Mrs. Alvarado's Class News

Friday, Nov. 11th

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Nov. 11th Dear Parents, Wow! What a quick and busy week! The Fire Safety Village on Monday was so great! The class was so well behaved! I was proud to be their teacher! They had a lot of fun and learned a lot as well!! We also had High Touch High Tech on Thursday on Simple Machines. Since we have already covered that material the instructor was very impressed with the class’ knowledge. They all knew the answers to his questions. He was also impressed with the manners that were shown as materials were being passed out. Everyone said thank you! Manners and smarts! Okay….I am bragging a bit! They really are a very impressive class! Take a look at next week: Reading- We will be finishing up the book Homer Price . Our focus lessons will be on comprehension, compare/contrast, and evaluating the story elements. Grammar- We are going to review the parts of speech learned so far this year. We are going to review nouns, verbs, pronouns, and sentence types in a Thanksgiving kind of way! Fun! Math- We are slowly learning how to solve long division problems. We are going to continue to practice working problems next week. We will be testing Chapter 10 on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday we are working on Mayflower Math! Science- We are working on the “Light” unit. We will be finishing up the unit with a quiz on Thursday next week. I will send home a study guide on Wednesday. Writer’s Workshop- We will be writing about our thankful thoughts! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving break! I feel very blessed to work at Garrison Mill. I feel especially blessed to have this group of children! They make my job so easy with their sweet faces and positive attitudes! Rest and enjoy your family! Be safe! Mrs.Alavarado

Friday, Nov.4th

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Nov. 4th Dear Parents, I can’t thank you enough for the wonderful fall centers! The class loved all of the activities! You made the afternoon so nice for the class! Thank you for all of your time and energy it was really appreciated! Next Monday, we are going to the Fire Safety Village for a field trip. Students will need to bring a paper sack lunch and drink or they can buy one from the café before we go. I will bring a cooler for drinks. Please label your child’s lunch and drink if possible. Let’s all wear our red class t-shirts! It will make it easier for me to see the class. Girls, don’t wear dresses. We are going to be practicing getting out of a window! Should be a fun day! Remember, next Tuesday will be a student holiday. It is a professional learning day for the teachers. Look at what we are learning next week: Reading- We are going to be starting a book called Homer Price. The story takes place in the 40s and is very old fashioned! It is really cute! The main character Homer gets into all kinds of problems! Our focus lessons will be on comprehension and subjects/predicates. Grammar- We are going to be learning about the four sentence types and what you need to make a complete sentence. Spelling- Our spelling list covers the unaccented final syllable –le. Math- We are knee deep in long division…we will continue to work on Chapter 10 next week. Science- We began our “Light” unit in Science. We have several fun experiments next week. We will be learning about the concepts of refraction, reflection, opaque, transparent, and translucent. Have a great weekend! Mrs.Alvarado