Newsletter Week 16 12/3-12/7

Reminders:

Please be getting your child's outfit together for the Christmas performance! You can find it in the BDS newsletter.

January Lunch forms are due the morning of December 12! As always, the sooner the better. :)

        As you are well aware, there is a lot of sickness going around our classroom and the school. I can't tell you how much we appreciate you getting your child well before sending them to school. As stated in the BDS newsletter, your child should be symptom and fever free for 24 hours before sending them to school. By waiting the 24 hours you are ensuring that your child is truly well and that he/she is no longer contagious to any others. Since October 31, we have had 1 day in which our whole class has been at school! We do so many fun, active learning projects that I wish everyone could be a part of it. Please help us get everyone well by following the 24 hour rule. I think everyone's immune system is pretty weak at this point, and we could use all the help we can get. I try to advocate continuous hand washing, spraying Lysol and cloroxing the tables. Also, if your child has been sick, or needs to miss due to illness, please call/email/text me! I want to do everything I can to make sure your child stays caught up and misses as little as possible. Even if you have a question about the work on how to teach it, I would love to explain it to you either in person or over the phone. Please know I want to help the best way I can. Thank you for working with us to get everyone well. I can't thank you enough.

THANK YOU JENNIE ANTINNES!! Jennie has GREATLY helped out with our new math unit on Multiplication! She brought the entire class beans, pasta and styrofoam  cups to use as manipulatives to help the students to master the understanding of multiplication. They have been a wonderful tool.

This week:

Math: Continue Multiplication. Please be working with your child at home on the multiplication facts of 0,1,2,5,9 and 10. Also, continue with the basic math facts of addition and subtraction.

Reading: We will continue with our independent reading centers. Students take AR tests over the books read in this center. Also, we will be reading several of Dr. Seuss' works and doing activities which relate.

Social Studies: We will continue with our study of cultures around the world by beginning our Flat Stanley Projects! I will be sending home rubrics and directions for the project. I think it will be really fun and neat!

Language Arts: Following our Dr. Seuss Theme, we will be learning about poetry.

Spelling and Vocabulary:

Focus on the final blend -sk

1. away
2. house
3. animal
4. desk
5. mask
6. task
7. disk
8. multiply
9. equal
10. array

Spelling Dictation: 
1. Point to the page as you read.
2. Your task is to clean your messy desk.  

Vocabulary:

1. barber- someone who cuts hair for men
2. bold- strong, courageous, think
3. disk- a round, thin, flat object
4. govern- to rule over someone or something 
5. jog- a slow run
6. lawn- a grassy opening; normally someone's grassy yard
7. plentiful- to have a lot of something 
8. toxic- poison-like 
9. valley- a low land in-between 2 mountains or hills 
10. youth- to be young, but not a baby 

Newsletter Week 15 11/26-11/30

Welcome back from Thanksgiving! I hope you have all had a lovely time. This week will be a normal week!

Math: Start multiplication! It is important that your child knows his basic addition facts since this is a building block for multiplication. 

Reading: continue with our story "The Boy on Fairfield Street" Dr. Seuss 

Language Arts: Review the different types of sentences (compound, complex, simple, run-on and incomplete) There will be a test given on Friday over these sentences similar to the practice quiz taken 2 weeks ago. Also, we will write a friendly letter to Santa. If your child does not do "Santa" at home, I will make changes for them so that they can participate comfortably. However, please remind your child to be respectful of others and their beliefs during this time. 

Spelling and Vocabulary: 

Spelling and Vocabulary:

Focus on the final blend -st

1. try
2. kind
3. hand
4. fast
5. past
6. last
7. contrast 
8. blast
9. again
10. picture

Spelling Dictation: 

1. The men put on shorts and went to play sports.

2. She will ask you if you need to read the book. 

Vocabulary:

1. plague- something that really bothers someone without them wanting it around
2. exaggerator- someone who makes stuff seem bigger than it really is
3. classmate- someone who is in the same school class as you
4. mailroom- a place where all the mail collects 
5. postman- a man who collects the mail 
6. tourist= someone who explores a new place since they are from a different location 
7. vague- unsure, small amount, hard to know the truth  
8. autograph- a fancy way of writing your name 
9. promote- to support, or agree with something and let other people know that you agree with it 
10. apartment- a small place where there is a kitchen, bathroom and bedroom attached in a big building where there are lots of other apartments 

Science: Communities around the world 

Newsletter Week 14 11/19 and 11/20

THANKSGIVING WEEK

NO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY

We do have school on Monday and Tuesday

PLEASE HAVE A BUTTERNUT SQUASH for your child on Monday

Lunch forms were sent out today (Friday). Please have them filled out and returned by Tuesday at the latest. We have to turn them into the office for December lunches Tuesday morning, 11/20/12. Tallies are made and lunch orders are placed Tuesday morning to the local rester businesses. After that has been done, changes cannot be made.

