Friday, October 25, 2013

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



Friday, October 18, 2013

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






Friday, October 11, 2013

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


Thursday, October 3, 2013

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

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

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.