Pre Kindergarten

The students in PreKindergarten have gotten off to a good start in school.  We have been working on having the students understand and follow the classroom rules and routines.  We have learned how to recite the calendar, and sing the days and months of the year.  We have been learning how to use our school supplies appropriately.  We have been practicing our cutting, pasting, coloring and name writing.  We are studying Fall and the changes we are seeing outdoors.  We have learned about Johnny Appleseed, Christopher Columbus and Halloween. We look forward to learning about Thanksgiving.  We are learning how pumpkins grow, and we look forward to visiting the Pierce College Pumpkin Patch.  Our parents have been attending our weekly parent education classes.  Parents have begun reading daily to their children and are maintaining a Book It monthly reading log which will win students free pizza at Pizza Hut.

 

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten is busy learning all the letters of the alphabet.  The next couple of weeks we will be working on patterns in Math.  We are all becoming adjusted to being in school.  The Kindergarten teachers were happy to see such a wonderful parent turn out at our Back to School Night.  We look forward to a great school year!

 

 

First Grade

   We have begun reading a new Big Book our third, called “Our Neighborhood at Work”.  In this unit students will be reading and communities and the people who work in communities. Ask your child about the jobs of different community workers your child encounters every day, and what they think the job entails.  Please have your child bring something to share for our concept/question board.  This can be a photograph of someone at work, a magazine or newspaper cut out of a worker, a picture drawn at home, etc.  In mid November we will begin our “Machines in the Garden” unit.  As always, continue reading daily for 15 minutes and fill out your child’s reading log.  Practice builds fluency!  Thank you,

               First Grade teachers

 

 

Second Grade Student Articles

 

Fall Into Learning With Second Grade!

 

Second graders have fallen in to learning with Sharing Stories and Kindness as our opening reading themes. Our opening unit focused on sharing stories and the many ways one can share! Sharing pictures, reading to a friend, or listening to a storyteller are some of the few ways we have learned to share stories.  In our next unit on kindness we will focus on how we show kindness.  We will also care the theme of sharing with others by learning to write letters and detailed paragraphs. 

 

Parents! How can you help!!! By having your child read, read, read! Reading is important in all of your child’s learning in school.

 

Our Math has started out with the basics. We have reviewed basic addition and subtraction facts and learned to write math story problems to help us in the process of learning problem solving.  We are moving in to ordering numbers and learning their place value. Ones, Tens, and, Hundreds.  Can your child count and write to 100? 

Why not sit and discover with them? Count money, food items, or just count aloud while you drive. 

 

You are your child’s first teacher.  Together we can make sure that the little eagles of Blythe Elementary Soar!

 

Thank you,

Second Grade Staff

 

 

  

 

Third Grade

      The teachers and students are back at work and summer vacation is a distant memory.  Friendships a re being revisited or started.  This ties in quite nicely with the beginning unit’s theme of “Friendship”.  The first seven weeks of stories in our reading program are about making new friends.  What a great way to kick off a new school year.  

        All third grade teachers and students are anxiously awaiting the opening of our new and expanded library.  We can’t wait to check out books, read them, and then take comprehension tests on our new on-line Accelerated Reading Program.  Please continue to keep any spare change coming in to contribute to the Pennies for books fund raising program.  Your donations will help stock the library shelves with books just begging to be read and enjoyed by all of our students!

 

Fourth Grade

 

Fourth grade is off to a great start! The first month of school is already over! The 4th grade teachers are Ms. Lange, Mrs. Nakakihara, and Mrs. Avalos.  This year the students will be reading many wonderful stories in Open Court Reading, fulfilling California State Math Standards using California EnVision Mathematics, learning Earth, Physical, and Life Science with Ms. Lange via the wonderful FOSS program, and studying California History with Mrs. Nakakihara and Mrs. Avalos. Fourth grade has music once a week with Mrs. Davis.  We have also been given the wonderful opportunity of participating in Ballroom Dance with Best Foot Forward instructor, Ms. Becky.

 

Here a few tips to make 4th grade productive for your child:

 

·        Students should turn in their homework on time

·        Read at least 20 minutes each night

·        Parents should review the standards of school behavior with their child

·        Students should always be on time to school

·        When a student is absent, please send a note!

 

 

Fifth Grade

 

. The fifth graders have started the year off with “a head full of steam.” We are rumbling ahead, and enjoying a smaller number of students in each classroom. All three classes have been rigorously completing lessons in all academic areas. Our focus early in this school year in Language Arts is reading comprehension; in Math we have been reviewing fourth grade standards in multiplication and division. Science lessons have been taking place weekly, as it will be included on the standardized test at the end of the year. Physical Science is the first area of science that will be covered. 

            We would like to welcome the parents back for another exciting year. As like every year we would like to remind parents that your support is important for our students to be successful. We look forward to a wonderful year