It's almost February.

Spelling Focus for test on Friday, February 1 (Compound Words)

Regular Words:  goodbye, headquarters, lifeguard, loudspeaker, motorcycle, newspapers, nightmare, skyscraper, strawberry, also, cannot, football, airport, inside

Challenge Words:  earthquake, homestead, windshield, spearmint

Thank you for your generous donation of Wipes and post-its.  We are putting the supplies to good use, and I appreciate your generosity.

In reading we continue to focus on summarizing the main idea, asking higher level questions, and improving fluency.  Students are working hard to complete the 40 Book Challenge.  Please encourage your child to read 20 minutes Monday-Thursday.  Thanks for your support.

Have a great week.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me.

Kathy Smith

A Great Big Thanks to Parents

Our field trip to the Phoenix Science Museum was successful thanks to our wonderful parents.  Thank you for donating snacks and water.  We are very thankful to the following parent volunteers who went to Phoenix with us:  Dave McHorney, Page Chancellor Marks, Galena Robinson,Olivia Sethi, Patricia Shaffer, Kristin Westmoreland, and Curtis Zimmerman.  It was quite an experience on the school bus!  Many of our brave students attempted to ride the sky bike.

There will be no spelling test this week.  Please remember to have students read 20 minutes each night. In Social Studies students are researching early colonial times.  They are working in groups and creating a googledoc slide presentation.  Wow!  Their technology skills continue to be so impressive.

Thank you again for sharing your children with me.

Kathleen Smith

Spelling Words for Friday, January 18
Focus: (Suffixes ful, able, less)
ageless, agreeable, beautiful, countless, enjoyable, forgetful, lovable, penniless, thoughtless, wonderful, portable, helpful, useful, readable

Challenge:  constable, doubtful, excitable, successful

Field Trip to Phoenix is on Wednesday, January 22.  Buses are leaving promptly at 7:30 AM.  Thanks to all of you who volunteered to chaperone. If you did not get chosen for this field trip, we have another field trip scheduled to Tubac in March.

Please encourage your child to read 20 minutes each night.  I am really proud of the effort by students with the 40 Book Challenge.  As of last week a total of 1, 445 books have been read by students from Tina Moricz and Kathy Smith's classes.  Wow!  Isn't that amazing?

In Social Studies we are working on colonial research.  Students are using googledoc to create slides and design presentations using the Smart Board.

Thank you for your continued support.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.

Kathy Smith