Week of November 30

The spelling list is up on Spelling City. It is List 10- Mariah Keeps Cool.

Progress reports are printed on the back of this week's homework slip.

Students are starting to earn their reward activity for December..... This is a "no missing work" reward. :)

Student Teacher

We are getting a student teacher! Her name is Libbianne Nelson and she is a teacher candidate at Westminster College. She will be with us from January 4 through March 12.

MIssing Work

We are going to be having an earned activity for students who have all their Term 2 work turned in. This activity will be held on December 23, so all students have adequate time to get any missing work turned in.

Students in Mrs. Buttars' class have short notes on their homework sheets with any work that was missing from last week. I will have complete reports ready by Wednesday.

I typically do not make extra copies of assignments. If your child cannot find an assignment, you are welcome to come in before or after school to make copies. It is simply too time-consuming for me to put together missing work packets for the 12-15 students who have lost their work.

I have had students report that they have taken assignments home and that their parents have recycled them. Mistakes happen. Please write me a note in this case. I will excuse the work on the first occasion. After that, I would ask that you come make a replacement copy.

For your information, work that comes home with a score, check mark, or star on it has been recorded. Any other work has not, and should be returned to school.

Thanks for your support!

Wednesday 10/18

READING WORKSHOP:
This time is largely filled with our Guided Reading groups. Some of the boys are reading one of my favorite books, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. It is a book about a boy named Brian whose plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. We have just gotten to the part where Brian has figured out how to make fire. I am hoping to secure the other three books in the Hatchet series so that we can continue to read about Brian.

For independent work this week, the students have a cursive sheet, the lake mini-book, a vocab packet, their spelling/grammar packets, and a Thanksgiving assignment.

MATH:
We are working on long division and expressing remainders in the form of a fraction. Once the students are quite solid with this, we will introduce three and four-digit dividends (the number being divided).

Please help your child learn skip counting and/or their division facts. This will make a huge difference as we expand our knowledge of division into big numbers and then begin working with fractions.

SCIENCE:
We took our final quiz on the Earth's surface/erosion unit today and turned in our journals for this unit. Tomorrow we will pre-test on magnetism.

The Process

"If we praise intelligence, then the first time students hit the wall, they question the definition. Praise process." ~Unknown

End of Term 1

Term 1 is coming to an end. I'm excited to meet with you all this week and go over report cards and how the students are doing.

Keep up the great work!