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Monday, December 12, 2011

December 12, 2012- Weekly Reminders

This is the last full week before Winter Break. Although we are getting closer to 2 weeks off, there is still a lot to learn!

Reading- We are currently in our 3rd Unit- A Changing America. This week's story is all about the California Gold Rush. 

Spelling List- This week's words are all comparative adjectives. They are words that describe by comparing 2 or more things.

harder
cloudier
thinner
happier
wetter
cuter
simpler
deeper
bolder
nicer
calmer
nearer
dimmer
louder
earlier
truer
bigger
scarier
cheaper
freer

CHALLENGE WORDS:

lonelier
quieter 

Writing- We are working on Expository Writing- writing to explain. A writing prompt will be sent home on Monday. The assignment requirements are on the top of the form. Students are to complete a specific portion of the writing each night, and then turn it in the next day so that I can conference with them, and make corrections.

Math- We are in Chapter 3 and learning all about expressions, equations, and patterns. 

Monday- No major announcements for today

Tuesday- We will be taking the mid-year District Science assessment.

Wednesday- We will be taking the mid-year District Math assessment.

Thursday- Reading Test on the Gold Rush, Math game.

Friday- Spelling Test, Tropicana Speech School contest, Chapter 3 mid-chapter check in Math, AR Tests, homework packet due, Fun Friday

Saturday, December 10, 2011

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Friday, December 10th, we had our class Tropicana Speech Contest! I was really impressed with the hard work the students put in to their speeches.

Congratulations to our winners:

1st place- Kyran Adams- "Diary of a Big Brother"
2nd place- Brittney McKinnon- "No More Homework"
3rd place- Zavian Durant- "Bullying"

Kyran will be representing our class in the school competition Friday, December 16th.
GOOD LUCK, Kyran!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

November 14, 2011- Weekly Reminders

Wow! I can't believe we are halfway through November! Where is the time going???

This is our Review of Unit 2 week in Reading, which means we will be taking Benchmark Test #3 on Thursday! The spelling words for this week are a review of the words from the entire last unit!

In Math- we are starting on Chapter 3 which is expressions and equations using multiplication and division. It is so important that your child memorizes those basic facts!

Writing- we are continuing the focus on Narrative writing (telling a story). We are planning to start sending writing homework home the week following Thanksgiving Break. Please be on the lookout for that!

Our PTO Meeting will be held on Thursday at 6pm in the auditorium.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

October 31, 2010- Weekly Reminders

Parents/Guardians- I apologize for no post going up last week. I had it all typed out and it was set to Auto Publish, but for some reason it didn't work! I will do a better of job of making sure that the posts are up and running!!! I also have lots of pictures to share from our High Touch High Tech in school field trip!

Weekly Spelling Words- This week's words are all Antonyms (Opposites)
insult
compliment
silent
noisy
proud
ashamed
positive
negative
friend
enemy
predator
prey
build
destroy
divide
unite
inside
outside
comedy
tradegy
CHALLENGE WORDS:
brittle
flexible

Monday- P.E. Day (don't forget your sneakers!!!) Homework packets are sent home for the week. Please be sure that your child brings their AR book back to school with them on Monday! They all got to choose books last Friday, and are expected to take their test on Friday. We will be having a pizza party in the afternoon to celebrate winning the Math Game last week. Deputy Ikner is providing pizza for the class. :-)

Tuesday- Report Card Pick Up from 3-7. Please plan to stop by so that you can receive the grades from the 1st nine weeks. There will also be different tables set up for our Health & Wellness Fair.

Wednesday- Chapter 2 Mid-Chapter Checkpoint in Math; Weekly folders will be sent home

Thursday- Reading Assessment

Friday- Spelling Test, Narrative Writing Assessment

Reading Focus- We are reading the 4th story in our unit, "What Rot! Nature's Mighty Recycler" This story focuses on why rotting is important, and how if things didn't rot it would be bad for our environment.

Writing Focus- We are working on Narrative writing. The students will have their narrative assessment on Friday!

Math Focus- We are continuing in Chapter 2, which is all about Multiplication and Division concepts.
Science Focus- We are learning all about what scientists do.

St. Augustine: There are still spots available for our St. Augustine trip in May. Please get your deposit in ASAP so that I can reserve your spot!

Parent/Teacher Conferences: If we have not yet had a conference, please contact me so that we can meet!
 
