The Weekly Roar
September 11, 2017
Our week coming up at a glance:
Writing:
Spelling words for the week. (Words with -ed or -ing): scrubbed, listening, stunned, knitting, carpeting, wandered, gathering, beginning, skimmed, chatting, shrugged, bothering, whipped, quizzed, suffering, scanned, ordered, totaled, answered, upsetting Challenge: compelling, deposited, occurred, threatening, canceled
- Quiz: Friday, September 14, 2018
- We will be working on proper use of commas between items in a series.
Reading:
- TEST-Wednesday 12, 2018: We will be taking a reading assessment.
- We will be working on cause and effect. We will continue to work on summarizing using GIST and checking our comprehension by using Author’s Portrait.
- We will continue to practice our choral reading. This is a great way to help with fluency. We read a paragraph together out loud as a class at a pace that I set. The more we practice this, the faster we will get and the more fluent we will become.
- Reading Vocabulary Words: actions, best shows, best summary, conclude, contributes, events, future events, hints
- Vocabulary Quiz: Friday, September 14, 2018
- Your child should continue reading nightly for 20 minutes and then getting their reading log initialed.
Social Studies:
- This is Freedom Week! We will be covering the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Star Spangled Banner, Bill of Rights, the 50 states and capitals and Constitution Day. Whew! This is a lot, but during this week we give a quick overview, and later as we follow the history time line, we will go more in depth.
Earbuds are needed!
From the Seele Office:
Make your calendars for Sept. 19th. Seele will be hosting our Open House at 6:00 p.m., please join us. We will have a Title Mtg. at 5:30 p.m. and a general PTA Mtg. at 5:45 p.m.
How can your student practice at home?
I have uploaded our spelling and reading vocabulary words to Quizlet. www.quizlet.com The kids know their username and password. I had them write this information in the very front of their agendas, but just in case, it is: Username: meunicorn2016 password: unicorn5. They can log on and do flash cards and play games to study. They won’t need to know the definitions for spelling, but they are there to play games with if they would like. This is a great site and can be accessed from your PC, MAC, iPad, smart phone, etc. This is a great tool for studying, and it’s FUN! Your student can also log onto, www.istation.com, to work on their reading. They know their password and username for this site as well. These usernames and passwords are user specific. This is a great tool to help them improve their reading, plus it provides data for you and I so that we can monitor the progress of your student.
Dates to remember:
Tuesday, September 19, 2017: Open House-6:00pm
Wednesday, September 27, 2017: Progress Reports Go Home
Friday, September 29, 2017: Fair Day! NO SCHOOL! :)
If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to contact me. yferrier@nbisd.org or 830-627-6779.
Always With A Roar,
Ms Ferrier