Happy Holidays!

Cougar Compliments

Tomorrow, we will be having a cougar compliment celebration. I am going to bring my air popper and pop popcorn and we will watch a (rated G) video. Students may bring one pillow OR one stuffed animal.

Wednesday, we will have another cougar compliment celebration. We will have a wacky hair and sock day. Hair must be natural (no wigs).

Weekly News

If you're able to make it, please come out to Macy's on Saturday the 14th from 11:30 - 12:00 to ring bells for the Salvation Army!

Next Week's Specials:
Monday - PE
Tuesday - Library
Wednesday - Art
Thursday - Music
Friday - PE
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WRITING

In writing this week we practiced using our teacher voice to tell our story to other people\ Friends.  Our writing is informational writing.

MATH

In math we are working on perfecting the art of multiplication and are doing math problems such as 11-(5x2) and 3 x (6-3). We are also doing coloring math sheets.

READING

In reading we are reading Frindle and are reading Fossils. In Frindle Nick keeps on calling Pens Frindles and gets in Trouble.

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

In health we are learning about different kinds of bacteria and infections.

MICELLECNES

This week 4^th and 5^th grade had a spelling B

All the grades went to the penguin shop.

By: Max

This Week's News

This week’s news

Writing

This week in writing we are doing informational writing. All of us have published an article or a book. We are working on our second informational writing. We are learning how to hook readers. We are learning about elaborating

Math

We are reviewing 0 through 9 in multiplication. We have done a time test. Most of the people are proud of their grades.

Reading

In reading we are doing read groups. We can do respond to reading, critic’s corner, read to self/partner, and write.

Door Decoration

In door decoration we are covering our lockers with blue to make the Polar Express. And we are making our door the city.

Health

In health we are learning about how germs can get into your body. We saw magic school bus video about how germs can get into your body, and how bacteria fight with white blood cells. We have done an experiment with petroleum jelly, sand, water, fake blood, and baking soda.

Sincerely,

Joan

Twin Day

Weekly Update

Dear Families,

I wanted to share a little bit of information with you. I sent out an email yesterday (please let me know if you did not receive it) with information for ordering from our Scholastic book order. In today’s Friday Folders will be a few Scholastic Book Order catalogs. I did not send them home earlier in the month knowing we would be having the book fair at school and not wanting to take away from that.You are welcome to order from the November catalogs that are coming home, but I will be submitting the order on Tuesday the 26^th before I leave for Thanksgiving break. I do not have catalogs for December yet and do not know if I will receive any so this may be the last chance to order Christmas/Holiday gifts from Scholastic! You can order online with our class code L922Y. Even if ordering online, the order will be submitted on Tuesday the 26^th before I leave for Thanksgiving break. If you’d like your order to be a gift, simply send me a note or email and ask me to set aside the books. We can arrange for you to pick them up or I can discreetly wrap them in bulletin board paper and send them home with your student.I know this isn't a lot of time. If I do receive December catalogs I will send them home as soon as possible.

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This week’s update!!!!

Writing

In writing we are doing informational writing. We got to use the laptops to look up our topic. Miss Baxter also has been reading us different kind of   informational books, so we can get an idea of informational books. We have also been doing handwriting. In handwriting we are doing cursive.

Reading  

In reading we have been doing reading group and responding to our reading. That is when we are done with a book we take out our notebook and write what happened. We also finished are read aloud book Harriet the Spy.  

Field trips

On   Wednesday   we went to the planetarium and watched two videos about health. The first video was about how to cure a virus.   And the next video was about an astronaut and how space affects us humans.

Math

In math we are doing times  0, 1,2 ,3,4 ,5, 6, 7, 10, and this week we are doing 8,9s. we are doing math sheets.

 

By Emily

Upcoming Important Dates

Good morning!

Our student council representatives, Sariah and Caroline, reported from their meeting today some important upcoming dates.

On November 26th (this coming TUESDAY!) there is a school sponsored Twin Day. Students may pair together to dress alike. They can dress alike as twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc. We want everybody to feel included! If a student doesn't partner up with somebody, the class voted to wear blue that day so they could be "twins" with somebody else in the class that also didn't partner up.

December 3rd-14th will be a hat, glove, mitten, scarf drive. New items may be taken to the office to be hung on the tree.

We'll be leaving for our first field trip in about twenty minutes! The kids are super excited... hopefully they're still paying attention in media with Ms. Stemmons right now!

-Cassandra

Weekly News

Thank you to all the parents that made it to Parent Teacher Conferences! I will try to touch base with you this week if you were unable to attend.

