Please be aware that there will be a Parent Workshop on "Just Right Books". This workshop will inform you and better prepare you to help your child choose the right books for them to read. This workshop will take place at school on October 7 from 8:20 to 9:00 in the Student Activities Center. Mrs. McKenzie and Mrs Cameron will be presenting. If you attend and have any questions after you attend, please feel free to contact me.
Also, please don't forget to take Shorecrest's Parent Opinion Survey. The window to complete the surve opens on October 1 and will remain open till October 17. I will post a link to this survey as soon as it is made available to me. This survey is extremely important for our school in setting its goals for the future and making sure that your child receives a solid and meaningful education.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
Happy Monday!
I am looking forward to meeting with you this week for conferences! Most of you are scheduled for Conference Day this Thursday, but there are some of you with alternate days. I sent a reminder with your child with your scheduled day/time. Please let me know if you are unable to attend so that we can reschedule.
This week we are working on the following:
Writing-We are picking a story to begin revising. The students will work with their writing buddy to polish up a story to publish.
Reading-We are continuing to read stories about traditions. We are focusing on adjectives, root words, as well as prefixes and suffixes. We also started a whole class novel, Charlotte's Web. Please remember that we will have a quiz over our vocabulary words this Friday as well as our weekly spelling test. I am also starting literacy circles this week. Your child will be reading another book with a small group of children. We will focus on reading comprehension.
Science-We are working with our science book to learn about how things move. Our focus will be on forces: motion, speed, push, pull, gravity, and weight.
Social Studies-We will conclude our unit about Florida this week.
Math-2.7 The Partial Sums Algorithm This is probably different than how you learned how to add. Ask your child to teach you how we do this. :-)
2.8 Subtraction Algorithms
2.9 Addition with Three or More Addends
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
I am looking forward to meeting with you this week for conferences! Most of you are scheduled for Conference Day this Thursday, but there are some of you with alternate days. I sent a reminder with your child with your scheduled day/time. Please let me know if you are unable to attend so that we can reschedule.
This week we are working on the following:
Writing-We are picking a story to begin revising. The students will work with their writing buddy to polish up a story to publish.
Reading-We are continuing to read stories about traditions. We are focusing on adjectives, root words, as well as prefixes and suffixes. We also started a whole class novel, Charlotte's Web. Please remember that we will have a quiz over our vocabulary words this Friday as well as our weekly spelling test. I am also starting literacy circles this week. Your child will be reading another book with a small group of children. We will focus on reading comprehension.
Science-We are working with our science book to learn about how things move. Our focus will be on forces: motion, speed, push, pull, gravity, and weight.
Social Studies-We will conclude our unit about Florida this week.
Math-2.7 The Partial Sums Algorithm This is probably different than how you learned how to add. Ask your child to teach you how we do this. :-)
2.8 Subtraction Algorithms
2.9 Addition with Three or More Addends
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Monday, September 20, 2010
September 20th
We enjoyed our speaker last week who introduced us to her amazing bird and interesting snake!Tomorrow is The International Day of Peace. We will have a special Town Meeting to honor this day and share our thoughts. You are welcome to attend.
Today you should receive the manila envelope for you to view/keep the graded assignments. Please remember to return the envelope tomorrow with your signature. As a parent and teacher, I always want my children to receive the highest grade. However, the more important issue is...did my child do their personal best? When you review the comprehension quiz, please emphasize with your child the importance of reading the passage, the questions, and then after checking their best choice to go back and check their work again. I recently started teaching the children test taking skills. The focus at this point is trying to narrow their guess on a multiple choice quiz to two answers and then picking the best out of the two. We will learn more strategies throughout the year.
The Collection Vocabulary words for the following two weeks are:
interrupted, continuation, commences, straining, performers, crackle, scribbling, attributes, dappled, amazingly, tamales, pounces, alter, rope, drifts
The Wordly Wise Vocabulary words for the following two weeks are:
ambition, auction, coast, current, frail, intelligent, novel, resident, starve, volunteer
We are writing personal narrative stories this week. Our focus will be on strengthening our stories by adding details.
Science : We are continuing to explore The Scientific Method.
