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May 24, 2010
Specials this week are:
Monday-Computers
Tuesday-Art
Calendar
May 25 – End of the Year Party in Classrooms starting at 1:55
May 26 – Field Day! Bring a sack lunch. The lunchroom will be closed.
May 27 – Last day of School. Dismissal 11:30 am
Quick Note for Homeroom:
Thank you to all the students and parents for a great year! Have a fun and safe summer and I’ll see everyone in the Fall!
We will be having our End of the Year classroom party on May 25, starting at 1:55.
May 26 is field day! Students need to bring a sack lunch. The kitchen will be close. The theme this year for Field Day is in honor of the World Cup that starts in June. If your child has any soccer jerseys or any professional sports attire, he or she can wear it on Field Day. Also, please make sure your child wears sunscreen.
Parent volunteers are encouraged to come and help. Parent’s volunteering will be helping with their child’s class; moving with the class and helping at different stations.
Theme:
The Insect post test will be on Tuesday, May 25.
If you need to get in contact with me, you can reach me by phone (303) 450-3936 Ext. 145 or email me at Janice.Ramos@Adams.12.org
May 17, 2010
Specials this week are:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
“B” Day Computers
Tuesday, Thursday
“A” Day Art
Calendar
May 19- Last day of literacy and math
May 20- Visiting Author Justin Matott
May 21 – Last Fun Friday
May 25 – End of the Year Party in Classrooms starting at 1:55
May 26 – Field Day! Bring a sack lunch. The lunchroom will be closed.
May 27 – Last day of School. Dismissal 11:30am
Quick Note for Homeroom:
Wednesday, May 19 is the last day the students will be switching literacy and math. Please make sure that your child has any missing homework turned in by Wednesday.
On Thursday, Justin Matott will be visiting the 1/2 students. He will be conducting a creative writing workshop. Our class along with Ms. Heilbron’s class will meet with Mr. Matott at 9:00-10:00. If you would like to order any books from Justin Matott, in the Monday folder you will find an order form. Please complete the form and return it to school along with a payment by Thursday, May 20.
May 26 is field day! Students need to bring a sack lunch. The kitchen will be close. The theme this year for Field Day is in honor of the World Cup that starts in June. If your child has any soccer jerseys or any professional sports attire, he or she can wear it on Field Day. Also, please make sure your child wears sunscreen.
Parent volunteers are encouraged to come and help. Parent’s volunteering will be helping with their child’s class; moving with the class and helping at different stations.
Theme:
This week in theme we are starting insect presentations. Remember that students need to bring a 3-D model, poster board and a written paper to the presentation. The written paper can either by typed or nicely hand written. I have offered to type student’s papers as long as I can read their hand writing. So far, I’ve typed three papers. If you are not sure when your child is presenting his or her project I have posted the schedule on my blog. Please see “Documents” on my blog for the presentation schedule.
In theme we will also continue learning about insects. The insect post test will be on Tuesday, May 25. I will send home a review sheet on Friday.
Homework: Work on your 3D model and poster board.
If you need to get in contact with me, you can reach me by phone (303) 450-3936 Ext. 145 or email me at Janice.Ramos@Adams.12.org
Specials this week are:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
“A” Day Computers
Tuesday, Thursday
“B” Day Art
Calendar
May 11- Scholastic Book Order Due
May 12 – Muscular Dystrophy walk during Specials
May 19- Last day of literacy and math
May 21 – Last Fun Friday
May 25 – End of the Year Party in Classrooms starting at 12:55 *
May 26 – Field Day!(Bring a sack lunch, the kitchen will be closed.)
Quick Note for Homeroom:
Thank you, thank you, to students and parents for all the delicious food, gifts and notes of appreciation. It was so thoughtful and I really appreciated.
A couple of quick reminders: the last Scholastic book order is due on May 11. Also, if you have not paid for your child’s pictures please send in a payment for the pictures you are keeping or if you do not want the pictures, please return them to the school.