Math: Cumulative review of unites 1-4 in Math. (2 and 3 digit addition and subtraction, estimation, money, properties, word problems, place value) 

Social Studies- Thanksgiving; Please Bring a Butternut Squash to school on Monday!

Reading- continue with "The Boy on Fairfield Street" 

Language Arts- Work on our stories from Conceptual

Vocabulary and Spelling:

Spelling: 

1. what
2. when
3. there
4. eye
5. who
6. they
7. then
8. should
9. please
10. friend 

Vocabulary:

1. gobble- the noise a turkey makes

2. giblets- small pieces of food 

3. centerpiece- a decorative arrangement made of either items, candles, of flowers that is in the center of a table 

4. gratitude- being thankful 

5. maize- a type of corn that the Indians grew and shared with the pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving 

6. voyage- a long trip; normally spent on the seas 

7. drumstick- a term used when describing the leg of a chicken/turkey/bird that has been cooked.   

Newsletter Week 13 11/12-11/16

Great field trip! Thank you for all your input into the trip. We had a great time and learned a lot.

This week:
    Math: Finish with subtraction and take a test on Thursday, 11/15
    Science: Animal Kingdom
    Language Arts: Application of complete, compound and complex sentences
    Reading: Please download "The Boy on Fairfield Street" by Kathleen Krull, Steve Johnson and Lou Rancher

Spelling and Vocabulary:
Focus on the r-controlled "e"

1. because
2. turn
3. here
4. why
5. germ
6. herd
7. clerk
8. nerve
9. serve
10. fern

Spelling Dictation: 

1. That boy had a lot of nerve to eat my food.

2. The priest will use the materials to build a new church.

Vocabulary:

1. feasted- to eat a lot of something, or to take a lot of something in either physically or mentally 
2. explore- to go looking for something 
3. sledding- riding a sled on snow down a hill
4. doodling- drawing silly pictures without any reason to be drawing 
5. excelled- to do really well at something 
6. gather- to come together 
7. prowl- to sneak around looking for something to attack
8. stubborn- wanting to only do what you want, no matter what
9. chatter- to talk a lot
10. perhaps- maybe 

 

Newsletter Week 12 11/5-11/9

Week 12 11/5-11/9

Reminders: 

     -Health Week: if your child is not eating at school, please remember to send a lunch with them. The only other option for lunchless children is to give the Mac and Cheese.

     - Field trip to the Capital in Jackson Friday! Please leave your house or the school by 7:30 a.m. Your child needs to be in his/her school uniform

    - If your child is going to miss a day of school (especially test days), please let me know ASAP so that I can plan all missing assignments. Also, if you will miss a test, then your child will need to take it before the planned absence. This does not apply to excused sick days. Thank you for understanding and working together to aid in your child's success. 

This week:

       Reading: Test over "Liberty Porter" on Thursday, 11/8/12

      Language Arts: Complex sentences

      Math: New unit which depends the discussion of subtraction. Please keep working on your basic math facts for addition and subtraction

      Science: Primary focus on the Animal Kingdom. We have been learning about the different living organisms and their kingdoms 

Spelling words and sentences: focus is on the -ew- pattern 

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• Spelling and Vocabulary:

• 1. well
• 2. large
• 3. even
• 4. grew
• 5. stew
• 6. drew
• 7. chew
• 8. few
• 9. metric
• 10. color
• 1. She ate the stew and grew big in just a few weeks.
• 2. A few of the shapes have four sides.
• Vocabulary: 
• 1. boring- not interesting or exciting
• 2. ducked- to bend down suddenly, normally when trying to keep from being hit
• 3. suppose- to think or imagine
• 4. celebration- a joyous gathering, usually to mark important events
• 5. furious- very angry
• 6, graceful- lovely way of moving
• 7. develop- to make something better or to improve something 
• 8. features- traits or characteristics which describe something or someone
• 9. feat- an amazing act
• 10. heroine- a woman who has done something very brave or helpful