the links to the study guide and some prefix/suffix matching and quizzes can be found on my class homepage at www.usd232.org/bleggett  They are under useful links.  Here are the links to each one as well.
prefix/suffix matching http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=bleggett
prefix/suffix quiz http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=bleggett
reading state assessment video game http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_2/Meg49.htm

enVision Math
We focused on analyzing data this week (mode, median, max, min, and range).  This week, we will work on probability and take a test on both concepts Friday, January 27.

 

Rigby Reading
We will begin Theme 1, Week 1 in Rigby.  We will focus on determining importance (we will identify the main idea and details) and reviewing fix-up strategies.

Spelling

The word study focus this week is homophones.  The Rigby words this week are better, clean, done, end, maul, mall, paws, pause, principal, and principle.  The extension list focus is dis (not, none).  The words are disadvantage, disagreement, disappoint, discontinue, dismal, disobedient, disorganized, disposable, disrespectful, and disturb.

Social Studies

We will continue our study of celebrations of cultures looking at traditions, holidays, education, foods, sports, and languages.  We will our rough draft this week. Our third grade international festival will be on February 23.

 

Writing
We will begin our rough draft on our ancestor's culture and country they originated from.

  

 

Have a wonderful week! :)

Alexa MVP

Alexa with Team Leggett Publicists Brady & Dace

Alexa was the Team Leggett MVP this week.  She is really funny.  Alexa is a really good friend.  She is always willing to help anyone out and adds a lot of humor and energy to the class.