*I had the wrong time for the End of the Year Party. It will be at 12:55 until 2:50.
Math:
In math this week we will take one more subtraction and addition facts test. We have a few students that completed both facts tests with 98% or better. Those students will not have to take the fact test again. We will continue reviewing adding double digit with regrouping. We will also review double digit subtraction with regrouping. The students will continue reviewing temperature and also we will continue with story problems. Next Tuesday the students will take the mid-year test for the second grade journal. This is the last week of homework. If you child has any missing work please have them hand it in this week.
Homework: Home Link 4.6, 4.9 a worksheet on place value and one on counting money.
Literacy:
This week, students will continue with poetry writing. The students will be working on an acrostic, alliteration, haiku, and a cinquain poem. On the last day of literacy, the students will be sharing their poems with Mrs. Martinac’s class. We will be making a parts of speech book to help the students remember the different parts of speech. We will also be reviewing the 6-traits of writing, what a topic sentence is, writing details, a conclusion, capitalization, indention and punctuation, punctuation. We will continue with mystery reading and also be reading their “Readers’ Theater” stories. The students will be performing their play on May 14 at 9:00 instead 8:45. The students will be taking their plays home every night to practice, please make sure they bring them back the next day. I don’t have extra copies. This is the last week of homework and also the last week to turn in any missing work.
Homework: is 15points worth of spelling activities and to practice reading their play.
Theme:
This week in theme we are going to work hard on our research project. I have a few 2nd graders that have written their first paragraphs and are moving quickly to the next paragraph. Hopefully, the 3-D model and poster board are going well at home. The time and date of when your child will be presenting his/her presentation will be in the Monday folder. For those that did not submit a sign-up sheet I select a time for you. I will also post the schedule on my blog.
Homework: Work on your 3D model and poster board.
If you need to get in contact with me, you can reach me by phone (303) 450-3936 Ext. 145 or email me at Janice.Ramos@Adams.12.org
May 3, 2010
Specials this week are:
Monday, Wednesday
B Day - Art
Tuesday, Thursday
A Day - Computers
Calendar
May 6 – Chick-fil-A Night
May 7 – No School, teacher work day
May 11- Scholastic Book Order Due
May 12 – Muscular Dystrophy walk during Specials
May 19- Last day of literacy and math
May 21 – Last Fun Friday
May 25 – End of the Year Party in Classrooms starting at 1:55
May 26 – Field Day!
Quick Note for Homeroom:
The last Scholastic book order will be going out this week and they will be due on May 11. This is great opportunity to get some books to read this summer.
Math:
The students did not do too well on their Unit 3 Post Test. We will be reviewing counting coins, telling time, drawing hands on a clock and making change. They will also be working on Unit 4 parts and numbers stories, temperature and estimating cost. I will give the students another Unit 3 Post Test on Thursday. The students will also be taking an addition test this week. The students need know their addition facts 0-18. If they get a 100% on the test they will not have to take any more addition facts test. I will test them on subtraction next week. Again, if they get 100% on the subtraction test, they will not have to take another subtraction test.
Homework: Home Link 4.2, 4.3 and an addition worksheet
Please have your child keep practicing the addition triangles and subtraction flash cards.
Literacy:
This week, hopefully the students will be finished with their biography writing. We will continue with poetry writing. The students did not have an opportunity to write their name poem. We will work on that and also start learning about similes and metaphors. Students will continue learning about antonyms and also about suffixes and prefixes. The students will continue reading their mystery stories. The students are also reading “Readers’ Theater”. The students are going to be put into three different groups. Each group will be reading a different play. Reading plays help the students with fluency. The students will be performing their play on May 14. Please save that date on your calendar.
Homework: is 15points worth of spelling activities and a comprehension worksheet.
Theme:
Last week in theme students worked on a project about the life cycle of a butterfly. This week students will start their insect research. We will discuss the characteristics of an insect and the characteristics of a spider. Students will work on their research answering questions about their insect’s anatomy and habitat.
