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