LOOKING AHEAD: Daylight Savings Time is this weekend. Don't forget to "Fall Back" an hour.
 

Sunday, October 16, 2011

October 16, 2011- Weekly Reminders

Weekly Spelling Words- This week's words all have Latin roots. If your child is completing the weekly assignments, and focusing on them, they should do really well on the spelling test each week!
predict
dictate
diction
contradict
describe
subscribe
scribble
transcribe
report
import
export
support
infer
referral
transferred
defer
creates
creation
creative
creature
CHALLENGE WORDS:
dictator
dictionary

Monday- P.E. Day (don't forget your sneakers!!!) Homework packets are sent home for the week. Please be sure that your child brings their AR book back to school with them on Monday! They all got to choose books last Friday, and are expected to take their test on Friday.

Tuesday- No announcements for today.

Wednesday- PICTURE DAY!!!!!!! Weekly folders will be sent home. Grade reports will be included. Please be sure the folders and grade reports are signed, and returned on Thursday! The monthly newsletter will also be included in this week's folder. Be sure to check out all of the great things that are going on around our school!

Thursday- High Touch/High Tech in school field trip- students will be digging for treasure and learning all about different types of gems! Multiplication assessment; Reading Test; PTO Meeting @ 6pm followed by Spooky Science Night! A light dinner will be served. I hope you cam join us for some fun Science activities!

Friday- End of the 1st nine weeks! Multiplication Test; Multiplication and Division concepts test; AR tests must be taken. New chapter books will be picked, and they should come home so that your child can get started on it

Reading Focus- We are reading the 2nd story in our new unit, "Energy Makes Things Happen." This week is all about learning how energy is transferred, and just where energy comes from.

Writing Focus- We are working on Narrative writing. The students will have their first narrative assessment on Thursday!

Math Focus- We are continuing in Chapter 2, which is all about Multiplication and Division concepts.

Science Focus- We are learning all about what scientists do.

St. Augustine: There are still spots available for our St. Augustine trip in May. Please get your deposit in ASAP so that I can reserve your spot!

Parent/Teacher Conferences: I am still needing to meet with parents for our beginning of the year conference. Let me know a good time and date!

LOOKING AHEAD: There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 24th. That day is a teacher planning day!

 
Thank you so much for all that you do! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

FCAT Parent Night

Thank you so much to all of the parents who attended FCAT Parent Night last night!!! We hope you received lots of information that will help you help your child be successful this year! For those of you that were not able to make it, all of the information that we gave out last night will be sent hom in Wednesday folders today, so please take a look at that. There is also a parent survey that will be in there, and we would really appreciate it if you could fill it out and send it back in tomorrow! Please let me know if you would like any additional information, or need some clarification on the packet that is being sent home! A copy of the packet can be found here.

Some other files included in the packet were Sample prompts, a Narrative writing sample, and an Expository writing sample.

The writing rubric can be found here.

Thanks for all of your support!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

October 10, 2011- Weekly Reminders

Weekly Spelling Words: This weeks words all have Greek roots. Understanding what the different Greek roots are, and what each one means will be very helpful!

telephone
phonic
microphone
homophone
democracy
pandemic
demography
academy
pathos
pathetic
empathy
dermis
epidermis
dermatology
history
historian
historic
prehistoric
cardiac
cardiology
CHALLENGE WORDS:
cacaphony
symphony
               sympathize               

Monday: P.E. Day (don't forget your sneakers!!!) Homework packets are sent home for the week. Please be sure that your child brings their AR book back to school with them on Monday! They all got to choose books last Friday, and are expected to take their test on Friday.

Tuesday: FCAT Parent Night starting at 5:30. We will meet in the media center at 5:30, where we will go over all of the things you need to know in order to help your child be successful on the FCAT Reading, Writing, and Math tests this year. This session will be over at 6:15, and dinner will be served in the cafeteria. Please plan on attending this informative night!

Wednesday: Weekly folders will be sent home. No grade reports this week. Next week's reports will include the grades from the Reading benchmark test, and the Chapter 1 Math test.

Thursday: Wednesday folders are due.

Friday: Reading Test, Multiplication Test, AR tests must be taken. New chapter books will be picked, and they should come home so that your child can get started on it.

