October 28-30

Short and Sweet...Like Candy!

These three days are packed with plenty of school for your little ghouls!  Don't forget that this is conference week.  Contact myself or the office if you have forgotten your time to meet with me on either Tuesday or Wednesday evening.  I look forward to meeting with all of you!

I was really impressed with the Math Test scores from our test on Friday!  The scores ensure understanding, and that should lead us into a great unit with division!  I will continue with the timed tests in multiplication to help increase their fluency with these facts.  It is still vital that students practice these facts, and know them quickly by recognition.  With that, students will be able to hopefully see that division is simply "backwards" multiplication.  If students are fluent with multiplication, I have no fears about them beginning division.  By Wednesday, students will be dividing through twelves...hopefully.  I will try to research some good division games for the computer and place them on the right side bar as a link.  (The sidebar seems to be working now!)

In Social Studies, students will review for the chapter 2 test that will be on Tuesday.  Mrs. Partridge and myself decided to create our own test for this chapter, to make it reflect the material more and create an ease in studying.  Again, the test is on Tuesday.  

In Reading this week, students have finished Bunnicula, and they have worked on the skill of drawing conclusions.  For our end of the the book assessment, students will take three different AR tests.  One for comprehension, one for literacy skills, and one for vocabulary.  Only the comprehension score counts towards points.  The other two tests are for grading purposes.  Students will then take some computer lab time to create a Google Presentation.  Students will get a Google account for here at school, that they can also use from home.  They will use this email address to log on to Google Chrome and create a presentation with a partner.  This program allows students to work simultaneously on the same document.  Each partner group will have a chapter assigned to them and they will have specific criteria for each slide.  We will work on this in computer time, as well as with the laptops in the classroom.  This week we will also continue work on our Literature Circles.  

In English Language Arts, we will finish our final drafts to our "Monster" papers on Monday.  On Tuesday, students will share their work on their monsters.  We hope to have these with our actual monsters on display for conferences!  On Wednesday, students will work on a fluency strategy of "Writing from a Word".  We will select a word as a class, and then students will use that to prompt them to write for 15 minutes.  

In Spelling, a "Dear Parents" on /j/ sounds will go home on Monday.  This will help students with their skill test.  Our "Cloze" test and skill test will be on Tuesday, and students will practice any missed words on Wednesday.  

Thank you again to all who helped out with the party.  The kids and myself had a great time.  I appreciate your your time and effort to make the day fun for students.  

  

Have a great long weekend.  I hope everyone enjoys Trick-or- Treating on Thursday.