WE HAVE EGGS!!!

HOORAY!! Are eggs have ARRIVED!!  Thank you so much to Jon and Erin Turner!  We appreciate all your time and expertise! We are so excited!  This year, we not only have chicken eggs, but turkey and a few pheasant eggs!!  Our incubator is at set at the perfect temperature (between 100 and 102 degrees) and now we wait 21 days for our chicks to hatch! 

Welcome Back!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! Robby and I really enjoyed our trip to Jamaica! We had a great time and soaked in as much sunshine as 2 fair skin, red heads could! :) 

This week we will be reading Henry and Mudge: And Mrs. Hopper's House.

Learning Targets:
- I can read words with the suffix ly and ful.
- I can read words with the vowel sound oo. 

High Frequency Words:
across, because, dance, only, told, opened, shoes



Spelling Words:

1. slowly
2. careful
3. quickly
4. useful
5. painful
6. playful
7. sadly 
8. gladly
9. nicely
10. wonderful
11. because
12. across

Peter's Chair

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a Happy St. Patrick's Day!  This Irish girl went home to Butte to celebrate with my family and enjoy some of our favorite traditions!  

This week we will be reading Peter's Chair.

Learning Targets:
-I can read compound words.
- I can read words with ew, ue, and ui.

High Frequency Words:
remember, room, stood, picture, thought




Spelling Words:

1. backpack
2. outside
3. baseball
4. herself
5. flashlight
6. bluebird
7. lunchbox
8. suitcase
9. inside
10. brainstorm
11. picture
12. remember

Our Little Inventors!!

Our friend Jaydon in our class is in the Flagship after school program.  He is participating in Cardboard Creation!  Jaydon has come to school a couple times with creations made out of cardboard.  This week I was so impressed with his invention I had to post it!! Great Job Jaydon! We are so proud of you!

 He even has inspired some of his friends... Here is Shane the Astronaut! 

Sydney the Barn Owl!

Hello Families,

Spring is in the air and first grades will soon be “SPRINGING” into non-fiction.  Today, I introduced my friends to Sydney, a barn owl who lives in California.  We will be watching Sydney through a live stream as she lays and hatches her eggs.  You can watch her at home too at…  

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/owlceanside

This is wonderful introduction into our non-fiction unit and after spring break we will be hatching eggs in our class!! YAHOO!! But ssshhh…I haven’t told the kids yet!

Hope you have HOOT of a day!

Mrs. Farnes

Mr. Bones: Dinosaur Hunter

This week we will be reading Mr. Bones: Dinosaur Hunter.

                        Learning Targets:

-I can read long o words: oa and ow.

- I can read words with 3 letter blends.

High Frequency Words:

once, wild, found, mouth, took

Spelling Words:

1. boat
2. road
3. snow
4. row
5. yellow
6. loaf
7. coat
8. soap
9. blow
10. pillow
11. once
12. wild

the DOTish!

Happy Friday! 
Here are a few pictures of our project today!  In our Reading Street Books this week we read the Dot by Peter Reynolds.  To extend our reading, we read another story by Peter Reynolds today called Ish.   Students then dotted their name and Monday we will frame our beautiful art work, just like Vashti's teacher did!!  Have a wonderful weekend!

The Dot 

ish