Theme 6 Week 2 (January 30-Feb 3)

Spelling Words:
1. eat
2. feet
3. he
4. me
5. mean
6. see
7. maybe
8. sheep
9. seat
10. teeth

Main Story: (To be tested on Friday)- EEK! There's a Mouse in the House
Target Skills: Blending Long /e/ words (CV, CVCe); Vowel pairs ee, ea
Vocabulary Skill: Rhyming words; Expression of Surprise

Story Vocabulary:
dancing, tangles, there, laying, now, mouse, mercy, door, squeezed, elephant, eating, cow, barn, wall, through, EEK!, table, marched, horse

February Food Drive

Canned Green Beans!!!!Bartram Springs students will be collecting canned green beans for the entire month of February to help our local food drive. The class with the most participation and number of cans collected will win a prize from the F.L.I.G.H.T team here at school.

Flashlight Friday

To finish our week of school wide literacy activities this Friday (1-27-12) we are asking that each student bring in a flashlight to participate in the final literacy activity. Please label the flashlight with the students name so they don't get mixed up.

Also a reminder that the month of January is Canned Meat Month! Please send in any donations no later than Jan 31, 2012

Thank you in advance,
Ms. McDonnell

Theme 6 Week 1 (January 23, 2012)

Spelling Words:
1. go
2. bone
3. so
4. nose
5. home
6. no
7. also
8. woke
9. fly
10. try

Main Story: (To be tested on Friday)- The Sleeping Pig
Target Skills: Story Sturcture
Blending Long /O/ words (Cec and CVCe)
Long /U/ words (CVCe)
Final Clusters (ft, lk, nt)
Vocabulary Skill: ABC order

Do you have pictures of our class this year???

If you do and you would like to share them to possibly be picked to be part of this years yearbook please click on the link below to add your images.

http://dropbox.lumapix.com/?4kuw-dhfj-2sx

Chick-Fil-A Family Reading Night...

No Homework for the week of January 9-13

There will be no homework for the week of January 9-13. Please continue to study this weeks spelling words as they will be tested on them on Friday 1-13-12. Students will also take the weekly skills tests on that Friday as well.

The spelling words are:
like
time
prize
smile
ride
isn't
kite
nine
five
can't

Skills will be the same as were listed on last weeks spelling sheet. This week we had individual student testing which has to be done 3 times a year so that switched up our classroom routine for the week.

January's School Donation Item is....

Canned Meats!

Any donation that you can make will benefit the local food drive to help families in need. The class with the most items collected will will a prize from the FLIGHT 5th Grade team here at school.