This week's specials are:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Library Check Out and Media
Thursday: Art
Friday: Music

We will be traveling to Rock Bridge High School on Wednesday to visit the Planetarium. Chaperones are not needed.

Below is the weekly update!

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WRITING

In writing we have been doing informational writing.

MATH

In math we have been doing times 1s 2s 3s 4s 5s  9s 10s and we just started 6s and 7s.

HANDWRITING

[CURSIVE]

In handwriting we are doing cursive A’s d’s  c’s  e’s  h’s and  n’s ,m’s x’s   we just stared b’s w’s    and o’s.

READING

In reading we just talked about text to self, text to world, and text to text connections.  

 

By: Alexus

Weekly Update

Hello!

Last week's Celebration of Books was a huge success! I giant thank you to the help and support from our families. We spent a lot of time reading on October 31st, dressed as book characters. We went and read to Kindergartners in Mrs. Hotchkiss' class and to third grade buddies in Miss McClelland's class. 

We had a bunch of fun costumes, also. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures to the blog, I'll post a few that I took that day.

Next week are our Parent Teacher Conferences. I can't wait to see you and share specific things your child has been working on in class. 

Also next week on November 13th, will be a celebration for all students who have not received an office referral during the first trimester. A note from the office will be coming home soon with more information. 

Next week's specials are:

Monday: Music

Tuesday: PE

Wednesday: Media

Thursday: Art

Friday: NO SCHOOL 

What have we been up to in class this week? Continue reading below for an update from Fatimah!

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Math

In Math we are did multiplication facts 5s 10s 3s 9s 4s. We also are studying fact family. We’ve also done a little bit of division. We have 2 sheets of paper we have to do. We have to color it and do the multiplication problems.

Writing

We are learning informational writing. We had to pick a topic that we know a lot about. We got to write a quick draft. Today we got to write anything we want. Last week we took a test about sharks. Then on Tuesday Miss. Baxter told us that we are going to publish an information piece of writing. We don’t have to do all the fancy parts of the publishing process.

Reading

In reading we are working on summarizing stories. If we read to partner we don’t need to write a summary. If we read to self we do have a summary. We at least read about 30-60 minutes every day if we have a problem it takes a lot of our reading time. We have reading groups too. We have to write summary’s there too for our group work

Word Work

We started to use a book that helps our writing and reading. The color books mean the type of skills you need to work on. We have to cut glue and do the back.

By: Fatimah

Weekly News

Next week's specials are:Monday: Art

Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: PE (wear tennis shoes!)
Thursday: Counselor (and Library Check-Out)
Friday: NO SCHOOL!

 

Our Celebration of Books will be on October 31st. Students may dress up on that day as a book character. Costumes must be school appropriate and may not include masks, gore, props or weapons, hair paint, or face paint. Your child must be comfortable to wear it all day as there will not be time to change during the day.

 

This week's summary brought to you by Aubrielle!

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                                     Math

 This week in math we have been doing multiplication  facts times 0,1, and 2. We also did a few fact families for multiplication and division.

                                   Reading

 

This week in reading we did word work. We did summarizing also. We got a new read a loud book called Harriot the spy. 

 

                                  Writing

This week in writing we have been getting the mini laptops and typing our personal narratives and printing them out. We did some cursive in our cursive books.

 

This week was a very good week!

By: Aubrielle

Spirit Day

Notes and News

Dear Families,

If you prefer a paper copy of the newsletter, please let me know. Otherwise, in the future, I would like to use the blog as our newsletter. I’ve not heard from anybody yet preferring a paper copy. Beginning in November, paper copies will no longer be sent home unless requested.

Please help your child get into the routine of reading nightly, logging it on their reading log, and returning the reading log to school each Friday. Every Friday, a new one will be sent home.

We will have a Hat Day celebration on Friday, October 25th as a school wide celebration!

Scholastic orders will be submitted on October 25th. The code to order online is L922Y.

Next week's specials are:
Monday: Counselor (and Library Check-Out)

Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: PE (wear tennis shoes!)
Friday: Counselor (and Library Check-Out)
 

Our Celebration of Books will be on October 31st. Students may dress up on that day as a book character. Costumes must be school appropriate and may not include masks, gore, props or weapons, hair paint, or face paint. Your child must be comfortable to wear it all day as there will not be time to change during the day.

