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!

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!