Reading Focus: This week we begin our 2nd unit in the Imagine It! series. This unit focuses on "Nature's Delicate Balance." We will be reading stories in the next 6 weeks that have to do with nature, and figuring out what role we play in nature. Our story this week is called "The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story." It talks about a snowflake and it's journey through the steps of the water cycle. For a great interactive website on the water cycle, click here. The reading strategies we will focus on this week are Summarizing, Making Connections, and Sequencing. This week at home, try having your child summarize what they are reading in their chapter books after every few pages. Using this strategy consistently is a key to reading comprehension.

Math Focus: We will begin Chapter 2 this week: Multiplication and Division Concepts and Facts. Students will learn to relate multiplication and division, and make area models and arrays. Please look for the parent letter for Chapter 2 to be sent home with homework this week.

Writing Focus: We are working on Narrative writing. (Writing to tell a story). Students will learn to plan their writing around a BIG MOMENT, and begin to structure their paragraphs based on what happened just before, during, and just after the big moment they are writing about.

Science Focus: We are learning all about scientists and what they do.

St. Augustine: There are still spots available for our St. Augustine trip in May. Please get your deposit in ASAP so that I can reserve your spot!

Parent/Teacher Conferences: I am still needing to meet with parents for our beginning of the year conference. Let me know a good time and date!

LOOKING AHEAD: The next PTO meeting will be on October 20th at 6:00. Spooky Science Night will be held immediately following the meeting. Hope that you will be able to join us for some fun!!!

Thank you so much for all that you do! Please let me know if you have any questions!!!



Sunday, October 2, 2011

October 3, 2011- Weekly Reminders

Weekly Spelling Words: This is our review week for the first Imagine It! Unit~ Risks and Consequences. This week we are practicing "Razzle Dazzle" writing words!

immediately
yesterday
tomorrow
additionally
cherish
praised
rejoiced
devoured
congratulate
apologize
exclaimed
overwhelmed
melancholy
empowered
hopeful

Monday: P.E Day (don't forget your sneakers!!!) Homework packets are sent home for the week. Please be sure that your child brings their AR book back to school with them on Monday. The expectation is that they bring it back and forth every day and are prepared to take their AR test on Friday! An extra Math assignment will be sent home in order to review for Tuesday's Math test.

Tuesday: District Expository Writes Upon Request @ 9am; Chapter 1 Math Test

Wednesday: Folders and Grade reports will be sent home; We will begin working on Narrative Writing (writing to tell a story)

Thursday: Students will take their Reading Benchmark Assessment

Friday: Homework packet is due; AR Test; Spelling Test

St. Augustine: If your child is attending the St. Augustine trip, please be sure to get your deposit in as soon as possible.

Parent/Teacher Conferences: Please don't forget to get with me about a date and time for a conference. If we have one now, we will get a head start on working together and ensuring your child's success this year!!! 

LOOKING AHEAD: Please plan to attend our FCAT Parent Night on October 11th. You will receive a TON of information regarding testing and ways you can help your child! More information will be sent home in the Wednesday folder. 


Friday, September 30, 2011

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Weekend Information


I sent home a packet of practice pages for Chapter 1 in Math so that my wonderful students could work on it with you this weekend in preparation for their Chapter 1 test. The front of the packet has a letter to parents with some tips to help them. Please send it back with them on Monday so that we can go over it together in class. They will have their test on Tuesday, October 4th, and it will be on the skills that are included in that packet. I will send the Review/Test home with them on Monday night as an additional homework assignment to make sure they are ready for Tuesday's test.

Also, your child should have brought home their AR book to read over the weekend. Be sure they bring it back and forth to school with them. This book should be used for Reading minutes during the week as well. They will need to take an AR (Accelerated Reader) test next Friday. This will be an ongoing thing where they pick a new book on their level each Friday and will have to take a test on it the followng Friday.

I received several deposit payments for St. Augustine and I am so excited!!!! If you have not yet sent in your money, or if you need to wait until a certain date to send it in, please let me know! I will do whatever I need to assist you in any way possible because I would like for EVERYONE to be able to go!

Thanks so much for all of your help with this! Have a nice weekend!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Welcome to Our Class Blog!

Hello! Welcome to my new classroom blog! Here is where you can find weekly updates, pictures, and just about any and everything we are doing in our classroom! Please be sure to check back every day to see what is going on in our class! You can also subscribe, and an email will be sent to you whenever there is a new post/update.

Thanks for all of your support!!!!