The Weekly Roar
April 2, 2018
LIVE HISTORY MUSEUM!
*****CHANGE IN DUE DATE! I have to be at a training on the 17th, so the new due date is May 10th.
We had a work day a few weeks ago, and we will have a few more work days, but as the letter states, most of the work should be done outside of class.
Below you will find a few examples of Live History Museum projects. One is from one of my former students and two are from students this year.
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
- Spelling words for the week. (Compound Words): wildlife, uproar, home run, headache, top-secret, teammate, wheelchair, light bulb, well-known, throughout, life preserver, barefoot, part-time, warehouse, overboard, post office, outspoken, up-to-date, awestruck, newscast Challenge: motorcycle, overseas, quick-witted, stomachache, bulletin board
- Quiz: Thursday, April 5, 2018
- We will continue looking at how to use the right word. For example: 1.) An iguana is one type of lizard.A llama has valuable wool. 2.) Mom will accept no pets in the house except her cat. 3.) Abe Lincoln read aloud. Scruffy is not allowed on the couch.
Reading:
- 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.
- Your child should continue reading or be read to nightly for 20 minutes and then getting their reading log initialed.
- We will continue our novel study on, Old Yeller.
- Open book worksheet over Manifest Destiny and the Westward Expansion: Wednesday, April 4, 2018.
- We will continue our study of Manifest Destiny and the Westward Expansion.
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
From The Seele Office:
Moving forward all parents MUST go through the Raptor System to enter the campus for special events, including lunch, assemblies, field day, classroom parties, etc. To help speed up this process during those activities, we will be asking parents/guardians to RSVP to your student’s teacher. This will allow us to pre-enter you into our Raptor System and have your visitor pass ready when you arrive.
Due to schedule changes please No Fast food/Restaurant lunches or visitors on these dates –at any grade level. Thank you for helping us by keeping these testing days as low key as possible. 4/10 – 4/11
For 4th grade only: For STAAR testing date 4/10 will need a sack lunch from home or will need to order a tray from the cafeteria.
For 5th grade: For STAAR testing dates 4/10 & 4/11 will need a sack lunch from cafeteria or home
Dates To Remember:
Tuesday, April 2nd: 3rd STAAR Release Test
Thursday, April 4th: PTA Meeting in LCR at 1:30
Thursday, April 5th: Kindergarten Registration from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Monday, April 9th: STAAR Rally at 8:00am in the cafeteria
Tuesday, April 10th: STAAR Testing - 4th Grade Writing & 5th Grade Math
Wednesday, April 11th: STAAR Testing - 5th Grade Reading
Thursday, April 12th: STAAR Make up test
Monday, April 16th: College Day/5th Grade Science Benchmark
Tuesday, April 17th: GT Showcase
Thursday, April 19th: Last Club Day
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