Social Studies :We are learning about Florida's Environment.
Math: We are working to review and solve "What's My Rule? problems, using parts-and-total diagrams to help solve parts-and-total number stories, and changing diagrams to help solve number stories.
How did your child enjoy www.spellingcity.com? Did you get a chance to check out www.bookadventure.com? Let me know what you think of these sites.
Conference Day is next week: I will send a reminder memo to you with the time you signed up.
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Monday, September 13, 2010
September 13th
Hello Everyone!
Picture day is tomorrow. Please send your children to school even more beautiful/handsome than usual!
Just a reminder that we also have library checkout on Tuesdays. The children may check out three books. If you want them to check out more, please let me know. I am happy to have them reading, reading, reading!
Math-Lessons covered this week are:
1.13 "The Length-of-Day Project"
1.14 "Progress Check 1"
2.1 "Fact Families"
We will have our first math test Tuesday (9/14)
Language Arts- We will read more selections from our reading series, Voices.
I have also sent home a Family Tree exercise that is not due until Wednesday. The roots to the tree are the names of your family. I told the children that they could add more family names on the leaves or limbs, but they are to think and write words and phrases about your family's traditions and culture. This would include foods, where your ancestors are from and then just special events that are unique to your family. We have been discussing heritage and different cultures in class. In writing workshop, we are working on creating strong leads and endings for our personal narratives.
We will have a spelling test on Friday. We will also have a quiz over the Wordly Wise and Collection vocabulary words on Friday (9/17).
A couple of websites you might want to explore with your child are: www.spellingcity.com and www.bookadventure.com. I will spend more time talking about these in next week's blog.
Science- We will work on writing hypotheses for our "Potato Observation Project"
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on Florida.
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Picture day is tomorrow. Please send your children to school even more beautiful/handsome than usual!
Just a reminder that we also have library checkout on Tuesdays. The children may check out three books. If you want them to check out more, please let me know. I am happy to have them reading, reading, reading!
Math-Lessons covered this week are:
1.13 "The Length-of-Day Project"
1.14 "Progress Check 1"
2.1 "Fact Families"
We will have our first math test Tuesday (9/14)
Language Arts- We will read more selections from our reading series, Voices.
I have also sent home a Family Tree exercise that is not due until Wednesday. The roots to the tree are the names of your family. I told the children that they could add more family names on the leaves or limbs, but they are to think and write words and phrases about your family's traditions and culture. This would include foods, where your ancestors are from and then just special events that are unique to your family. We have been discussing heritage and different cultures in class. In writing workshop, we are working on creating strong leads and endings for our personal narratives.
We will have a spelling test on Friday. We will also have a quiz over the Wordly Wise and Collection vocabulary words on Friday (9/17).
A couple of websites you might want to explore with your child are: www.spellingcity.com and www.bookadventure.com. I will spend more time talking about these in next week's blog.
Science- We will work on writing hypotheses for our "Potato Observation Project"
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on Florida.
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
September 7-10
Here is an overview of what we will cover in our curriculum this week:
Math-Lessons covered this week are:
1.10 "Money"
1.11 "Solving Problems with Dollars and Cents"
1.12 "Patterns"
1.13 "The Length-of-Day Project"
We will have our first math test next Tuesday (9/14)
Language Arts- We will read more selections from our reading series, Voices. We are focusing on common nouns, proper nouns, and base words. Each Friday we will have a spelling test and every other Friday we will have a quiz over the vocabulary words for the unit (Collection Vocabulary) and one from our Wordly Wise words. The next date for vocabulary quizzes will be Friday, Sept. 17th. In writing workshop, we will continue writing our personal narratives.
Collection Vocabulary Words:
deceased, documents, memento, cuddles, dewy, mingle, edible, yanking, lumber, satchels, pennants, consecutive, collegians, seamstress, advised
Wordly Wise Vocabulary Words:
attract, attractive, attraction, crew, dangle, drift, event, launch, opposite, reverse, signal, steer
Science- We will use the scientific method format to conduct another experiment on Friday.
Social Studies- We will continue our unit on Florida. Last week we started chapter one, "The Land". The Geography project will be due on Thursday (9/9).
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