McTeacher Night

We had a great turn out at McDonalds tonight. Thanks to all of you who could make it-if I counted correctly we had 11 students from our class show up!

Weekly News

Hugo Cabret movie will be coming out Thanksgiving and I would still love to have as many kids as possible meet up at the movie theater either December 3^rd or 4^th. Mrs. King and I are working out a date and I’ll get that to you as soon as we know.

The kids are now able to go onto www.acuityathome.com to practice the skills they did not do well on when we took our first ISTEP predictive test. This is a great resource to prepare for ISTEP because they are the same types of questions that are found on ISTEP. The kids have a label in their assignment notebook with their sign-ons.

Math: Everyday Math: We are working on Unit 5 and the kids are getting really good at saying large numbers up to the millions. We will be working with decimals next week and this can be a very difficult concept for all of the kids. Please work with them on their homework each night because it helps for you to see their struggles.

Reading: We are really focusing on fluency right now and getting our readers to read smoothly without being so choppy. It really helps for them to be reading out loud occasionally at home.

Writing:
We are finishing up our “How to Cook A Turkey” and we also began brainstorming for our “Personal Narratives”. The kids will continue to work on paragraph writing. They should be able to tell you that a complete paragraph has: indents, a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. It will really help them when ISTEP rolls around and any help you can do with practicing at home will only help enrich them.

Health/Science/Social Studies: We will continue working on Squanto and when we are finished with the novel we will complete a book report in class.

Important Dates to Remember:

Spelling-none this week (short week) Reading Counts quiz #3 due 11/22 PSG meeting 11/29 at 6:00pm McTeacher Night at McDonald's 11/30-stop and see me-I'll be working from 6:30-8:00 Thanksgiving Break Nov 24-25 Meet up to see Hugo Cabret Dec 2/3 (more to come later)

Star Student

Our star this week is Olyvia. Olyvia worked super hard last week to make sure all her work was done and turned in on time. Olyvia, your hard work paid off-keep it up.

WE DID IT (Times 2)

First, we won the collection contest for Veterans-Our class will celebrate with cookies on Wednesday.

ALSO, we collected 20 labels for Sunny D and I mailed them in today to receive 20 free books from scholastic.

These accomplishments would not be possible without all of you! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!

Talk About SUPPORT

Thank to everyone who could send in something for the troops. Our class collected 117 items in support of our troops! I'm so excited and amazed by what we all can (and will) do to help others. You are all the best!!

Star of the Week

Our star this week has been Jackson Carter. He has been working really hard to use our morning routine to get the things done he needs to. He's also a great helper when asked to do something! Keep it up Jackson.

Next Reading Counts Quiz

As of last Wednesday (after our library visit), every child had a new lexile book that they should be reading for the upcoming quiz. The next quiz will be due on or before Nov. 22nd. Please check with your child to see where he/she is with their book. Thanks!!