Miss Dyer's Newsletter
November 1, 2019
Reading With Nugget!
Pumpkin Investigation
Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!
The Fall Book Fair is coming to TCE! It will be open Tuesday, November 5th – Friday, November 8th during the school days AND on Friday, November 8th until 7:00 pm prior to PTO Movie Night. Our class will shop the Book Fair on...
Wednesday, November 6th from 11:00-11:30
If you choose to send in money for your child to shop, send it in a clearly marked envelope with your child’s name and teacher's name. You are welcome to sign in at the office and shop with your child as well. **You must have a background check on file in the office if you wish to shop during the school day with your child. Please visit HSE's website for more info: https://www.hseschools.org/services/other/school-safety/visiting-and-volunteering.
Thank you for supporting the library and the reading lives our students!
Writing Workshop Enables Individualized Instruction
Workshop structure provides substantial time for whole group, small group and one-on-one instruction to students daily.Teachers plan strategic curriculum specific to the students in the room, moving students towards appropriate whole-group goals (standards) while simultaneously responding to individual needs. Much like an athletic coach considers, What does this player need to know for this Saturday’s game in order to play the best she can at thisstage of her development, workshop teachers strategically plan what to teach the whole class and what to teach each individual writer to enable him to produce the best text he can in each genre studied throughout the year. In writing workshop, all students can be successful—including the most advanced and most challenged students, two extremes often ill- served by other curriculums that teach to the median.
A Moment with Mrs. Chadwell - The TCE Global Study Instructor
Library Volunteers
Library volunteers are needed to help with shelving and checking in books in our TCE Library. Volunteering in the library is fun and the schedule is flexible! If you are interested in volunteering, please reach out to Mrs. Hopper, TCE Librarian (lhopper@hse.k12.in.us).
*A safe visitor background check is required for all school volunteers. For more information on background checks, visit https://www.hseschools.org/services/other/school-safety/visiting-and-volunteering.
Important Information for Next The Week(s)
Mark Your Calendar!
November 8 - PTO Movie Night
November 26 - Spirit Day - TCE Spirit Wear
November 27 -29 - Thanksgiving Break
Next Week's Related Arts Schedule
Tuesday, October 22 - Day 2: P.E.
Wednesday, October 23 - Day 3: Global Studies
Thursday, October 24 - Day 4: Music
Friday, October 25 - Day 1: Art
We Are Learning...
Reading
In reading this week we learned/reviewed the following skills/ concepts when reading non-fiction: to anticipate challenging keywords about a topic and identifying non-fiction keywords to learn more about a topic. This week we learned that non-fiction readers predict keywords an author may use in her/his book, in an attempt to prevent us from getting stuck on an unfamiliar word about the book's topic. We also practiced identifying how authors use and describe keywords in varying ways. For example, in our book about Tigers, we identified the word prey and then noticed how the author used a box at the bottom of our page to further define, or describe, the keyword about the book's topic.
Writing
This week in writing we continued our focus on writing to an audience! The kids used their writing checklists and worked on ways to write more powerful pieces. We know as writers, kids can focus on writing their words on the page and then can go back and fix up their spelling. We spent some time looking at words that we already know and use those words to help us spell the words that we want in our writing. We also know that writers can write several different books on the same topic. And we talked about how writers can look at mentor texts to see how they use nonfiction craft moves. We looked again at our writing to see how we could make our books like theirs!
Math
This week in math continued to focus on different strategies for adding 2 two-digit numbers. We worked on adding two-digit numbers with tens rods and ones cubes with some regrouping. We also revisited using a hundreds chart to add two numbers together. We learned that rather than moving one square at a time, we can move one square down to show ten more.
Miss Dyer
Email: bdyer@hse.k12.in.us
Location: 14642 E 126th St, Fishers, IN, United States
Phone: 317-594-4310
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