Ms. Montoya's Blog

    Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling: own, most, soap, float, both, know, loan, goat, flow, loaf, throw, coach  Review Words: so, grow 3rd grade spelling: horse, mark, storm, market, acorn, artist, March, north, barking, stork, thorn, forest, chore, restore Challenge Words: partner, fortune 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 6,600 pop tabs so far this year. We have ran 294.75 miles. We are coming up on Bridgeport, NE. We did not get much running in last week. But it does look a bit better for this week. Memory: Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice.  Psalm 32:11 Prayer list for this week: Trinidi Eli & Alexis's family Ella Judah's Great Grandma Jane Cole's cousin, Lorelei Keep all of our families healthy Mrs. C. Cole's Au...

  Wow! The NaNoWriMo words have jumped a huge amount this week.  We are over 20,000 words. Six of the students have already made it passed their 50% mark, some of them well passed this point. We have started to learn about Brazil. This is our first South American country that we have studied this year. I love how excited the students are to learn new things. We have been working on prepositional phrases in Grammar. This is pretty new for us, but we really have it figured out. The boy ran around the tree.  Ask us what parts of speech each of these words are.  :) We have been working on rockets during STEM / Tech time. Last week we made paper/straw rockets and tested them. We will be discussing the results this week. We will also be starting to work on our second type of rocket.

    Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling: free, teach, teeth, please, beach, wheel, team, speak, sneeze, sheep, meaning, weave  Review Words: eat, read 3rd grade spelling: I'd, he's, haven't, doesn't, let's, there's, wouldn't, what's, she's, aren't, hasn't, couldn't, he'd, they're Challenge Words: we're, weren't 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 6,600 pop tabs so far this year. We have ran 290.75 miles. We are coming up on Bridgeport, NE. Depending on the weather this week we should be able to make it there, but with the rain and snow it might be another week. Memory: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  Matthew 22:3...

  It is NaNoWriMo Time! We are all writing like crazy. Everyone is trying to get to their word count goals. By the end of the week the HLS students had already written over 7,000 words! Along with this writing 2nd-3rd has started (or some of them) finished their Stuffed Animal stories. We quickly discovered that this is very separate from NaNoWriMo because drawing all of the pictures slows down our writing word count goals. I can't wait to hear their stuffed animal stories. They have already been asking when we will be sharing them. In Grammar we added prepositions to the types of words we are working with. This week we will be searching for prepositional phrases. We worked with our STEM/tech teams to build heat shields for our Mars project. We tested our heat shields by placing a piece of chocolate inside of our device.  Our heat source was a hair dryer. We learned the multiple layers works best, and foil is better than paper. 

    Upcoming this week: 2nd grade spelling: pay, wait, paint, train, pail, clay, tray, plain, stain, hay, gray, away Review Words: stay, day 3rd grade spelling: hole, whole, its, it's hear, here, won, one, our, hour, their, there, fur, fir Challenge Words: peace, piece We will take our pretest on Wednesday. We will take a 2nd test on Thursday. If the students get a 100% on Wednesday, they will not need to take the test again on Thursday. Please return homework folders on Monday. Library is on Tuesday. Show and Tell is on Wednesday. We have counted 5,100 pop tabs so far this year. We have ran 270.75 miles. We are coming up on Lisco, NE. Hopefully we will get a few more miles in this week with the nicer weather. Memory: God provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.  Acts 14:17 Prayer list for this week: Thankful Trinidi is home. Help people sick with COVID Be with our Grandparents and families: Alexis's Aunt Jan and Great Grandma Braden's Grandparents...