**Yeah, Testing is over!! Thank you so much to Mrs. King and Superhero Yogurt for helping us celebrate the end of testing. Mrs. King owns Superhero Yogurt and she brought all of us a free cup of their delicious yogurt.
**We enjoyed seeing all of you at the Fall Festival. Our basket and pumpkin looked great. I'm sure they went to a wonderful home.
* Don't forget that you and your child can check the BLOG daily for homework. On the BLOG your child can also find links to practice many different standards.
*Don't forget to sign behavior sheets when you child receives a check and sign the agenda nightly. Please remember we are trying to teach the children responsibility, so it is their job to ask you to sign the agenda.
*The Reading Log expectations are increasing for the 2nd Nine Weeks. The students will now be expected to read at least 90 minutes per week. We know they are all capable.Please sign the Reading Log on Sunday or daily next to where your child logs in his or her reading. You would just have to squeeze your intials in by the title or time read. This will insure that your child is reading on most days or nights. We have told them any reading done independently at school may be recorded on the log. Also remind your child that the reading log is a way for us to make the children accountable for the reading they do, so they should be putting in the time and effort. We are looking for quality over quantity.
Important Dates:
Wednesday, October 19, 2011- Math Post Test Unit 1
Thursday, October 20, 2011- Popcorn and Movie reward for passed addition and subtraction tests
Monday, October 24th- Friday, October 28th- Conference Week/ Early Release
Tuesday, October 25, 2011- Picture Retakes
Friday, October 28, 2011- Class Store
Friday, October 28, 2011- Book Character Day
Monday, October 31, 2011- Wellstar Program "Temper Tamers"
Friday, November 4, 2011- Bully T-shirt designs are due if your child is participating
Curriculum:
**Back to our original schedule
Reading Workshop- Next week, our focus will be on Facts and Opinions. We will also begin group novel studies. The students will be assigned a book to read on their levels. We will have book discussions with each group while reading the books. They will be asked to read the book at school and at home. The book will need to come back to school each day in order to complete the assignment for that day. During guided reading, we will use nonfiction texts to work on reading skills and strategies.
Math Workshop- Next week, we will be reviewing for the post test on Monday and Tuesday. We will take the Post test on Wednesday and then Thursday and Friday we will continue with Time and Money.
Writing Workshop- The second nine week genre is Response to Literature. We will begin our mini lessons on the genre. The students will practice their writing each day.
English- We will begin reviewing and learning about Plural nouns and the different spellings of Plural Nouns.
Spelling- Contractions
Science- Fossils
