Parents and Students,
I will no longer be updating this web page. You can find my new class page at http://hatcherell.wordpress.com. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding this change.
Sincerely, Miss Hatcher
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
February 1-5, 2010
Kindergarten: We will continue learning to recognize, say, and write animal names. We will also work on the grammar skill of possessive nouns.
Grade 1: We will review family and toy vocabulary. We will begin learning how to form and use verbs in the past tense.
Grade 2: We will learn about using past tense verbs, and we will also learn about holiday vocabulary. We will combine these two concepts to write sentences in the past and present about different holidays.
Grade 4: We will finish our discussion of The Secret Garden by watching selected scenes from the movie and comparing the movie with the book. We will begin writing a narrative response to the literature.
Grade 7: We will continue researching a person for our biographies, and we will write and revise our biographies.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
January 25-29, 2010
Sorry the topics are posted late this week; I was out of school on Monday. Here's what we've been doing and will be doing this week:
Kindergarten: We are learning shape vocabulary (circle, diamond, rectangle, etc.) at the beginning of the week, and we will start animal vocabulary on Thursday.
Grade 1: We are reviewing our sight word, family, and toy vocabulary, and there will be assessments on these three topics. We will also begin learning about the past tense simple form of verbs.
Grade 2: This week is all about the difference between past tense and present tense AND about holidays. We will learn to talk about holidays that already happened and those that are happening or will happen.
Grade 4: We will continue reading The Secret Garden together in class, answering questions about the story, and studying vocabulary words from the book.
Monday, January 18, 2010
January 18-22, 2010
Dear parents and students, can you believe it's already quarter 3?! Here is what we will be doing in classes this week:
Kindergarten: We will finish our work with clothing vocabulary, and we will have a quiz on Wednesday. Also, we will learn briefly about shape words (circle, diamond, etc.)
Grade 1: We will do some reading and writing activities to help us learn new sight words (words that we should be able to read just by looking at them).
Grade 2: We will finish our work with health vocabulary, and we will have a quiz on Wednesday. We will also do some work with sight words (words that we should be able to read just by looking at them).
Grade 4: We will begin reading The Secret Garden together in class. We will alternate our reading days with writing days when we will be writing narrative stories.
Monday, January 11, 2010
January 11-15, 2010
Kindergarten: We will finish learning clothing vocabulary, and we will move on to family vocabulary. Students will learn the generic names of family members like "mom," "grandfather," or "cousin."
Grade 1: On Monday we will start learning vocabulary for all different kinds of toys or games (like "checkers," "skateboard," and "teddy bear"). We will also take another look at adverbs as students discuss and write what they "always," "sometimes," or "never" play with.
Grade 2: We will finish our "Going to the Doctor" skits and present them to the class. We will also practice our listening and writing skills later in the week by copying down sentences exactly as we hear them spoken.
Grade 4: We will continue working with Lesson 6 vocabulary words from the Wordly Wise book. Students will have a quiz over the words on Thursday. Remember, they can practice using and spelling these words on www.spellingcity.com.
Monday, January 4, 2010
January 4-8, 2010
Welcome back!
Kindergarten: This week we will learn some new clothing vocabulary while reviewing the words learned before Christmas break.
Grade 1: We are starting to learn family vocabulary, and we will spend some time making our own family trees.
Grade 2: This week we are beginning health vocabulary--lots of words dealing with sickness or injury. We will even write our own skits that deal with this topic.
Grade 4: We are continuing our look at using descriptive language in writing. We will also begin Lesson 6 in the vocabulary book.
Grade 8/9: This week we will finish writing our persuasive speeches and do some peer revision. We hope to be able to present our speeches on Friday.
Monday, December 14, 2009
December 14-18, 2009
Merry Christmas!
This week, all classes will have a small Christmas party on Thursday, with the exception of Kindergarten who will have their party on Friday. Feel free to send a small snack for your child to share on the party day. This week's activities and lessons will include...
Kindergarten: We will continue our study of correct word order and punctuation in questions. We will also read a story to hone our reading comprehension and prediction skills. We will finish out the week by writing a "Merry Christmas" acrostic poem.
Grade 1: We will finish typing and illustrating our Question Poems from last week. We will also read a Christmas story called Wombat Divine and answer questions focusing on our use of present tense verbs. Finally, we will write Christmas poems using adverbs like "usually," "never," "sometimes," or "always."
Grade 2: We will finish typing, editing, and illustrating our "My Fable" stories. Then we will read and present our stories to the class. We will finish the week with Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia and discuss the multiple meanings of certain words in English.
Grade 4: Our focus this week is using descriptive writing in our language. We will play several class games (online) that focus on descriptive writing, and we will practice writing our own descriptive paragraphs.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Assignments for Grade 4 and Grade 8/9 Classes
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)