*First
of all I would like to THANK the TERRIFIC chaperones that went on the
field trip to the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center!! We could not have
made it such a successful and fun learning field trip without your help!! I
also want to THANK our WONDERFUL room mom, Tonia, for bringing our kids
all the snacks and water for our trip. The snacks were great and helped
fill their tummies. I have been so blessed this year with all the
volunteers and wonderful help this year!! You all are truly AMAZING and I
am so grateful!!
*Your children did a FANTASTIC job at the Veteran's Day Program tonight!! My husband and I really enjoyed the musical and I was so proud to show him my kiddos!! They are such a blessing!!
*We want to welcome our newest student Myrical, who will join us first thing tomorrow morning. We are so excited to have Myrical as a part of our class!
Math:
We will finish Unit 3 of Investigations this week. We will have our
weekly math computation quiz on Friday with review problems as well as some of
the division type problems we have been learning how to solve. Also
please review over multiplication clusters- including doubling and halving with
your children. Please use the thin Math Investigations textbook to
help your child with math stratgies if needed. I constantly remind the
children to check back over their work because they continue to make careless
mistakes. Please continue to encourage them at home to be more careful
with their work at school.
Vocabulary:
We do not have vocabulary this week since it is shorter and right before the
holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Reading:
We are continuing our study in Making Meaning on exploring narrative texts
focusing on describing in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions) and questioning. We started "The Twits" by Roald Dahl today and we hope to finish on Friday. We will start a new read aloud when we come back from the Thanksgiving break.
Last week we finished our read aloud, "City of Ember" and made
comparisons between the movie and text after watching the movie. They
continue to believe, along with Mrs. Wilkes, that the book is always better
than the movie! Students need to continue to be tracking their reading online
through www.reading-rewards.com. Students need to enter their data on their
own at home. If this is a problem, please just send me a note and students can
enter the data here at school.
Writing: We
started our study on adjectives this week. Students will be tested Friday on adjectives. We will work on creating various Thanksgiving writing pieces as well as memory and tradition writing pieces.
Social
Studies: This week in Social Studies we will begin our study on the 13 Colonies. We will study about Jamestown, Plymouth, and Roanoke. They finished their Explorer presentations and did a great job teaching others about their Explorer.
Other
Reminders:
- Feast items are due Friday, November 16. Please let me know, by email, tomorrow if you are unable to participate so I can make arrangements in advance by Thursday morning.
- Graded papers came home today. I apologize, but there is a math homework and math review sheet that did not make it in the pack of papers. These will be sent with the next graded papers. I have gone over some of the problems with the students whole class. Please take time to review these WITH your child. For questions that are missed, please have your child go back and rethink/rework to find the correct answer and write all corrections directly on the paper with a pen. If I have already corrected the item, please have a discussion with your child about what he/she missed. Please RETURN them by THURSDAY, November 15.
- Progress reports will go home tomorrow. Please sign these and RETURN them by FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16.
- Just a reminder, with Progress reports, their Science grade has not been changed from the report cards. The students will now have a Social Studies grade since we started this 9 weeks and will continue until the 3rd nine weeks. We began with Explorers and moving onto 13 colonies. After the 13 Colonies we will continue into the American Revolution and Westward Expansion. The last nine weeks we will continue with our science curriculum.
- E-Learning Day assignments (Math, Reading/Language Arts, and a Quiz) are due by Monday, November 19. This is due to starting the school year at a later date.
- Remember there is NO school from Monday, November 19 thru Friday, November 23. Happy Thanksgiving!! I will miss my kiddos!!
- Book orders for December will be due Thursday, December 6, so we can get the orders in before Christmas break. Thank you so much for your orders so far!! They have helped us add many more books to our library that the students are enjoying reading. Thanks for the book donations also!! Please remember that you may order online, fast and easy, by clicking on the highlighted link: Scholastic Book Clubs. Please use our class code, JT2TW, so we can earn free books. Thanks you so much!
Please
email me if you have any questions.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving break and enjoy spending time with family! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Your
children are such a joy! Thank you for sharing them with me!
Mrs.
Wilkes
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