Ms. Montoya's Blog

  Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling: dress, spell, class, full, add, neck, stuck, kick, rock, black, trick, doll Review Words: will, off 3rd grade spelling: Challenge Words: 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. Please return homework folders on Monday. Library is on Tuesday. Show and Tell is on Wednesday. We have counted 3,400 pop tabs so far this year. We have ran 155 miles. We are between Brady and North Platte, NE on our way to Calgary, Canada. Way to go kids! We have MAPs testing this week. Memory: We know that for those who love God all things work together for good.  Romans 8:28 Prayer list for this week: Trinidi Judah's great-grandma Jane ( keep her safe) and his baby cousin Lucy. Thanks for keeping our families save from COVID. Alexis's Aunt Jan ( keep her safe) Be with Cole's prayer partner Elaine. Thank you for the trees and water...

  We are learning about the different types of rocks and erosion in science. We did a little rock collecting on the playground. We also created a tiny river and watched it wear down the hill and create a canyon. We are learning about a new artist this month, Henri Matisse. I can't wait to see what our projects look like. We will be finishing up with coding in Scratch next week.  3rd grade as started multiplication. Wow, this is huge! Braden is so excited. We have now added adjectives to the parts of speech that we know in grammar. They are really great at finding the subject noun, verbs, and adverbs in a sentence. We have finished our adventure in Canada (besides our virtual run to Canada) and we have started to learn about Sweden. We will be doing MAPs testing next week. Our daily run has changed from something they just have to do, to something they are excited about. It has been amazing to watch them over the weeks that we have been in school. Every one of the students has ...

  We have been running around the block two times each day since we started school. It has been great watching how the students are improving and they are being able to run farther. We have some really great runners! The teachers were talking this week and we decided it would be fun to track how many miles we have run during the school year. So this morning we talked to the students and it was voted on that we would start "traveling" north towards Canada. I will be updating a Google Earth Project so that everyone can watch just how far we have gone. By adding the distance that all of the students have gone, we have ran just over 120 miles. There were several students who even wanted to run some extra laps. We have learned lots of different facts about Canada. We have just started learning about adjectives in Grammar today. We are pretty good at picking out the subject nouns, verbs and adverbs.We will be starting new chapters in Science and Math next week.

  Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling: next, end, camp, sank, sing, drink. hunt, stand, long, stamp, pond, bring Review Words: jump, left 3rd grade spelling: math, toast, easy, socks, Friday, stuff, paid, cheese, June, elbow, program, shiny, piles, sticky Challenge Words: each, both, comb, holiday 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. Please return homework folders on Monday. Library is on Tuesday. Show and Tell is on Wednesday. We have counted 3,400 pop tabs so far this year. We have ran 125 miles. We are just passed Cozad, NE on our way to Calgary, Canada. Way to go kids! Memory: Repent, then, and turn to God so that your sins might be wiped out.  Acts 3:19 Prayer list for this week: Trinidi Keep people safe from COVID. Help us have a good day at school. Be with Alexis's Aunt Jan and Grandma Di.  Help them stay safe. Thank you for churches...

Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling:  spin, clap, grade, swim, place, last, test, skin, drag, glide, just, stage Review Words: slip, drive 3rd grade spelling:  slight, mild, sight, pie, mind, tie, pilot, might, lie, tight, blind, fight, die, midnight Challenge Words: silent, frightening 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: Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.  Hebrews 11:1 Prayer List for the week: Trinidi Thanks for the good time at out picnic (paddle boating and canoeing)  Be with Judah's great grandma Jane Thanks for your creation (trees, caterpillars, planets, and the whole world) Thanks for our State and Country and help keep us all safe. Thanks for helping us to learn. Thanks for telescopes to see into space.

  This week we talked about September 11, 2001. We made a few things to hang up to remember what happened that day. We got a few guests this week. We will be watching these guys carefully to see how they change and what they become. We are pretty excited to have them in our classroom. We added adverbs to our list of parts of speech that we know. Ask us what the adverb questions are. (How? When? and Where?)  We had a science test this week. One of our favorite things to do is our "game show" that we used to review for our test. We had a special STEM project this Friday. We used a 5 by 6 in piece of foil to create a boat that will hold 20 pennies.

  Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling:  doze, nose, use, rose, pole, close, cute, woke, mule, rode, role, tune Review Words: home, joke 3rd grade spelling: load, open, told, yellow, soak, shadow, foam, follow, glow, sold, window, coach, almost, throat Challenge Words: cold, most, tomorrow, sailboats 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 : I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.”  Psalm 31:14 Prayer List for the week: Trinidi Lane's family For keeping us safe from COVID For keeping us safe from the storm For the rain for the plants Alexis's Great Grandma Judah's cousin Lucy has a cold Alexis's cousins Corbin and Annika For our friends: Trevin, Atleigh, Kenley, Reis and Elizabeth (safety and that they are having a good year) For Melinda and her birthday on ...

  Alexis is working hard on her grammar. I am excited to watch these children learn and grow! Here are a few pictures of our Friday Sing Along. We love to sing! We have had our second birthday of the year.  Happy Birthday, Braden!