 

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WRITING

This week in writing we are working on re-writing and retelling our stories so we can go to the computer lab and publish them. We all have to write our stories that we are going to publish on a piece of notebook paper so we have a copy to take to the computer lab. When we finish are writing assignment for the day we can free write which means we can write about anything or do school mail. The published writing might be finished in time for scoop night so parents can come and see it. All the students in our class want to have their writing in scoop night. We are working on our cursive k, l, h, and t

READING

This week in reading we got new reading group books. We get non-fiction books this time. After we get our reading group books we have to read the chapters Miss Baxter tells us to and then we write facts and important information in our reading response journals. When we are done with all of that we get to read to self or read to partner. You can sit where ever you want around the room and some people have cushions and pillows.

MATH

In math this week we are learning how multilpulcation works. We have groups of three and four and were making number strips with counting by tens, nines, eights, sevens, six’s, fives, fours, threes twos, and ones on recit tape. “Oh” and we even have to write observations in our math journals about what we see when all of our strips are layed out.

BIRTHDAYS

This week we had a lot of birthdays which means a lot of CUPCAKES “YAY”. There was Sariah’s birthday and Kyleigh’s birhhday, and Daniella’s birthday.
So that was what made the classes whole week because everyone likes cupcakes. Plus some of the cupcakes tasted like brownies and some people like brownies better than cupcakes. Also Sariahs cupcake icing seemed like it was coconut icing even though some icing just tastes like that

SIENCE

For sience we are learing about force , motion, and friction. So we do experiments and watch videos on small machines. We all have a packet were we put our questions and our answers to our questions when we’re done with our experiment.

                                           By; RYLIE

A Few Notes and Reminders

Hello!

Allison worked hard on our weekly update about what we've done in class (see below) but there are a few things I wanted to make sure to make note of.

Please help your child get into the routine of reading nightly, logging it on their reading log, and returning the reading log to school each Friday. Every Friday, a new one will be sent home. This will be our main homework for the time being.

The start bell for school sounds at 8:20. Please try to make sure your child is at school on time. We have a number of kids who are late almost every day. It makes it extremely difficult to get our day started right away when I must regive directions each time a student comes in late.

Next week is the Make a Difference canned food drive! Bring non-perishable items to the commons.

Scholastic orders will be submitted on October 25th.

Next week's specials are:
Monday: PE (wear tennis shoes!)
Tuesday: Counselor (and Library Check-Out)
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Music
Friday: PE (wear tennis shoes!)

Starting this past Monday (October 7th) students without Office Referrals during the first trimester will get to take part in a game day at the end of the trimester. I'd love it if all 24 of us get to participate!

Our Celebration of Books will be on October 31st. Students may dress up on that day as a book character. Costumes must be school appropriate and may not include masks, gore, props or weapons, hair paint, or face paint. Your child must be comfortable to wear it all day as there will not be time to change during the day. More information will be coming about the fun activities we will be doing that day.

Lastly, a GIGANTIC thank you to everybody that helped out with Fun Fest in any way. I was able to walk around a little bit and it looked like the kids were having a blast. Our basket looked fabulous. And none of it could have happened without your help, donations, and time and energy, so THANK YOU!

Miss Baxter

This Week's Update

                                               Writing

Hooray for writing!!!!! We do writing every day ! We’ve been writing about personal narratives. We have also been working on choosing a ‘’seed’’ idea. Our ‘’seed’’ ideas our ideas of personal narratives that we’ve written that we want to publish. Then after we are done with real  writing sometimes Mrs. Baxter will let us do free write. In free write we can write poems, fiction story’s or just anything we want.

                                                       Math

In math this week we’ve  been doing a tiny bit of addition but more subtraction. For subtraction we started subtracting 2 digit numbers. Then we started doing 3 digit subtracting. Every day to start math we watch a little math video .Then we do  guided practice witch we do together. Then we do independent practice witch we do by our self’s.

                                                      Science

In science we have been learning about force and motion. We have been talking about friction and we also did a thing where we got a push pull meter and a weight and shot it across the hallway.

                         By: Sariah

Change for a Change

Tomorrow is Change for a Change for United Way. Students may bring in change to donate to the United Way. There will be a note coming home today about the campaign.

Computer Lab and Classroom Request

We go to the computer lab multiple times a week to work in FASTT Math and myON reader. The headphones provided in the lab do not always work well. I strongly recommend sending in a personal pair of headphones to be kept in your student's locker for personal use.

We've begun our school wide Mail Club! I have a couple of requests for supplies and materials to make Mail Club letter writing a little more fun. First, we would love to have letter sized envelopes to use to mail our letters. Secondly, if  you have any old stickers laying around, we could use them as stamps on our envelopes. Please send in anything you're willing to donate for class use. Thank you!

Blogging Beginnings...

Today while the kids had a glorious day off, I was here at school slaving away at creating a new classroom blog! Hopefully we'll work as a class to keep it updated with all the latest news and happenings of our class.