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Mrs. Dobyns Kindergarten
We have had a busy
and fun month in Mrs. Dobyns' kindergarten class. We have been on
two field trips, one to the Jefferson County Farm Day where we learned
about farm equipment and crops. We also saw and petted several
Mrs. Morell First Grade
Mrs. Morell's first
graders are moving right along. In reading, we are about to finish
our first reading book. Students have been learning many new
vocabulary words. Suffixes have also been introduced. During
math class students have been learning to count by 1's to 100, by 10's to
100 and backwards by 1's. Students have been memorizing math
doubles, plus 1's, and plus 0 math facts. They have also learned how
to write a number sentence for a story problem. For science,
students have
Mrs. Harrell Speech
Speech has had a
really busy nine weeks. We have some very interesting cases. Hopefully in
the next few updates I can fill you in on some of them. Laurie is doing a
great job stepping in and performing speech services. We currently serve
55 children in the pre-k through 5th grade with 5 pending speech services;
and 34 children in the special needs preschool area. Now if we could just
clone Laurie and
Miss Greene Pre-Kindergarten The Pre-kindergarten class has been learning to identify signs of the Fall season; from weather changes to special Fall holidays. We have traveled around our school on a "Fall Walk" collecting signs of Fall. Some of the things we collected were pine cones, nuts, different color leaves. During our walk we could feel the cooler temperatures and wind blowing in our hair. The pumpkin patch even came to Piedmont School for us! We each got to choose a very special pumpkin that was just our size. Fall is an exciting time!
Mrs. Smelcer First Grade We enjoyed our field trip to Food City, FSG Bank, the courthouse, Pizza Plus and the Field of Dreams. We did a great job singing our two songs for the bank. In reading, we are learning about cause and effect and making predictions. In math, we are working with dimes, counting by 10's, counting even numbers to 20 and learning about liquid measurement. We are finishing up our 5 senses in Science. We will be talking about our families in Social Studies. Click here to check our our field trip pictures. Want to see even more? Click here!
Mrs. Russell Library
I want to thank
everyone who made this year's fall book fair a success: the students,
parents, teachers, and even some grandparents! The library raised
about $1500 to buy new library books and materials. I will have some
new books available next week for children to check out and the rest of
the new materials will arrive hopefully before Christmas! Thank you
to everyone! http://classroom.jc-schools.net/russellt. To use the Tennessee Electronic Library, click on Reference.
Mrs. Barbee Third Grade
We have had a busy
October. We are working hard to perfect our reading and writing
skills. In reading, we are focusing on several different
comprehension skills as well as reading with fluency. We enjoy using
trade books to practice these skills. We have worked on several
different writing assignments as well. After reading A Day's Work,
we wrote new endings for this story. The students did a really good
job with this, and their endings were very interesting. We just
finished a fun writing assignment about our Halloween costumes. We
described our costumes without telling what we will be, and we are
challenging others to use our descriptions to guess what we will be for
Halloween. We are studying water on the Earth and the water
cycle in science. We enjoyed learning a song about the water
cycle and drawing a diagram of the water cycle. In
social studies, we are beginning to study the northeastern U.S.
This is an interesting region. We will begin talking about the first
Mrs. Whitley Second Grade Report cards went out this month and Parent-Conferences were held. All students are working so hard to do their best work and I am so proud of this group! In math we are memorizing all our addition facts. We practice each day and test once a week. Our basal readers have such interesting stories for us. Our latest focus is on teamwork and partnerships. Our latest story was The Bremen Town Musicians. We sing songs, read stories, and write about each story. We had a guest reader, Chloe's grandmother, who read two Halloween stories. Since we heard about a pumpkin, we followed up by making pumpkins which are displayed in the hall. Come see our work.
Mr. Horner Fifth Grade
Mr. Horner's class has
finished up one nine weeks and we are gearing for our second one. I was
really proud of the grades my class made, but we can all strive to
get better at whatever we do. We are still working hard at preparing
ourselves for the writing test and honing our English skills at
Mrs. West Second Grade Do
you know what a noun is? We can tell you that a noun is a person,
place, animal, or thing. Sometimes you can add a suffix to the end
of a noun (like suffix –s, -es, or -y). When a
word has a -y on the end, you can change the y to i and add -es.
Baby becomes babies. We played a game called Around the World that
helped us practice our math facts. We used doubles, doubles plus
one, adding nine, and adding two facts. Did you know that we can
play a game called Sums of Ten with regular playing cards? The ace
becomes a one. We put the cards in order from 1-9 and lay other
cards on top of the numbers to make a sum of ten. Groups of four
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