Liz Sikes and Asa Massey

H.W. 11/30/2011

Reading- Reading Log

Spelling- Wednesday's Activity

Math- Practice Facts 15 minutes

** Academic Updates coming home on Friday

 

H.W. 11/29/2011

Reading- Reading Log

Spelling- Tuesday's Activity (Target children do not have to do)

Math- practice Facts 15 minutes

Science- Cut and paste Soil WS (Target children do not have to do)

H.W. 11/16/2011

Reading/ Science- Soil comprehension sheet. Please highlight answers in the passage.

Math- practice Facts for 10 minutes- parents please sign in the math box that your child practiced his or her facts. Math Frayer all children have 1, 2, or 3 problems to complete.

English- Pronoun Test

**THANK YOU TO MRS. VOSS FOR BEING OUR MYSTERY READER TODAY. THE STUDENTS LOVED THE IDIOM BOOK.

 

H.W. 11/15/2011

Reading- Reading Log (at least 180 minutes read by Nov. 28th)

English- Sing Pronoun song (Test on Pronouns Thursday)

Math- Practice Facts

Science- Soil Illustration (try and include as many of the following vocabulary words as possible when you label your illustration) Topsoil, subsoil, bedrock, loam, sand, silt, humus, and clay) Use Science textbook pages 81 and 85 as a guide.

H.W. 11/14/2011

Reading: Log due Nov. 29th with at least 180 minutes

English- Teach someone the pronoun song, complete top WS(don't do 2nd sheet)- Not for Mrs. Holmes' class

Writing- Write a connection paragraph on Enemy Pie. Make sure you have at least 6 sentences.

Newsletter November 12, 2011

**One week until Thanksgiving Break, and one week until I get the new addition to my family. I'm so excited! I am adopting a little male dachshund from Paulding Animal Control, and he is coming out of an Animal Cruelty situation. I will pick him up next Saturday. He will be 7 weeks old. YEAH!!

If you are reading this newsletter write gobble gobble in your child's agenda. It will be worth a quarter during banking on Monday.

* 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 your 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 have increased for the 2nd Nine Weeks. The students are now 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:

Tuesday, November 15, 2011- Reading Fluency Test

Thursday, November 17, 2011- Pronoun Test

Thursday, November 17, 2011- End of 4 1/2 weeks

Friday, November 18, 2011- Fossils Test

Friday, November 18, 2011- Class Frienship Feast 11:45-12:30

Saturday, Novermber 19, 2011-Sunday, November 27, 2011- Thanksgiving Break

Curriculum

Reading Workshop- How do I make inferences? - How are Cause and Effect related? How do we identify cause and effect in fiction and nonfiction? We have finished our novels. We have one group still reading Invisible in the Third Grade, and although we will not take tests on this book, we would like for this group to finish the book on his or her own. It is very important for the children to continue working on fluency and comprehension. They should be able to finish the book by the end of Thanksgiving Break.

Math Workshop- We will continue to practice our multiplication facts, but next week we will move onto understanding Division. Since it will be the 4 1/2 week mark on Thursday, if your child doesn't know through his or her 4's and 5's, they will receive a 1 on the Progress Report. Please remember the math standard for the Second Nine Weeks says,  the children should be fluent with their facts through the 10's.  Please remind your child that he or she should be practicing their multiplication facts everyday. We are finding that many of the children say they are not practicing the facts. Without practice, it will be hard for them to understand and memorize the facts.

Writing Workshop- The second nine week genre is Response to Literature.  Our focus will be on our hooks and connections.

English- Pronouns and Dictionary skills

Spelling- No spelling list

Social Studies- We decided to cover the mountain ranges when we return to school after the break.

Science- We will study Fossils this week and take an assessment on Friday.

H.W. 11/10/11

Social Studies- Study for Government Test: Use flipbook, Comparing Government WS(in social studies section of binder), and textbook.

Math- Practice facts

H.W. 11/9/11

Reading- Reading Log, **Bring Back Overdue books. We are going to the media center tomorrow.

Social Studies- Study for Test Friday on Government

 

Newsletter November 6, 2011

**If you haven't done so, PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO COMPLETE THE CONFERENCE SURVEY THAT YOU CAN FIND ON THE BLOG. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

* 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 your 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 have increased for the 2nd Nine Weeks. The students are now 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.

*If you are reading this newsletter write idiom in your child's agenda,  and he or she will be given a quarter during banking on Monday.

Important Dates:

Monday, November 7, 2011- Plural Noun Spelling Tests

Tuesday, November 8, 2011- Professional Learning Day (Student holiday)

Wednesday, November 9, 2011- Figurative Language Quiz

Friday, Novermber 11, 2011- Government and Mountain Ranges Assessment

Curriculum

Reading Workshop- How do I make inferences? - During guided reading, we will use our chapter books to work on inferencing. 

Math Workshop- Our focus will continue to be Multiplication Fluency. Please remind your child that he or she should be practicing their multiplication facts.

Writing Workshop- The second nine week genre is Response to Literature. We started talking about the characteristics of a Response to Literature. Our focus will be on our summary and connections.

English- Punctuation (commas and quotation marks) / Pronouns

Spelling-  Phonics this week. No spelling list

Social Studies- Our Government ( 3 Branches of Government). We will finish up with our Local, State, and National Government. We will finish the week with learning about the 2 Major Mountain Ranges (Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains) we will have a quiz at the end of the week.

H.W. 11/1/2011

Reading- Reading Log

Socks- Read chapters 4 and 5 by Thursday, Herbie Jones- read chapter 5, Invisible in the Third Grade- read chapters 1and 2.

Speliing- Top of pg. 25 Making Connections

Math- Practice Workbook pg. 36 1-24