IMPORTANT DATES:
*Early Dismissal Tues. 9/18
* OLSAT test Wed. 9/19
*Picture Day Thurs. 9/20
*Continents & Oceans Quiz Thurs. 9/20
*Spelling Test Fri. 9/21
*English Test Mon. 9/24
*Science Test Thurs. 9/27
CLASSROOM CHATTER
Don't forget there is an early dismissal Tuesday at 11a.m.
Can anyone Pitch In and Help? I'm still in need of a few items for our classroom. Any donations are greatly appreciated! I am in need of paper plates. I am always looking for Treasure Chest donations all year long. Don't forget to check out the dollar isle at Target or the Dollar stores.
Thank you to my mom, Patty Wills & Morgan Meyer who brought in some items for the Treasure Chest. Thank you to all who already donated items at the beginning of the year!
Please start studying for the upcoming tests. Study guides are sent home as a "guide" to help the students. Please review all notes in the folders and the textbook.
We also will be taking the OLSAT (Otis Lennon Scholastic Achievement test) on Wednesday. To prepare, just make sure you child gets a good night's sleep and a good breakfast. Just like every other school day!!
Spelling
Lesson 3's words are spelled with ou. We took the pretest today. Students who received 1 wrong or 100% on the pretest will have a new set of words for the week and a list of the daily assignments. Please keep the spelling list and the daily assignment page in their spelling folder. Thank you. If your child has 2 or more wrong on the spelling test, they will be working with the list from the book plus the five extra words I've added. These are not "bonus" words and they need to study them. This list is in their spelling folder and should come to school everyday until I have the class put it in the To Be LEFT at Home folder on Friday. Their work will be in the spelling book with homework on Tuesday and Wednesday and an ABC order sheet on Thursday. Spelling tests be on Friday.
English
We will finish up Unit One, The Sentence this week. Students will learn about run-on sentences. We will be taking an in-class unit review for a grade. They will be allowed to use their textbook and any notes. A study guide went home today. It is in the Language Arts folder. The test is scheduled for next Monday, 9/24.
We will finish up Unit One, The Sentence this week. Students will learn about run-on sentences. We will be taking an in-class unit review for a grade. They will be allowed to use their textbook and any notes. A study guide went home today. It is in the Language Arts folder. The test is scheduled for next Monday, 9/24.
Reading
This week's reading strategies we will focus on are: monitor/clarify, summarize, and question. The monitor/clarify strategy is when we reread, read ahead, and use illustrations to understand the text. Summarizing retells the story by the main, important events. The questioning strategy is when you ask yourself questions about what you are reading and what you want to know about the text. We also began TFK, Time for Kids last Friday. I usually do TFK's on Fridays. Sometimes students will have 10 multiple choice questions to answer for a grade after they read. They will always be allowed to use the TFK to help them with their answers.
This week's reading strategies we will focus on are: monitor/clarify, summarize, and question. The monitor/clarify strategy is when we reread, read ahead, and use illustrations to understand the text. Summarizing retells the story by the main, important events. The questioning strategy is when you ask yourself questions about what you are reading and what you want to know about the text. We also began TFK, Time for Kids last Friday. I usually do TFK's on Fridays. Sometimes students will have 10 multiple choice questions to answer for a grade after they read. They will always be allowed to use the TFK to help them with their answers.
Science
Students will be finishing up learning about the human body. We will learn about the digestive, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular(circulatory) systems this week. A study guide will come home at the end of this week. This study guide should be completed over the weekend for homework. It will be due on Tuesday and I will go over the correct answers. The test is scheduled for Thursday, 9/27.
Social Studies
We will finish up continent and oceans with a short quiz on Thursday. A study guide went home on Friday. Have you seen it? It is in the social studies folder. Students do not have to memorize the correct spellings of the continents and oceans. There will be a word bank to help them spell correctly.
Math
We will begin this week by exploring patterns. We will then work on rounding numbers. Finally we will finish up with bar graphs and taking a checkpoint at the end of the week. Students should begin studying for the Chapter 1 test. It is scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 25th. Students also will be taking addition mad minutes this week. They took a practice one last Friday. They have to complete 40 addition facts in 2 minutes time. I will be giving a mad minute on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of this week. All students should pass out of addition mad minutes by Friday. To pass out of a mad minute, means to get a 100%. We will move on to subtraction next week.
ALSO... I have decided to only require a parent signature on graded work that is a C+ and below. Thank you.
