Have a Great Summer!!! - First Period Enrichment

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I  just want to let my K and 1st grade students and their parents know that I am very proud of the work that was completed in the enrichment group this year. I hope that you will continue to read and work on vocabulary skills this summer. This is the last week we will be together and so I want to thank all of you for your hard work and wish you a wonderful summer full of fun and learning. 

I will miss you!

Mrs. Scrimger

A Link for Summer Reading

This is a good link for children looking for summer reading material. You may want your child to look at lists a year or two ahead of their current grade. Remember that summer reading should be easy enough to read without parent assistance for the most part.
  http://www.education.com/
http:// www.lexile.com

Narrative Poems continue

After our assessment of Casey at the Bat on Tuesday, we will begin working on another poem where we will focus on the theme of the poem. We will continue analyzing style of poetry.  Spelling and vocabulary work will continue.

First Period Enrichment Group
This week we will continue working on tall tales.  We will also continue working in the vocabulary workshop book. We are also working on summarizing skills.


 

Second Period Enrichment is Busy

We are continuing our exploration of narrative poetry with "Casey at the Bat". We are going to learn the vocabulary and how descriptive words create pictures in the mind. We will continue our work on compare and contrast and paraphrasing. We are also learning something about the game of baseball in this country.  


The second grade will continue to work in Vocabulary Workshop and the third grade will continue to have spelling tests although they are slightly off schedule with all the schedule changes in the past weeks. The next spelling test for both groups is Wednesday, May 16.

***Please note that if your child is a real sports fan, you may want to check out the following website for the Sports Legend and Babe Ruth Museums in Baltimore. The Sports Legend Museum has a great display on Baltimore baseball history in the major, minor and Negro leagues.

 http://www.baberuthmuseum.com/history/slmacy/

What's New in Enrichment Today- First Period Group

We have been learning about exaggeration by reading American Tall Tales. We have heard about the exploits of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. We learned that Johnny Appleseed was a real person, but many tales are written that could not be true. We heard about Pecos Bill and his wife, Slue-foot Sue and their adventures in Texas.  We will continue our adventure next week with John Henry, Mike Fink and Casey Jones. 
We will be working in Unit 11 in Vocabulary Workshop next week and will try to complete Unit 12 before the end of the year. 


Please note that all homework has been suspended for this group for the rest of the year. They will do all assignment in class.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Scrimger

Another Busy Week

We have a  lot to do in the next few weeks and it seems like very little time.

The 1st period group will continue looking at tall tales with a look at Johnny Appleseed and John Henry. We will continue to work on vocabulary and spelling. We will probably have the spelling test on Monday since Thursday and Friday morning are not available this week.

The 2nd period group will be working on new vocabulary and using our narrative poem, we will be working on paraphrasing and looking at setting, plot and character.

On the Go Again!

A fter fighting bronchitis for over two weeks, I am back and we will be very busy in the next few weeks as we work towards the end of the year.
All groups have spelling words this week and homework will be expected to be turned in as usual.

First Period Group- We read the fairytale "The Princess and the Pea" today and began learning the words in Unit 10. We are going to be exploring American Tall Tales for the next few weeks. We will be reading and doing activities related to these American classics.


 Our unit 10 vocabulary words are found in the story on page 98-99 of our text if you would like to read this with your child. Our spelling test is scheduled for May 3, 2012.



Second Period Group- We are working on ballad poetry this week and using some amazing on line activities to explore how fiction and fact can be combined in telling a story. We will be spending this week on Paul Revere's Ride.  We will looking at various types of poetry in class for the next several weeks. The spelling test is scheduled for Friday, April 27,2012.

Testing Week and Beyond

Hi Everyone,
I have not posted for the last few weeks and wanted to get everyone up to date on what we are doing in the enrichment groups.

First Period has been working on poetry. We spent some time on rhyming words and on how to write poetry. We also read and listened to poems of many different types. The group liked silly poems especially limericks.  We will begin a new novel after testing. In vocabulary we are starting Unit 10 next week. The introductory story is a familiar fairy tale. We will test on these words just before the Easter Break.

Second Period has finished reading the story the Mouse and the Motorcycle.  We will be doing wrap up activities for the next week after testing. We will begin our new story after Easter break.  Spelling will begin again next week with words from skills vocabulary.

This week I will meet with the second period group as time permits.

Enrichment Activities for Week of February 27

First period group has finished reading Sarah, Plain and Tall.We viewed the DVD version and then compared the two formats. We are beginning a brief unit on poetry. We are currently writing our own rhyming dictionaries.  Later this week, we will use the dictionaries to begin writing our own poetry.  We are finishing Unit 8 in our Vocabulary Workshop book and will have the spelling/vocabulary test on Monday because we will not meet on Friday due to mass and an assembly following mass.  We will start a new novel starting in early March.

The second period group is continuing to read the Mouse and the Motorcycle. We have also been busy with some other activities related to the book. Spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension activities will continue.

Happy Valentine's Week

In the first period group, the class has finished reading Sarah, Plain and Tall.  This week we will be watching the DVD and then compare and contrast the novel and the DVD.  There is a spelling test on Unit 7 on Friday.


In the second period group, we continue are adventures with Ralph and Keith.  Spelling tests will be held for both groups on Friday.  We will also continue our look at imagery and using our skills to enhance our reading.

February begins

First Period Novel, Sarah, Plain and Tall

As we begin February, we are beginning chapter 7 in our book. We have learned about how Sarah taught Anna and Caleb to swim and how Papa made a dune of hay for everyone to play in because Sarah missed the dunes at home. 
On Monday, the 6th we will begin working on our new words for unit 7 in Vocabulary Workshop.  The test on those words will be on the 2/17.  If your child forgets the Vocabulary book, you can find the words on the website: www.vocabularyworkshop.com/green. The website also contains interactive games and activities to assist your child. 

Second Period Group Novel- The Mouse and the Motorcycle

 

 We are presently finishing chapter 5 of our novel. We have been discussing cause and effect and descriptive adjectives.  We are also learning many new vocabulary words. It has been an interesting read so far,  Beginning, 2/6 we will be back to the regular schedule of spelling tests.