Day 24 - Thursday

Good morning, boys and girls!  Wow, it is raining really hard outside.  I love to listen to the sound of rain.  It reminds me of my grandparents' house when I was a little girl.  Their carport had a metal roof, and the rain was so LOUD.  It is a very relaxing sound to me now - good weather for taking a nap!

Have a great day!

Love,

Mrs. Ells

Day 23 Wednesday

Good morning, boys and girls!  This week's assignments on IXL are on shapes.  Log onto Brainpop Junior through Clever, and watch these videos to refresh your memory of shapes:

Plane Shapes

Solid Shapes

Congruent and Similar Shapes

Quadrilaterals

Polygons

Slides, Flips, and Turns

Have a great day!

Love,

Mrs. Ellis

Day 22 - Tuesday

Good morning, boys and girls!  I hope you are able to attend our Zoom meeting tonight at 7:30.  I didn't take a picture at our first class meeting, but this was a picture of last week's meeting:

I hope we can get everyone to join tonight! 

Tell your parents I will be sending them a private message with directions for signing on to the meeting! 

I miss you!

Love,

Mrs. Ellis

Day 21 - Monday

Good morning, boys and girls!  I hope you are all doing well after last night's flash flood warning.  The little lake behind my house flooded - this is my neighbor's yard.  I hope her dogs don't swim over the fence!

Have a great Monday!

Love,
Mrs. Ellis

Day 20 - ONLINE CELEBRATIONS!

I want to give a shout out to everyone that has been working really hard online!  

In Lexia, we had 2 people level up this week:  Baylee and Haleigh!

We have also had a lot of people working hard in Lexia to meet their time.  Kudos to :  Baylee, Mackenzie, Ja'Zariah, John, Haleigh, Anthony, Mason, and Cooper.

In Reading Wonders, we've had 3 people complete assignments:

• Olivia has completed some assignments.
• Lilyana and Haleigh completed all their assignments for this week.

Way to go, girls!

In IXL, we have had some really hard workers!

These students mastered skills in Science or Social Studies during the past week in IXL:  Alexander, Reggie, Dylan, Mackenzie, Ja'Zariah, John, Haleigh, Mason, Noah, and Cooper.

These students are already showing mastery on some skills in our new math topic (odd and even numbers) on IXL:  Baylee, Dylan, Mackenzie, Ja'Zariah, Alex, Haleigh, and Cooper.

Excellent, boys and girls!

In extra math, we have several students working hard!

These students have all logged on, taken their placement test, and are working on mastering their math facts for 3rd grade:  Baylee, Cooper, Ja'Zariah, Haleigh, Mackenzie, and Noah.

*Your Xtra Math log-on information is in your portfolio on DOJO.

AR Milestones:

I'm going up to the school (hopefully Monday) to get our AR poster with out progress towards milestones. I KNOW some students have been working REALLY hard on AR, and many have passed AR milestones.  I will announce those next week after I am able to get my poster from the school.

Have a great weekend!  

Love, 

Mrs. Ellis

Day 19 Thursday

Hey, boys and girls!  I hope you are having a good day.  I sure do miss you!

Today I wanted to talk about the spelling words we would have had if we were in school.  I have assigned some activities in Reading Wonders for you to practice.  Click on the Reading Wonders icon in clever, and you will find these activities under the "To Do" button (the green button with a check mark).

 Reading Wonders Icon on Clever

TO DO Button on Reading Wonders

This week's spelling words would have focused on the short e sound spelled "ea," the short u sound spelled "ou," and the short i sound spelled "y."  There are also 2 review words (small and chalk), and three sight words (instead, whole, and words).

Have a great day!

Love, 

Mrs. Ellis

Day 18 - Wednesday

Hey, boys and girls!  It was so great to talk to everyone last night. It was great to see Miss Fisher, too!

I have changed the assignments on IXL to work on recognizing even and odd numbers.  There are two ways to know:

1.  Check to see if a number can be divided into two equal parts.  See the video below for examples:

2.  Lilyana also told us last night:

• Even numbers end with 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.
• Odd numbers end with 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9.

Remember the funny video by Scratch Garden where we counted by twos?  Counting by twos starting with 0 or 2 will tell you all of the even numbers.  Here's a link for that video:

I have also assigned new games in Reading Wonders for Unit 5 Week 5.  Check them out!

Have a great day!

Love,

Mrs. Ellis