Mrs. Flick's Facts
November 18, 2016
Important Dates
November
- Parent/Teacher Conferences - November 21 & 22
- No School November 23, 24, 25
December
- PTO Winter Wonderland - December 2 @ 7 PM
- Elementary Senior Band Concert - December 6 @ PM
- Winter Concert - December 8 @ 7 PM
- Varsity Singers Caroling - December 15 @ 2:00 PM
- PTO Meeting - December 14 @ 7 PM
- Winter Break - December 23 - January 2
Upcoming Specials
Tuesday: Day 3 Guidance
Monday, November 28th : Day 4 Music
General Classroom Reminders
- Please send a snack with your child each day. Please do not send any drinks other than water- juices are sticky when they spill! Thank you!
- Please check and sign your child's planner every night.
-Please make sure your child is reading every night and recording his/her reading on the nightly reading log.
-Word Study practice nights (sort and study nights) can be done orally, on whiteboards, or on scrap paper.
-Any treasure chest donations would be greatly appreciated!
Math Updates
This week in Math we completed our Unit 3 Studies and took our Assessment. Next week we will only get to take a sneak peak at Unit 4 which includes Geometry, Area and Perimeter, and Measurement.
Building a READING LIFE
We continued our Mystery Unit this week!!!! We began a new Mystery Read Aloud!!! It is called The Diamond Mystery.
Word Study
Monday nights- Students are to sort their words and record them in their notebooks. They are to also record their discovery or rule for the week.
Tuesday and Wednesday nights- Students should sort their words and read them as they sort. They can practice writing them on paper, whiteboards, or typing them. NO WRITTEN homework is required on these nights.
Thursday nights- Students are to ask an adult to quiz them on their words. They write the headers and then record the words as they are called out. The adult should use the notebook to correct the sort and ask the student to practice any words that were spelled incorrectly. This can be done on the back of the homework sheet. This paper should then be returned to school Friday morning.
Friday- there will be a test given
Writing long & strong
This week we continued working on our informational books. The students have organized their information into boxes and bullets (a form of an outline) and we are researching to gather the missing information we need.
Back to Simple Machines
Book Fair
It will be open for BOTH conference nights!!! :)
Giant Bonus Cards
Giant Bonus Cards are our BIGGEST fundraising source. The link to register Bonus Cards is: http://giantfoodstores.com/aplus/register-card/?_requestid=1157213
Cursive
We learned r and s this week!!!
Technology
This week we used Everyday Math Online to practice reading graphs and making arrays.