In the Monday folder you will find a sign-up form for the insect presentation. Please remember that the power point is optional. What is required for this project is a completed paper, a 3D model and a poster board with pictures and facts. The research and paper will be completed in class. The 3D model is to be completed at home and the poster board pictures can be completed at home. The student can write the facts for the poster board pictures in the classroom. I don’t want the students to be bringing too many loose pictures to class because the chances of things getting lost are too risky.
Homework: Due May 6, sign-up sheet for your presentation.
If you need to get in contact with me, you can reach me by phone (303) 450-3936 Ext. 145 or email me at Janice.Ramos@Adams.12.org
April 26, 2010
Specials this week are:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
“A” Day Computers
Tuesday, Thursday
“B” Day Art
Calendar
April 26 – Rockies Fundraiser is due
April 26-30– Scholastic Book Fair
April 29 –The class will visit the Scholastic Book Fair at 2:00
April 30 – Dodge Ball Tournament
May 6 - Chick-Fil-A-Spirit Night
May 7 - No School/ teacher workday
Quick Note for Homeroom:
The 1/2 overnight was a great success. Thank you to all the parents that helped chaperone at the Butterfly Pavilion, prepared dinner, helped with the craft, spent the night at school and helped prepare for breakfast. Without your help, the overnight would not have been such a success.
Math:
This week in math we will be starting Unit 4. The students will be taking the Unit 4 pre-test. In Unit 4, the students will be learning to solve change-to-more number stories, part and total numbers and will be reviewing how to read temperatures and to solve number stories about temperatures.
Homework: Home Link 3.8, 4.1 and the Sport Shop worksheet. Last Friday, the student did not have a facts test since they took the Unit 3 post test. This week they will have a subtraction facts test.
Please have your child keep practicing the addition triangles and subtraction flash cards.
Literacy: The biography writing on Helen Keller is going well. This week the students will put all their research together and write a five paragraph paper. We will start poetry writing this week. We will start with an acrostic ABC poem and a name poem. In grammar, we will be working with homonyms, reviewing their, they’re and there and also working with antonyms. They will also be doing a fun compound word activity and a contraction activity. In reading the students will continue reading their mystery stories. They are working on fluency and making predictions as they read their stories, trying to figure out what is going to happen next. Last week I tested the students on the FRY words. I have a few first graders that test 95% or better on the first grade FRY words. They will be taking the second grade FRY words test, getting a head start on next year! :)
Homework: is 15points worth of spelling activities and a short comprehension worksheet along with the 40 minute reading log.
Theme:
This week in theme we will be starting our next unit which is insects. They will be taking the pre-test on Monday. The students are really going to enjoy this unit. They will be bringing home the information on the last theme project which is an insect research project. I had student choose three insects they wanted to research. I picked the insect they will be researching. I will post the list on my blog so parents can see which insect their child will be studying in case students forget to tell their parents. I’ll also post the research guidelines in case that gets misplaced. Please look for these documents in the document file on my blog page. Parents, please make sure that your child has fun with this project. It is an opportunity for your child to learn about an insect he/she is interested in. Also, it is an opportunity for your child to show off his or her creativity when he or she designs the poster board and the 3D model.
Homework: Bring in materials (books, magazines, articles and internet sources) to school by Monday, May 3rd on the insect you will be researching.
If you need to get in contact with me, you can reach me by phone (303) 450-3936 Ext. 145 or email me at Janice.Ramos@Adams.12.org
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Mrs. Ramos, one of our 1 /2 teachers, was a long term substitute on the 1/2 team during the 2008-2009 school year, for Mrs. Huey, who was on maternity leave. She has been a substitute in the Adams 12 school district for the last two years. She received her elementary teaching certificate at Regis University and she’s currently working on her Masters in Education. She is married and has two children. Alex is a freshman in high school and Tia is an eighth grader. Both of her children attended Stargate from first grade through fifth grade. When she’s not in the classroom she enjoys reading, spending time with her family and their two dogs.
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