Change for a Change!

 We need 8 oz. water bottle donations!

Sappington Students are working on a project to raise money to build a well in Africa.  We are going to be sending out water bottles with labels about the water project.  The labels are student created, and tell about the water project, who it helps, and dates for returning the bottles.  What the students will do is drink the water, and then fill it with change that will go toward The Water Project.  What we need from you is water bottle donations.  We need 8 oz. water bottles to stick our labels on to send out to Sappington, and other members of our community.  Character Club will be buying some as well.  You can send in any donations to Miss Zelle's class (RM 45).  Thank you for your help!

Weekly Update- Feb. 27- March 2

It's that time again.. Happy Monday!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!I can't wait for this nice weather we are suppose to have this week.

-Spelling: We are finishing up our word sorts and will have tests this week. Blue group will have a test over sort 28 on Wednesday, green group test over sort 21 on Thursday, and yellow group test over sort 15 on Friday.

-Writing: We are starting our "How-to Functional Writing" unit.
-Math: We are working customary units of measure and will be starting weight and capacity this week. I have introduced to the student the Gallon House- see if you can get them to draw it out for them and test their knowledge on gallons, quarts, pints, and cups.

- Science: Now that we have finished matter, and I must say I was pretty impressed with the scores from those tests so GREAT JOB everyone! We are now starting energy this week and into next week.

Reading and Social Studies: During these time slots throughout the day, Mrs. Feldt and I have been meeting with small groups to go over Math and Reading skills for MAP prep. We have the month of March the prep, prep,prep before MAP starts in the beginning of April.

Dates to remember:
Economic Day Ads are due Thursday, March 1
Economic Fun Day is Thursday, March 15
Friday, March 16 is an early dismissal and third quarter ends
Spring Break is from March 19-23

Please continue to practice math multiplication facts with your students so we can finish up our ice creams! :)

Weekly Update- Feb. 21-24

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone enjoyed their nice 3 day weekend!
We have a busy 4 day week but I know we can handle it.

Spelling- I have just about checked over all of the spelling tests and they all did such a great job. This week the green group is working on sort 21 where they are working with long E sounds. Yellow group is working on sort 15 where they are working with short and long U sounds. Blue group is working on sort 28 and they are working on or, oar, ore, and w+or words. They will all be tested over these new word sorts next week.

Math- We are continuing to work on graphs and will be taking our multiple choice quiz over graphing information tomorrow after we review the information today. I don't have any doubt that the students will do a great job on this quiz. Towards the end of the week I will be introducing them to length, inch, foot, yard, mile, and capacity. Measuring here we come!

Writing- The students are coninuting to write in their "Seed Books" where I have been giving them a topic to write on and they are asked to write at least 5 sentences each day on that topic. We are really focusing on PQPA, capitatlization, puncucation, and sentence structure to get us MAP ready.

Science- We are finishing up Matter and we will be reviewing today as well as receiving their study guides. I will do another review day tomorrow and then they will take their Chapter test on Thursday. The students will be able to use their quizzes that we took last week to help them study for the test. The two quizzes are "What are the States of Matter" and "How Matter Changes" and they will be getting the second quiz today graded.

During our regular Social Studies and Reading times, we are now dedicating those time slots to MAP practice since our units in those two subjects have came to an end until after testing is over. Mrs. Feldt and I are working on MAP skills in small groups and are meeting with the students each day to work on any skills that they need to help them prepare for the test. The students are benefiting from both of our help for the MAP test and I am very confident that they will all do very well.

Thungsten- Today, we are reviewing Com. Arts with the class and will be taking the test on Wednesday. Thursday we will review Math and take the test on Friday.

Dates to remember:
Wednesday 22nd- School store
Thursday 24th- PRISM night 4-6pm- The projects are all looking so great, thank you for those who particiapted and took the time to finish these!
Thursday ,March 1-Economic Day Ads are due
Thursday, March 15- Economic Fun Day

Hope everyone has a great week! :)

Weekly Update- Feb 13-17

Happy Monday!
We have a very fun and busy week this week and I cannot wait!

Spelling: We have been working on our word list last week and are already having our tests this week. Blue group will be tested on Tuesday, yellow group on Wednesday, and green group on Thursday. 
Math: Last week we learned about a couple different kinds of plots and graphs and will continue to learn about more this week. We are also going to learn about mode, range, and probability.
Writing: Last week I started having the students write in their "Seed" books as their journals and I give them a topic to write about each day and the students are really shining through their journals and their imagination, it is so fun to see the students really evolve into writers.
Science: As we are continuing our unit with Matter, this week we are going to be scientists as we conduct a couple experiments. We are going to keep our eye out for all the physical and chemical changes through each experiment too! We will have a matter quiz on Thursday after all of our experiments are over.
Social Studies: We finished Chapter 10 and I was so pleased with how well the students did on their tests, I could really tell they all studied.  This week we will begin some MAP practice during our regular Social Studies time.
Reading: This week we will be focusing on drawing conclusions through our selections. Most of the students also did get new reading group books last week that I hope they are all enjoying reading.

Dates to remember:
Tuesday 2/14- Jump Rope for Heart 10-10:50. Valentine's Day party will be from 1:45-2:45, please make sure that each student brings in enough Valentines for all 20 students.
Wednesday 2/15- Early Release
Monday 2/20- No School

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I look forward to meeting those coming to help out on Tuesday for our party.

Weekly Update Feb. 6-10

Happy Monday! Hope you all have a wonderful sports filled weekend!

We are excited to announce that our new student came today, Samantha. She came to us from Crestwood Elementary and we are all so excited to have her join our classroom. We now have 10 boys and 10 girls, yay!
This week:
Spelling: No tests this week! The students have been introduced to their new spelling words for this week. Green group is on sort 20 and are focusing on long U sounds. Blue group is on sort 27 and are focusing on ir, ier, and ire words. Yellow group is on sort 14 and are focusing on short and long O sounds.

Math: We are working on data and probability this week. Please continue to study those multiplication facts!

Writing: I hope you all have a chance to check out the blog and look at all of our persuasive writing videos. I made sure to video tape them as they try to convince you all in their writings. We all had a lot of fun with this project! This week we are working on Valentine writing/poems.

Reading: We are working on point-of-view as well as finishing up our reading group books. I will be on the look out for new reading group books this week!

Science: Last week we finished our matter unit with a fun experiment on how fast a solid turns into a liquid depending on the temperature of the liquid; we had a race. This week we will be focusing on Mixture and Solutions.

Social Studies: This week we are finishing up Chapter 10. The students will bring home their study guide on Wednesday so they can use that to study for their test on Friday. We will play a review game on Thursday to help better prepare them for their test.  I feel confident that they will all do very well on this test. :)

This week is our Pasta for Pennies spirit week:
Monday- If you bring in pennies, you may wear crazy socks or mismatched shoes.
Tuesday- If you bring in nickels, you may wear your favorite sports team shirt
Wednesday- If you bring in dimes, you may dress in 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s wear
Thursday- If you bring in quarters, you may wear a hat
Friday- If you bring in any amount of money, you may dress like the 60s (hippie)
This is all for a wonderful cause so let's see if our whole class can participate!

Reminder:
Next Tuesday Feb. 14- Valentine's Day Party- starting around 12:35
Wednesday Feb. 15- Early Release

Have a great week! :)

Class Names for Valentines

Ella
Mimi
Olivia
Maddie
Hannah
Isabel
Ellie
Iestyn
Samantha
Shane
Zach
Danny
Tim
Joey
Drew
Madison
Dylan S
Jon
Denise
Dylan T