Nancy Huffman

I’m excited to get to learn more about her! In spelling we will list our missed words or get challenge words.  We will then practice them with partners.  For writing we will be going over strengths and weaknesses in our first narrative attempt. We will be working on evaluating our inferences in reading.  We will [...]

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We will have our spelling test today.  Then we have a special treat:  Mrs. Palanio, a retired 5th grade teacher, is coming to teach us an art lesson.  Art is NOT one of my strengths, so I am very excited for this opportunity for the students. Reading homework:  read and record and make sure your [...]

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Mrs. Palanio will be here to teach us a special art technique .  It should be great! In spelling today we got our Homework:  write our words with dashes between the letters and circling the vowels.  Test is tomorrow.  We then have science. In reading we will practice using prior knowledge to make inferences and [...]

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Don’t forget about your flip books.  They are due on the 27th! In spelling today we will have homework that involves writing your words in sentences.  We will then finish our final copies of our backpack with wing narratives. In reading we will make inferences from facts in our nonfiction texts.  We will also continue [...]

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We will get our new spelling words.  Spelling homework:  write the words 3 times each, plus do the skills box.  In writing we will be working on our final copies of our backpack narratives. In the nonfiction genre, we will work on getting inferences.  Today’s focus will be on using text features and structures.  We [...]

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We will be taking our spelling test today then editing or working on our final copy of our backpack narrative. In reading we will work on identifying important facts from nonfiction text.  We will also have our last discussion group over Sadako today.  Reading homework:  get reading logs and assignment sheets signed.  Be finishing up [...]

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We took the first area and perimeter test just before winter break.  Many students had not mastered the concepts at that time.  The class average for the test was 63%.  We have been working hard on these concepts since we have been back and retook the test again.  The vast majority really improved.  The class [...]

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We will be having a pizza party, compliments of Yokes, for being one of the classes to bring in the most food items for our food drive in December.  Thank you Yokes, and thanks to all the families for the generous donations! In spelling today we will write our words in sentences for our homework.  [...]

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Due to no school yesterday, we will have our spelling test on Friday of this week. In spelling we will get our new words for the week.  Homework:  write each word 3 times and do the skills box. We will be revising our backpack narratives for word choice, sentence fluency and voice. In reading we [...]

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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. there will be no school on Monday. In spelling today we will list our missed words from our test yesterday and then practice them with a partner.  We will then work on revising our narratives for details using different senses, and adding similes. In reading we will be [...]

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