Ms. Montoya's Blog

  Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling:  cake, mine, plate, size, ate, grape, prize, wipe, race, line, pile, rake Review Words: gave, bike 3rd grade spelling: lay, real, trail, sweet, today, dream, seem, tea, treat, afraid, leave, bait, screen, speed Challenge Words: paint, please, yesterday, explain We will take our pretest on Wednesday.  We will take a 2nd test on Friday. If the students get a 100% on Wednesday they will not need to take the test again on Friday. Library is on Tuesday. Show and Tell is on Wednesday. Memory : God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 Prayer List for the week: Trinidi Thankful for Judah's Great-Grandma. Alexis's Aunt Jan - keep her safe Thankful for all of the things we have and that help us. Keep Alexis's Great-Grandma safe. Thankful for time visiting family.

 Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling:  wet, job, jug, rest, spot, mud, left, help, plum, nut, net, hot Review Words: get, not 3rd grade spelling: spoke, mile, save, excuse, cone, invite, cube, price, erase, ripe, broke, flame, life, rule Challenge Words: these, those, surprise, decide We will take our pretest on Wednesday.  We will take a 2nd test on Friday. If the students get a 100% on Wednesday they will not need to take the test again on Friday. Memory : Prayer List for the week: Thank you for everything you made. Thank you for our families. Keep Alexis's mom safe. Keep Cole's mom safe. Thank you for Izaiah's mom working as a nurse. Keep Miss Pope healthy and safe. Keep everyone safe and healthy. Keep people from getting COVID-19. Ms. Montoya's son, Zeb's birthday. Ms. Montoya's daughter, Ella starts college.

  We had a busy week.  We are getting back into our school routine.  Ask us what five things we have to have to make a sentence. On Monday we had our first Tech Time. We are starting the year out by doing a bit of coding. We will be using Scratch to do our programming. This week we started to learn how to speak with the computer.  Here Cole is playing the part of our robot. We all took turns being the robot and writing the code. The first artist we are learning about this year is Wassily Kandinsky.  Ask us what we learned about him. We are learning about Mexico. Did you know the largest river in Mexico is the Rio Grande? We have started our first writing project. We are writing personal narratives. When we are all finished with our stories we will share them with the rest of the class. We also celebrated our first birthday of the year.  Happy Birthday Judah!

Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling:  sad, dig, jam, glad, list, win, flat, if, fix, rip, kit, mask  Review Words: as, his  3rd grade spelling: crop, plan, thing, smell, shut, sticky, spent, lunch, pumpkin, clock, gift, class, skip, swing Challenge Words: next, hug, hospital, fantastic We will take our pretest on Wednesday.  We will take a 2nd test on Friday. If the students get a 100% on Wednesday they will not need to take the test again on Friday. Memory :  I praise you, for I am ...wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works.  Psalm 139:14 Prayer List for the week: Alexis' Great Grandma Alexis' family - Her dad's uncle passed away Help in staying health Braden getting over his cold A good school year Cole's cousin Lorelei Alexis' cousin Corbin

  Well, the first three days of school passed by so quickly.  We have had very full days, and I don't know about the kids, but I am tired when I get home.   Here are a couple of highlights from the rest of our week. In the classroom we worked on math, grammar, and science.  We are learning about the water cycle in science.  We are going to be studying different places around the world. We are starting by learning about one of our closest neighbors, Mexico.   Enjoying some watermelon. Writing a story. We have a journal to do some writing in. Our first story was started by rolling the dice to see what the setting, characters, and problem of the story would be.  Next week we will start writing a personal narrative.   Our first art project:  I will have to take some finished pictures of our projects. This was made by dipping string in paint.  We laid it out on the paper. Then we covered it with another piece of paper, and pull...

 Wow, did the day go fast! We had lots of things to get crammed into this first day. I want to share a few pictures of us.  Judah and Cole by our 'alien' plants.                                  Braden and Alexis with Ms. Rachel seeing how well they washed their hands. Just a few more pictures of the day.  We are all ready to go for tomorrow!

 We all are ready to get back to school, to get back to normal. I am so excited to have the kids back in the classroom. Things are going to work a little differently this year. We do not know exactly what to expect. But we will be doing a lot of great things. We will be learning so many new things. We will be having fun and growing. It will be a great year! I want to start of this year with a blog. Here I will bring all of you into our classroom so you can see what we are doing. This will be a place you can come to for spelling words or memory verses. You might even find pictures of your kids working on our alien plants. Our classroom looks a little like a lab up in space, or at least I hope it does. We need to wear masks and keep everything clean (lots of hand washing) when we are working with alien plant life. We cannot contaminate our plants with germs we have brought in, nor do we want to pick up anything from an alien plant.  Here is a little secret, I did not REALLY trav...