Mrs. Flick's Facts
October 28, 2016
Important Dates
October
NC Halloween Parade 1:30pm - October 31 (party to follow)
8th: No School for students
9th: PTO meeting 7pm
11th: Veteran's Day Ceremony
21st & 22nd: 1/2 Day Students, Parent/Teacher Conferences
23rd-27th: No School
Upcoming Specials
Tuesday: Day 4 Music
Wednesday: Day 5 Gym
Thursday: Day 1 Library
Friday: Day 2 Art
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 finished our Unit 2 assessment and began Unit 3. Unit 3 focuses on Operations...partial-sums, counting up subtraction, and MORE!
Building a READING LIFE
We began our Mystery Unit this week!!!! We explored questions we would ask ourselves when reading mysteries..."What is the mystery?" and "Who is the crime solver?". We also payed close attention to story details to give us clues, and help make predictions.
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 in our drafting booklets we made our final revisions using our Narrative checklist and PUBLISHED OUR FIRST PIECE!
Our next adventure will be Informational writing!
Government
Halloween
I did speak with them about not wearing their full costumes to school on Monday. Send in anything they will need to put on that would be distracting for the first part of our day! :)
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 i, u, and w this week!!!
Technology
This week we view speeches given by our own NC students regarding the facts about the upcoming Presidential election!